A Christmas classic - Poinsettias. Curious about how to care for them? Or perhaps you're seeking the truth behind the long-held misconception that these holiday blooms are poisonous? We're here to debunk myths, share our personal perspectives, and help you appreciate the beauty of Poinsettias in a whole new light. Expect a vibrant discussion about these holiday favorites, their short lifespan, and why spray-painted versions are simply not a favorite on our list.
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A Christmas classic - Poinsettias. Curious about how to care for them? Or perhaps you're seeking the truth behind the long-held misconception that these holiday blooms are poisonous? We're here to debunk myths, share our personal perspectives, and help you appreciate the beauty of Poinsettias in a whole new light. Expect a vibrant discussion about these holiday favorites, their short lifespan, and why spray-painted versions are simply not a favorite on our list.
Hit us up on Instagram and give our hotline a call at 864-982-5029. Happy listening! And remember to leave us a rating and review.
We mentioned The Nested Fig App in this episode. You can Tap Here to get our app and join our live sales on Sundays and Thursdays at 8pm est. Use Code Fig10 for 10% Off.
Follow Steven on Instagram at @Keepinupwithsteven and follow Wesley on Instagram at @Farmshenanigans. Shop our online store at TheNestedFig.Com Use Coupon Code Fig10 for 10% Off Your Purchase. Find The Nested Fig on Instagram at @TheNestedFig
Girl, I'm here come on. I'm here, I'm a little, I'm a little hungover from Thanksgiving weekend.
Speaker 2:I think it's a combination of Thanksgiving Time change and then the fact that it went to the cold winter here in like today.
Speaker 1:It's true, it's time for another episode of who's driving. Welcome to who's driving.
Speaker 2:I'm Wesley Turner and I'm Steven Merck. We're two best friends and entrepreneurs.
Speaker 1:Who's driving is an entertaining look into the behind the scenes of our lives, friendship and business. These are the stories we share and topics we discuss, as two best friends would on a long road trip along the way, we'll check in with friends and offer a wide range of informative topics centered around running small businesses, social media and all things home and Garden buckle up and enjoy the ride.
Speaker 1:You never know who's driving or where we're headed. All we know is it's always a fun ride and on this week's episode we are gonna be talking about Poinsettias. We're moving past Thanksgiving and we feel that we should talk about Poinsettias because there's a really cool tie to Greenville, south Carolina, where we live. Of course, we have a garden store, so we've, you know, we sell poinsettias. We've we've been in the thick of poinsettia, so there's a lot to talk about there. But before we get there, did you have a good Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2:We did. It was very nice. It was very low-key it was. It was very nice. It is a tiring.
Speaker 1:Well, it's more tiring because we're in retail.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it is good.
Speaker 1:Daniel was out of town. That's not why it was good, but someone said on the last episode that you said like it. It. I made it sound positive that Daniel was gonna.
Speaker 2:Well, I think it was positive for you because it was that you knew it was a day of Really day off, that you didn't have to do right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so he was out of town. I ended up working at the warehouse. I did get cracker barrel. I got all the sides. I stuffed my face at the warehouse and did you eat at the way? Yes, by myself at the warehouse and it was delish, and it was delish and all was good and Daniel's back and it's just like we mentioned, like being business owners and now that we have retail stores and online, it's crazy the different mix and I just get there's an adrenaline rush for us this time of year. I don't want to call it anxiety, because I feel like no one uses that word a lot.
Speaker 1:It's this adrenaline like are the sales gonna be good? What do I promote next? You know it's moving so quick in promoting stuff and sending out emails and sending out text messages and showing products and and online is on a different time schedule than the retail store, right, and that is like for me, right now it is.
Speaker 2:We're recording this. What on the 27th of November? I feel like it's December 27th, right? I do too, because Christmas is over. Let's wind it down and wrap it up all my friends and family are just getting trees and decorating. I'm like y'all are late but they're not. They're not. This is normal.
Speaker 1:And I know and I think back to before, we had the online store and we had the retail stores. Obviously, retail starts early, like we. We reset the stores in late October and stuff. But really Thanksgiving weekend kicks off the main part of the holiday season, but now with online, it kicks off like early November because you know your shipping product and you have to show it. And I'm like you now, I'm my this weekend. My Instagram and social media is everyone Definitely decorating and that sort of thing and I'm like I'm over it.
Speaker 1:But I still want to show something to decorate. But that's why when I talk about I start decorating my house in October is because of this feeling, right now, once you're in it and you're in retail, and then you're Talking about it so much and you're showing it and you're promoting it, once you get to this time, I'm like, oh gosh, I can't. Personally, personally, yes, but then I still love the season and everything.
Speaker 2:Oh, I do too, but it's just so funny because I see everybody like decorating, I'm like whoa, I'm glad that's done.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, it's kind of nice being and I still have really fun like reels that I want to make to show, like some decorating Tips and that sort of thing. But then I get this feeling like oh, I'm too late, I don't need to do that, but it's really not, it's not. I'm ready to move on to like more baking and cooking and I don't know sort of thing so Switching subjects.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh, I was noticing on one of your viral reels. Uh-huh, I was reading through some of the comments.
Speaker 1:Did you get bullied on there? Did you see that I get bullied on there some? I always get gay bashed a little. It's not that bad. Sometimes I just delete them and sometimes I go.
Speaker 2:But I mean, but it it's not. Of course it's not that bad. You're not sitting in a closet crying Right. But it is 2023 and it just amazes me that someone is gonna, you know, put you're gay, right. No shit, sherlock, I mean what?
Speaker 1:I know you think you're telling me something.
Speaker 2:I'm glad you already knew that would have been very awkward if you didn't.
Speaker 1:I know the best part is someone okay and first of all, uh, it is very comical, um, that sort of thing does not affect me, or whatever. So sometimes I just delete them because I don't want the attention. And sometimes I'll just respond Like the one that say you're gay, buddy, or something like that on there, and I think first of all it was why you are not, you are gay, you know.
Speaker 2:So there was a whole.
Speaker 1:There was a whole opportunity to really read somebody right, and then I clicked on it and I was like you know, you're definitely not, because you're too ugly to be in the gay club, we would not let you in. But no, it's funny and I'm just like. The funny thing is, though, I'm like the algorithm brought me to you and usually you know it kind of shows you, you know like it's promoting me home, to court, to women and cooking and to gay people.
Speaker 2:Is how it it.
Speaker 1:So why did I end up? It's funny though, because it happens I've talked about on Instagram or social media in general. You find your community and that sort of thing and you really do, but when you have a Video that goes viral, it gets pushed out to so many different people and different you know people in.
Speaker 2:It could be wherever it can be wherever.
Speaker 1:And that's when you get some really random Comments I mean I've had them go viral or whatever for even decor and then people are like there's always gonna be negative comments like why is your house so big, or you know, and I think it's great.
Speaker 2:I mean thank you for the engagement.
Speaker 1:Exactly. Thank you for the engagement.
Speaker 2:I mean it's just amazing to me because and you and I talk about it all the time with social media we go, we're, you know, we're on there every day and I'm like, oh like, there's people on there and, you know, my biggest pet peeve is people that are on there doing reels and teaching people how to do something the wrong Damn way, right, like when it's something that is blatantly Incorrect right, because there's, there's all kinds of ways to do even kills me more is when they're doing it with such confidence.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and like, like we, like I know what I'm doing. No, you don't, but Even then I do not. I would never say anything negative.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've, just I, I do not well, it's funny because the Like, the, your gay comments are comical to me. I'm gay, I'm happy.
Speaker 2:I'm your hair's brown.
Speaker 1:Yeah, thank you, it is yes, but then there's also the other comment, like it can be anything and there's gonna be Know-it-alls or just comments like the caramel one I did. That's gone pretty viral. I did a caramel making in the microwave and it's well, you can do the same thing on the stovetop. Yes, you can't. This is the only way you could do it, or that is so much sugar and I'm like what the hell did you think? Caramel.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:I mean caramelized sugar.
Speaker 2:You can put a can of sweet and condensed milk in a. She's trying to rip my head off.
Speaker 1:I know here y'all, I just know my foot got tangled up in his headset about to get his head off.
Speaker 2:I mean, you know, I've watched people do the sweet and condensed milk we had let me.
Speaker 1:That's also the comment on the caramel candies that makes caramel sauce. Sauce, yes, which is not caramel candy. So you know there's a lot of know-it-alls that are like it's not gonna get hard Right.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying there's lots of different takes on caramel. Right, there's sauce, there's hard candy, there's chewy candy. I mean, right, there's all kinds of things. Yeah, but the caramel you're right that you're that you can actually cut up and eat there. You know there's only so. You can't do that with condensed condensed milk. But you can make caramel sauce for desserts right like that, but it's just funny.
Speaker 1:No matter what you do, there's gonna be negative comments, and those are, I feel like, the more irritating ones. Then it weren't. That's worse than gay. That's what I'm saying. The gay ones are comical, the ones that are like well, you, I don't even know how to explain it. It's like oh, you missed the whole point of the video. I didn't say here's the only way to make caramel candies, in case you were wondering.
Speaker 2:Yeah, here is and they have the only way to decorate a Christmas tree there's no other and they have to like correct you.
Speaker 1:That's when it gets irritating, because then it's like a waste of my time, I don't know. Anyway, that's that's that right there.
Speaker 2:That is the definition of the Karen. Yeah, that's exactly, that's right, male or female. And I know people hate that because and I hate it for people that are named Karen, I really do, but honestly, there's something to it.
Speaker 1:I'm not for the Karen's out there that we love. Karen Hilton, do you listen to our podcast? She's in our lives all the time.
Speaker 2:I don't know but we love you. Yeah, not you, and I have a cousin named Karen, and she's not a Karen.
Speaker 1:We have a few Karen's that aren't, but there are a few Karen's that are.
Speaker 2:Does she fits?
Speaker 1:It fits. The emails come in, the it, but we, yeah, I mean, but I would if I was Karen and I acted like that. I changed my name to Carrie or something.
Speaker 2:Wouldn't you, though, seriously like if you were not a Karen and you were named Karen? It would be like right, well, I know they hate, I would just change my name anyway, since that came about, yeah, mm. Hmm, it's kind of like lazy Susan. I mean, who came up with that? My mother's name was Susan. There wasn't anything lazy about her. What did you call?
Speaker 1:Betty, you called Betty Betty.
Speaker 2:Betty, it's Betty. Betty talks like this and Betty is just so with it and in charge and knows exactly what to do. She's a Betty, yeah.
Speaker 1:She's the power.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean I'm in control.
Speaker 1:She's a mix. She's a Karen on a power trip, yeah. But with a slightly less bad attitude.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've got a file folder and a calendar and it's all just perfect. And I'm Betty.
Speaker 1:That is too funny. Yeah, oh my gosh, what are your holiday plans coming up? Are you doing anything crazy for the holidays?
Speaker 2:No, no, well, because now at this point I do have an Atlanta shopping day planned, so I do need to tell you that for our work schedule.
Speaker 1:Well, it's got to be after December 10th.
Speaker 2:Well, it's not, but it's close. It's December 8th, oh okay. But I'm like yeah, it's a Friday, I can do that. Oh, a Friday can work.
Speaker 1:Yeah, That'll be good.
Speaker 2:I was like I can do that.
Speaker 1:Because we're less than a month. In a month, Christmas will be over.
Speaker 2:Literally I have the only Christmas shopping I have done. I did some this is sad Right During lives I was like, oh, I need to give that to so and so and I had to literally jump on and take it out of inventory.
Speaker 1:Speaking of that, are you giving someone a personal wearable fan? Did you take that out of inventory?
Speaker 2:Oh, I did, but I'm not giving it to them, but it's went out in our mystery bags. Oh, okay, I was like no, I'm going through things like that.
Speaker 1:We have one left in different things and I'm putting it in our mystery bag. Yeah, if you don't know, online at the Nestive Figure online store right now, we have mystery bags. We filled them up. Stephen over fills them, so I did. Basically, you give us some money and we give you double back. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's fine so, but you get a mystery bag with all kinds of fun items and it can be anything.
Speaker 2:It can be a handbag, it can be a personal fan. I mean it has multiple items.
Speaker 1:It's a lot of items in there but it can be anything that we've sold online at the Nestive Figure. Well, and the thing is so what we do is Stephen will go through and it's items that we get down to one or two of and we just drop them in back.
Speaker 2:And like I was doing, I was working on those yesterday and like there was a vase that was like $90. And I'm like gosh, that's expensive, but I can't just give them that.
Speaker 1:And one other thing no, so you ended up giving them like a $200 bag I'm sure they paid $79. But you know what and got a discount on that.
Speaker 2:They are going to appreciate it and they're going to be even more loyal to us. That's true, and it's Christmas, so yes, but yes, it's funny. You saw that because I was like, because you didn't know what you were in the office, you didn't know what I was doing, but I was like going through, I was like I've got to get rid of some of this stuff. And I saw that I was like, well, I would like that in a mystery bag.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's perfect yeah.
Speaker 2:Be a nice gift.
Speaker 1:So my holiday season I don't really have plan. I mean I'll be going home to Tennessee for actual the holiday and then after that we're back and going to Florida for New Year's, but I'm already thinking about. So. We have to move the warehouse. I thought it was by the end of March but I think it's by the end of February, which really does not work into my New Year's, because we're out of town for a long weekend for a wedding in February.
Speaker 2:We're going for 10 days in February and I'm not going back to Florida, but maybe we'll go. We might go somewhere else. Yeah, so we might. That might be a good New York City trip or something, I don't know. But no, we did take off 12 days in January for Florida.
Speaker 1:But you go in the whole time. I don't know.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm thinking about. What are you thinking?
Speaker 1:about. I've got a hankering. Oh, are you going to Vegas?
Speaker 2:No, Okay, no, we're going to do it the Redneck version, because I'm thinking, while we're in Florida, we will just pack a smaller bag and drive to Biloxi. So, maybe y'all might want to go with us to Biloxi and Gamble. I think it could. I've never been. Yeah, you're a. I've seen it. I don't know. I've heard it's not that nice Right. I don't know, it's like an adventure.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So the crazy thing is and we'll get into points, that is but the crazy thing is I was thinking like, oh, retail online holiday season is going to be winding down. But really, like now I look at the calendar and it's holiday season and then actual holiday, and then we're gone to Florida, which is that's a vacation, that will be nice, but it cuts out of time. And then we come back and it's Atlanta market where we're gone for 10 days and then we're only back like a couple of weeks and then we go back to Florida and then it's in February and somewhere in there we have to figure a way to move the whole warehouse. So it should be interesting.
Speaker 2:It's going to be a fun time, I wonder. I hope they do well with that. I know Exactly.
Speaker 1:So let's talk about Poinsettias. I feel the need to talk about Poinsettias and I think we can give. First of all, let's go into the history of Poinsettias Well, then we can talk about how to care for them and what to do with them after the holiday, and some myths about them.
Speaker 2:So well, I actually read. You know, I knew I knew a little history of the poinsettias, but not enough. So I was like let me read about this. It's actually very interesting yeah.
Speaker 1:And you either love or hate poinsettias, I feel like.
Speaker 2:And I love, and we'll talk about how my feelings with them shortly.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, but they're original to Southern Mexico, right, and they actually grow to be a woody shrub up to 10 feet tall outdoors.
Speaker 1:That's the natural ones They've been so cross-bred and you know everything nowadays.
Speaker 2:Yes, the Aztec Indians used the poinsettias to make a purple dye for clothes and makeup.
Speaker 2:Who knew the Aztecs had makeup. I thought that was pretty cool and they also would crush the leaves and use it on the skin for infections. Oh, I thought that was interesting as well. But in 1895, john Roberts' poinsett he was the first appointed ambassador to Mexico from the United States actually brought that back to his hometown of Greenville, south Carolina, right where we are, in 1825. So he was a botanist. Yeah, because that's the part I didn't know. I knew the John Roberts poinsett and I knew he brought it back. I didn't realize that he was an ambassador and a botanist. So he brought the poinsett what we now call the poinsettia back and he basically started propagating it and just giving it to friends and botanical gardens and whatever just people like that in his circle. And then in 1833, robert Bust was a nurseryman and he actually got it and started majorly propagating and selling the plant in 1833 and gave it the name poinsettia after John Roberts' poinsett.
Speaker 1:Isn't that cool. So it's really cool because in Greenville we have a lot of poinsett, we have the poinsett club, we have the poinsett hotel, poinsett highway, poinsett highway so there's a lot of relation to that. So that's just a really cool fact. You're from Greenville, south Carolina.
Speaker 2:And in Congress named December 12th National Poinsettia Day. Who knew? Yes, december 12th. I think we should do something.
Speaker 1:We should do something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we should have some kind of deal.
Speaker 1:But we could do a deal on poinsettia as a sale at the retail stores. Yeah, that is so cool.
Speaker 2:So it's kind of neat that. So I feel like Greenville. I may be wrong because I've always lived in the upstate, but I feel like Greenville is even more into poinsettias than other places I go.
Speaker 1:Maybe Poinsettias are everywhere, though, there you are now and I okay, so for me, I actually love poinsettias. I think they're a great holiday plant and that's you know. They had a pop of color and everything I think they're.
Speaker 2:I love poinsettias for just about two weeks at the holidays. Yeah, I don't want them too early and I do not want to see them after Christmas, right, it's really weird. So that's the thing.
Speaker 1:So I think we should talk about the expectation of a poinsettia too. You kind of have to think of a poinsettia the same way you think of like a mom, or you should think of as the way you should think of a mom is. It's a holiday plant, so they've been forced to color up this time of year and have those gorgeous colors. They've also been so cross-bred at this point. They are for a holiday plant. They do not have the, the genetics, the genetics and the ump to really carry on and survive. Now do do some of you have one that is scraggly as hell over in the corner that? I've had this for five years? Yes, and it looks like shit. We are here to tell you it looks like shit and it needs to go in the trash.
Speaker 2:I have family members that literally they wear that like a badge of honor that they and it is one little stick with two little leaves on it. It's about they, it's about six feet tall, with eight leaves.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and they try to put it in. I'm going to put it in a closet. It's going to don't do anything. It don't look good there is not going to color up. No, so your poinsettias are a temporary holiday plant. Give it as a gift, use it to decorate, you enjoy it and then you throw it away. Be done, be done. They are weak. They're going to get spider mites on them, you might see a little webbing on them and that sort of thing. Just enjoy them for what they are A holiday.
Speaker 2:You can get a good and don't overcomplicate. You can get a good four to six weeks of joy out of them and then just let them go.
Speaker 1:Let them go. They're cheap, enjoy it. Don't make it complicated and be done Now. Far as care and water through the holiday season, just give. They do like to say slightly damp. Give them good water so that they are you know, their little leaves don't curl up because during the winter time our houses are warmer and are drier as well, so their leaves will curl up if they're not getting enough water. So just make sure you water them at least once a week. Depending on how thirsty they are, maybe more than once a week. But one thing that we definitely need to address with the poinsettia is the myth that they're poisonous.
Speaker 2:So everybody comes in the store. I've got cats, I can't have a. I can't have a Ponsetta.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you're like yes, you can. Poinsettias are not. I love your pronunciation of them the Ponsetta.
Speaker 1:Poinsettias are not poisonous and I am going to read you from poison control what they said. So this is directly from poison control, I'm not just making it up. If you want to look it up, it's poisonorg and you can look up poinsettias. I'll read you. Their caption is the bottom line the poinsettia plant is often considered deadly. That's wrong.
Speaker 1:Poinsettias can be irritating but it is not fatal if eaten. If children and pets eat it, they can develop a mouth rash in a stomach and upset stomach. The sap can cause skin irritation too, but they are not poisonous Not poisonous. So the article talks about how this myth came to be. Because it talks about, basically, it came to be a myth that it was deadly because over a hundred years ago a child was found next to a wild poinsettia plant. He died and people blame the plant. This hasn't happened since. Researchers have even tried to find out what the poisonous dose a poinsettia might be and they just couldn't, even after reaching experimental doses of about 1.25 pounds, which is between 500 and 600 leaves. First of all, I don't even know how you would eat that many, but let's say you do. The plant does not have dangerous effect when eaten. So again, you can look this up and spread the word. It's not poisonous?
Speaker 2:No, it's going to be irritating, just the same as if you ate any plant.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's not anything. You're a food source. You're not going to go eat oak leaves, right, exactly. So those will probably give you an upset stomach. Yeah, so that is the deal with the poinsettia. So make sure you spread the word that the poinsettia is not poisonous.
Speaker 2:And another thing is the red is the original color.
Speaker 1:Red is the original color. Now they've been hybrid and pink and salmon, yes, and cream. But the worst of all is the spray painted blue ones, or any of them that are spray painted.
Speaker 2:That is my biggest pet peeve, that's when you draw the line right. It's right up there with the blue orchids Okay.
Speaker 1:Why do people want to make things blue?
Speaker 2:You know, I don't know, I guess because there's so few blue flowers, like true bright blue, and there's a reason. There's a reason they're wrong.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're not even pretty. Yeah, yeah, but they try to dye them blue in wild colors, like a gold color I'm seeing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's a harvest-y one. That's just wrong. Yeah, it's crazy and that is actually a hybrid color. Yeah, and it's just it looks. Yeah, it looks like a fall poinsettia. Yeah, and one thing is when you get a poinsettia, especially from a boutique plant store or nursery like our store, the large ones are going to have a cage under them, right, a green cage. We highly recommend leave that cage, even if you replot it in something else. Leave that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the cage is for support because, again, they've been hybridized and cross-bred so much they're very weak. Now they're stems, but they've been bred to have the showiness that we want Mm-hmm. So they are. Typically they have a little cage around them, You'll see for support and that keeps them from breaking.
Speaker 2:And most of the time you can't see it unless you look under the plant.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's grown into it.
Speaker 2:And and or it will have stakes, Right, you know, and I just even when I plan it in arrangements, I try to leave that yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I always leave the stakes and if you can see the tips of them or something, I'll just cut them off so you don't see it. And if you, can.
Speaker 2:when you water a poinsettia, try to water it, if you can from the bottom. Yeah, I just feel like it always works better.
Speaker 1:If you water it from the bottom, meaning like you set it in water or you have it in a saucer and you pour water there, or even if it's in one of those foil liners like pour it down into the foil and let it soak it up from the bottom. If you can't do that, if it's too complicated, definitely water it at the soil level. Do not pour water over the top of the plant because it will get betritus, just like mums will and it will. It's just like a type of fungus, I think.
Speaker 2:I had betritus one time.
Speaker 1:Who did you catch that from?
Speaker 2:I guess it was a poinsettia, I don't know. It's probably a gay thing.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. Yes, so betritus is a little fungus that it can get, which will make the plant die quicker, and from the moisture and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2:So they like moisture, but they like their soil moist, not their leaves.
Speaker 1:Right, that is correct. And then, once you've enjoyed it through the holiday season, throw it away. You know it is so funny having the retail store. I, like I said, love poinsettias. I walk in right now our store is full of poinsettias. It feels so festive, love it. If I walk in there on December 27th and there's any poinsettias left, I'm like what is this crap, these ugly things. It's like it switches, it switches. It's just like a mom yeah, like no one wants to see a mom, right now after Thanksgiving looks out of place.
Speaker 1:Oh ugly thing. But two weeks ago, oh my mom.
Speaker 2:I love mom. Yeah, I'm that way with every season, though I you know, I love something and then I hate it.
Speaker 1:Yeah but it's so funny the people who are like but I can't throw mine away.
Speaker 2:Well, bring it to me, I'll do it for you. I'm like let it go, let it go, let it go. I mean there's no, I don't. I don't get it like when we talked about moms to people that want to plant the moms. And you know, I know you're out there and you do your thing, you do, you, do you.
Speaker 1:Let's see poinsettias you can't even plant outside, not here, no, I mean not in.
Speaker 1:you might can in, like very southern Florida maybe Maybe, but again, they're so hybridized they don't do well. But I think, while we're on the topic of poinsettias, that's kind of a good you know wrap up on poinsettias. We should talk about Christmas cactus, though we can't leave off the Christmas cactus. We've already talked about in case you missed it and you are finding, because I got a lot of good messages on our hotline how our podcast episode about Amarillo's and paper whites was so helpful. So if you missed that, we've already talked about with Daniel Paperwhites and Amarillo's.
Speaker 2:So we can't leave off the Christmas cactus, I, okay, that is my number one favorite holiday plant.
Speaker 1:Yes, there is. They're so gorgeous and those are acceptable to keep you after a year.
Speaker 2:Yes, we encourage that and I want to. That's pretty much this year I we end up selling. I know I won't. I'm going to get me a big pretty one and keep it.
Speaker 1:I wonder if Daniel has ours outside. He usually moves them outside but, you know, occasionally we might forget about them. But we had some gorgeous ones because we had saved Well, what we did when years. We saved some pretty ones from the retail store that were left over and Daniel potted them up and then grew them out and then he started multiplying them. So we had at one time all of these gorgeous Christmas cactus. But then, starting the flower farm, his focus kind of shifted from, you know, doing that kind of fun thing to the flower farm.
Speaker 2:So it does have been hybridized, windled a lot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they have been hybridized.
Speaker 2:But there's some gorgeous colors now, like I think one of the prettiest is like the salmon, oh yeah it's gorgeous.
Speaker 1:So the fun thing to note about Christmas cactus is they don't need a lot of water, but they do need water. A lot of people hear the word cactus and they think they shouldn't water it. You should water it, keep it a little on the drier side, but you want to water it and not think of it just as a cactus. Also, if you fertilize your house plants or anything like that, never fertilize a Christmas cactus once it starts to form buds. Fertilizing them once they start to bud can make them drop their buds and if they're too far budded up, it will make them bloom out like really, really quickly it shocks them, yeah, so you don't want to give them that.
Speaker 1:you know growth spurt right there when they're starting to bud up. So keep that in mind if you do fertilize your indoor plants.
Speaker 1:And the best thing to do to keep Christmas cactus year after year is keep it indoors during the holiday season and then, once it has finished blooming and it warms up in the spring, where it's not going to freeze, so say, your night temperatures aren't going to go below, I would say like 40, 44, 48. So once it's springtime or even you can wait till the summer then move it outside to a shady spot. It will love the humidity outside, it will love the shade and it will really put out some new growth. And just remember, you know, to water it regularly outside. And then in the fall, let it stay outside while it's starting to cool down so it gets those first you know few cool nights when it's getting down into the 50s. Let it get some of those and then bring it inside and that will make it really flush out and bloom and be gorgeous.
Speaker 2:And I think they're, I think everybody loves a Christmas cactus because they're also very nostalgic, especially in the south. Everybody's grandmother had one.
Speaker 1:Exactly, my mom had my stepdad's mother's forever. She probably still has it, but and I think it was her like someone like it was like oh, 80 years old or something. Wow, was it huge? Yeah, she would repot it and divide it and that sort of thing and keep it going, but shut it forever. I mean, I don't know if she's I have to ask her if she still has it but it may have played out eventually, yeah, but it was huge and gorgeous and what color was it?
Speaker 1:I can't remember now, pink maybe, I think my favorite color is the salmon.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I like them all. I mean I'll see them all too, because there's something about them being dainty and just yeah, they're just, and I like to put well, you know what I do every year when I pot them is I put like lichen branches. I like to make them a little witsy. Yeah and I feel like it gives them support too, because sometimes, especially with these hybrids, the blooms are so big, right, it will break them off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they do start to lean over and yeah it will break them off.
Speaker 2:Well, that was a good cover for our holiday flowers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is. Those are the main ones.
Speaker 2:We've covered a re-reaching our destination. Amarillo's we've talked about today. We've talked about the poinsettia and the Christmas cactus, and lots of good information. Look at us go. I know, oh, I know, and we actually found some new information, the first, for sure.
Speaker 1:and speaking of look at us, go, we got a go.
Speaker 2:We got to go, we got to head over to the warehouse.
Speaker 1:I think we're going to do a live sale. It's Cyber Monday, it is yeah everybody's shopping online.
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