Emery, Lisa has done a wonderful job of training the uninitiated on this forum regarding the pollination of neo's. Of corse you will still get pups from the plants as well - faster, but fewer. Click on the link on the bottom of my writing and a world be be opened onto thee!

Japie

Here is a link that might be useful: Neo flowers and pollination

Emery, there are two basic types of plant propagation. The first is vegetative, or asexual, propagation. What this means is that you are taking a cutting or division, or in the case of bromeliads, a pup (offset) of the mother plant and rooting it. This is the easiest way to multiply your stock of any variety, and all of the plants obtained this way will be genetically identical to the mother. Another word used for this is "cloning". Even micropropagation in a tissue culture lab falls into this category because the plants are grown from a few cells of the mother and will grow up to be exact copies of her.

The other method involves seed, and is known as sexual propagation because the mother plant must be pollinated by a father plant. Even if a plant is capable of self-pollination the seedlings will not be genetically identical to the mother. This is of interest to me because I enjoy creating new varieties and this is the only way to do that. If you just want to make more of a particular plant you like, though, the best way to do that is to remove the pups when they are about half the size of the mother and pot them up. They should root very easily.