I guess it all comes down to growing conditions. I would love to have the large form of pauciflora pup more than it does. I bought my first plant about 5 years ago, & the clump now has just 6 plants, they realy do not like our cold wet winters, but I'm looking forward to the day when it looks as good as Kerry's.

A couple of Neo's I've had that have been quite prolific are 'Firewheel' & 'Fosperior Perfection'. My original Firewheel produced 16 nice pups over a 2 1/2 year period. And my original Perfection has already produced 15 pups, all with nice variegation, and the mother plant is still going, so I may get a couple more.

If you look after the mother plant, & remove the pups when they are 1/3 to 1/2 the size of an adult plant, you will tend to get more pups.

I came across this info on a technique to get more pups off a plant... "After you have depuped get a styrophom box that is used to transport vegtables and has a lid. Fill the bottom with water 1/3th. Cut a hole to fit plant in the lid. nsure that plant roots dont touch water.
The humidy of the water stimulates the roots and new pups form."... I've not tried this, but it does sound interesting.

Any other tips out there to increase pup production...?

I have a feeling we're going to get a lot of contradictory answers here, because it really does depend on growing conditions, among other things.

Andrew, I would have said just the opposite of you! Fosperior Perfection NEVER pups for me, mainly because in all the years I've grown it I've never seen it bloom. The only way I've ever been able to propagate it is to kill the meristem with a screwdriver. Then it will give quite a few pups, but the amount of pups is directly related to how big the plant is when I screw it. N. pauciflora, on the other hand, pups like crazy-- both the large and small forms. Go figure.

My general feeling is that the stoloniferous types tend to be the best puppers. Fireball, compacta, ampullacea, olens, etc., and many of their hybrids too. Maybe that's just an illusion because they tend to pup earlier. I've never done a pup count on any particular variety to test it out.

How many pups you can get will depend on several factors. As mentioned before, the more mature the mother is when she blooms, the more pups she can support because there is simply more leaf mass there to produce food for them. Heavy fertilization can have the same effect. If you leave them attached, however, she'll reach her limit and just take care of those. On the other hand, if you remove them as soon as they're big enough to take off, Mama will keep pumping them out until she keels over.

This is where growing conditions figures into it. In more temperate regions, not only do broms grow slower, the seasonal change will often force them into bloom before they've had a chance to put on much size. In the tropics we get pretty even growth year-round, and some varieties rarely if ever bloom. Neo. Fireball is one of these, and it's also one that doesn't have to bloom in order to pup, so what this means is that a single mother plant can just keep producing pup after pup, and as long as you keep removing them she'll continue to do it. I've seen them form tall stalks with 10-15 stubs where pups have been removed over time, but if you don't take them off, then you'll only get one or two.

Spot on Lisa!

In my 'arctic' conditions Ampullacea and Firebal are good puppers too without flowering.

Neo Spectabilis pups good after flowering over here, no stolons though. I've had up to four or five pups one one plant. Bilbergia's tend to pup a lot without flowering also.
Sander

um i dont know about this but maybe with the broms that only pup after flowering maybe you could induce it into flowering ie. stick it in the fridge for awile or the heater wich ever one does the trick but make sure you dont leave it in the fridge for to long the cold might kill it. but than again i wouldnt know to much about this