Do you remember the lessons on the tropical rain forest from your school days? They talked about the bromeliads and their place in the ecosystem. They were such pretty plants; perhaps you wish that you could have a bromeliad in your own personal ecosystem. The good news is that you can have them. The bromeliad is one of the most adaptable and undemanding houseplants you can have. Just follow the bromeliad care instructions listed here.

Light

There are over 3000 types of bromeliads, and different species prefer different types of lighting. Most like bright, indirect sunlight, although long periods of direct light can burn their leaves. A window facing west, south or east is a good place to put them. They prefer temperatures ranging from 60 degrees Fahrenheit to 70 degrees Fahrenheit, and they can’t stand to be colder than 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

Watering Your Bromeliad

Bromeliads come from tropical floors that drain fast, and they succumb to root rot pretty quickly. For this reason, you wait to water your plant until you can put your finger into the soil up to the second knuckle on your pointer finger without getting it wet. Then you water it until it drains out of the pot’s drainage hole. 

There are bromeliads that are epiphytic, meaning that they aren’t in soil. They are rooted on branches or something similar. Watering these plants is pretty easy. Mist them regularly.

Bromeliads prefer to stay in moist places. If you can keep the humidity in the room at 60%, they will thank you. You can maintain this by placing other plants near your bromeliad. You can also use a tray of rocks with water coming up to just below the rocks surface. Put the tray near your bromeliad or just under the pot without the plant being in the water. You can also mist your plants once a week to keep things moist.

Fertilizing

Your bromeliad will need a little snack once a month. Bromeliads grow slowly no matter how much you feed them, and fertilizer will just dim their colors if used too much. If you have an epiphyte, mist the plant with a liquid fertilizer that you diluted to ½ strength.

Bromeliads take about 6 to 14 weeks to flower, but once they grow flowers, the flowers stay vibrant for months. When the flower dies, the main plant dies. However, the bromeliad will leave behind baby bromeliads, called pups. These can be treated exactly like the grown-ups.

If you have to repot your pups, use orchid potting mix or similarly coarse medium and put them in shallow pots. Their root systems aren’t deep.

Our bromeliads are just begging to go home with the next lucky customer. If you want these exotic beauties in your home, contact us.

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Pasadena, TX 77504

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