In a climate-controlled greenhouse environment, it takes two to three years to grow a plant from a seedling to a marketable blooming specimen. Temperatures are kept at an ideal 65 to 85 degrees, and relative humidity is kept between an ideal 60 and 80 percent. In the early nineties, flowering bromeliads became a big hit with interior plantscapers. Now we can find a variety of attractive flowering bromeliads on the market. Look for Aechmea, Guzmania, Neoregelia and Vriesea and all their individual nametagged varieties.
Flower spikes come in red, orange, pink and yellow.
They can then be re-potted in their own pots and watered similarly to the mother plant. In a couple of years, and under the right growing conditions, these pups may then produce a bloom and offshoots of their own.