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About blooming Tillandsia brachycaulos
This is the blooming Tillandsia brachycaulos listing: plants from our Tillandsia brachycaulos base listing, shipped in colour while supplies last. Stock is added only when a crop comes into bloom.
Brachycaulos in bloom is the classic red air plant. The soft green leaves flush scarlet from the centre outward until the whole rosette is red, and violet tubular flowers open from a short spike nested in the middle.
It is the plant most people picture when they think of a blooming Tillandsia, and it is why the species is in every shop.
We grade blooming plants from minis and 3-inch smalls through mediums and larges to extra-larges and XXL. Sale grades of smalls and mediums with minor leaf damage are available at a discount.
The red lasts for weeks around the flowers, and a bench of them in colour sells itself. After bloom the mother pups from the base, so the buyer gets the next generation.
Growing blooming Tillandsia brachycaulos: Care Guide
Brachycaulos is a tank plant, and that does not change in bloom. Keep the central cup filled, flush it with fresh water weekly, and never invert the plant; the cup feeds the flush and the flowers. Bright, indirect light with a little morning sun holds the red, while hot sun bleaches and burns the soft leaves. Mount it level or pot it so the cup stays full. Feed by adding diluted fertilizer to the cup water. After bloom, keep the cup full and the pups come from the base within a few months.
- Light: Bright indirect light with morning sun. No hot direct sun.
- Water: Keep the cup full. Flush with fresh water weekly.
- Drying: Do not invert. The cup should stay wet.
- Airflow: Good air circulation around the leaves.
- Temperature: 50°F to 95°F. It prefers warmth.
- Feeding: Add diluted TillyBoost Fertilizer to the cup water monthly.
- Mounting: Mount level, or pot in orchid bark or sphagnum.
- Pups: Two to four from the base after bloom.
See the base listing for year-round stock, browse more Currently in Bloom, or read our air plant care guide.
