I am growing some of these from seed

I don't know what you call them, Nick, maybe lobes? All brom stigmas have 3 parts, though, it's just that they're often wound around each other so tightly it looks like one. Vrieseas often have splayed out stigmas like that, and so do Crypts. On Bills (subgenus Billbergia) they're wound, but more loosely, so it looks like a helix.

HDD, I guess they self then. I'll probably just mostly use it as a pollen parent in any case.

This morning, I made sure that 4 flowers got well pollinated from their own pollen. I'll donate the seeds to the BSI seed fund if they take. It will also serve as a warning if they take and my attempts to cross with Androlepis pollen take also. I'll have to get going pretty early to emasculate them if I want to be more sure of pure seed pods. At 10am the kuntzeana pollen was dry and powdery unlike the Androlepis pollen.

I dont know that they self...they are growing spineless right now. Iwould have thought they would have spines by now. Time will tell

Thanks for the update. I'll just continue to play it safe and remove the anthers for the few crosses I plan to make. It's pretty easy to do and I'm keeping the pollen for later anyway.

Is there any point to spurting some water on the stigma after I remove the anthers to wash any pollen off? I'd do it a few hours before I put the pollen parent's pollen on.

BTW, I did a Bromdex search and didn't find any crosses with kuntzeana.

I wouldn't spray any water on the stigma. The pollen tube formation is triggered by contact with the fluid that the stigma releases at anthesis, so water would probably interfere with that.