Care for the Bromeliad Plant
- 1). Place your bromeliad in bright light, but avoid direct light, which will be too hot. Place the plant in a southern, western or eastern window, or near a bright window covered by a sheer curtain.
- 2). Water your bromeliad in the cup located in the center of the plant. Most bromeliads are drought-tolerant and will do fine with a weekly watering. Water lightly, as bromeliads will rot in wet soil.
- 3). Feed your bromeliad every one to two months, using a regular fertilizer for indoor plants. Mix the fertilizer solution to one-third or half of the recommended strength, then pour the fertilizer on the surface of the potting soil. Don't pour the fertilizer into the cup of the plant.
- 4). Repot bromeliads into a slightly larger pot every spring, or sooner if the roots fill the pot. Bromeliads do well in small pots and should be repotted in a pot only one size larger.
- 5). Plant your bromeliad in the proper growing medium. Most bromeliads do well in good quality commercial potting soil, but a some varieties, such as tillandsia, do better in chopped tree bark or sphagnum moss.
- 6). Place your bromeliad on a saucer filled with wet gravel to increase the humidity around the plant. Although the gravel should be wet, the water shouldn't be touching the bottom of the pot.
- 7). Divide the pups growing at the base of the plant when the main plant dies, which occurs after the bloom dries up. Plant the pups in a small container filled with good quality commercial potting soil.
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