The lance rosette is a type of bromeliad with some extraordinary properties. It only blooms for one season and then dies. Offshoots of lance rosettes can be easily grown from the buds that the plant forms during flowering.
How do you use lance rosette Kindel for propagation?
Lanzenrosette Kindel should be separated when they have reached the right size and show the first roots. Plant the offshoots individually in cultivation pots with a nutrient-poor substrate, keep them moderately moist and place them at around 20 degrees. Repot after a few weeks and they will bloom in a few years.
Use Kindel to propagate the lance rosette
When your lance rosette blooms, it is almost at the end of its lifespan. It only produces its decorative flowers once. The flowering period can take a long time, but then the plant dies.
So that you can still cultivate additional lance rosettes, you should only dispose of the plant when the children growing on the side are large enough. You can then simply separate them and grow offshoots from them.
When can you separate the children?
The children must not be too small if you want to use them to propagate the lance rosette. You have reached the right size when the first roots have formed at the bottom. They are often almost as big as the mother plant.
Now you can cut them off with a sharp, well-cleaned knife. You can then put the spent lance rosette on the compost heap. She won't recover.
How to plant the Kindel correctly
- Prepare cultivation pots
- Insert Kindel individually
- stabilize with sticks
- Keep substrate slightly moist
- place bright, but not sunny
- Temperature at approx. 20 degrees
- repot later
The cultivation pots are filled with nutrient-poor substrate. To ensure that the children stand upright, stick small sticks next to the offshoots. Keep the soil moderately moist and always add some water to the cistern in the center of the plant.
It takes a few weeks for the growing pot to take root. Now repot the young lance rosette into a slightly larger pot.
The offshoots of the lance rosette only bloom after several years
Lance rosettes take some time to bloom. It can take up to two years for the flowers to develop.
Tip
The lanceolate rosette (Aechmea fasciata) grows as an epiphyte in the rainforests of Brazil. It mostly uses trees as support. When grown indoors, it is grown in a nutrient-poor substrate or on wood.
