My airplant that I have nurtured for many years from a tiny two inches crown to the huge plant it is now is bloming. The spike is like more than three feet tall.
It benefited to be under one of my Vanda orchids, so everytime I feed the orchid some food and water reach it.
It is bittersweet, because I know that after they finish blooming, they release the spores to the wind and die.
by Unlikely-Star-2696
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The whole plant dies? Wow that’s a big beautiful plant you raised!
Yes, the whole plant dies. It happened to another one I had before. This picture is of the one I have now. It was from 2018 when I found it, and I placed it in a little orchid basket.
The vast majority (over 95%) of the Tillandsia population are monocarpic plants , meaning that they flower, produce seed, create offsets (usually), then die. This process only happens once. Some species die within a year of flowering, some take many years to die after flowering. The one I had before died withing six months and did not have any bebies at the base.
https://preview.redd.it/a4bgs7rfwyzg1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d8ad75e668d0efef48971054df2ef0bd0c8e0060