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Do you get seed without human intervention? If so, what is pollinating them?
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estación seca as for Tillandsia seed viability I have butzii growing from seed and schedeanais. EDIT to add have tricholepsis growing from seed about two years old 3/16" or 3mm about 50 plants.
Because most of the "Tillandsia world" grows tillandsia's by division and the people who are looking for that very special hybrid are the only ones who seems to have the info on seeds this is making my searches a little harder than normal.
Also believe I am one of the 1st to break into the very slow growing world of tillandsia'a by seed or cloning in Australia. Looks like most growers have just stopped their tillandsia's and moved more into the true Bromeliads or others or not at all.
Stricta seed pods look to of had seed but I have missed collecting the seed so far as for others as well but cotton bags coming very soon to fix this issue hopefully.
Am about to find out about seed with stricta, stricta amethyst, tricolour, junciea, caulescens, crocata, butzii.
Am still looking for tillandsia's that are able to get sowable seed from. Understand some are self pollinating before the flower opens and some that the male parts set a different times so a group of the same plant fertilise each other because they all flower at slightly different times. Some others that can only be cross pollinated because they have no male parts. I am a very much a beginner at all this.
Sent a email to a Cloning Laboratory in Australia and got this reply.
"Many years ago I used to clone lots of bromeliads including Tillandsias however when plants started entering Australia by the container load I could not compete with the cost. I have not done any Tillandsias for several years.
You are correct, Tillandsias can take a long time to grow by tissue culture however it is still faster than growing from seed. No one else has asked about Tillandsias recently only some other bromeliads.
I can clone some Tillandsias for you. I clone Tillandsias from immature flower spikes so you do not endanger your stock plant however culturing is not always successful.
The cost is $55.00 to set up the clone inc gst and then $2.20 per plant inc gst with a minimum order of 100 clones."
Nice reply!
This is very obtainable price wise so long as you only pay for plant that survive the cloning process.
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