this is (was) a t. fuchsii v. gracilis, my first airplant ever. she looked like this when i first got her: https://www.reddit.com/r/airplants/s/lWUelDjO2P
i got her at a florist (my first mistake) and kept her indoors near a dehumidifier in bright, indirect light. she got a weekly bath in distilled water, and i turned her upside-down afterward for a whole night and day to fully dry.
almost from the start, the visible part of her stem had been secreting…sap? some sort of fluid that would harden into resin. it was impossible to remove. basal leaves constantly senescing. like CONSTANTLY. she was shedding them like crazy.
her first application of fertilizer was last week, a bottle of nano love tillandsia air plant food mist.*
yesterday i put her in for her weekly bath and noticed that the tips of some of her longest leaves were starting to blacken. not browning! blackening. i got worried and took a look at her basal leaves today. some of them seemed ready to come off, so i got to work. i was being pretty gentle and careful and was frankly amazed at how many of her leaves were in bad shape, and then suddenly everything came apart and all that was left was this tuft.
im so unclear on what happened, the way all that tissue came apart really alarmed me. what did i miss?
*water, ammonium phosphate, potassium nitrate, humic acid, fulvic acid, zeolite
by pastelexuvia
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