How are you getting these amazing plants to grow? I'll get my 2 out of orbs asap. I also have this long one I can't identify but has grown some

They usually need conditions you can describe as "holiday weather". Bright filtered light, fresh air and comfortable temperature (my plants grow best in range 24-28 °C). Mist them according to the conditions. Every day when weather is hot and carefully once per few days during winter. Be sure they get dry fast after watering. They really dislike damp places with static air.

I am not sure about your plant ID, maybe it's a kind of t. funckiana.

Your plants look awesome!! How do you mist them exactly? I've tried to mist them but it didn't seem to keep them growing....I live in Colorado & it's pretty dry here.

Your long, pine-branch looking plant is a funkiana (or funckiana), and it originates in Venezuela. They can have a red flower at the tip. Offsets/pups grow along the length of the plant. You can search for "Tillandsia funkiana" to see samples and get care ideas.

I recently found out one of my "funckianas" was actually a funchiana x andreana, which means the leaves were longer, lighter color, and can have a red tinge. Fascinating! Tillandsias crossbreed easily, and in the wild we can thank hummingbirds for that.

One can find misting bottles at, for example Walmart or any grocery store, usually near laundry items (to spray clothes before steam ironing, if people still do that), or in the garden section. Do an internet search for "water spray bottles". Sometimes they are well made and last forever, sometimes only a few weeks, but they are generally under $2.00

It's dry here in Albuquerque, too, but many Tillandsias kind of like that. The whiter they are (the more trichomes they have), the more they can tolerate bright light as the trichomes ad a layer of protection and also help soak up sparse water.

I doubt that it is T. funkiana.

I'm thinking of this, Tillandsia funckiana x andreana, at

http://plantoddities.com/cgi-bin/p/awtp-product.cgi?d=plant-oddities&item=72726

because the leaves are longer than regular funckiana.

Or it could be a heteromorpha,

http://plantoddities.com/cgi-bin/p/awtp-product.cgi?d=plant-oddities&item=2108

and

http://plantoddities.com/cgi-bin/p/awtp-product.cgi?d=plant-oddities&item=72972

which is similar with longer leaves. They have a way of reminding me of pine trees and mountain forests, and I like those scenic places.

(I'm partial to Plant Oddities as I have ordered from them several times, including getting the funckiana x andreana. There are quite a few good seller out there; I buy from ones who are selling what I happen to want at the time.)

Once again,I had T.funkiana die on me over the winter. A winter that allowed Papaya's to be fine,Mango,..but the T.funkiana's even under a cover..browned off and died.

I have had two now from two different sources. It kills me since that is a choice Tillandsia. There is a post here on garden web of them in Hawaii covering a chain link fence and with fiery red tips.

Oh well.

The site needs a "sorry" button because I'm sorry about your funkiana :( Mine seem to have done okay over this winter compared to winter 2014-2015, but then weather has been strange (warm February, lack of wind -- made up for that on May 1st)... but all my tender plants are still inside anyhow so outside weather shouldn't matter. One difference is this last year I also got several similar looking plants, Heteromorpha, that have been doing fine. Also the funkiana x andreana look happy (got one, it has pupped a lot). Maybe my funkiana has gotten jealous of or nervrous about the success of the other two similar looking plants (and the big araujei I recently got, too), and the funkiana is trying harder... or I'm ignoring it better or who knows. Sometimes they fail and it's simply not our fault. Maybe if you try again, you can promise it a good life like it would have in Venezuela (without being ripped out for a new oil field) -- or it will end up in the compost pile if it fails.