From Seed to Seed:
Plant Science for K-8 Educators

Digging Deeper

Babying Bromeliads

As is the case with a number of tropical plants, bromeliads are sometimes sold as indoor plants. Should you attempt to grow a bromeliad in your classroom, remember their native habitat and try to mimic it as closely as possible. Provide the plant with bright, indirect light and keep its lower leaves filled with water. After flowering, some bromeliads produce offsets or shoots at their bases, which you can carefully transplant to a new pot. Often the original plant dies at this point.

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