I bought this Tillandsia Tricolor at the Dallas Home and garden Show from Our Member.. Aaron D's Group - Bromelaid Society. It stayed pretty much dormant since I'd gotten it home After a few PM's back and forth with Aaron and trying different things I was ready to give up hope on it blooming and could just hope for it to produce 'pups' that would for sure bloom, Upon one more suggestion From Aaron to possibly move it to a brighter location and introduce more humidity Alas it bloomed with in 2 weeks of moving it.. Thanks Aaron for all the Info.. it has found it's place in my house now It looks like there are going to be several blooms,




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AARON Are you still on here???? Where is north haven Gardens???

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oh i am sorry i wasn't near a computer i thought you knew where it would be, the driving directions are on the handout that i gave you with your tillandsia... oh well theres always next time the next meeting will be June the 24th i think... i went to their newly redesigned greenhouse it was poorly stocked you didn't miss much except for the meeting...

Thanks Lynne! It has bloomed in another place since the picture! (BIG Smile)

Aaron D does each serratted edge have bloom potential ?? Wow I have the paper right in front of me is this were most all your meeting are held??

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yea all our meetings are at the North Haven Gardens... everyone is welcome to attend and see if they want to become a member... to be botanicly correct the edge of the flower spike is not serrated but is composed of many BRACTS tighly overlapping to create the sword like shape... yes all tillandsias bloom in an alternating sequence... starting from the bottom, to the top, one will bloom on one side, then wilt.. then on the opposite side a flower will bloom and so on... working all the way to the top where one last flower ( or flowers, usually toward the end tillandsias like to open several flowers at once) near the very tip will bloom and that will be it until its pups grow up and bloom for them selves

Aaron they are also way over watered as is most everything they have. They dip them in a 30gallon plastic garbage can full of water every day or two. I feel things before I buy it so I wont buy any of theirs but Calloways are not any better.
Jimmy

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Aaron..., It never did open the last ones at the tip BUT.> there are more yet to open On the pic I posted you saw there was a lower bracket
It has bloomed alternating 2 times on each side, now it has begun to bloom again on the upper bracket again, This has been most interesting to watch the sequence of blooming I think especially because it went from the top Bracket to the lower bracket back up to the top again COOOOL! So after it stops all blooming this stem will never bloom again but will produce pups that will then bloom, Right?? What happens to the stem after all blooms are spent?
OH I almost forgot ,, It also bloomed on the stem itself on the lower half opposite the lower bracket , I just went to look at it and again I have yet another bloom on the lower bracket almost at the tip.. This is way too cool of an experience
Thanks, Diane

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gotcha! Thanks so much for all the info and walking me thru this.. This has been an awesome experience for the first time having this type of plant.. I Believe this was the best $7.00 I ever spent on any plant to date!!


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