Rigo, you can either secure your plants to a porous piece of wood with fishing line, thin steel wire (22-27 gauge), or simply glue them. Don't put glue directly over the area where roots would normally come from, it's pretty easy to tell where that is. Just a small dab'll do ya. "Goop" or "Liquid Nails" works well.

gonzer, Thanks for the info. I will glue them in place.

Okay gonzer, I have attached my two new air plants with superglue and have set them in my bathroom. They look great!
One other question: How many times per day should I mist these plants.
TIA
Rigo74

I was given 6 Tillandsia air plants for my birthday, my question is what kind of porous piece of wood should I use? do I buy it from a garden center or where do I get them? can I grow them in my shade house in the summer? as you can tell I'm really new to growig air plants. I grow lots of epies but this is all too new to me PLEASE help I want to make sure they will do good in my care

Bear

Hi Bear, you can use cork bark - orchid vendors generally sell this. I have also secured some of my tills to bone-dry pieces of driftwood. Cork dries off pretty quickly. I don't know if all driftwood dries quickly, but the pieces I've used are narrow - sticks, essentially - so I have never worried about them remaining wet for too long. Prolonged contact between epiphytic Tillandsias and a super wet mount will produce rot.

Happy growing,
Mike

Hi Mike, thanks for the help, now I'm off to find cork bark I will try my garden center first if they don't have it, then hit some of the bigger garden centers
Thanks again for the help

Bear

Pet shops have cork also

Bathroom humidity can be damaging to the more heavily scaled (whiter/grayer) tills since many are found in mountainous and arid regions. The greener the plant = the more humidity it can take. T. cyanea is a good example. the gray-leaf tills only get a smidgen of moisture, usually from morning fog.

Also, the air circulation in a bathroom is almost non-existant, tills need plenty of it for optimum results. If you do keep them in there give them time outside too for a breath of air.

I understand about air circulation I couldn't keep them in my bathroom even if I want too not enough light for them. I plan on putting them in my shade house come may 15th, I want to put them out with my epies do they take the same type of light, I water all my epies by hand so I know the air plants won't be over watered. what do I feed them with or do I even feed them?
Thanks for any help you can give and I need all the help I can get.

Bear
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