Re: need information

Well, Donna, first thing you need to do is ID that child and the web
site that was posted ought to help as I think I found the one I've
been abusing for about 20 years......Bromelia macedoi looks pretty
much like what I have.  Mine is a cup type that needs water to be
kept in the cup all the time.

I can't even remember when I potted it last, but it's in a clay pot
with my normal home made potting soil and some rocks in it to hold
the plant in as it does not make what you'd call a robust root system
and, being top heavy, kept falling out.  That seems to work.

I try to keep water in that child - in summer that's not a problem as
it gets hosed with all the other pots, but in winter I have been
known to neglect it to the point of almost withering dry.  It has
survived - tough plant.  When it gets happy and flowers, the original
plant dies and forms an offset that makes another plant.

Once in a  blue moon, I water the cup with a little diluted Miracle
Grow or Seaweed or whatever I've got in the liquid fertilizer
department, but sometimes this does not happen for a year or
more....poor thing is lucky to get water:-)

I keep mine in shade  in summer and in a room where it gets bright
light but no direct sun in winter.

Mine has proven very tough and undemanding....odd but interesting
plants; if you give yours proper care, no telling what it is capable
of:-)

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: Donna Davis <dsdavis@intop.net>
> I just purchased today,  a  Bromeliad,  and I know nothing.   The
only 
> thing I know is that you are suppose to keep water in the top of
the 
> plant.  
> I don't know what kind of potting soil to use,  any oganic matter, 
any 
> whatever,   do you keep the soil moist?   do you water the soil on
a 
> regular time table.
> WHAT?
> is there a web site that give any information on this plant?  I
haven't 
> been able to fine on thus far.
> Help     Donna in NE Mississippi    zone 7

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