Hello all!

I am currently living in Sunny Florida but will be moving back to my "homeland" of Southwest Missouri in the middle of April. I have a bit of a situation I need to resolve.

Yesterday I received three large Aechmea fasciata (Silver Urn Bromeliad). Each of them shows a very nice hot pink bud and is just starting to show - the bracts are still closed and the buds still somewhat deep in the funnels.

Thing is, I want to put all three of these gorgeous plants in a single container and get them secured and established before I move in a little over a month.

I know they are epiphytes as well as obtaining the majority of their nutrition and moisture from their urns. So I'm presuming their feet really mainly need something to support them on and little more.

I'm considering a combination of bark chips and spaghnum mosss, but after doing a very thorough scan through Google I'm really not finding much agreement to insure I'm making the right choice.

Some say a mix of moss and cactus pre-mix, others say spaghnum, others say wire them to a chunk of wood and they'll be fine. Some say water them like a regular houseplant but others say to allow them to grow dry between waterings so long as their urn is flushed out and regularly contains water.

Finally, I need my choice to be a permanent one as each of these three plants have two to three pups and I'd like them to remain attached to the parent rootstock once the parents die so they will provide me a much larger and even fuller plant for the next few years, as well as bloom again more quickly.

So, what do you suggest I do to insure their feet stay grounded for the next few years?

Thanks!