- Kindel use for the propagation of the lance rosette
- When can you separate the kindel?
- This is how you plant the Kindel correctly
- The offshoots of the lance rosette only flower after several years
The lance rosette is a species of bromeliad with some exceptional properties. It only blooms for one season and then dies. However, offshoots of lance rosettes can be quite easily pulled from the children that the plant forms during flowering.
The propagation of the rosette of lances via Kindel is very simple
Kindel use for the propagation of the lance rosette
When your lance rosette blooms, it is almost at the end of its lifespan. It starts its decorative bloom only once. The flowering period can be very long, but then the plant dies.
So that you can still maintain more lance rosettes, you should only dispose of the plant when the children growing on the side are large enough. You can then simply separate them and grow offshoots from them.
When can you separate the kindel?
The Kindel must not be too small if you want to use them for the propagation of the lance rosette. They have reached the right size when the first roots have formed below. Often they are almost as big as the mother plant.
Now you can cut them off with a sharp, previously well-cleaned knife. You can then put the withered lance rosette on the compost. She doesn't recover.
This is how you plant the Kindel correctly
- Prepare seed pots (16.68€).
- Insert children individually
- stabilize with sticks
- Keep substrate slightly moist
- set up bright but not sunny
- Temperature at about 20 degrees
- repot later
The growing pots are filled with nutrient-poor substrate. Put small sticks next to the offshoots so that the children stand upright. Keep the soil moderately moist and always add some water to the cistern in the center of the plant.
It takes a few weeks for the seed pot to take root. Now repot the young lance rosette into a slightly larger pot.
The offshoots of the lance rosette only flower after several years
Lance rosettes take some time to bloom. It can take up to two years for the flower to develop.
tips
The lance rosette (Aechmea fasciata) grows as an epiphyte in the rainforests of Brazil. It mostly uses trees as a base. In room culture, it is grown in a nutrient-poor substrate or on wood.