Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Moving Bromeliads from trees, 1 by greenink

greenink wrote:
Finally--I collected 5 Bromeliads last evening. It was harder than I imagined. First, when I've seen them they appear to be "right there" just off the path. But when I went to take some I realized they were actually further into the bush...which contains a lot of poisonwood--not something I want to get near!!

But I did find some that were accessible. However, I had imagined just plucking them off. Nope, each one of them held on for dear life! I finally broke off two small branches and left them clinging. One branch has one medium sized plant; the other small branch has two tiny little ones.

When I looked at them this morning they are tightly wrapping their roots around the sticks. Help--what do I do now?? Should I leave them on their branches and put everything in a tree?? The larger one has a bit of tree foliage, that you can see.

The other two, one large and the other tiny, I have put in trees. I fear that I pulled them away from their roots. Will they survive??

Do they need anything under them, or just the bark??

Thanks for your help.

The first photos are of the largest of the five. Obviously the string isn't attractive. I'm considering fishing line.