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Tillandsia hildae
Eric Beltrame. "Bought from Tony Lea some 25 years ago. Many pups, but this is the first flowering."
Eric Beltrame 01/09.
Eric Beltrame 02/10.
Note from Eric Beltrame : "I have since picked what seed there was, swaped some and planted the rest. I got around 700 seeds but not all the ones I planted germinated. Sending you photos of some that have germinated on coconut husks.
They took approx 10 days to germinate, some a bit longer. I haven't lost any to fungus and as you can see by the images what germinated are doing very well.
I have left the one pup the mother produced to see how long it would take for the pup to flower because as you know when you take off a pup it tends to set it back for awhile. At the moment the pup is about half size standing about 15 inches tall and the mother has started to throw another pup at the moment only one and a half inches high but the exciting news is the half grown pup has produced 5 pups of it's own. These are around 3 inches tall now and very thick and healthy. I thought that the pup might have been dying in the heart but it is perfectly healthy.
