Lars, if you're on FB, I could hook you up with an expert on Broms. Otherwise, I know little to nothing.

I like Orthophytum and have several, though some are now changed to Sincoraea. I don't know what that means for the x Neophytum hybrids, haven't seen the name change carry through. I'll try to post some photos later.

I do belong to a bromeliad group on FB - should I post the photos there as well? Is that where your expert is?

Here are some of my Orthophytums.

O benzingii

Orthophytum ‘Gold Dust’

O. sanctum

O rubiginosum Leme

Orthophytum Iron Ore

Dont want to push my luck with the photos so will add more later.

Lars, I don't know - I don't belong to any Brom groups there. Contact me via PM if you want to know more. In the meantime, Karen's posted a heap of pics.

Some more photos, and some of my experience relative to your questions but know that I am so not an expert here, just climbing my learning curve.

This is Orthophytum foliosum 'Silver Clone'. The offsets on this one come at the end of long stolons which you can see in this photo, and I've also had them form on the blooming stalk, so I tend not to cut those off the mother plant until I see if there will be pups. The second photo is from an offset that I rooted, which subsequently bloomed while still small and then pupped again at the base. The offsets from this plant have rooted when they please and not when I want, no matter what I do to try and speed them up. I've got pups that have sat in media for over 6 months doing nothing and then up and rooted just fine.

Orthophytum 'Stardust' (guerkenii x lemei)

O. guerkenii

Orthophytum Gold Dust bloom stalk - back on the theme of when do you cut these back, I do it when I don't think there will be any more pups on it (as above) or when I'm not enjoying it anymore. (Or sometimes when it gets top heavy and keeps falling off the bench.) This photo from Gold Dust was taken last April and I'm still enjoying it. Leaving it on hasn't kept the plant from putting up two nice pups at the base.

Some used-to-be-Orthophytum are now Sincoraea, so I have to go back and change my tags. This one is a favorite, Sincoraea rafaelii. It's a great bloomer and prolific pupper.

I also really like a lot of the intergeneric hybrids with Orthophytum. These are the seasons of x Neophytum 'Galactic Warrior'. (Here's another place the name change for some of these to Sincoraea is probably going to affect my tags.)

And one more Orthophytum that I really like, O 'Red Frost'. Wild collected but of uncertain parentage, seems like maybe a hybrid but without consensus, at least on the BSI site.

Nice plants Karen. Thanks.

tj

beautiful! So so tempting to start another spurt of acquisitions.

Your plant is Orthophytum "Starlight" by Michael Kiel. It is not Red Frost I grow both and when grown side by side, the difference is obvious. It is important to grow them in bright light to full sun and not fertilize them. Nitrogen and shade will make Starlight have lots of green as yours shows. Tropiflora has a good photo of Red Frost. Kenneth Stokes, Bromeliad guild of Tampa Bay

Is the influoresence on your Red Frost also red? I got mine from Tropiflora and they show the green in flower on their website photos. My plant is less intensely red right now coming out of winter in North Carolina but isn’t at all green. I don‘t fertilize any of my orthophytums and they usually have pretty good color on the sunnier side of the greenhouse. This is a photo of what I have as Red Frost now, after less light in winter. I’d estimate leaves are about 18” long, if that helps differentiate.