How to breed new aechmea

Sow lance rosette or propagate via Kindel

There are two ways to increase a lance rosette. Either pull them from seeds or you use them Kindelthat the plant forms after flowering.

The rearing of children is much easier and more promising than the propagation via seeds. Propagating a lance rosette via seeds requires specialist knowledge of the propagation of bromeliads.

How to get seeds

Seeds for lance rosettes are not easy to find in stores. But you can try to get seeds from your lance rosette in bloom.

To do this, dust the flower with a brush. The fertilized flower produces berries that you can harvest. The seeds cannot germinate for a long time and must be sown as soon as possible.

Sow lance rosettes

• Soak seeds for at least 24 hours
• Prepare the seed tray
• Sow seeds thinly
• do not cover with substrate (light germs!)
• cover with plastic wrap
• set up bright and very warm
• later prick and transplant

The seed is very hard-shelled. If you don't pre-soak it, it can take months for it to germinate. Gardening experts use a solution of potassium nitrate or hydrogen peroxide for soaking.

The increase of a lance rosette over Kindel

Only when the lance rosette blooms does it form small offshoots, so-called kindles, on the sides. You can cut these off as soon as they are big enough. Prepare individual small ones Growing pots(€ 16.68 at Amazon *) that you fill with nutrient-poor substrate.

Separate the Kindel with a clean, sharp knife and put them in the pots. Put the pots in a bright place at temperatures around 20 degrees. Keep the substrate slightly moist. Avoid direct sunlight for the first year.

It takes up to two years for the offshoots of the lance rosette to bloom for the first time.