I'm melting Lisa, your magnificent Vr. cause me change from xeric to mesic.
Actually, long long time ago, I had ordered a big shipment of bromeliad from Bob's Bromeliads (not our Bob here) for sale in Thailand. There were a lot of Vr. too. I think they do love cooler climate than our hot Bangkok City.

Zowie ! Lisa,they're a feast for the eyes! Thanks for posting them.And I [we all] hope you can post more soon,when you get your camera adjusted just right. Makes our best 'northern grown' broms look like offsets compared to yours. If only I could grow vreisea like that.Those 3 M.J.'s are beautiful. Hope we see more soon. Bob

O....M......G!! Lisa, yer killin' me.

What is that beautiful thang in the foreground?

Ok I need a ticket to HI. right NOW!

Kim, that thang and the one directly behind the MJ came from a batch of David Shiigi's unmarked hybrid seedlings. I think they are either F2s of 'Pahoa Beauty' or a further cross made with it, not sure which. The red ones to the right are some of my babies.

Hey Bob, check it out--- 3 young minty pups without even having to screw the mommy!

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That first photo would make a gorgeous pattern for an aloha shirt, Lisa. I see an interesting sideline for you...

Aha ! I see a brown dead leaf ! [jealous people will look for ANY defect] ;-( Hey,that aloha shirt sounds like a winner,..deal me in ! Beautiful plant[s] Lisa,and more on the way. You picked the right place to live and grow them.
When the one at the BBG flowered and pupped,there were three pups too. The two twins that I posted a pic of,that got this conversation going,are doing wonderfully at the Bot.Gdns.,and the other one that I took home [its ok for me to do that] is not even close in size and color.Shows what different growing conditions can do.It will be going 'back home'soon. Thanks for the 'extra'pics. Bob

ps,I have 'Pahoa Beauty',you would laugh,or maybe cry,if you saw the difference. [sigh]

:-O :-O :-O! I'm speechless. (damn, where's that 'drool' key???)

Kim, I lied. I checked the tag on the one in the foreground and it's just plain 'Nova', so that is available in the trade.

Bob, there are tons of brown leaves, trust me. I just try to shoot around them or crop them out whenever possible! I took a bunch more pics today, despite my camera issues, and I have to say, I'm feeling pretty happy about some of the crosses. Don't want to *brag* or anything..... but twist my arm and I might show you a few of my own Vr. babies. ;-)

Lisa,consider your arm twisted a full 180 degrees !
MORE PHOTOS WANTED !! [and again,thank you for all the info and pics already supplied.] Bob

Okay, first let me add a couple more here that are not mine, and then I'll start a new thread.

We talked about 'Intermedia Rubra', this is what it looks like:

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Then I mentioned the Shiigi seedlings (possibly 'Pahoa Beauty' F2 or a cross made with it). Some of them have a fosteriana look:
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...and others pull more to the 'Nova' side. This one is my favorite, because of the pink tinge:

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Plenty of brown leaves in there too, Bob!

Lisa, are you growing these in pots or in the soil? Looks like a sea of bromeliads any which way they are grown. Very impressive and love this last photo of the Nova. Unbelievable strips, I've not seen such small lines and the pink color really sets it off. Who are the mom and dad if you don't mind?
Patris

Patris, those last two are both seedlings from Vr. 'Pahoa Beauty' (see link), either F2 (second generation self-pollination) or crossed with something else, but they were untagged when I got them and David Shiigi wasn't sure. If they were crossed with something else it probably wasn't anything any different from the species that are already in that cross, because I don't see any signs of anything except fosteriana and 'Nova' in any of them. The long pinstripes come from the 'Nova' and the tesselation (crosswise squiggles) comes from the fosteriana.

I grow everything in pots, and they are mostly up on raised benches in my shadehouse, although I often put them down on the ground to photograph them.

Here is a link that might be useful: Vr. Pahoa Beauty

Oh my!!! I think I have caught that drooling problem Bob had earlier.

Just beautiful!
Patris

Spactacular !
Lisa,if I'm seeing this right,the longer-narrower leaves have 'fosteriana' in the parentage ; The shorter-wider leaves have 'Nova' in their parentage. [besides the pinstripes and tessalations] Is this correct? Bob

Well, that's certainly the case for these 2 particular clones, and that's probably true more often than not, Bob, but I have a narrower pinstripey one and a slightly wider tesselated one too. But if you look at the parents, yeah, 'Nova' does have wider leaves and the leaves have that upward curve to them. I find the hybrid ones that look almost like 'Nova' to be somewhat easier to grow than 'Nova' itself, not sure why.