What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. This is our final

episode with Josh Rosen of Air Plant Man. You can find him at Air Plant Man.com.

So today I thought You can find him at airplant man.com.

So today I thought one thing that we hadn't talked about this week so far

was how these are produced.

You know Josh mentioned yesterday how it's so important to buy air plants that have been greenhouse grown, but then the question becomes, okay, well, how do these plants actually propagate themselves? And so I think we could talk about that and then also talk a little bit about

you know some of the benefits of having airplanes in the home but Josh do you mind if we we kick it off with that

that question of propagation? Yeah well it brings me to a question I get a lot which is how often do I have to prune these and the answer is not very often when you live on dust and water just in the air

You do not grow very quickly and to get a little bit more technical to Lansia actually do something called CAM photosynthesisM, and this allows them to

store, to lose less water when they photosynthesize

by doing it at night, but it's a little bit less efficient.

So that means they grow more slowly. So between those two

reasons, it can take many, many, many years for a little seed link to grow into a full-size telandsia.

And so it took a while for the greenhouse trade

to sort of build up stocks enough

that they'd had the many years backed up of plants kind of coming through the cycle.

And so yeah, those are just a few things to keep in mind.

In terms of how they reproduce, there's a couple different ways.

The first is traditional seed. All

telansia will create flowers and once the blooms are done, they will have these

seed pods that have a dandelion-like mixture of kind of floaty fuzzy stuff with the seeds mixed in and those blow on the wind and wherever they happen to land is where the little seedlings inside will start to grow and take root and grow into full-sized plants.

So that's the kind of wide dispersal reproductive method.

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