Queen's Tears
Taxonomy
Billbergia nutans
Billbergia
Bromeliaceae
Poales
How to care for Queen's Tears
How often to water your Queen's Tears
every 12
Queen's Tears needs 0.5 cups of water every 12 when it doesn’t get direct sunlight and is potted in a 5" pot.
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Water 0.5 cups every
12
Finding light for Queen's Tears in your home
a window
Queen's Tears may have difficulty thriving, and will drop leaves 🍃, without ample sunlight.
Place it less than 3 feet from a south-facing window to maximize the potential for growth.
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How to fertilize Queen's Tears
Most potting soils come with ample nutrients which plants use to produce new growth.
By the time your plant has depleted the nutrients in its soil it’s likely grown enough to need a larger pot anyway.
To replenish this plant's nutrients, repot your Queen's Tears after it doubles in size or once a year—whichever comes first.
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After just two months in this new spot, they are all blooming today! So incredible!! By far the easiest plant ever. So satisfying! 💚😍🥰
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This is a really cool bromeliad that grows around the base of several trees in my Florida neighborhood because it propagates so easily - you just lay one there and it’ll start growing - plus it even likes deep shade. Several weeks ago, I brought some of them back to my garden to start here, and after cleaning them up and peeling back the old layers, I set them aside and just kinda forgot about them, until finally placing them around some oak and palm trees in my yard a 2 weeks ago. Then the other day I just happened to come across this baby bromeliad sitting in an empty pot, growing in complete darkness and with no soil or substrate of any kind. When I had peeled the rosette leaves away from one of them weeks back, I peeled it down to nothing (the leaves looked really bad) and so I tossed the base in that pot, thinking it was surely dead since it no longer had any leaves. Also you can see the roots it does have - they are so dry and just don’t look alive. But instead, the base has sprouted a new plant. Amazing! I can see why it got the name “fool proof plant”! I just love plants that insist on surviving! (My main photo for this plant is of the group of plants/tree mine came from.)
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Does anyone know why my plant went from bright red to purple? I’m thinking it’s because I should be watering it more frequently but that might not be the problem .
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Clearly doing something wrong Hello! I’m clearly doing something wrong. My Bromelaid hasn’t bloomed in a couple years (maybe that’s normal?) and it looks burned? I’m confused because it gets only 1-3hrs of direct sunlight a day. The rest is indirect as it’s by a west facing window.
Care Summary for Queen's Tears
Queen's Tears
Greg recommends:
Water
0.5 cups every 12 days
Placement
< 3ft from a window
Nutrients
Repot after 2x growth
Based on the 4” pot your plant is in, and that it doesn’t get direct sunlight.
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