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Bromeliad Aechmea Fasciata Care guide and Speceies Review

Aechmea fasciata Primera – Urn Plant - This is my favourite Bromeliad with beautiful leaves and an amazing flower. In this video, I want to give you a care guide for this plant as there are some tips that are specific to this plant that is quite different and so I want to explain those and why we do things a little differently with this plant. Then I’ll touch on repotting – propagation and so we have an all-around Aechmea Faciata species spotlight for you. You can see why it’s a popular houseplant the leaves look stunning and they produce this stunning pink flower, and the good news about these houseplants is that they are generally quite tolerant plants so I would put this on the easy to care for scale so if you’re a beginner to houseplant care or if you’re quite skilled at killing houseplants this is a good one to keep as they have a reasonable tolerance for a wide spectrum of conditions. There is one thing however that they really won’t like is a hot south-facing sunny window as the direct sun will scorch these beautiful leaves in no time and your plant will quickly start to look really bad so if there is one thing to remember from this video is to keep it away from the strong direct sun. They do like plenty of light so be sure to keep it somewhere with plenty of light but just not the harsh stuff. Now let’s move on to the watering because this plant has some special requirements, the nickname for this is the Urn plant and the reason for this is that it has a reservoir at the centre of the plant that is designed to trap rainwater and this is how it gets its water, so it’s like an urn at the centre here hence its name. So rather than always putting water in the soil you should pour some into the centre of the plant into that urn, this is how it takes on water, the roots are simply to anchor it in place, to cling into wherever it is growing. Having said that it’s important not to put too much water in the centre especially in winter because if the plant doesn’t use all the water and it just sits there all the time it could rot the plant, so what I do is water it a little, then after a week I careful tip it up and let any water still in there to come out, this also ensures any water in there is fresh and not getting stagnant which will also cause a problem, so just a little water and keep it fresh. If you have hard water in your area it's better to use rainwater if possible or Reverse Osmosis water if you don’t have rainwater available, this is because the trace metals and dissolved solids in hard water will not be good for the plant. I would say around once a month would give the soil a good watering and then leave it for at least another month, I do that mainly to keep the soil in good condition, if it never gets any water it just turns into dust and crumbles away and also because I use something in my water to keep the fungus gnat population down and so I like to use that to water the soil in case something has got into the soil at the garden centre so it’s a preventative thing, I will link what I use in the description. So that’s the water taken care of let's talk about humidity, so this is a native plant of South America and so loves a humid environment but the good news for us in colder climates is that they do seem to be quite tolerant of dryer environments so I’ve seen these go through UK winters with quite dry centrally heated air and it hasn’t been affected badly. So feeding this plant, it doesn’t really need much if any feeding, you certainly don’t want to feed into the urn, it won't like that, as it’s an epiphyte it takes on its nutrients through its leaves so if you do want to feed then use a foliar feed such as the types you can get for Orchids as they are Epiphytes too, but really they don’t need any food as once the flowering is over the lifecycle is complete and usually, the mother will die. You may well get pups from the side and then they in time will flower but it can take years for the pups to mature enough to flower so don’t hold your breath if you’re waiting for a new flower, but if you really like the leaves it will still be a nice plant to keep and enjoy and a fun project to try to get the new pups to flower. Don’t be too put off as the flower can last for months before it finishes blooming so you will still get a lovely display from the plant for quite some time. In terms of repotting for the mentioned reasons they don’t need repotting, they don’t use roots in the same way so they won’t grow out of their pot, if you do want to put it into a new pot for aesthetic reasons then you can use a free-draining soil mix like an orchid bark mix or even sphagnum moss. In the wild, these plants will literally be growing on trees and clinging on with their roots and in very little soil if any. SO that pretty much covers everything for this type of Bromeliad, I think it's a great plant for beginners and something different to own and enjoy. Thanks for watching.