That looks like a happy brom

That's nice Japie.
Promise me you'll post a pic when it has all it's colour back.

Hmmm, I was wondering where my sunlight has gone.... :-)

Lovely healthy pectinata Japie. I have found that my pectinatas get some colour to their leaves like yours in Spring, but I thought it was more to do with the flowering season looming, even if they are not ready to bloom - kind of 'sympathetic' colouring, when mature ones are about to flower. And maybe yours will flower this season? Even with good light in Summer, my less mature ones go back all green, after the mature ones have flowered. Does anyone else find this?

Japie, Nice colors you have there. I'm wondering why mine couldn't color up like yours. It's a lot smaller than yours.
Perhaps it's still young but I do find some tinge of pink at the edge of its' leaves.

Here's a picture of mine.
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hi atm.... that pectinata of yours looks very like one I recently purchased from a Brisbane (Oz) lady named Olive Trevor, who imported it from Hawaii. It has more pink colour in the centre of the rosette, than my others. Mine has not flowered yet, so I don't know if there will be any other differences then. Also, I have grown for several years an Aechmea pectinata labeled "cv. Kathy D'orr" (and seen various spellings of "D'orr" 'Dawe' 'D'Or' etc.). I can't see much or any difference between it and my species Ae. pectinata. Is anyone enlightened on this cultivar?

I don't know anything about the different cvs. of pectinata, but Kathy Dorr used to write a column for the BSI Journals. No apostrophe in the name.

What I experienced with mine, is that it looses colour the moment you move it or feed it. I think it is also mentioned it Steens' book (Contemporary Garden)that it looses colour if you move it and that particular patch on the leave does not colour up again and will also be a duller green than the rest of the plant. And also, this plant apperently colours up much nicer if it is mounted - I just do not have a spot big enough to mount it, but if it gets pups, I will definitely give it a try!