Anyone keep air plants ?

[Pengil]

Thank you !!

They are actually not that hard at all, just a few basic rules. I find they can take prolonged dryness far better then a single time not being dried off correctly. Once rott sets in, its all over. That is how I lost 3 of them.

Now I only bath them every other week or so, in winter even less. Make sure water is chlorine free. I soak them for about an hour...

Then shake the water out of each one gently but thoroughly and dry them upside down for at least a couple of hours. You want to do all that early in the day, so they are dry at night.

Best to buy them "un mounted" so all that soaking and drying is easy. Then you just stick them back into their containers however you feel like. The mounted ones (like at Lowes, etc) are to difficult to water correctly.

I bought all my plants online, too

I think rot is how I ended up losing mine as well, but they had originally come "mounted" in little glass spheres, so who knows how much damage unmounted them did as well- and like you said, it's impossible to water them properly when they're glued down to something too.

Thank you! This is by far the most thorough explanation of how to care for airplants I've ever seen- most of the labels just tell you to mist occasionally, but don't tell you anything about keeping the water chlorine free or drying them upside down. Now I can't look at a wall or bit of counter space without beginning to plan for how I could incorporate some airplants.