I own a bromeliad.? Lately the top "flower" part have been dying. A little while ago,...
Lately the top "flower" part have been dying. A little while ago, contemporary stem looking things started coming up. Am I supposed to repot those or cut them off or what? Why have it all of the sudden started dying?
After the plant flowers it dies. It produces offshoots which later become the new plant. Dont cut them past its sell-by date. Cut the dead piece sour.
Bromeliads are tropicals approaching pineapple. You can prune the "stem things" and the dying flower. They need to be watered into the "cup" of the plant. Watering the soil single makes the platform rot.
Good Growing!
The Muse
Answers: Bromeliads are within the same relations as Spanish Moss, Pineapples, Air Plants. They flower and after fading it sends out plantlets at it's foot and dies. Let the little ones grow and then you can cut them from the mother plant vigilantly watching the roots and pot them up. Now you have another plant or two. When the little ones grow you wet the plant with some hose and diluted fertilizer into the inside where the flower will grow from. This is how they grow within the wild by bird dropping on the leaves and the precipitation washing it into the pitcher ,don't water the soil too much as this will rot the roots.