Looks like its gone to seed to me.

Phee,

Your guzmania is not reflowering. It's pregnant!!

The dark brown things are spent flowers with no babies, but the hard green things are ripening seed pods - congratulations! :)

When they are ripe, they will have turned brown but still large and firm, and they will split in three and "dandelion-santa-clause-like fluffy things with parachutes" will burst forth. Might take another month or three, and you could have poly-monostachia seedlings coming out of your earholes!

Cheers,
Kerry

Well isn't that a lovely surprise! LOL

So, considering I've never done a single thing with any kind of brom seed before, what should I do when they start to bust open? Can they be planted straight away, and what growing conditions would they require?

Guzmanias are pretty tough seeds to grow.

This page has some information on growing parachute born seeds.

Wow that's great, pretty amazing that this is native to Florida(among other places). Does anyone know any nurseries/online vendors that sell this species? Thanks in advance.

Michael's had them in stock

Here is a link that might be useful: Michael's

That should read ..Has them in stock

Thank you for the tip hotdiggetydam, I just sent them an email since I didn't see it listed in the online store.

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Thanks for the link, winterlager. Here's hoping I can get some results.

Thanks hotdiggetydam, I found the list.