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I have not been killing my desk bromeliad(s)! It turns out dying is just a thing they do after they've flowered. I mean, I'm sure the day of direct sunlight on a 40-degree day probably sped up the process on the last one, but I still could've saved it.
Turns out, they only flower for about six months, then they start putting out little offshoots called pups, of which mine now has four. Once these are half the size of the plant, you can take them off and plant them as new plants while the mother keeps producing more. Its flower will die, as mine are in the process of doing right now, but the leafy bit will stay alive for another couple of years, by which point the little ones will be ready to flower and the cycle starts again.
My first one had put out one pup, but the rest of the thing was not looking happy after the said day of full sun, so the plant wouldn't have gone for those couple of years creating pups, but it at least had the one I could've saved. Woulda been nice to have had that on the tag when I'd bought it, but at least now I know. I'm not killing this one, it's just dying of its own volition. So that's nice to know.
The fern alongside it, which had been decimated by that 40-degree day to the point where it was reduced to two leaves sticking out of the dirt, has now fully recovered and is as fluffy and green as it was when I bought it. Hooray!
Also I've written a page of SH:Gold tonight! I've worked some shit out and now it's flowing again. I doubt I'll have it done by the end of my holidays (tomorrow =( ) but it's flowing and I'm reasonably confident about what's going on with the rest of it. Politics have been left to the politicians, leaving Nimay to hit things with a sword, drink beer, and figure out how to 'kill' Yan. I am le squee.
Turns out, they only flower for about six months, then they start putting out little offshoots called pups, of which mine now has four. Once these are half the size of the plant, you can take them off and plant them as new plants while the mother keeps producing more. Its flower will die, as mine are in the process of doing right now, but the leafy bit will stay alive for another couple of years, by which point the little ones will be ready to flower and the cycle starts again.
My first one had put out one pup, but the rest of the thing was not looking happy after the said day of full sun, so the plant wouldn't have gone for those couple of years creating pups, but it at least had the one I could've saved. Woulda been nice to have had that on the tag when I'd bought it, but at least now I know. I'm not killing this one, it's just dying of its own volition. So that's nice to know.
The fern alongside it, which had been decimated by that 40-degree day to the point where it was reduced to two leaves sticking out of the dirt, has now fully recovered and is as fluffy and green as it was when I bought it. Hooray!
Also I've written a page of SH:Gold tonight! I've worked some shit out and now it's flowing again. I doubt I'll have it done by the end of my holidays (tomorrow =( ) but it's flowing and I'm reasonably confident about what's going on with the rest of it. Politics have been left to the politicians, leaving Nimay to hit things with a sword, drink beer, and figure out how to 'kill' Yan. I am le squee.