Pups/pets and flowers. I wanna see your pups with flowers
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Do bromeliad pups flower?
Comments (8)Hi Patrick, Pups don't flower - but after they are a little bigger - You can get a bromeliad to flower if you do do a couple of things: 1) AFTER your normal watering in an 6" flower pot - use 1/4 c. of the folowing mixture every Other week - MIX - In 1 pint of water mix 1 Tbls of Epsom Salts and use this twice a month AFTER you water your bromeliad. If you use this mix without watering your bromeliad first - you might burn your plant because the mixture is a fertilizer. So water First! 2) In the spring - put the bromeliad with all the water drained from its cup inside a tightly closed, clear plastic bag and a ripe apple. Keep the apple and the bromeliad for a little over a week to 10 days in this clear closed bag. Keep it in a cool place that gets indirect sun. Soon you will begin to see the plant produce a flower. Take it out of the bag in 10 days. Just keep the bromeliad in an indirect sun and fetilize it as I mentioned previously. * If you want to get more pups from a bromeliad - keep it pot-bound and in a smaller container than you need for the plant! Good luck!...See MorePup? Or flower bud starting?
Comments (17)Oh almost forgot, the link you gave in this thread is by the same man, and i found it. You did post it. It was the same thing just went into more detail about the watering. Funny thing is, is that when looking at it when i found it, i HAD bookmarked it. If was in blue at the bottom of the post that i had bookmarked it already. I just don't understand why i can't see if in my bookmarks tab then. :( Any ideas what im doing wrong? Dip we have diffetent bookmark tabs when we're in different sections on the forum?...See MorePups are taller than the mom... Can I still seperate them?
Comments (7)Hi everyone. Christina – Your plant looks like a Guzmania to me although it’s also possible it could also be a xGuzvriesea (A Guzmania crossed with a Vriesea). As it was bought in your local Home Depot store with just a generic name tag, it’s more than likely a Guzmania though as they are commonly sold in these big stores all over the world. I imagine the same thing happens in the U.S. as here in Australia where these plants are mass produced in their thousands by tissue culture and are “gassed” so they all come into flower at the same time with the idea being, they can be sold to take the place of a bunch of flowers for the home. It’s a far better financial proposition and they outlast a bunch of flowers by far, often staying in colour for six months or longer. I can only tell you what I would do based on the little bit of experience I have from growing the few in my collection. There are no doubt many more experienced Guzmania growers on this forum from your own country who could advise you better than I, so please treat any advice I give as very basic. You can also get cultural information simply by typing “Guzmania Culture” into Google on your computer but make sure it’s from a reputable source in your country and not from some other country where the growing conditions are very different to yours. See: http://bromeliads.gardenwebs.net/guzmania.culture.htm Regarding your plant, I wouldn’t remove the pups, although they are large enough to remove; but being so tall and thin they would need to be staked to prevent them moving in the pot, and stakes, although often necessary, do detract from the appearance of the plant. I would wait until the flower has completely finished and the bracts start to lose colour and then cut off the flower spike. I would then take the whole plant from the pot and wash off the old potting mix and re-pot the whole plant in the next larger size pot in a good open bark based orchid potting mix, mixed 50/50 with a good quality well-draining general potting mix. Make sure your pot has more than just a single drainage hole in the bottom to allow for good drainage. Shortly after you water the top of the pot, the excess water should run through and out the bottom, this tells you that the drainage is good and the drainage holes aren’t blocked up. When you re-pot your plant, position the two new pups in the centre of the pot so that as they grow they will become the main plant and will take up the space previously taken by the mother plant which will gradually decline and die. As leaves die on the mother plant they can be trimmed off to keep the plant tidy. Guzmanias like a little less light than other bromeliads, and as I live in a temperate area I grow mine on the shady side of the house beneath 75% shade cloth. They don’t like cold or windy conditions and I give my plants a suitable foliar fertilizer as per the manufactures instructions once per month or at half strength each two weeks and they seem to grow and flower well for me. I hope this is of some help to you, but remember, local knowledge is best. All the best, Nev....See More2019 Parade O' Pups?
Comments (29)Shana Lee, Why? I leave mine on for a fuller look. Young pups don't do so well removed when so young. I like to leave mine on for a year before taking them off and then only to gift out other wise I would leave them on. Above plant is not a Moonshine but one called 'Starlight' which may be aka 'hahnii Silver Marginata'. Stays silver coloring with out darkening like Moonshine....See MoreRelated Professionals
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