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Bromaliad question from a rookie
Happy New Year to All! The flower of our bromaliad has died few months ago but we kept the plant because there is a new shoot growing on its side. To give the shoot the best chances, should we cut the old leaves? cut the bulb in half? or leave it all together? how do we nuture it? will it ever flower again? Thank you in advance for sharing your knowledge! Cheerio.
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Bromaliad question from a rookie
theozfrog wrote:
Happy New Year to All! The flower of our bromaliad has died few months ago but we kept the plant because there is a new shoot growing on its side. To give the shoot the best chances, should we cut the old leaves? cut the bulb in half? or leave it all together? how do we nuture it? will it ever flower again? Thank you in advance for sharing your knowledge! Cheerio. In Sydney, We just leave them. If we want them to flower, we just pour a bucket of water over them each day for a week (or something like that). Actually, our flowers (4 or 5 varieties) ony last for a fortnight or so. Do you mean the heat has killed the leaves? Don't write them off until you've sacrificed a few buckets of water. We've had ones that I swore were dead after transplanting come back to life after a good water. I'd leave the dead leaves as mulch and future food. |
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Bromaliad question from a rookie
g'day theozfrog,
you could just simply leave it the old part won't interfere with the new developing plant, later on when the old bit is realy rotted just pull of all the old leaves for neatness. or if you want to try and get more of the brom you could cut the old section away immidiately above where the new pup is growing stick this old section into some medium doesn't matter what as broms live from the water that is in the cup they don't need a potting medium for the most and will happily grow attached to a tree, and that old section will likely grow a new pup. so you will double the plant, with some broms you can repeat a couple of times but mostly only once. their routine is to flower and die so the new pup(s) will be your flowers next year/season. remember if you do this the new pup then stays attached to the old root stock. snipped With peace and brightest of blessings, len -- "Be Content With What You Have And May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In A World That You May Not Understand." http://www.users.bigpond.com/gardenlen1 |
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