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drdawg said:Welcome, @Atabby. Tillandsia are indeed an interesting family of plants, and though they are generally thought of as (the) "air-plants", all the epiphytic plants (such as orchids, staghorn ferns, and bromeliads) are also "air-plants". At one time I had a lot of hybrids (some man-made, some from far-off places). Last year I began to collect only those tillandsia native to the USA, mostly a few counties in Florida. I now have eight of those varieties. I decided to mount all of the varieties on a single mount so that one could see the diversification of the native plants and chose a huge slab of natural cork to mount them on. The only native variety that I have collected that is not on the cork is Spanish moss. Two of the varieties are now coming into bloom

Hello Drdawg, Thank you, What a lovely display of your tillandsia. Very attractive,
I'm wondering how you water them? Do you soak the whole board with te plants or pour water on the surface of the cork?
Since mine are quite little I've soaked them once since I recieved them, but they would look nice on board and hanging on the wall next to the window .

I currently have the group of them, on the window sill in my kitchen, which gets good light, but I have a florescent fixture over the sink above the window that is on all night, kind of as a night like for my daughter, we have to tromp through the kitchen to the bathroom.

Will this light being on all night adversely affect the tillansia's ? It doesn't seem to bother my other plants that are kept on the sill.

I hope you are healing well after your back surgery!


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