Got three. Have a small fountain to put humility in our home. Place the air plant on the fountain. Use rain water for all the plants from the fish pond on my patio.
Today I received my first air plant. It's so beautiful! I love plants but needed to know more about it. The information that you've shared is very informative and greatly appreciated! I'm so excited about my gift and new experiences as I watch my air plant grow. Thank you L. and A. for sending me this beautiful plant!
Aw congrats on your first air plant! Before you know it you’ll find yourself wanting more. I’m glad you found this video informative and hope it aids you in success with your new plant 👏😊🌿
I’m contemplating getting a gigantic xerographica that is purportedly 7-10 years old. She said that it’s life expectancy was less than that so I wonder if I buy it if it’s on its limited days.
I'm Brazilian and not fluent in English, but I understood your pronunciation very well. You have excellent diction, speak slowly and have a beautiful intonation. Congratulations. And the video is very informative.
I have my collection for more than 10 years. Light is very important! I have orchids, and air plants like orchid lights (I use day light LEDs of different lumens.) Lights set for 12/12. Soaking is a KEY! You showed it right way! I use dish drying mat to dry plants. When they completely dry I stack them on my manzanita tree. No any kind of attacments. Plants are free! Air movement is important too, big deal! Many air plants will continue to leave after blooming and will grow pups! I keep pups together, they grow and survive better. Little ones can die easily if separated. I separating them when they are big. Some air plants are hardy and can tolerate low humidity (surprize for me!). Winter humidity in my house can reach unhealthy 23%. Oddly I found out that low humidity is better! Plants are drying faster, not rotting, just need some misting. I got that salon fine mist bottle, very fine mist doesn't have droplets, good for orchids too! Xerographica is amazing plant, still alive after 10 years, two pups! Stramineyas all died😢, absolutely love stricta's blooms! Thank you for your video!
I am new to your channel and I have tried air plants but not been able to keep them alive. I am going to try again. Glad I found you and I am subscribing to you.
I have been following your instructions about my new air plants, and they're all living and beautiful...and one of them is actually growing. 😯 I love them.
Thank you so much for this air plant care tutorial! I didn't know air plants' lifespan is only about 3-5 years 😯 and watering tips were quite useful! Now I know that they gather moisture through those little transparent scales
Thank you so much beautiful!! My first set of air plants will be arriving in a few days and I'm so glad I found your video! I am now subscribed to you forever and I will be checking out your Etsy! Thank you thank you thank you! You letting me know about the tili air plant to not be soaked saved the babies! Love your everything girl! ❤ Happy planting! 🌱
Glad I watched this video - just bought an air plant like your tricky one and now I know to water it differently. Love the sun catcher/air plant holder I got from your shop!
I don't know where you live. In Austin, TX where I live, they wouldn't survive the summer or the winter like that. The exception is "ball moss", T. recurvata, and I can keep that outside. It's not very pretty, though.
Thank you for your video. I am seriously thinking about getting some airplants. This video was very informative and I will go look at your other videos and I will be subscribing. 😊
I have one for several years flowered and produced seedlings. I would dunk my entire plant 15 minutes in diluted 20-20-20 fertilizer. Never had any problem. 🙋🏼♀️🪴🌿 It does get a lot of ventilation and dries any water within the layers.
I am so grateful for this information. Thanks so much for making a really well thought out, informative video. I have a few air plants, but I couldn't seem to get them to do anything... other than die the first time around. These 4 plants I have now are alive, but they're not growing much, so I did a quick search of their water schedule, and I've been doing 30 mins a wk like you described. Today, I searched for a more comprehensive video, and I've found yours... It's perfect! I have a question. I hope someone reads this far down. I have one of the tightly bound tillandsia (like the second one you showed near the beginning) with deep "grooves" down the length of its leaves. Would it be ok to soak it with the others, thoroughly shake out the excess water, and lay it in facing a very small desk fan at low speed? I've been doing this and haven't had a problem with rot... yet. However, I've only done this about 3, maybe 4 times so far. I just wonder if this is something you have tried, and if so, did it lead to rot down the road? Or, I wonder, am I just essentially canceling out the watering by then drying it out too much with the fan? Your method of turning it upside down and pouring water over it until it looks well saturated seems like a really smart method! Maybe the best advice I've heard yet. Especially with colder weather approaching. Any guidance on whether I should continue or cancel the drying with a fan would be appreciated. I just don't want to kill these plants... this time. Again. 😂❤
This was so helpful, thank you! I had a set of three from the garden center, glued on a piece of wood and the two small ones died by root rot but the one in the middle which had thrived in the beginning just got some yellowing and a few brown spots and I was wondering if our hard water caused that. I have bought a water filter now so maybe that’ll improve. I like her a lot and hope she will survive 🥲 I have mostly misted them because they were glued on but now that I freed that one I will give it baths and let it dry upside down. I didn’t know that the water goes inside if I spray on the open tendrils so I won’t do that anymore too. Also so far it was very happy with fertiliser for orchids :)
Hi Amanda. I love your videos very much!!! You're one of my top favourites!!!! I like air plants too and took a lot of your style!!! I only have the tillandsia aeranthos and the recurvata. Thank you for your info. Kiss from Buenos Aires, Argentina. 😘😃
Great to know about the more bulbous ones that they are more prone to crown rot. I’m thinking on putting them in my aquariums to hydrate. Thoughts from anyone on this?
I’ve had these two air plants for so long since I got them from Walmart glued to shells and I took them off about a year and a half ago. I’ve gone months without water them before n wasn’t sure if they were dead until one just shriveled up idk why just that one did but now I’m caring for the one that survived and these other ones I got from a conservatory n I wanna grow more learn how to care for them better
I'm learning! Just got into these. I started turning these small pots out of beech wood, like little flower pots. I glue magnets too them so they can be used as fridge magnets? I was putting succulents in them, but little air plants are ideal ... and soil doesn't fall out if you drop them :-) Super informative video.
Not sure what I'm doing wrong I've killed about 10 in a year I have them under grow lights I only spray once a week leaving them upside down to dry but they still rot
Grow lights may not work. With my trial and errors I found out that mixed light is better, I use sun from the window, but I'm keeping plants 2-3 feets from window, and I use day spectrum LED flood type of big lumens. I found day spectrum (5000K) works better on orchids and air plants. I use timer for 12 hours. Air movement is important too. We set our air conditioner (we have heat pump, so its cools/heats), fans in house in a way that air moves through the rooms, no need for small fans in plant zone. But set up is different for each house. The key is not too much of draft. Soaking is good, I soak for several hours, but drying on dish mat is important. After that plants go to they display place under lights. Soak twice a month is reasonable, I watch if airplant is curly, I will soak it. And one more: I use reverse osmosis water. We have that Waterdrop unit for drinking water
❤ Thank you for all your great information on air plants also I bought a bag of Decorative Noctilucent stones do I rinse them and let them dry and can I sit my air plant on the stones
I have a question. I am new to air plants. I have one about 3 inches tall and the leaves are about quarter inch wide and flat. When i soak it for 30 mins it kind of leaches out a white, milk like fluid. Do you have any idea what that is and is it ok to do that? Thanks.
Thank you for your excellent advice on caring for air plants. I have to change my ways for 3 of them, but now I know what to do. My husband bought me 6 for Christmas, including the Xerographica. I was watering it incorrectly. I share your love of these special plants, I try to make them happy, and they definitely make me happy. Thank you again for your advice, will check back more frequently.
Thank you for all the information, I only now figured out two parts have already had a flower, and have red colour on the tips of the flowers, but two of them didn't have flowers yet, and are nice and green. So my question is do I need to separate the green ones from ones that flowerd, or they can stay until going r.i.p.?
New Subscriber, would love to get a air plant, but I only have a patio door and faces west. Any ideas how I can go about getting a air plant and keeping it alive lol. Thanks for sharing.
Aw hi & welcome! 😊 your air plant will love it outside! I don’t know your climate you’re in but air plants grow wild here in FL and love the warmer weather. Just make sure your plant doesn’t get too cold (below 40 degrees) in the fall/winter. Just follow the steps in this video or you can check out my blog (linked in the video description) and that should help you with your air plant care success! Good luck 😊👏🌿
@@BotanicalBrunette nope I live in canada and we have winter with snow and cold temperatures it can reach-30 C in the winter months lol I will re watch your video. Thanks for your help
I was wondering, Would liquid cactus fert. work? I live in Alaska. So, I melt snow to water my plants. It's nice to not have to wait for a rainy day. I let it set overnight and strain it out. We've had a lot of storms, so there is a lot of tree parts on it.
You can either dunk it in water or fill it. If neither is an option you can mist it. Just make sure you get the water out of the crevices before putting it back.
I just got some Spanish Moss and I can't find a video about how to prepare it for hanging after receiving it in the mail. 8 don't want to kill it. Can you please help me?
For years I thought Air plants were just a plant selling scam from nurseries because I could not keep any alive. Interesting to see hoe many people can keep these alive. Im still skeptical I can keep one alive. Might try again.
I like this, and I like you,, but I think you are making it too complicated. I put airplants on a piece of bark or rock, using glue, and I drill a hole in the bark or hammer out a cavity in the rock. Sometimes I give them away, with an easy set of instructions: bright light, pour water over them once or twice a week (or use a sprayer), keep them at room temperature. I water mine with a sprayer, the same kind of sprayer/mister that hairdressers use, which you can get for about $10. They stay in one place and I go around and spray them twice a week. I don't move them around as you do. My problem is that the water here is so hard that it would clog up the sprayer after a while, so I have a water distiller (about $200). Now... about soaking them. I'm against it. It's not the way they live in nature, and it washes off all the dust, pollen and other stuff that settles on them and fertilizes them. You would not believe what is really in the dust floating through the air. You could look it up. The trichomes hold that stuff in place until it becomes fertilizer. It shouldn't be washed off by soaking. And if you really think it needs fertilizer and you've drank some beer, you know what to do. You mentioned it yourself. But not too often. I have about 30 plants, and after I build more shelves, I'll get more, I've never killed one and I've given quite a few away. People are really astonished at a strange-looking plant (T. bulbosa, for instance) on a piece of bark when they get it as a gift. Sometimes they kill it, but that's the breaks. One lady left it in the dark when she went on vacation, and I facepalmed when she told me.
Hi, thanks for sharing your experience and your care methods that work for you, as I did in this video. I don’t really believe there’s a true wrong and right way to care for plants. You just got to find what works for you and stick with it. Glad you’re able to keep so many alive 👏😊
I water my air plants with a fine mist sprayer using natural rain water. Soaking air plants does tend to cause rotting if it's not warm enough in the place they are the water they have been soaked in doesn't dry very well and air plants do need to be in a well ventilated area to dry out quickly or they will just turn black and rot.
Got three. Have a small fountain to put humility in our home. Place the air plant on the fountain. Use rain water for all the plants from the fish pond on my patio.
Be careful when using your pond water if you are treating your pond with chemicals
Today I received my first air plant. It's so beautiful! I love plants but needed to know more about it. The information that you've shared is very informative and greatly appreciated! I'm so excited about my gift and new experiences as I watch my air plant grow. Thank you L. and A. for sending me this beautiful plant!
Aw congrats on your first air plant! Before you know it you’ll find yourself wanting more. I’m glad you found this video informative and hope it aids you in success with your new plant 👏😊🌿
I’m contemplating getting a gigantic xerographica that is purportedly 7-10 years old.
She said that it’s life expectancy was less than that so I wonder if I buy it if it’s on its limited days.
I'm Brazilian and not fluent in English, but I understood your pronunciation very well. You have excellent diction, speak slowly and have a beautiful intonation. Congratulations.
And the video is very informative.
I have my collection for more than 10 years. Light is very important! I have orchids, and air plants like orchid lights (I use day light LEDs of different lumens.) Lights set for 12/12. Soaking is a KEY! You showed it right way! I use dish drying mat to dry plants. When they completely dry I stack them on my manzanita tree. No any kind of attacments. Plants are free! Air movement is important too, big deal!
Many air plants will continue to leave after blooming and will grow pups! I keep pups together, they grow and survive better. Little ones can die easily if separated. I separating them when they are big. Some air plants are hardy and can tolerate low humidity (surprize for me!). Winter humidity in my house can reach unhealthy 23%. Oddly I found out that low humidity is better! Plants are drying faster, not rotting, just need some misting. I got that salon fine mist bottle, very fine mist doesn't have droplets, good for orchids too! Xerographica is amazing plant, still alive after 10 years, two pups! Stramineyas all died😢, absolutely love stricta's blooms!
Thank you for your video!
I am new to your channel and I have tried air plants but not been able to keep them alive. I am going to try again. Glad I found you and I am subscribing to you.
I hang Air Plants outside
Spay water twice a day
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Thank you! I got an air plant for my birthday but didn’t know how to care for it. Your video has been very helpful to me.
I am so glad you made this video because I just got my first air plants today
Aw congrats on your first air plant! 👏🌿😊
I have been following your instructions about my new air plants, and they're all living and beautiful...and one of them is actually growing. 😯 I love them.
Thank you so much Amanda for this. I may try again. I was keeping them in too dark an area and not letting them dry over night.
Yay! Hopefully those things will help you become more successful with them. 👏🌿😊
Nice collection. I just started with these plants. I also put a table fan on them with a subtle breeze to let them dry quickly.
Thank you so much for this air plant care tutorial! I didn't know air plants' lifespan is only about 3-5 years 😯 and watering tips were quite useful! Now I know that they gather moisture through those little transparent scales
Thank you so much beautiful!! My first set of air plants will be arriving in a few days and I'm so glad I found your video! I am now subscribed to you forever and I will be checking out your Etsy! Thank you thank you thank you! You letting me know about the tili air plant to not be soaked saved the babies! Love your everything girl! ❤ Happy planting! 🌱
Glad I watched this video - just bought an air plant like your tricky one and now I know to water it differently. Love the sun catcher/air plant holder I got from your shop!
Aw thank you Cheryl! Glad you’re loving it 🫶😊🌿✨
Hello I am sure going try these little fellows. Oh so cute. Got two almost 6 months ago but I just put them in apot along side another plant.
I keep my Air Plants out door
Spay water twice a day
Grow so well in 2 big baskets
last for years
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I don't know where you live. In Austin, TX where I live, they wouldn't survive the summer or the winter like that. The exception is "ball moss", T. recurvata, and I can keep that outside. It's not very pretty, though.
Thank you for your video. I am seriously thinking about getting some airplants. This video was very informative and I will go look at your other videos and I will be subscribing. 😊
Love the video. Now I will try to fertilize mine. Also maybe add some new ones to my collection.
I have one for several years flowered and produced seedlings. I would dunk my entire plant 15 minutes in diluted 20-20-20 fertilizer. Never had any problem. 🙋🏼♀️🪴🌿 It does get a lot of ventilation and dries any water within the layers.
I’m so excited about the air plants, I have many of them. Thank you for sharing the video ❤
I am so grateful for this information. Thanks so much for making a really well thought out, informative video. I have a few air plants, but I couldn't seem to get them to do anything... other than die the first time around. These 4 plants I have now are alive, but they're not growing much, so I did a quick search of their water schedule, and I've been doing 30 mins a wk like you described. Today, I searched for a more comprehensive video, and I've found yours... It's perfect!
I have a question. I hope someone reads this far down. I have one of the tightly bound tillandsia (like the second one you showed near the beginning) with deep "grooves" down the length of its leaves. Would it be ok to soak it with the others, thoroughly shake out the excess water, and lay it in facing a very small desk fan at low speed? I've been doing this and haven't had a problem with rot... yet. However, I've only done this about 3, maybe 4 times so far. I just wonder if this is something you have tried, and if so, did it lead to rot down the road? Or, I wonder, am I just essentially canceling out the watering by then drying it out too much with the fan?
Your method of turning it upside down and pouring water over it until it looks well saturated seems like a really smart method! Maybe the best advice I've heard yet. Especially with colder weather approaching. Any guidance on whether I should continue or cancel the drying with a fan would be appreciated. I just don't want to kill these plants... this time. Again. 😂❤
Best air plant video !
This was so helpful, thank you! I had a set of three from the garden center, glued on a piece of wood and the two small ones died by root rot but the one in the middle which had thrived in the beginning just got some yellowing and a few brown spots and I was wondering if our hard water caused that. I have bought a water filter now so maybe that’ll improve. I like her a lot and hope she will survive 🥲 I have mostly misted them because they were glued on but now that I freed that one I will give it baths and let it dry upside down. I didn’t know that the water goes inside if I spray on the open tendrils so I won’t do that anymore too. Also so far it was very happy with fertiliser for orchids :)
I spay water twice a day.
Orchid fertilizer works indeed! I use 1/4 diluted.
Hi Amanda. I love your videos very much!!! You're one of my top favourites!!!! I like air plants too and took a lot of your style!!! I only have the tillandsia aeranthos and the recurvata. Thank you for your info. Kiss from Buenos Aires, Argentina. 😘😃
Thank you so much, I appreciate that! I’m glad you’re an air plant lover too! They’re so fun to decorate and grow. 😊🌿
Great to know about the more bulbous ones that they are more prone to crown rot. I’m thinking on putting them in my aquariums to hydrate. Thoughts from anyone on this?
I’ve had these two air plants for so long since I got them from Walmart glued to shells and I took them off about a year and a half ago. I’ve gone months without water them before n wasn’t sure if they were dead until one just shriveled up idk why just that one did but now I’m caring for the one that survived and these other ones I got from a conservatory n I wanna grow more learn how to care for them better
I liked the video, n learned a lot, I hv few airplants, from INDIA 🇮🇳
Good instructions!
I'm learning! Just got into these. I started turning these small pots out of beech wood, like little flower pots. I glue magnets too them so they can be used as fridge magnets? I was putting succulents in them, but little air plants are ideal ... and soil doesn't fall out if you drop them :-) Super informative video.
Much appreciated very interesting
Thank you. This is a great video! Following 💗
How do air plants do in a bathroom with low outdoor light but fluorescent light? I plan on creating a frame of them for the bathroom. Thank you!
Not sure what I'm doing wrong I've killed about 10 in a year I have them under grow lights I only spray once a week leaving them upside down to dry but they still rot
Grow lights may not work. With my trial and errors I found out that mixed light is better, I use sun from the window, but I'm keeping plants 2-3 feets from window, and I use day spectrum LED flood type of big lumens. I found day spectrum (5000K) works better on orchids and air plants. I use timer for 12 hours. Air movement is important too. We set our air conditioner (we have heat pump, so its cools/heats), fans in house in a way that air moves through the rooms, no need for small fans in plant zone. But set up is different for each house. The key is not too much of draft. Soaking is good, I soak for several hours, but drying on dish mat is important. After that plants go to they display place under lights. Soak twice a month is reasonable, I watch if airplant is curly, I will soak it. And one more: I use reverse osmosis water. We have that Waterdrop unit for drinking water
Thanks learned a lot, just have two air plants.
❤ Thank you for all your great information on air plants also I bought a bag of Decorative Noctilucent stones do I rinse them and let them dry and can I sit my air plant on the stones
I have a question. I am new to air plants. I have one about 3 inches tall and the leaves are about quarter inch wide and flat. When i soak it for 30 mins it kind of leaches out a white, milk like fluid. Do you have any idea what that is and is it ok to do that? Thanks.
Thank you for your excellent advice on caring for air plants. I have to change my ways for 3 of them, but now I know what to do. My husband bought me 6 for Christmas, including the Xerographica. I was watering it incorrectly. I share your love of these special plants, I try to make them happy, and they definitely make me happy. Thank you again for your advice, will check back more frequently.
You’re so welcome! Glad I could help 🌿😊❤️
If you put them on something like a basket and they attach will it hurt their roots to pull them off to water them.
Thank you for the great video just bought my first air plants. You mentioned you have a Etsy shop could you send me how to find you. Thanks so much.
Thank you for all the information, I only now figured out two parts have already had a flower, and have red colour on the tips of the flowers, but two of them didn't have flowers yet, and are nice and green.
So my question is do I need to separate the green ones from ones that flowerd, or they can stay until going r.i.p.?
New Subscriber, would love to get a air plant, but I only have a patio door and faces west. Any ideas how I can go about getting a air plant and keeping it alive lol. Thanks for sharing.
Aw hi & welcome! 😊 your air plant will love it outside! I don’t know your climate you’re in but air plants grow wild here in FL and love the warmer weather. Just make sure your plant doesn’t get too cold (below 40 degrees) in the fall/winter. Just follow the steps in this video or you can check out my blog (linked in the video description) and that should help you with your air plant care success! Good luck 😊👏🌿
@@BotanicalBrunette nope I live in canada and we have winter with snow and cold temperatures it can reach-30 C in the winter months lol I will re watch your video. Thanks for your help
I was wondering, Would liquid cactus fert. work?
I live in Alaska. So, I melt snow to water my plants. It's nice to not have to wait for a rainy day. I let it set overnight and strain it out. We've had a lot of storms, so there is a lot of tree parts on it.
Can I use the hair blow with cool air to make its dry faster?
Don’t see why not
Can you please give the link for your Etsy shop. I want to get one like you showed in the beginning of your video.
Of course it’s www.etsy.com/shop/botanicalbrunette
Nice video thanks
How do you water a glued in terrarium air plant?
You can either dunk it in water or fill it. If neither is an option you can mist it. Just make sure you get the water out of the crevices before putting it back.
I just got some Spanish Moss and I can't find a video about how to prepare it for hanging after receiving it in the mail. 8 don't want to kill it. Can you please help me?
I use bottled water since our water is very chlorinated
I spay water twice a day .
For years I thought Air plants were just a plant selling scam from nurseries because I could not keep any alive. Interesting to see hoe many people can keep these alive. Im still skeptical I can keep one alive. Might try again.
Can you use cat droppings to fertilize my Ionantha air plant?
Respectfully, are you joking?
You cannot. Cat droppings have to compost completely for like a year in a compost heap, at least. There are much better, easier kinds of fertilizer.
WOULD DISTILLED WATER BE GOOD FOR THEM?
No it won’t. Distilled water have no minerals in the water which is bad for the airplants
The font for the air plants is very hard to read. 😔
Thank you for the best video about airplanes.
Having named air plant it means no soil , right . Please comment 😊
I like this, and I like you,, but I think you are making it too complicated. I put airplants on a piece of bark or rock, using glue, and I drill a hole in the bark or hammer out a cavity in the rock. Sometimes I give them away, with an easy set of instructions: bright light, pour water over them once or twice a week (or use a sprayer), keep them at room temperature. I water mine with a sprayer, the same kind of sprayer/mister that hairdressers use, which you can get for about $10. They stay in one place and I go around and spray them twice a week. I don't move them around as you do. My problem is that the water here is so hard that it would clog up the sprayer after a while, so I have a water distiller (about $200).
Now... about soaking them. I'm against it. It's not the way they live in nature, and it washes off all the dust, pollen and other stuff that settles on them and fertilizes them. You would not believe what is really in the dust floating through the air. You could look it up. The trichomes hold that stuff in place until it becomes fertilizer. It shouldn't be washed off by soaking. And if you really think it needs fertilizer and you've drank some beer, you know what to do. You mentioned it yourself. But not too often.
I have about 30 plants, and after I build more shelves, I'll get more, I've never killed one and I've given quite a few away. People are really astonished at a strange-looking plant (T. bulbosa, for instance) on a piece of bark when they get it as a gift. Sometimes they kill it, but that's the breaks. One lady left it in the dark when she went on vacation, and I facepalmed when she told me.
Hi, thanks for sharing your experience and your care methods that work for you, as I did in this video. I don’t really believe there’s a true wrong and right way to care for plants. You just got to find what works for you and stick with it. Glad you’re able to keep so many alive 👏😊
🌵🌵💀💀👍👍🌵🌵
E possibile ascoltare in italiano
I water my air plants with a fine mist sprayer using natural rain water. Soaking air plants does tend to cause rotting if it's not warm enough in the place they are the water they have been soaked in doesn't dry very well and air plants do need to be in a well ventilated area to dry out quickly or they will just turn black and rot.