How do I take care of my #AirPlant(s)? 🌿🪴✨
Hi friends! 🫶🏽 wanted to make a quick post to ask y’all about airplants! I’ve been invested in them for quite awhile and I was gifted a cute airplant setup by plant bestie @ShinyBudew 😊
I know absolutely nothing about them, other than the fact that they don’t need soil to survive! Help me out #GregGang 🙌🏽
Which ones do I have? Can anyone #PlantID these precious babies?
How do I go about watering them? They feel somewhat soft and unsure how to tell when they need to be watered!
Should I mist them since my room gets dry/cold? Or is misting bad for these babies since they’re velvety/soft?
Thanks in Advance 💚💚💚
#HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #PlantAddict #plantfriendsarethebestfriends #CentralTexasGang #kscapedream
I know absolutely nothing about them, other than the fact that they don’t need soil to survive! Help me out #GregGang 🙌🏽
Which ones do I have? Can anyone #PlantID these precious babies?
How do I go about watering them? They feel somewhat soft and unsure how to tell when they need to be watered!
Should I mist them since my room gets dry/cold? Or is misting bad for these babies since they’re velvety/soft?
Thanks in Advance 💚💚💚
#HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #PlantAddict #plantfriendsarethebestfriends #CentralTexasGang #kscapedream
2ft to light, indirect
5” pot without drainage
Last watered 3 years ago
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Best Answer
@dreamlettuce I have 4 that are all growing and doing well and I recently picked up 2 tiny ones. Someone else can help with the ID, but Greg calls my big ones Blushing Bride Airplant. This is what I do, as told to me by the plant lady running the plant shop where I get them in Tipp City. Once a week I soak them for half an hour in reverse osmosis water. You can use anything but tap water. She told me to make sure the root doesn’t get wet! I have heard from others we don’t have to do that, but I still do, just in case. Then after half hour upside down in the water (the plants, not me) I take them out, shake them off, and let them dry upside down. I put something absorbent them, like a towel. When dry, I put them back in their containers. They have grown quite a bit. You don’t have to do anything else. The ones in the small glass are the 2 new ones. I’ve just soaked them once so far. I soak 2 at a time in red plastic cups you see everywhere. Then, just enjoy!
Hi! I soak mine once a week, and mist them pretty much every day with RO water. They can start to get crispy if they’re too dry so just watch them and they’ll tell you what they need! Don’t care about light so that’s not an issue. In my mind they’re pretty low maintenance. And yay planty presents! 🌱☀️❤️
Idk the names but I do know that I just now got to where I don't have to mist them and can put them completely in water for like 2 minutes maybe and then when I take them out I place them upside down on a paper towel in the windowsill so the air and light will help dry them. I did actually leave them in water for like... 4 hours once and surprisingly the did not die... Idk wtf is up with that but I'm totally kool with it if they (fyi I wasn't nor am I totally kool with it. I was a nervous wreck then and now I watch them like a hawk) lol give them lots of light and just let them do their thang. I do know that the little ones have the CUTEST little blooms!
@RealSimpleMama I just wait until it starts feeling dry and crispy. Sometimes 1 time a week sometimes 2 weeks will go buy.
The only thing I do different than others on here is I try to mist mine once a week with air plant food... @dreamlettuce
@RealSimpleMama Thank you and @AC73LoveCats so much!! They were starting to feel crispy so I went ahead and let them sit in filtered water for 30-40 mins, gently placed them on a towel (upside down) after carefully shaking them a little and then dry for 3-5 hours.
They’re now back in their enclosure 🌿🌱✨ I’ll keep an eye on how they do in the glass terrarium. If they get crispy too fast, I may mist them once a day. If they’re completely fine with a good water dunk every week or two, then that is also perfectly fine with me! 😊 @KrunchyWrapz
Just want to make sure I know what I’m doing with these plants! Don’t want to kill them 🥹💖
They’re now back in their enclosure 🌿🌱✨ I’ll keep an eye on how they do in the glass terrarium. If they get crispy too fast, I may mist them once a day. If they’re completely fine with a good water dunk every week or two, then that is also perfectly fine with me! 😊 @KrunchyWrapz
Just want to make sure I know what I’m doing with these plants! Don’t want to kill them 🥹💖
@dreamlettuce I love the setting! Bill them? Oh, you mean kill them.
They are hard to kill, if they get their weekly watering. They don’t seem to care, about anything else!
They are hard to kill, if they get their weekly watering. They don’t seem to care, about anything else!
@AC73LoveCats haha yes, it autocorrected to “bill them” 🤣🤣 thank you so much for the encouragement and advice! 💚
@RealSimpleMama Right?? I’ve been wanting a setup like this for awhile but couldn’t afford/start it 😅 now that I have one, I feel like I had do more 😩
@RealSimpleMama Right?? I’ve been wanting a setup like this for awhile but couldn’t afford/start it 😅 now that I have one, I feel like I had do more 😩
@FirstCanna Ok I feel dumb asking this question but I am also a new air plant parent. Which end do I mist with the plant food? The green or the butt?? 😆🙈 I have 2 different types- one with roots.
The green end @LauraLynne