New Bromeliad Lover Needs advice

18 years ago

First let me say hello to everyone and tell you I know nothing about bromeliads but have fallen in love with them.

I tried to find someone / anyone to trade me a couple of theirs for a couple of mine that I don't even know the names of. Of course no one was interested in NOIDS.

I was somewhat disappointed but was not going to give up without a fight. So I started looking up bromeliads on the internet to buy. Of course I fell in love with just about everyone of them I saw. Since I wanted several different ones to grow and hang from my trees in the Spring I settled for a group of 6 different sun bromeliads.I can't wait to get them, and I'm sure each of you know EXACTLY what I'm going through!

When I go out to my small greenhouse I invision it with a bunch of different broms all over it. LOL So when my grocery store got a shipment in this week I bought 6 more and placed them on a shelf in the greenhouse. The names of them are all in the pots and I didn't bother with getting the names off them today.

I realized that all of these broms are planted in neat little ceremic pots without any drain holes. Although they look really great in these pots I'm worried that they need holes for the roots to breath. I would appreciate any advice any of you can give me regarding what they need to be potted in and their needs other than water.

If anyone has any small pups they would be willing to trade or exchange for something else I'd be very interested in getting my collection going to hang in my trees this coming Spring.

FYI One of my noids has long tubes about 1-2 inches around and about 12 inches long. They grow in huge clusters and have long pink blooms that hang down, at the end of the pink bloom it has smaller blueish purple blooms. The blooms are over a ft long. Any ideals what this brom might be?

Thanks in advance and Happy Gardening from a new brom mom and addict.

Marian

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Comments (7)

hotdiggetydam
18 years ago
To many broms to guess with that info...photos help alot
bromadams
18 years ago
Marian, what state are you in? If you live in a 7b state, then we can probably ship to you, but not you to us.

If your grocery store is selling broms then they are probably common ones that we all have, but that is the way you start.
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lovelyiris
Original Author
18 years ago
I think we live in 7b. I live in East Texas, does that help?
Marian
sdandy
18 years ago
If they are in a ceramic pot without holes, I am going to assume they are in peat moss. Probably a good idea to get them into better draining mix. Other opinions out there?

The one you have sounds like a billbergia. That might help you hunt down a name for it knowing the genus name.
splinter1804
18 years ago
Marian, I think I would start by putting them all into pots with drainage holes, as drainage and air movement are very important parts of successful culture.

Look up the FCBS web site photo index and click on Billbegia, you may just see the plant you describe.

Good luck in your venture, All the best, Nev.
hotdiggetydam
18 years ago
This hobby is addictive and not inexpensive if you get past the box stores(Lowes Home Depot)Most of what they sell are the mass produced by tissue culture plants. The hybrids seen on this form are grown from seeds or pups. Many people search the world over to build their collections(I plead guilty to this). I have waited up to 3 years to get a plant on my wish list. Patience is the biggest part of brom collecting.
lovelyiris
Original Author
17 years ago
Thanks for all the wonderful information and I'm off to look up Billbergia and look for a photo that looks like one of my NOID broms.

I love all the different colored ones and I really want one of those pink ones that kind of look like a spider plant or something. I saw a picture of one of them growing in someones yard in a big mass group. As you can see I don't even know how to describe what I'm talking about.

I maybe new to this bromeliad forum and all but I will in time have a bunch of different ones to grace my humble home and add interest to my little paths and trails everywhere. That is of course once winter has come and gone.

Happy Gardening everyone and thanks again,
Marian