How to Buy Flowering Bromeliads!

[@NeshaBaal-v1o]

Hi from Trinidad 🇹🇹 very educational I've learned alot more when looking at the videos 💯

[@randallgibson8619]

I bought a pot with three bromeliads in it for my wife (3 separate colors) as she loves flowers but isn’t much of a grower. I’ve grown a real interest in these things once I started researching and your channel has helped a ton! Just separated several pups and can’t wait to watch them mature. I love the look of these flowers and the longevity of the flowers are wonderful. Thanks again!

[@terrychuat1603]

Yes I really enjoy every your video. It's really educate me how to take care of beautiful bromilied. I wish & hope to collect as many bromilied I can. Thank you Rusty for every information about bromilied. You're really awesome & cool. God bless you

[@islandbreezetropicals1276]

I really appreciate your kind words... Thanks so much, I appreciate you watching!

[@pterosonus]

It's hard to resist buying a dazzling Guzmania W/inflo for $15-20. I have come to prefer to buy pups online and raise them. I'll never forget the joy and astonishment when I first looked in the cup and - OMG! - is that a stalk forming? Then to watch it grow to tower over the plant, turn colors and flower. Your video series is the best.

[@islandbreezetropicals1276]

Thanks a lot, I really appreciate you watching IBT!

[@AlexanderGallus-k6i]

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[@mikedwn]

Is it true that bushfire smoke promotes broms to flower?? If so why,? Never heard of this.

[@islandbreezetropicals1276]

Hmmm, haven't heard of that. But when bromeliads are commercially treated to initiate flowering (sprayed with Florel or bubbled with acetylene gas) the process works because the plant has been fooled into thinking it is injured. That triggers the reproductive sequence, so perhaps smoke would have the same effect. Going to see if there is any more info on this...cool question, thanks Mike!

[@mikedwn]

@islandbreezetropicals1276 Read this. What causes these gregarious flowering events of Alcantarea or plants is the ethylene gas produced from vegetation burning than mixed with water, rain or mist makes the plant flower. Same happens to Australian native plants . Forced flowering can be induced in Bromeliads with ethylene gas or tablets ... that's how we get pineapples, flowering Guzmania, vriesea etc in florists . Climate change and adaptation of species, poor genetics structure from hybridising, lab cloning and inbreeding does make plants more at risk . To find the information you have to research on the key words , events build an algorithm to stiff through the journals and meta data . Benzing latest climate change article excellent read . Thoughts? You'd need quite a consistent amount of smoke to produce ethylene for broms though?