Buying a flowering bromeliad from the store is not difficult. Getting young plants grown from offshoots to flower can sometimes be a challenge. It's good to know that there's a simple trick to get flowering going. You can find out how the plan works here.
Some sun will help encourage the bromeliad to bloom
An apple lures out the bromeliad blossom
In commercial plant growing, gardeners use ethylene fumigation to speed up flowering of a bromeliad. Ethylene is assigned to the plant hormones and is suitable as a plant growth substance. Among other things, ripening fruits give off this gas. These climacteric fruits include apples, bananas or peaches. Clever hobby gardeners use this fact to promote flowering. That is how it goes:
- Place the reluctant bromeliad in a bright, warm window seat
- Shade the location in the blazing midday sun in summer
- Place one or more fully ripe apples next to the plant
- Put a glass bell or transparent bag over the bromeliad and apples
By filling the saucer with water and expanded clay (19.73€), you also create high humidity under the hood. In combination with the effluent ethylene, the formation of the flower is forced. Of course, this process only works as desired if the bromeliad has never flowered before.
Proper care until flowering
A bright, warm location and ethylene gas alone are not enough to get the bromeliad to bloom. Spray the plant every 2 days with lime-free water. Furthermore, the funnel (€5.00) should not dry out within the rosette of leaves. Change the water in the cistern every 4 weeks. Adding a liquid bromeliad fertilizer to the irrigation water every 8 to 10 days will give the surly plant fresh energy.
tips
All the tips and tricks for getting a bromeliad to bloom are in vain if you separate a child from the mother plant too early. Only make the division when an independent leaf rosette has developed on the offshoot and the growth height has reached at least 10 cm.