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Hello and welcome to My Green Pets
Today we're going to be dividing a big overgrown bromeliad that hasn't
been touched in seven years or so.
Its Latin name is Aechmea fasciata
and it's a big, silver-dusted deep green vase with a spectacular pink inflorescence
called a bract.
The only thing about these is that although the bracts
do last several months, once it blooms the plants slowly dies,
and when I say slowly I mean it can take years.
The good news is that in the meantime they will send out little offsets which
will grow into new plants
that will eventually bloom for you. This plant, as I said before, hasn't been
touched in more than seven years.
That has been enough time for the original plant to send out offsets
then those offsets have matured and bloomed and now they have sent out their
own offsets so I've got three generations of bromeliad here
which is actually pretty cool. I started by removing the whole tangled mess
of plants from its pot.
Once the dead leaves and potting material had been cleared away
you could clearly see the three generations of plants.
separating them was easier than I had thought: a firm twist and pull
was all that was needed to peel the offsets away from their parents.
This offset was quite small and with no roots of its own, so
I decided to leave it attached to its parent. Here's the final count
plants: the original plant purchased eight years ago;
two offsets from the original which bloomed about four years ago;
and four second-generation offsets, three of which are just about big enough
to bloom,
hopefully this year. These last four have been replanted in a big pot
in a mixture of mulch, peat moss, vermiculite,
and potting soil. It sits in a Northeast window and gets a few hours of direct
sun every morning.
That's all for today fellow green pet lovers
I hope this video has been informative for you. This is CW with My Green Pets,
until next time!