I have a bromeliad and it's ?flowers? are finished and dried out, do I cut back the stalk? And if I do, how cloe to the plant and will it send up another stalk?
I don't know if it helps or matters but this bromeliad is a Guzmania sprucei.
-CaptMicha
I don't know if you're supposed to cut it or not, I left mine. The mother plant eventually died, but new pups grew all around it.
You can cut it off down inside the cup .If you leave it it may eventually rot and cause the mother to die too soon to put off pups...
Oh, now I know what happened to several of mine!
On some the mother plant dies back regardless...
great info. I have several of these and was not quite sure what to do with them. My friend works for a local company that provides Dr. offices and restaurants with plants. When the plants "loose their luster" he is supose to throw them away. He leaves them on my porch instead. About 4 months ago he left 6 of these and I've been in the dark as to what to do with those long stalks.
Lucky you! I bet you get bunches of pups off them!
seems to be around four "pups" per plant. I am going to pot them tomorrow. Any spacific type of soil I should use?
I used sphagnum peat moss (not the black stuff. this is the fibers) and it's working out well. I've gotten pups to root in it already.
