Air plant Care instructions:

Position, light and ventilation:

Tillandsia air plants can grow both indoors as well as outdoors in a protected area. If you keep your plants indoors, keep them away from airborne chemicals and poison sprays, gas stoves and heaters, as they absorb nutrients through their leaves and toxic fumes can be harmful to them. They thrive in bright filtered light, no direct sunlight during the warmer months of the year. they can tolerate a bit of early morning and late afternoon sun. Full hot sun will cause sunburn and damage the plant. The plants need good ventilation and air movement, to absorb nutrients. Airy and light bathrooms, kitchens and patios are excellent places, especially near open windows with free airflow. Plants will color and flower sooner with enough light and ventilation.

Watering:

Air plants love humidity, when watering make sure your plants are completely wet. You can use a misting spray can, irrigation or misting system outdoors or the fine spray option on your hosepipe to water the plants. You do need to make sure your plants are completely dry between watering cycles, to reduce the risk of plant rot. - Once you mastered the watering, the rest is easy. In dry hot areas, you need to water your air plants at least 2-3 times a week to grow well, although they can withstand a few weeks without watering, but they will go in hibernation mode and stop growing until their next good watering. In cooler areas you can water less. Tillandsia cannot survive in standing water and need to dry out for at least 4 hours after a good watering. 

Tip: If you do not have access to borehole or rainwater, fill a bucket with normal tap water and leave it outside for 48 hours to filter away most chemicals in the water. Normal tap water won't damage or kill the plants, but filtered water does make a difference in how happy your air plant will be.

Air Circulation:

Following each watering, Tillandsia should be given enough light and air circulation to dry out in 4 hours or less. Do not keep your air plants constantly wet or moist.

Fertilizer:

Use fertilizer at 1/4 strength no more than two times a month. 

Mounting:

Air plants can be mounted on almost anything, trees, stumps, shells, wood, glass, plastic, they can be suspended hanging on fishline or in hanging wire baskets and rocks. If you do mount your plants on rocks, please take note that rocks can get very hot, and you must be careful of where you place them. Tillandsias can be fixed with plastic coated wire, strips of silk stockings, cable ties or coated rubber bands.  Do not use silicone or superglue to mount your air plants. Remember to mount your air plants at an angle so excess water can drain freely, and water won't be kept in its fronts and encourage plant rot. When mounting on wood, make sure the wood is not varnished or treated, it will kill your plants. Copper and brass are poisonous to the plants.

Propagation:

Your mature plant (Approx. 5 years old) will start to, depending on the specie, color, spike and flower, thereafter it will produce pups, either on the flower stem or at the base of the plant, also depending on specie. After blooming the mother plant's color will return to its original green or silver. You can remove the pups when they are approximately one third of the mother plant's size, if you wish. If you leave the pups they will grow faster and reach maturity more quickly and form a stunning clump. Blooming season varies according to species, as well as the amount of light it receives, the lighter, the more flowers and the more pups.

Flowers:

Some species of tillandsia flower more readily every year, whereas others are a bit shy flowering. Maybe try a new position to assist flowering. All tillandsias do flower though, with the exception of the common Bergerii NF, when the tillandsias flower it is worth the wait and a stunning sight.

After receiving your new plants:

Submerse your new plants in a bucket of water for 10 minutes. Let it dry out completely after submersion before mounting them. Do not use fertilizer for at least 3 weeks. Minor leave imperfections are normal and dry or "loose" leaves and roots can be trimmed with scissors. It is also normal for Tillandsias to lose some of the bottom leaves while acclimating to their new environment, these loose leaves can be trimmed off.