T. ionantha x fasciculata
 

Here's another huge hybid to share.....
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3302/...c5c9629a_b.jpg

Re: T. ionantha x fasciculata
 

That's more like it. Big Tillandsia-s. Do you usually keep hybrids? You hybridise yourself?

Re: T. ionantha x fasciculata
 

I do keep lots of hybrid.......but i do not hybridize them.....takes too long and i do not have the space to do it......:biggrin:

Re: T. ionantha x fasciculata
 

Hmmm.... interesting. It's a Chiquininga?

Re: T. ionantha x fasciculata
 

Nope this is the reverse cross of Chiquininga......i have a Chiquininga too....the leaf coloring and texture r quite different....Chiquininga leaves r greener, longer and less furry in texture....the ionantha x fasciculata is from RFF and it's leaves grows in a more compact form......:biggrin:

Re: T. ionantha x fasciculata
 

Please tell me how do they produce hybrids!Just curious.

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just bush the pollen of one plant to the stigma of another......if it fertilizes, a seed pod will be develope.....than u will have to wait for the seed pot to split open......might take as long as a year....depending on species n hydrids.....once the seed pod splits open, collect the seeds n germinate them.....once germinated to a seedling, it's growth might stall for up to 5 years in order to see any growth, again this also depends on the hybrid some takes a shorter time.....:biggrin:

Re: T. ionantha x fasciculata
 

Yours is more caulescent than the normal .X nidus.

Re: T. ionantha x fasciculata
 

Agree....that's y RFF did not label it as nidus.....it could that they have cross it with a different ionantha or fasciculata.....wouldn't really noe:laugh: