Thank you for the photos. How interesting. I'm always worried about full sun for them. I have a few bromeliads and the pups are always scrawny looking with long 'leaves" (if that's what they are called). I think I have them in too much shade.

I have a Fireball a friend sent me that I can't seem to keep red. It gets somewhat red in the summer, but in the winter, it turns back to green. I love the neos. They are always a surprise, aren't they?

June, that is interesting for me because I think I have the same variety and I put it in the shade thinking that it was best, I will put some in the sun and see how they do.

Silvia

Neo "Fireball" also needs sun for best color.

Yes, I know that, but I'm in 9a, so it can't stay outside in the winter, so it turns back to green. I'm going to put it in a basket and hang it out in the full sun part of the courtyard this summer, and hope it doesn't burn. It's in almost full sun now, in very bright light all day, and it just takes forever to turn red.

June, that's such a great demonstration of how different amounts of light affect a plant! I love the full sun version with the wild pink as Ricky describes it. Beautiful plant.

This is a belated "thank you" to Fawnridge. You mentioned that "Fireball" needs full sun; My "Fireball" has lived in the shade for several years because I thought that's what it needed; it's color was a deep greenish burgundy. After your post I immediately removed 3 pups and put them in a hanging basket in full sun. What a beautiful red they now are. And they're already pupping with 4 new ones coming.

My fireball is in the sunniest spot in my yard and simply will not turn red. I'm going to give it away if it doesn't turn soon. It's putting out pups and the mother plants are dying back, but still no color. It was red when I got it. Maybe our sun up here in N. FL isn't strong enough for it. I'm so disappointed.