"Cornelius Drautz" wrote in message
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Cornelius Drautz wrote:

So I did the right thing by cutting off the "yellow part"/flower
yesterday? :-)

Yes, the flowering was finished.
Your main plant won't flower again, but it will make new leafy
branches that will flower in turn.

There are several purple "branches" on the outside of the
centre-leaves (see at the bottom of
http://www.t47.rwth-aachen.de/corni/p3.jpg)), can i hope for a new
blossom/flower developing from one of those?

Yes. First, those young branches will have to grow out and make new
leafy plants similar to your existing plant.

They may grow out as a short or long rooting stem before
making a new leafy plant, or they may form a denser
clump apparently from a common base.

In nature bromeliads sometimes form large clumps of leafy
rosettes connected by these creeping rooting rhizomes.

I just found http://bsi.org/brom_info/FAQ.html - I think, I got the
answers :-)

Contrary to what they suggest, you can also simply choose to leave
the offsets attached to the original plant. They'll grow faster
living off of the "mother" plant than if they're cut off too soon.
When the new shoots get big enough they will flower and make new
leafy branches of their own.

When the clump of plants gets too large you can divide it into
smaller clumps or into single plants, discarding the old parts
that have already flowered.

cheers