Hello! I'm fairly new to Reddit and recently found this page and thought I'd reach out to the community to see if I've been watering correctly or if there is something else I should be doing.

My air plants are kept in my office at work. My office has had to move 4 times in the last 2 years due to building renovations (its as awful as you think) and I've noticed that theres been no growth on any of my plants in that time. The only thing that has really changed is where all my stuff has ended up being crammed in to. Other than a 5ish month period near a south-facing window last year, they are kept under a ring grow light and whatever fluorescent lighting while I'm at my desk (about 1/2 the time I'm at work). My current set-up is as pictured. This is the first time the 3 on the skull have not been in the open -they've been in the back corner of the desk I'm currently using for about 3 months now.

When I water them, I use a beaker and submerge them fully in distilled water. Sometimes when its been a while since watering, I have to hold them down with something (usually a water filled pipet that I use to water my 1 succulent in the fanciest terrarium ever ~because I don't want to mess that expensive SOB up by pouring water in it). Anyway, I keep them submerged anywhere from 20 min to 2 hrs (when I get distracted and forget I'm drowning my plants) -and one time accidentally for like 20 hrs 😬. When I see no more bubbles I fish em out, gently shake excess drips off, lightly squish/pat dry-ish with a papertowel, then lay them on a dry papertowel to finish drying before putting them back in their spaces. Time between watering used to be once a week, now its closer to every 2 to 3 weeks. And back in Jan/Feb it was an unfortunate 8 weeks that I just plum forgot about ALL of my plants (I was working in a different building and didn't even go to my office because I could remote in to my desktop from my laptop). Luckily nobody died, but it was close for the curly guy in the jellyfish and my spider plant…and my fiddle leaf lost all but the top 2 leaves (it still looks sad but its alive!).

I've had #1 for almost 5 years now. It started maybe half the size it was -it came in a wire spring-ball necklace of all things. It outgrew it pretty quick and normally chills in a tiny ceramic bowl. My current set up has been this way for ~12-18 months.

2 was what I call a rescue. Purchased because it was cute and my other air plant was doing well (aka I hadn't killed it yet) -it was the hair of a sugar skull. But I realized it was hot glued to Styrofoam that was glued to the inside of the sugar skull. It lost a bunch from the bottom in the divorce. Took a while to look not-sad, but Ive had it for ~4 yrs now.

3 I found at a very reputable local garden center because of it's shape after I found the glass jelly fish holder about 2.5 years ago. It used to be almost twice the length it is now and less curly-q. I learned by trial and error what too much light for it was and what is too much water (I sometimes take it out of the submerged soak before the 2 spiky ones). I did lose about 5 of the outer leaves over the mostly errors of the trial and error phase of our 1st year together. Sometime about a year ago it sprouted the bits at the top. I'm guessing roots, but they had little tiny round bits at the ends, like the head of a pin, that have since gone away.

And lastly, #4 I've only had since April -another hot glue rescue. It was on clearance at Lowes glued into the tiny neck of a weird flat bottle (not cute like my last rescue, just mean). I have had one like this one previously (also a glue rescue around Christmas) and it didnt make it. I think I may have over watered that one, not sure.

Sorry for the long rambly post, just wanted to get all info in it. Also, I have no idea the types of air plants I have (clearly 🙄) so if someone could help ID them I'd appreciate it! I sort of got into them by chance and I usually have a bad track record of keeping plants alive, so these sticking around as long as most of them have means I'm doing something kinda right at least. I just want them to actually thrive instead of just surviving, so any advice you feel like imparting or wisdom to share I would absolutely love it!

Thank you! 🥰