Hey everybody! I was gifted these air plants and I don’t know how to care for them/what to do. I have a few other smaller air plants so I know the basics (soak them once a week and dry upside down, bright indirect light etc) but all of the ones I have are small and haven’t flowered yet. The two I was gifted seem to have flowers (some dead) and one of them looks like a bunch of air plants glued together. I’m looking for help with:
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Should I cut the dead flowers off and how do I do that?
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For the one that’s stuck together, is it colored like this because it already bloomed?
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For the one that’s stuck together should I try to take it apart?
Below are the photos. I think the one with the dead flower is a brachycalous and the ones stuck together are ionanthas!
by Houseofpesto
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1. You can cut the dead flowers off if you’d like to. Or they will naturally fall off or they were pollinated and you will get seed. If you want to take them off, you can use cuticle scissors or tweezers and cut or rip them out.
2. Yes, they are that color because they have recently bloomed. They’re indicating to pollinators that they are ready to be pollinated.
3. You can propagate it if you’d like more plants or you can keep it together as a clump. It will continue offsetting regardless because it is an ionantha and it bloomed. That species readily offsets.