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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    A bit of an unusual tillandsia as it has yellow scented flowers, hence the name tillandsia 'buttercup'.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Athelas said:
    Lovely tillandsia @wild edges. I bought my first tillandsia (a very small one) earlier this year and didn't know they flowered.
    The normal process for tillandsia is that they spend ages slowly growing and then flower for a few days. After flowering they start to form offsets which grow a bit more quickly because they can draw nutrients out of the parent plant. The parent plant slowly dies as it feeds the pups, but the pups will generally end up larger and in better condition than the parent was. You can either remove the pups or leave them to form a nice clump. The plant flowering below is now the 4th generation from my original plant, you can see the old dry flowers from previous generations. The original plant took about 18 months to flower but now they go from new pup to flower in half that time. I'm going to be over run with them in a few years as they reliably make at least 2 pups per parent and I've got 4 flowering this time around.


    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    What a beautiful color @pitter-patter !  Shame I am not closer, I would love a cutting (is it still called a cutting, when it's actually a breaking?).  
    Utah, USA.
  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    I’ve already have some rooted ‘breakings’ on the go.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    pitter-patter said:
    I have been unsuccessful with tillandsia.  
    I'm not sure if they just love the humidity up here but I've found them easy enough. The main things are never to use tap water on them and make sure they get lots of ventilation when they're damp. I add a bit of orchid feed to the water I soak them in but they're sensitive to salts, copper and ammonia so you have to be careful what feed you use.
    Lovely Schlumbergera. I don't think I've ever seen one that colour before.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    Thanks, @wild edges. I think they probably got too dry here and I’ve probably used tap water to spray them. If I try again, I’ll make sure to follow your advice. 
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    I just hope this keeps on going!

    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • SherwoodArrowSherwoodArrow Posts: 284
    wild edges said:
    This haworthia flower spike is just getting silly now. It's over a metre tall and still going.


    Just been reading your old post, my haworthia is 6ft and still going. I’ve had to carefully bend it around and peg it to the net curtains. It’s been flowering for months 😁.
    Nottinghamshire.
    Failure is always an option.

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