Wow! I love before and after photos! It really gives a sense of growth!

The other container beside it also had some tillies...



Again I lost some..the other one in bloom at that time stayed for awhile, and made a baby..and it is still here, in bloom from March to June this year. I just really need it to make another pup...otherwise, that's it...end of the line for this one. I do not see anything forming, still hoping.

I've never been able to get them to bloom! Good job Tarev

As pretty as they are when they bloom...it is a double edge thing...being monocarpic...so, a bittersweet bloom..but if it gets to make a pup, the show goes on

Oh I didn't realize these were monocarpic as well totally can relate since I grow sempervivum - and same thing! I wonder if people pinch the blooms off in attempts to save the plant??

I think some would just harvest seeds or wait for pups...I am not good with seed growing..so I just hope for the pups to come.

Tarev that is really pretty. David sent me one and it has been living on my patio all summer. I am so afraid to bring it indoors for the winter because everyone I have brought inside die.

I leave them outdoors all season long, seems to enjoy it better that way. Likes that continuous air flow I guess. But our winters are milder, and we do get occasional hard freeze. It has endured that as well.

l do not think I can let old man winter have his way with it. I have a small Terrarium I am going to try it in there.

Yes, bring it indoors in your area..it will be better.

Pups maturing for my tillandsias
This one which has been blooming last summer..happy to see it is making babies.whew!


This other one, is also just busy making new ones...I think the oldest mommy plant will soon go..so there would be grandpups to continue the line now


Now these two are the ones I have labeled originally as my tillandsia on the rocks, then moved it outside with my orchids, then now hanging in a glass vase.
This one, is showing me some new fresh roots.Took it out of the glass so I can better take a shot. My first time to see live fresh ones...usually I just see the dried out ones.



And tillandsia bulbosa..ever so busy making new pups..pups galore! Mommy plant seems to have shrunken a bit in size, I guess it is giving lots of energy to the new little ones.


Just temporarily placing it elsewhere so I can take a better shot of the pups. I think I count six pups.

I was so tempted to peel off the dried out leaf in my tillandsian bulbosa..but seeing it is like cradling the newer pups, I decided to just leave it alone and wait till pup gets more matured.

Happy mommas and happy babies. Way to go, Tarev.

I have just about run out of all my initially purchased tillandsia, purchased a couple of years ago. I decided I simply couldn't continue to grow "everything" and decided to end that segment of my tropical plants. Then I discovered there were a few species that actually grew in S. Florida, and a couple of them grow no where else. These are not the hybrids you see sold, they are species plants. I got some of those this spring and have a experiment ongoing. Some, I am going to leave out during the fall/winter months (we had a brutal winter last year) and some I will over-wintered in a GH. I want to see what survives outside (any/all?). One tillandsia I grow (and was told it would be impossible to grow in NE Mississippi) is Spanish moss. I have now grown it for three years and I have gobs of it. It has never been brought inside, unless it is growing alongside my orchids and some mounted plants, and not only survived our winter last year, it has flourished. Go figure.

they can take some more cold..I used to hide them indoors for fear of freezing..but apparently they can take it. Well I do put them in my growcamp and pull down the plastic foil to protect it together with my some of my orchids.

Have been cleaning my growcamp yesterday and got to see the condition of my older tillandsia. Have actually been neglectful of it..it just gets its water if my orchids gets water otherwise left hanging on the cube grid, has quietly endured our sizzling hot summers and our erratic winter weather, and the ongoing drought.

I removed it from its grid..and got to appreciate how big this one has grown over the past two years! A very happy looking tilly indeed. Too bad I do not know which cultivar it is, but it is one tough cookie!

Photo in 2011, when I used to hang it on one of my garden stands:


Moved it inside the growcamp in 2012:


I placed it on top of this hollow block while I was cleaning the growcamp....I can better see now just how big tilly has grown!


Have put it back on its old perch..just love how this tilly has evolved.

How impressive is that? So "loving neglect" is what it thrived on, Tarev?

Bev, believe me, there are no plants that thrive on neglect, at least none that we would probably grow. Oh, many will live regardless how little we tend to them, but thrive, no. My tillandsia get the same attention that my orchids and staghorn ferns get. The tillandsia grow twice as fast, bloom better, and put out more pups than those that are more "neglected". I have grown them both ways for several decades. Believe it or not, my Spanish moss blooms profusely. Even people that grew up around Spanish moss have never seen it bloom and when I tell them mine bloom every spring, well they start recommending mental health care! Then I show them the blooms (if they are here in the spring/early summer or show them pictures of the blooms on my moss. They become believers.

You will perhaps need to click on the picture to enlarge it and you will see bright-green flowers. The brown objects you see are the spent flower/seed capsule from the previous year.

Yes Bev..loving neglect it is

Oh, Tarev. You sound like my wife. She tells everyone that I thrive on neglect!

I don't.

Looks great Tarev and Ken very nice!!