Anyone Grow Bromeliads? UPDATED! 1/21/12

[*Barracuda_52*]

Was just wondering if anyone here grows bromeliads and if you do what kind and can you post up pics of yours??

Im starting a nice small collection of broms not only for myself but also for my customers come mid spring/summer months sales..

So far im going to be getting come next month some Billbergia and Neoregelia. Then will add more as the winter months go by, they will be in the grow room for the winter months.

Will post pics/update this thread when they come in.


PLEASE share yours if you have them..








HO! HO! HO! We need Lots of snow!

[Peterthecactusguy]

I dont grow any of them, but I have always been fascinated by them. DBG has a few examples of them in their succulent garden.

[Harriet]

Just a few, most I can't even identify. Florida is a good place for bromeliads.

[amanzed]

I love xeric and heat adapted bromeliads: Dyckia and Hechtia mainly. I have at least 10, probably closer to 20. I'll try to shoot some pics at some point.

[Peterthecactusguy]

Dean,
I do too. I almost picked up a Dyckia at DBG the other day. It was a strange looking plant, it had purplish leaves.

[daiv]

Tracey, I've got a couple Broms, but most of mine were lost in the move. Just couldn't care for everything. Included among the few today are some pineapples.

[Peterthecactusguy]

if you cut the top off of a pineapple will it actually grow? lolz. I have never tried it because someone would always compost the top...

[Harriet]

if you cut the top off of a pineapple will it actually grow? lolz. I have never tried it because someone would always compost the top...

Yes... and produce fruit!

[tvaughan]

I've got both carnivorous bromiliads, Brocchinia and Catopsis, and a couple dozen Tillandsias, including T. cacticola, which isn't that easy to grow, since it lives on cactus and gets moisture from mists. Here's the Catopis

[tvaughan]

And some Tillandsia. I use them for shade, and they look cool! The whole greenhouse looks pretty much like this. Spray them with orchid fertilizer once per month when it's warm and they bloom and divide fairly quickly.

[majcka]

Not yet, but hope to get me some pineaple of my own some day soon.

[*Barracuda_52*]

FANTASTIC everyone, Harriet nice selection you have going there very pretty. What the one ones you have in the blue pot??

Love the Tillandsia's T, love how you have them hanging they look beautiful I have a few i put on drift wood and then some i made a hanging ball outa of and hung all those in the tropicals GH, gona work on few more as folks love those when they go in the GH.



amanzed and Peter, im working on Dyckias, have started some from seed and just now starting to get some small ones already grown, those are gona be my slowest collection going over a period of time but will have a nice small collection sooner or later, just looking for offsets/pups of those right now.


So far for brom's i have comming in
2- Neo. "Fire Ball"
Neo. "Pauciflora" pups
Neo. "Alley Cat" X "Pauciflora:
Neo. "Mo Peppa F2" X "Pepper"
Neo. "Tiger Cub"
Neo. "Black Beauty"
Billbergia "Dejavu"

and more as i go, working on picking up more Billbergia's. Would also like to pick up a few Vriesea "Racinae's" and Aechmea "Chantinii Black". I tend to like the more spotted and barred types. I think by the time spring gets here im gona have a real nice little selection going.

Daiv post up some pics of what ya have..


THANKS EVERYONE for sharring keep those pics comming..

[daiv]

I will look for pics...

[peter]

I have a few! For example
Billbergia nutans x B. decora

[Peterthecactusguy]

Harriet, cool. Next time I get a pineapple I will try and grow the top !