Family: Bromeliad
Sub-Family: Tillandsioideae:
Genus: Tillandsia
Sub-Genus:
Native distribution: N/A hybrid
Seed parent: T.Stricta
Pollen Parent: T. Recurvifolia
Habit: Cotton Candy' is a hybrid cultivar - Stricta X Recurvifolia. It is a medium sized plant and hardy. and loves to grow in well lit areas.
Foliage: The plant produces many elegant leaves which are long and thin. They form a dense silver trichome layer which affords the plant an attractive silver appearance.
Flowers: The plant has a stunning pink balloon like flower spike-with where the many floral bracts appear to be inflated. it forms small lilac-violet flowers.
Seed:
Pups: After flowering the plant can produce 3 - 6 pups which mature in 2 years.
Cultivation: The plant is very easy to grow and vigorous. The plant tolerates both hot dry and moist conditions.
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.)
Availability: Often available
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