I wouldnt remove any pup befoer its atleast 50% the size of the mom. This one may need to stay longer

Thanks HDD, no I wasnt quite ready to remove the pups from this one yet, but I've read a few things regarding albino pups or pups without enough colouring not living long after being removed from the mum.
Something to do with not enough chlorophyll?

The mum isn't as sick as she looks, she just has some hail damage from a freak storm here in summer.

I hear you on the hail we get our share of that...one plant I have been growing out to register..went thru Hurricane Rita.. she has a few dings but a beautiful huge Neo and finally about to bloom

Sounds exciting HDD, would love to see a pic when you're ready to show her.

It will be as soon as the registry is freed up enough for us peons to get a plant in edgewise LOL

So what's with needing 3 id's, cractpot, tropogem and brommad16 to post?

Hi minibim, sorry for the Aussie invasion LOL
we are from an Aussie garden forum and have been reading your forums for a while now, we love to learn anything we can about our broms.
One of our girls put a link up to here and a few of us joined up.

LOL....Oh Dear Sorry for the confusion Minibim...
We have all bombarded here as cractpot has explained and we talk about broms nearly 24 /7 online somewhere else and we are new to broms, was thinking we try understanding these plants by chatting with you guys in here....LOL

I think there are about 6 new posters from our regular chat spot , posting in here now over the past couple of days....lol

yep i'm with Crackpot, tropogem, , purple star, sutto, & cavoodle all different people but ones who love bromeliads, well its more like a sickness with us, you know the " see it, got to have it feeling" lol thats us

Minibim if it makes you feel a little more comfortable with all the new Id's, the link below is something we are working on together.
It shows each of our collections (we've only just started)
there will be many more pics and additions as we go along.

bromelinads -cractpot
yellowbelly -brommad
purplestar - rocky
Gems droolabroms - troppogem
gimme - sutto

feel free to have a poke around in our backyards as we call it LOL

Here is a link that might be useful: Aussie Broms

This is how bad i have it , this "bromeliad sickness", these were bough on 1 trip, that took me 6 hours from where i live. Then just recently we had some fly from top, bottom and inland of Aus to Sydney just to meet & buy bromeliads, next meet is in September in QLD to do same thing all over again

yep you could say were brom mad thats where get my ID from LOL

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My Billbergia 'Foster's Striate' has produced two completely albino and several nearly albino pups over the years. There has been zero success in raising the completely white plants past the 4-5 leaf stage. B. 'Fantasia' has done the same. The plants will continue to grow if left attached, although very slowly and with no flower, but separating the plants usually spells D-O-O-M.

cractpot, I'm with gonzer, I've had one albino pup but it slowly died after it was removed. Leave it attached and enjoy it while you can.

brommad16, you have got it bad. Don't worry you have plenty of friends on this web site.

Aussie Broms group, congrats on your site I enjoyed the pics. I'm from Queensland and am happy to see more Aussies on line here. I'm sure you'll learn a lot I know I have in the last few months.

That's some good stuff on the Aussie Broms site.

It would be nice if we could spin off this forum into a full fledged brom site with more features. I'm sure if we put our heads together we could come up with some good ideas.

Features like editing posts, tutorials on how to upload pictures, a more robust gallery section, member profiles, how to's, etc...

Back in the 60s and earlier, what bromeliads were being grown were mostly by Europeans. Then the US got into the picture and started the BSI and we dominated the hybridizing scene for a while. Now I think we're being eclipsed by the Aussies. More and more good things are coming out of Oz, so welcome, all of you, to our group!

As to the albino pup, I agree it's best to leave it on. It's not totally albino, and if it gets a few more leves with some green on them then it may be safe to remove, but completely white pups won't make it. Even left on the plant they are susceptible to the slightest little ding and tent to bruise and turn brown very easily.

I love your Broms brommad :)

neonut both myself and tropgem are Queensland gals as well :)

Looking forward to learning much from all of you here, am really pleased to have been told about this site.

thanks to all who've answered, I appreciate the input xx

Sounds like there might be a hint of a chance there with your Albino pup Cractpot, just leave it huh , just till its much much bigger and then tell us when your about to remove it and show us pics and all that....lol
It feels weird calling you Cractpot...LOL...its you...lol...but its not you....lol