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Fertilization key to holiday flowering

Two of the more popular indoor plants during the Christmas season are the Poinsettia and the Christmas Cactus. Poinsettias can be made to bloom again next Christmas by conditioning them to long hours of darkness from late September until late November after a spring and summer of care.

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