My air plants are growing well. They grow very slowly and you need to have a lot of patience when keeping air plant. I have three air plants that I have separated them from the mother plant. Life can be marvellous right? From one mother plant, we can get many baby plants from it. But you need to have the skill and experience to separate them properly from the mother plant without damaging them.
They are very delicate and when you first separated them from the mother plant, you will notice a lot of leaves dropping from the baby plant's base. Do not be tempted to remove them further. Just keep your hands away and place them in the bottle opening as shown below. In this way, you will not damage the air plant and there will be good air draft and circulation from the plant and the base area. Note that the air plant is very sensitive to moisture staying too long in the base area. This will cause the base to rot and slowly the air plant will die away. Make sure that you give the air plants a couple of hours to dry out completely before you place them in their enclosed container. So, if you use the same bottle that I use, the air plants will dry out completely in an hour or so.
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| Air plant in the bottle opening |
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| Air plant in the bottle opening |
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