Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae:
Genus: Tillandsia
Sub-Genus:
Native distribution:
Habit: The leaves extend from a pear shaped bulb at the base and the plant grows into dense masses.
Foliage: Tillandsia pseudo bailyi has long twisted wire like leaves that are green and have very fine dark red longitudinal lines running up them.
Flowers: It produces a short spike which pink bracts with purple flowers.
Seed: It is not always possible to tell if Tillandsia seed is viable. In many species the seed begins to germinate before the capsule splits, indicated by a little green nubbin at the end of the coma (the tuft of hairs that carry the seed on the wind). In other species the seed looks brown and lifeless. It may still be good, so sow it. So you need to experiment to see what happens - This seed of Tillandsia pseudo bailyi was planted yesterday morning and had produced a green nubbin by the afternoon.
Pups: The plant produces pups from the bulbos base
Cultivation:
Fertilization: A mist every week with Epiphyites Delight or Epsom salts during the growing season will help the plant.
( Epiphyte’s Delight fertilizer was developed for a special reason. Nitrogen promotes foliar growth. If you have Tillandsias, Orchids, or other epiphytes and you feed them, take a look at the nitrogen content. If it’s high in urea, the plants can’t use it because the urea needs a bacteria in soil to break it down into ammonia and nitrates. Since the epiphytes don’t have any soil they can’t break down the urea. It was for this reason that we had Epiphyte’s Delight formulated. It contains only ammoniacal and nitrate nitrogen which is immediately accessible and usable by the plants.)
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