Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Vrieseas, 1 by gothqueen

gothqueen wrote:
You don't have to cut the pups from the mother plant. The longer you leave pups attached to a mother plant, the better. The declining adult plant gives energy to the pups. It's completely unnecessary to remove pups at all, unless you plan to plant them elsewhere, sell or trade or gift them to someone, or unless the look of the dying mother just bothers you. You should never remove a pup from a mother until the pup is at LEAST 1/3 the size of the mother, preferably it should be 1/2 the size or MORE.

A single bromeliad is a container, if its a large growing species, can be striking,

A single smaller growing bromeliad in a container can look very lonely.

Its better to let them grow into specimen clumps.

This is a miniature called Neoregelia ampullacea. It has completely left the pot and is going off everywhere (sorry weedwoman, its not a Vreisea, which is the subject of this thread, but its to illustrate a point)

If i cut off every pup and potted it separately, I'd have a lot of pots with one small 4-5" plant. This is much more visually interesting