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That's not a few ...Chris (*_*)
I love your T. magnusiana, but difficult to grow this species in hot Bangkok city.

Nice pics...they look pretty happy Chris...many in bloom too. Good job.
Bob

Thanks both - it is a modest but growing collection - here in the UK there a very few collectors, sellers and importers so this kind of collection is more difficult to assemble than it seems. This is true of bromeliads in general but I'm persevering and my seed sowing have produced a good harvest that now needs potting on and more room finding for it. Most terrestrials end up outside (except the delicate ones and perhaps the precious ones) alongside agaves and gasterias:

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At the moment they are in danger of floating away as we go through a very wet spell with weather warnings around and flooded roads.

Best regards

Chris

Oh - and this guy:
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Chris

Ohh..(*_*) what a huggy spiny,
your Abromeitiella (Deuterocohnia) brevifolia is really awesome.
How old is it ? and What kind of soil mix you use for growing this cute plant?
Also how about light, water and fertilizer to keep them such beauty.
Our friend, Gonzer said his specimen nearly eat nothing from the mix but themselves !

I noticed some Dyckias in your previous thread, what kind of the upper one?
the silver leaves on the right hand side of white ceramic pot.
And the lower one beside the Aeonium.
Actually, I saw another one near that didish-leaf Gasteria, cute.

Please take care, hope your weather will be better.

Hi Stephania,
The a. b. is about 8 years old I guess - it isin my usual 1/3 JI compost, 1/3 grit and 1/3 porous perlite or cat litter (calcined clay). It manages all winter with no water and then grows during the summer here. The bowl is very shallow so I think the idea of it growing without soil is fairly accurate. It gets watered when it rains...
The silver brom is Deuterocohnia longifolia (ISI 2000-52?)
and is more silvery than the normal form of this plant.
Sadly we cannot get ISI plants here in the UK now as it has become too much trouble for the Huntindon to export them.
From memory (I'm at work) from the bottom middle is the D. ?ursina that you already have, lower right D. 'chaguar' (a spledid plant), lower middle D. montana, middle right D. 'Britannia'. I managed to get a few more this year - mostly hechtias but they are still to build up.
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Best regards

Chris

Chris, I swear that your brevifolia is my plant's long-lost twin! I'll post a pic later today. Nice start on the tills by the way.

How do these hummock-forming Deuterocohnia end up looking so amazing!? I would assume it started as a smaller plant or cluster of them and just kept making offsets, but the top of the hump must be higher above the soil than it was originally, right? I think a cross-section of this plant would be interesting to see - though not at the expense of such a fine specimen :)

Thanks Chris, they are doing well, except your Fascicularia
that seem to be so difficult to grow here in hot humid tropical climate.

Yes, I've seen Gonz's plant, they look exactly twin.

Treehaus, I found a figre with description in Prf. Werner Rauh's 'The Bromeliad Lexicon'

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Hi Treehause, yes it was a few pieces in a pot of soil as normal but eventually overcrowding makes it mound up - it is a hard mound though as i accidently trod on part of it and it suffered no damage.
Hi Stephania, sorry about the fascicularia - i have some F. bicor (I think but at least it is the wider leaf version) which is supposed to be less hardy - perhaps that will do better for you. I'll let you know when I can propagate it.

Best regards

Chris

That's interesting Stephania - I have the Rauh book and I've never noticed that diagram! I will have to take a good look at it, but I think I get it. This is a bit of a tangent, but this diagram reminds me of another image in W. Rauh's book, the wonderful photograph of Tillandsias growing in dunes by the sea, in which the living ones are growing in the humus of the dead ones.

There are also mosses here where I live that look somewhat like this in cross-section, the mounds maybe 2 or 3-feet in diameter and 8-10 inches high. The moss is a fuzzy silver-green.

Chris, I would never have guessed these plants were quite that hard, they look stiff, but it's amazing that it was unhurt after being stepped on! That's an impressive brom.

And a few loiterers in the greehouse and round about

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(ignore the high quality electrial installation LOL)

best regards

Chris

Electric Tillandsia (^_BTW I have a T. duratii to join here...

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