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Just started collecting air plant bout 2 weeks ago...anybody know where i can get then in kl...i bought mine from a place along ulu klang road..anywhere else guys?

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You can contact Andy aka atmccmn. He is also on this forum. He has a huge collection and he sells them as well. You also can check with Mohd Khairi, but have not seen him on the forum for a while now.

Besides that, you can just look around in nurseries around KL and Sg. Buloh. They do carry them sometimes.

I'm also a Till grower. Glad to know you're also interested in these plants. :)

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thnks man...will do tht..

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Cool Tills you got there nautilus. :D Keep the airplant addiction in check. You wouldn't want to end up buying more than you could handle, not that it is a bad thing tho :)

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i got wht u mean..its happening with my other bromeliads...suddenly im out of place to add up for my collection..pots of breomeliads all over the place...thts y i moved on wit tills...the ceiling is still clear..hahah...

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It happens worldwide............That's what we called been bitten by bromeliads bug.:2thumbup:

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I am controlling myself to buy more as I have limited space at the window of my apartment. If I hang more tills there now the rest of my plants will not get enough sunlight. Sigh...

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You can go to 1Utama.Go find a shop Eonwhat.They got two floors search the first floor.They also sell neps.

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these are my new tills tht i still got problem identifying them,,lol

http://i717.photobucket.com/albums/w...1122008978.jpghttp://i717.photobucket.com/albums/w...1122008974.jpg

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just wanna share..my bromeliads and bird garden..http://i717.photobucket.com/albums/w...8971resize.jpg
http://i717.photobucket.com/albums/w...8973resize.jpg
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No kidding....another bromeliad crack here lol....:laugh::laugh::laugh:
Seriously, that's a nice spacious yard. If I were you I'd be filling it up faster than you can say 'Bromeliaceae'!!
As for the Tills, I can only identify a few the rest looks like they need a closer view. In the first pic The grassy tills are tillandsia juncea, the second pic the cabbage-like type is xerographica and the one next to it is fasciculata. The half pic one on the far right is strica silver leaf. Just my two cents. :tongue:

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Hi

I saw some air plats or in this case you guyss call it tills?

Not fammilir with this kind of plants for sure...Well i see them seeling just the plant and the(rhyzome?) with not roots and they seem happy just like that o.0 So you mean they don't have roots?It does look kinda hardy but i'm not so sure will read further on this kind of plants and maybe i might even be interested to start growing them despite my decreasing space in my condo...

Ken

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Ken, with tillandsias there's no such thing as the no-space dilemma :tongue:. Overall, tillandsias are happy no matter they are hanging or sitting somewhere on a stone or holder, as long as you give them regular watering, sunlight and liquid fertiliser. The more you buy, you will be surprised at the more ideas and space you can find for them :2thumbup:.

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Hi Funky

Yeah i guess i can even place them at the side too......Making it look more jungly???How often do they have to be watered?? And also will they do fine with the neps??

Ken

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thts is true...its soiless gardening with glue or fastener..good light, humidity and air circulation and u have urself hanging garden of babylon..lol..wanna share u with my air garden...
http://i717.photobucket.com/albums/w...lus_kl/003.jpg

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Hi Nautilus

Ummm must they be attached to something or can i just place them in an exposed area with nothin to hold onto but its standing in a stable position....I'm just afraid that if i put it with neps it might be too much water for it.

Ken

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Ken,

You can hang your plants or glue them to a piece of bark or branch with hot glue or tie with fishing line. You can get hot glue guns from ACE hardware or any hardware shophouse. Free-hanging plants is done by tying the piece of string or wire to the plant and let it dangle just like that or you might want to cut a length of rubber tubing and joining the ends to make a circular tube on which to balance your plant (credits to David for introducing this method, works well for my xeros). I find that for smaller plants if you don't bother about displaying them you can just hang them upside down so that water will run off the leaves easily and will not collect in the crown. This works well for rot sensitive species. Here's how I attach some of my plants. They are hot glued to a piece of bark with a wire hanger so it is easier to move them all at once.

http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/532...antwoodin2.jpg

As for watering it depends on the weather. On bone dry days or cloudy days with no rain, a drenching down is fine, at most twice a day. If on heavily rainy days stop the watering altogether and let the breeze or light sun dry them off naturally. FYI I do hang them among my Neps and bromeliads. You can place the xeric (arid/silver leafed) species in full sun and the green ones under shade or indirect sunlight. So far the rain or sun has never caused any casualties to my collection (touch wood :biggrin:).

Here's my first xero, gotten from a relative's house sometime back.

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5272/xerospmp1.jpg

Alvin.

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Hi Ken,

Just sharing some pictures of my tills setup to give you ideas on how you can display them. They do well together with my lycopodiums, ant plants, staghorn fern, Nepenthes and monstera delicosa. Follow funkychips advise on the cultivation of these plants and you should not have problems with them.

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Wow David, your place has changed a lot since my last visit. Your plants look very healthy. My salute to you for growing them so well indoor.

Funkychip, you are creative with many methods at hand. Hope to see more photos of your work soon....:1thumbup: if you don't mind posting them. Give your xero more sun and fert. to get pinkish blush at the centre of the cup. It'll grow to a compact curly mass of a ball.

Nautilus, nice set up you have there!. I see plenty of room there....hehehehe. The most outstanding ones are the statue with a juncea sitting on top. I like that!

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Don't know whether I've posted these photos before ?!? But I'll put up some pictures of my 'work' as an inspiration to you guys.......

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1...e/DSCF2885.jpg

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Hi Funkychips

Thanks for the pictures.......I always see those in malls......I'm not sure if they're different bu tlooks same to me..Just to make sure when you said silver leaves is the one you took picture with the bottle rite?

Hi David

Again thanks for the pictures.Such a familir sight lol.Anyways you just leave them like
that and hang in without sticking it to any sort of media or object eh?..Since you just leave it like that..I guess i can just put them in my rack outside at the balcony with not much worries since according to what i've read most are very hardy.And also how do you water them???? I guess you can just spray them since they can absorb water with they're leaves too.1 question why do you hang some sideways or upside down?????

Ken

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I use a water spray to water them. Most of them are either upright or upside down. Those that are upside down are just tied with a nylon string. But like what funkychips says, hanging them upside down is good as water does not stagnant at the crown in between the leaves.

Those that I hung upright, I am more careful when watering them. Sometimes I take all of them to the bathroom and bath them. Then I'll have to shake the water out before hanging them back upright or there will be to much water soaking at the crown. This will cause rot. I was told by Tillycollector07 that it is especially important to make sure water do not collect in the crown for species such as T. seleriana. He is so careful that everytime he water his seleriana, he shakes the water off and place them infront of a blowing table fan to dry it.

I do not stick them to a drift wood etc because I grow them by the window indoors. Air circulation is not as good and if I stick them on a piece of wood, water might stagnant to long in between the plant and wood. This will cause the plant to rot.

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Hi Ken
You're most welcome :smile:. Tills are really fun to work with one you get the idea of growing it well in your garden. Yes, the xero is a silver leaf till, among others like tillandsia stricta silver leaf type, tectorum.

Hi David and atmccmn,

Your collections are truly inspiring. I've a buddy who just got into growing a few tills already, thanks to our ever growing number of collectors ever eager in wait to poison the unsuspecting curious mind :tongue:. I believe he has yet to realise what he is getting himself into.

atmccmn, thanks for the tips on the xero. I hope it can get to its maximum size before it flowers.

Anyway i got a till tree display put up just now in the afternoon. I hope the description is clear as I did not take pictures of the entire process.

1 The bottom of the pot is filled to about 2 inches with crushed bricks.

2 The top with soil mix (3 parts burnt soil to 1 part black soil) until about 2 inches from the rim. Press it down firmly but not too packed.

3 Using a hammer or heavy object, hammer the branch of your choice or liana vines (got these from pet safari ), about 2 to 3 or depending on your preference into the soil mix.

4 Wedge medium pieces of crushed brick around the base of the branches to support them more securely.

5 I then put soaked sphagnum moss as a final layer on the top of the brick pieces.

6 Now the plants are ready to be attached to the branches. I use hot glue to attach them. If possible, choose plants that have portions of their rhizomes attached so you can glue them using that portion instead of the upper parts of the plant. You can also use tie wire or fishing lines solely or to reinforce the hot-glued plant.

7 The finished product:

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/1213/tilltreeyk9.jpg

I've added a few cryptanthuses to the sphagnum moss layer and used some usneiodes(spanish moss) to drape about the branches to create the wind worn appearance of the display like it is in their natural habitat.

All feedback are appreciated guys. This is my first try on doing this display and I don't know what parts of it are going to last and what are going to fall off :bored:.

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WAH.............................I got my parents to take a look at the pics david and you posted....They asked what did they say bout themmm.Well they did say it looks good and also commented..."See!!! Kenneth Davids house keep so many plants but still so clean YOURS!" lol.....Anyways maybe in sometime will get some....

Ken

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Funckychip, correct me if I'm wrong. I think liana vines might not be durable especially if you have earth or sphagnum moss around. It might rott away within a year's time. I've seen this on a friend's piece. Try having a concrete base holding them together might be better or if you could get those tembusu twigs or chengal log will do just great.

I did try on the railway sleepers. Those sleepers are giving me problems. I don't know why but it's killing my plants one by one with all sorts of rot.
Nice creation you have there.

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Although I'm a 100% CP grower ( other plants for fun only) I still think tills are nice and unique.

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Hi...

Yeah even though most of us here are 100% CP growers we all have our "vegetarian" plant friend somewhere....Like me i am growing chili seeds from a mature chili plant which i have posted before...Also a mini version of a pine tree and a palm tree..A phalaenopsis.....And also "lidah buaya".....Money plant....And also some plant which has normal leaves which i at first thought was a nep....I was too desperate and have no idea how they looked like....So i thought that was it and it was my first plant.This plant actually turn from green to red then to brown then to lime green and now back to green for the past 2 years++ And also one hairy little cactus which i have no idea what is it.

Ken

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Atmccmn, thanks alot I'm taking your advise there. The liana vines have a tendency to break off when its wet and flaky when dry. It just never stays intact just like a properly treated wood should. I'll figure out a way to sort this thing out this coming weekend :1thumbup:.

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Nice and creative till tree display funkychips.

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Thanks David. Although I might have to make some changes to it now that Atmcmn has informed me of the rotting tendencies of lianas in contact with the wet medium. Hopefully I can make a hanging version of the tree display instead ::biggrin:

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You might tempt me enough to do like wise if you make a hanging version. :)