Free from the restraints of roots and soil, these quirky plants are almost like pets, with their part plant, part creature personality. What's more, they've been scientifically found to remove harmful elements including mercury from the air.
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Medium to bright light. Tillandsias love sunning themselves in the morning.
You can spray them with water daily, or soak in a bowl of water 1-2 times a week for 10-20 minutes. Tillandsias likes it dirty and absorb nutrients when they're bathed in water from lakes, ponds, bird baths and Jo Jo tanks. In fact if you give them something as pure as distilled or filtered water they could die.
Add a small amount of liquid fertiliser when soaking it in its bath of water. We suggest diluting the recommended dose by at least a half to avoid burning your plant. You can feed once a month in summer.
No ways - Tillandsias are free spirits and hate being tied down. They don't need soil - they absorb nutrients from the air through microscopic pores on their leaves.
Tillandsias will chill pretty much anywhere, even outdoors in the trees or as a table decoration. Air plants with fuzzy silvery leaves like this one, are xeric types that come from dry climates. They're able to collect and store ample water and don’t mind direct sun if used to it.
Gold miners used to use Tillandsia usneoides as a sentinel species to detect and absorb mercury from the air. Considering they absorb and store airborne particles, they are still used today to monitor urban and industrial pollution
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