Bromeliad & Tillandsia Tour at Nong Nooch Tropical Garden, Thailand — Plant One On Me — Ep. 145

in the previous episode Anders and I took a drive through nong nooch tropical garden and met up with camp on the executive director of the garden in this episode we'll tour the bromeliad display garden the tillandsia and bromeliad private collection and even see the production facility all of which holds over 3,000 species hybrids and cultivars of bromelia see [Music] we have a big production and a big collection of Vermillion species and hybrids that we have for display so they the people come and enjoy it so we're gonna start looking at those and you have both species as well as hybrids and cultivars and yes yes some of the species of very ornamental in itself so they don't really need to be hybridized but many of the hybrids are tougher easier to grow and the flowers last longer as well so this is the display garden for the bromeliads it's all flowering plants we put them in this play here and other things that have nice colored leave when they color it up usually before the flower as well we use them in different settings so here is a wall and different color yeah and I see that you just have them really in the baskets that you're growing them in and when they're exhausted or maybe when they don't look so pretty you could just like flip them out very easily yes so we can change each individual pot and plot can be changed and many of these things are like this money as well this is a ghost money a Soleado that's a beautiful variety event with a yellow and red then tricolor green red and yellow so these are our harvests that are developed in in in Holland and we then been buying the tissue culture from it from there on top you have needle aureum which is a different genus of chameleon here it doesn't need the lorry me no safety when hearing in Thailand either the temperature doesn't go down too much in the night so they none of them need the Laurium species actually they don't flower here oh there's no way that you could actually induce it without giving no we have tried and they died so but it's still very nice yeah no I mean they have really good foliage and I think that's what's really interesting about bromeliads is they don't need a lot of upkeep and they have really beautiful foliage even when they're not in flower yes and then that's helps a lot and you're gonna keep a garden looking good only around right then we use some big ones these are our Canteras Imperialis from from coast of Brazil and these are under Lepus skin Marie from Costa Rica as a quite nice inflorescence almost too meaty tool which is why to mentum on it and quite quite a showy thing and also they they don't collar up completely read this like half red and half green is there a particular group from lily AC that worked particularly well for your climate here which is like a very hot dry tropical climate yes definitely um most of the knee regalia doing very well brizia we don't have any they they like a lot cooler and how you mediate a I guess than what we have but knee regalia Guzman yeah are those two that that that's the best and have you ever tried like Acme our Acme we do have some but we do actually get a lot of rain in the rainy season so they rotten off there like it a bit drier all the time interesting yeah so it's always like such an experiment because what would work for one Botanic Gardens you can't always make it work for yours especially because yours is not covered at all if it's on oh yeah what's this one right here that has the little splotches this is one of the the near regalia hybrids with the Marmara tawny regalia Mar Murata hybrid this is probably one of our own hybrids because Martin wrote as a species does very well for us but it's very large and then we hybridize it with Cree enta which gives it these red tips and eventually a red centre so near Gillam are Murata crossed with near regalia quanta gives it that's what comes up so how does the hybridization process work for you all is it something like where it's just like you find it interesting and you want to experiment with it or does somebody on your staff say oh it would be really cool and arm to be able to like create these two things together how does it actually work top-down approach bottom-up ah both both but some of them we see this these grow well yeah but sometimes as simple as we have a specie Dell that looks good they grow swell but we can't get enough of it so we said seed of it and if you sell things they usually doesn't get so strong so we put something else to it and then get a similar looking plant like like the maraca there that is more easy for us to cultivate and harder and harder yes it's like the mutt of the plant world yes so many hybrids of bromelia as their hybrid vigor a lot stronger than the species here's another one yeah this is a by a generic cross which means they cross by two different general so it's a kunai strim crossed with the Acme ax and then these is mottling sort of slight pink in the center that's the connection now Kenny strim has a quite a tall inflorescence but very compact not like agnya I don't think we have it flowering yet but it's it's a sort of a nice-looking clown yeah it is and then of course pineapple these are the spineless thing that they're growing here the interesting thing here in Thailand is the pineapple industry in Thailand has never been conquered by dole and and those are the big American companies so we have a lot of good cultivar of pineapple that you can't find anywhere else and they're very very tasty and are is this like one of those because when I think of pineapples I thought always like the more native ones were a little round compared to oval true the de species are these are still hybrids that the edible ones and as probably someone who picked one there took it home one of the visitors no they said edible ones but as you see they're smaller than then the one you find in the US and in Europe and usually more round so it's just another line bred pineapple here that you don't see in the commercial Dole setting but that's so wonderful to see because often times when we think about fruit we don't think that it's just like coming from one hybrid and that there's so many different types of nuances of flavor that could be coming from all of these different varieties or species that we never might ever get a chance to experience because they haven't been yet they haven't been commercialized yeah yes so I mean they they're pineapple cultivar here in Thailand is one called Phuket from the island of Phuket in southern Thailand it is one called si Racha which is very close to here and also harbors that come up from here these yeah these are getting three headed tree headed yes yeah so what is what is happening there like how does that happen is that like do they split off I've never seen two or three heads on top of a pineapple because if you tissue culture them they get very uniform but all these are propagated from the top chute so when you use the top shoot to haul the time the the growth meristem at the base of the top chute sometimes you mutate and you get like a criss state form of it that's not too much I mean some of them you can buy in the market it looks like a comb burr the second head of it right so it's like the monstrous version or the crostata version of it I had never really noticed that and maybe I'm not shopping too much in the local market in order to be able to see it but that's pretty pretty unique yes because I think most of the pineapple here are all propagated that way not tissue cultured right what are the things is that middle or iam again more of the Guzman yes these are all Dutch developed hybrids so these are hybrids of Guzman yearling Gulotta very common from even in while in Florida all through Central American I think down to Bolivia actually when they have this sort of flat top now these other Guzman years here they are from another breed these are usually combination of species from Ecuador in Colombia which mean they are slightly high altitude and they don't really like a with climate here so we have to induce the flowering on them they want flower by himself while the lingu lots are hybrids on the other hand is is flower all the time a lot of experimentation you know for once you you chat with the people who actually are the growers to let them know which ones actually work best for your climate and to select for specific species or no unfortunately they're not because like like in Holland they they have a huge market themself for the indoor European thing and most bromeliads in in in Europe and I guess in the US as well is you buy one you put in there and once they stop flowering it's out people don't really take the time to to grow them and people don't keep the the temperature and humidity that we have here indoor so they have developed them for cooler climate they are not interested in develop them for a tropical climate which is what we then do and that's what they also have done in in Florida and and part of our why they try to develop more landscape plants that people can use outdoor and in that that thing the Acme azar very popular for outdoor has ground cover you know less maintenance you don't have to water yeah and you know how to take care of a lawn you know which is also very good in certain areas that are a little bit more prone to drought with is important and then of course you have a like even though they're not familiars you have a lot of cycads around kind of like dotting it we have cycads we have palms yeah it's an interesting palms actually here it's the normal golden cane palm but this is a dwarf now it's not dwarf in height but in the leaves it's very compact very short leaves and these are selected cultivars that have come up here in Southeast Asia Thailand Vietnam Malaysia and they don't flower there's no flowers on them so they are all propagated by divisions so it's it's sort of a collector's item something else to appreciate within the bromeliad house yeah yes something to give extra shade to these are Samia diese Semyon Yura phylidia from from Costa Rica it's another cycad kind of interesting corrugated leaves really cool I heard you also have a good collection private collection of bromeliads here yes we do we have a very good collection that we've been build up from exchange from other botanical garden Mary Selby and Huntington and what else attract in in Holland Heidelberg in Germany and other places and also from private collectors because private collectors usually keep a lot of interesting things that photonic garden doesn't have so by by visiting a lot of private collector and exchanging with them because they usually don't want to sell so they have something and then we have something and I give you this and then give you that everyone wins so that's how you slowly build the collection and that's part of the fun you know yeah well you do it for the trade I guess and serves as like insurance in case you ever lose that definitely if we lose it then someone else habit or mumbai's versa yes what do you think we could actually take a look at that collection yes definitely let's go yep right so I'm gonna take it to the bromeliad collection perfect which is another area where it's not open to the public that's what we like to hear it's the stuff that our reviews viewers don't always get a chance to see no no if you visit the garden you won't see them they're correct so yeah it's all just open here but it's all behind bars the collection here yes so yeah they all separate Lisa the genus bromelia which is very very spiny things that's actually the the fruit said now of the bromelia yes oh these so very sweet you can you can no they're not rot yet but you can actually eat them Wow what do they taste like oh this we didn't like you know the dragon fruit yes yeah yeah like that there's a lot of small seeds but you can either see yeah so the ants already know cuz they're already there waiting for ya and then the thing with these you can see there's this bones here these are like tougher than cacti sometimes you don't want to get on the bad side of these and some of them on the same leaf the spines go in a different direction on the same leaf here we go so this one's going this way and and these are also a lot of them some of the mexican specie and all the way down to South America usually very drier places there's some Mexican one with a seed pod the size of that and very sweet very good to eat they actually eat them in in Puerto Vallarta where I got them so but these actually do well in your landscape here they do but of course very few people appreciate them in in theirs in a home setting because they're so spiny so what's the idea of having the collection here I mean I know you guys are a Botanic Garden but this is this is kind of like more of your private collection just so you have the species or yes many of them are documented I mean we do have collecting data the GPS where they were collected from and and so on and then we propagate those so it is sort of a prediction of conservation of the species in in in xe2 like here we have pet cornea looks like grass and and and few botanical gardens actually have good collections or that but they're very very common if you travel anywhere in Central or South America than flora yes so tall and usually red or orange flowers so they have an infrared sensor as you can see it looks like a reed or such in a way you know they usually grow and Road cuts and so on today people think they're weeds like where you typically see like your said your sometimes like you know roadside plants would be quite a few of them is what we call a pit stop collecting you're sitting in the in the Jeep the whole day and it's yes stop the car stop the car and you get out and you're standing there taking piss as a man and then then you see oh well actually that's that's that's actually a bromelia not a photograph and you just fertilize it yeah exactly so then you can you can collect them there's roadside collecting you see somebody in Preston says under the shade house here is 3 meter tall which is I'm not sure how many feet that would be but that's that's a quite tall inflorescence hitting the roof there and yeah orange flower many of them a hummingbird pollinated yes you could see their tubular so who pollinates them here do you have hummingbirds here at all or it's more like Sun birds right we have some birds they do pollinate some of them and and also like other plants like aloes and things that also son bird pollinated in Africa they said good seed here by the Sun bird yesterday bromelia get pollinate with somebody so this one would get a sunburn pollinator you don't have to hand pollinate these no no you should also make them a bit of a weed potential because there's a lot of seeds in that in that seed pod and you know then they fly with a seeds fly away and they start to grow and they become a weed but to also be careful that nothing gets too invasive here yes these are collections are different Guzman years and a few Ricci in the back but they're struggling in the heat so there are hybrids here species are in the back not sure anything Appetit at the moment but but here as you see we once the flower they will of die back of course and you were propagated from the division of suckers but here we ask maintain the collection or the specie so there has become gigantic clumps so when do you when you come in here when do you start to kind of de clump them or start to separate them or you don't so because there's ones you don't okay so you just let them grow until they break their pot basically yes or sort of really start to look you know need to be repotted this one with the red stripes coming up off the foliage is a big one right here ah now this is one of the the variegated VCS that we got in that's nice-looking yes it is Vanessa it's one of the tie our hybrids actually that we got from a guy up north okay so sometimes you know somebody you find something that's really interesting it's not really a species and you bring it here and you just add it to the collection yes so all our collection it's not only pure species while collectively data which is we try as much as we can but there is also hybrids and cultivars as such and same for the orchids and for everything else like like we have a big banana collection so a lot of species of banana yeah I think we have a forty or fifty specie but you can't really eat but then we have several hundred cultivars that you can eat and that's not usually what the baton of God and does that's like the the gene bank or the government whatever set up to do that separately from garden but we try to do it all here what are some of these in the hanging basket decent near regalia 's mareana these are species from ecuador and and they have these long stolons and they they run out and hang down and they have this white powder to the leaves so this irregular policy flora from Brazil and and as well so they put out these like pups on these there's very stolen it first so it almost like a spider plant you know that you have yeah they say my dear iam and you see here his has some become a real plant yet it's just that so they they hard to keep in a pot so that's why you have the mini we have them a fairly small pot and they'll let them do their thing and eventually they will just hang down so this is a specie that that we now try to propagate for for display and some crypt antha these are crypt enters these are all hybrids of the thing we have species on top there most of the species are green but then they always like a red form of it or a variegated form and Krypton toises is you can't sell fit so you have one plant you can propagate it by division to make ten thousand still you cannot cross them because they're still the same clone and that's why hybrids of Krypton this are very very common because people have one of one of this piece and one of that specie and it can't make seeds that have kids they have to cross them so many species that was collected over a hundred years ago are still in cultivation and some of them haven't been recollected ever since in in usually in Brazil but then the plenty of hybrids of them are these primarily epiphytic plants or nope Krypton this is is I believe all spaces are growing in the ground okay and that's why you see the soil we using is a it's a sort of a light compost coconut chopped and and compost soil little bits and in it these are these are 2mz these are two lens and these are a little bit more stolen it for us here very much yes and you have a 10-ounce a draftee here which has a interesting cool curlicue yes and is this Frankie Anna is funky Anna and one of the few species of talents here that has a red flower so when the flower once a year the whole thing is is lighten up year flame super cool I've never seen this one with the curlicues before ah yes Delancy odorata or if i did i've never noticed it super cool yeah huge oh I see you have a few of them together then well it through two stems they don't really suck your yeah the two stems of them it was one big plants all three of them and we actually had them on a on a bromeliad show and we got Best in Show for today you got a lot of best of shows mmm then we have to lift it back and this sort of fella pieces on the way back in the car so now we have another 10 15 years to grow these plants back to something and now these are all the species they are well not all of them but about quite a few here is like our girl Phyllis which is it's a specie yeah and and it sort of dies back very quickly faster than other things so you see they they die back and people think they're doing something wrong they why are they looking like that but let me come back again so in cease and they go back and forth all the time so now they look fairly good but you could come back in four months and they look like they're dying and then they come back again I mean these are we've been growing for for ten years some of these this look I've been burn a bit because of their too much light we have somebody to Lancias here that we tried to grow clumps of for for display or or something like that this is part of the collection but they are the collection of the Lancias is further done these are the near regalia hybrids that we have a lot from Hawaii from Australia from other places then species down there these are somewhere of our own hybrids here that we growing out it's interesting when you grow them from seed the seedlings look never look good safer if I pull this one yes look at the shape every order leaves so it's not like a normal room Illiad now this is then what it turns into so the seedling we found out never looked good but the the first division suddenly looked better and better it's a little bit more robust yes and more flat this is a good one yes so this is a multiple cross so they're the two hybrids to across to get this the hope was that we could use it for full Sun so we put this poor thing out in full Sun which he has got burned to cinder so it is hard to have colorful bromeliads in full Sun those stubble grow in full Sun or or actually Acme as Blanche at the owner and you usually have a yellowish orange leaves but then do they not operate well when you have the rainy season they Blanche at the owners okay but a lot of the other nice one they don't and it's hard I mean there's so many colors of already named hybrids so you do a hybrid do you get a new color no you don't it's just a different shade of another different shade of shade of gray you know these are new regular these are species from usually from the Amazonian um Brazil I'm not sure why but they're very very spiny very funny yes so that's a a lute repair Tula and that's a levee Jana there's something there's something about this plant that's probably quite tasty and then we just don't know yet yeah probably the cure for all the diseases we have abso these are they are my Soniya things usually very spiny are they collar up nicely yeah and if that's a species that's a pretty impressive color already yes it's very nice then other things are are these so in in coast of Brazil they have these near regular called shorter or new regalia gigas and a few other species and they have them been hybridized by my name Chester Skotak he's in Bolivia now hey sorry nice in Costa Rica and he'd been hybridizing Ollie's so like this you know what what other name would you call it in Hannibal Lecter because of the blood dripping on it so that's one of his first hybrid that that he did in this series and then they're going better and better and better with all these things these are very expensive collector items now he actually managed to do them all variegated so some of these going for several thousand US dollar the variegated wind so we can go look we have the tea Lancias production down here and collection I could see them now it's just like a curtain of tillandsia see no eighties yes yes it was all by default we had them hanging there and then we didn't propagate more of it that it became longer and longer and then we actually said no that's nice so I mean this is something you could do for your your home god and if you if you have enough people would love to have these kind of curtains but the problem would be how do you actually water them yes it's nice that you have a little trough down here and if you have them in your living room you would have another problem these are a lot of small ones right here is this where you're propagating them yes this is these are grown from seed these are probably strict hybrids when you're growing them from seed are you just how are you eating them we usually see them like you see in the back there we put them on these plastic mesh the seeds is is like cotton so you pull the cotton out to stick it to it and some take over a year to germinate and then once they come up with small plants they may put it on the mesh here and then whenever whatever grows bigger we take separate it it's a long process but it's a lot quicker in tile and in then in other countries also we have another snow it says to find their form yes than the other one yes very thin and the other one there is thicker foam but they say there's more some of them are some other more yellowish like this one not so white yeah it's quite heavy actually yes and they need a lot more water than anything we have a very fine one that doesn't take the rain at all we have it in the in the cacti nursery doesn't take the rain but it's very very thin and then this one you'd have to make sure that you're watering in all aspects of it cuz it's so thick that you have to some of it probably dries out in the middle it does I mean I remember when I was growing things in Sweden like this you actually soak it in a bucket that's a lot easier than to spray it then your whole apartment would be wet exactly and how about how old are these and these are probably one and a half two years old from from seed someone ever smaller but yeah I know that's the nest a lot which is quite good and then because most ill answer are air plants or epiphytic plants so we start them off on on these wooden sticks covered with coconut coir these are telling us a funky honor see the flowers on top there and some of it to Buehler as well lift the whole thing now so I think it's only two maybe three species of talents l have red flowers this is one eat it it's another one from Bolivia and is this one pollinated also by like a hummingbird or probably yeah I think so yes but it hasn't set seed here so the sunbirds here listen dude illness yeah no these are Anantha which is further down and those are the common ones that I think you typically see in the house plant market as well yes and there's a lot of different forms of them this is Ivan anta which is called one hinky Anantha bond hinga which is a more robust form than than the normal iron ante so unless also started coloring up now turning red the purple flower but yeah you see there flowers there yeah which is like more of a typical flower color I feel for tillandsia is purple yes so yeah obvious line them up those are the seedlings of them there and then here they line them up so these are probably just germinated and and haven't really separate you really do do you separate them also from here or is it just these these are just the seedlings are Anantha we've grown from seeds but the from Kiana because it doesn't set seed we we just from cuttings okay so when the iron antha if they produce a pup you you just let it grow in a clump then and or do you take that pop off usually we just leave them but but you can propagate in that way as well but it would just be carnal it will but also it allows to lose the shape or the mother plant I see yeah so when you grow them like this you get a better growth and you see here is only from Kiana common I really love this form of tillandsia I think it's very beautiful even in from Guiana there's a number of forms you have a green form you have the more silver form you have the compact form which I think this is and then you have the more open form but this is a particularly good one that we actually got from Mary Selby originally do you ever get to try to bloom them all at once and or I mean soon I'm assuming they kind of blew them all at once they do these are the early one I would expect in less than a month we should have them all and then we lift them out for the display garden so what we saw now wasn't too much at the display garden but in CS and especially in the end of the year we get whatever flowering ISM is on display well I see some more bromeliads in there should we go take a beeline over yes and you have more clan Xia here - yes so we growing these in in clumps also for display and when their flowering we we can show them and also some of them are are put on Garland's shows and competition in Thailand these are igneous canna strim a different general of things wild yes this is a Annamayya which is a Ananas croft crossed with in a camellia so it's a by generic cross and this is a variegated one which is quite an interesting thing so the acme are used in this case is like me a fussy otter and the pineapple is probably an edible one I would expect but it could be Lucy dose I'm not sure and yeah that's the result and then a lot of these big to Lancias like I sorry yeah with the some of the big things here are actually two Lancias but most of them are all can't areas sometimes I look at two Lancias and I'm like they that looks like bro me like what I would think is a bromeliad yeah do they differentiate them by flower or how do they differentiate them all but flower yes okay so these used to be brizia a long time ago but resear has has now been segregated and has a whole different in fluorescence then then I'll come to Ria's but then some of them look like this and actually our tea Lancias which is another inflorescence again that's dr. believe is it talansky right there yes so this is a tillandsia this is little oncea so it's it's very big and and not the normal sort of dry looking leaf with their fur this is talansky a crew coffee honour and it looks very much like the eloquent areas or reefs yes so and this is something that's would typically grow on the ground ah yes quite a few talents they actually grow on the ground someone I grow in in desert in in in Chile and Peru with the cacti and many of them actually are epiphytic on cacti as well most I'll country as I think are all little fatigued growing on rocks in Rio de Janeiro and nearby you have them and on the cliffs right buddy let's see you have another one that's a Kent area Vinnie flora that's a really beautiful color it is Alcantara vini color that's actually the name it's it's a specie from Brazil oh so hasn't even been selected for this color no no no these this is how it looks and and yes now because the temperature is dropping a bit it's not the color up eventually be completely one red you know when I think about succulents and you know they're anthocyanins kind of get pumped up with more Sun and more heat but you're saying that these get they color up when it gets a little colder it will be less seem to do that what is it about that do you know anything about the chemistry behind that or no I don't I wish I did then we could use manipulative but no even for the flowering things like Guzman yes there is a white hybrid it's pure white in Holland it's green is yellow here you know a tissue culture plant brought here to the heat we never get it cold cold enough so it's it's never turned white so there's something there with these thing Heliconia is another thing some of the Heliconius like when they grow them in Hawai they get so dark red almost black here you'd be happy if you get a little bit light pink you know so well I'm not sure what was actually maybe the cold is actually gives it a little bit of stress in a different kind of way and and they all call her up yes to do so these tables here we have Bill Bergey as a related thing yeah love the crows nail yes yes just a form it's so so compact you know a little bit more like if you wanted to like Sansevieria x' they're very straight but this was like a more straight version if you don't want them oh yeah yeah yeah I never thought about it that way it's like a a you the bromeliad version Amazon Saverio exactly when you when you live in a small apartment you start to think that way yeah okay yeah now at least these are the Krishna Lamar marathon the two clones of them in cultivation and on with the curly leave was collected by Tim Plowman among thousand are the things that he collected which is a particularly good form with the curly tip now the normal most common form of Christy Lemire Alta we have over here where they're all straight up direct it's still the same space this is actually how it's supposed to look but Tim collected that curly form which is now the Holy Grail and actually comes in variegated form as well then we have Bill burger which is quite quite showy in season they have the flowers are only last for one or two days here anyway so yeah nowadays some interesting name things people who does hybrids seems to have a tendency I have there I guess they run out of ideas - what name they're gonna put on em so they're coming up with his I saw one I went to a garden show and one was called it was a succulent I Karen but what second it was but the the cultivar name was pillow talk was he softened exactly yeah well some of the I mean the species name horrid asur horrid add it's quite common it is actually a bill Bergey named bill Bergey ahora de in which we do have it's quite a spiny kiwanis winter Sundberg Hawaiian hybrids yeah this is nice it's a nice color yes yes and you have all these champagne bubbles and afterglow and what's this one this one that's down here that's actually has an inflorescence ah this is a meerschaum teeny nice and dark so now in Thailand there was a few selection in the US before but now the the tire basically taking all those and hybridized to daylight out of them and black and very very thick distinct black stripes that's what they aiming for and this is a particularly nice one but this one is green on the inside and black on the outside well some of them are black on both sides but it's quite interesting it's a two color on the same yes well this is remarkable I mean you have so many here so how many species do you think you actually have here over three thousand and three thousand species and cultivars are just over three thousand around a thousand species and then the red out of two thousand are hybrids tremendous and these are things that you know you're the public that comes in might not even appreciate or not they don't even get a chance to see this but unless it's in there in the ground or in the landscape correct none of this is this is not open for display for anyone well thank you so much for opening up the space and getting us a chance an opportunity to actually see it because this is remarkable especially to see all of these different plants in the same place oh thank you it was a pleasure to have you here and show you around stick around here because in the last five minutes will visit the bromeliad and tillandsia production facility okay so now we're in the Amelia production well you see fewer varieties but a lot of plants of each but the ones that worked well in your landscape exactly you see here these are growing well and they're looking good while in the collection we try to maintain all all of them which is a bit harder and as she propagating some are putting them up or she propagating here so these have probably gone out of flower and now she pulled them up and get the the divisions of but yes so these are these had been passed forward or they cut no these have been these are they already made division so that they were attached to the mother brown somewhere there just look how woody that is very hard when you have a have a clipper then it's actually hard to get through some of them yes yes a good technique and then you're using some coconut coir and some sand or what are you using for a medium exactly yes coconut coir and sand nothing else because we tried a lot of different things but that's that's what works the best there it keeps the moisture yesterday not too wet of course it only lost four six seven months and then you have to change it out again again because a decomposed very quickly and I know you do a lot of like your your energy your own food here and a lot of situations what do you do with the spent coconut choir Oh be using some of them in in our compost and some actually if it's still not really decomposed we put it in the for the biogas so we produced by aghast at the garden which we run all the they're sort of mini buses that drive around all the six restaurants they cook on it and yes that's we do it by gas and then of course after the process it comes out and it's very good to be mixed into the old soil as a part of the compost so that's quite good love to see all that up cycling yes it's a good baby sort of self-sufficient and everything we use clay pots for some but most of them plastic pots why is that well be found out in the clay pots dry out too quick because they're so porous yes so then we use plastic but of course we the plastic pots so we can reuse the pots all over not bags because they that's just a lot of garbage so yeah and let me just grow them everything on the ground because you saw in the collection we had tables and similar things actually looks good but it takes a lot of space and it's it's harder for everyone to to to water and so on and actually in the end of the day they look better like this because the way to look at the bromeliad is from the top from the top down yeah and you're going to look at it have a nice spread exactly so you look like this this is it it's just a nice way it's quite good you have any Monday on the floor now then of course do we get nematodes no we don't do we have other problem with things coming up from the ground like fungus and stuff we don't because in the dry seasoning it everything dries up and there's quite a thick layer of gravel and rocks here yeah I noticed that like all the stone and or cement in some cases so you're not getting like a lot of weed seeds kind of popping up through through here and and and the underlying ground here is there's no soil is yes and because we're very close to the beach so that that's also helped of suppressing diseases fungus and similar thing in this one it helps but you also have to make a lot of your own soil which you are saying you do here and we do put bigger things like trees some palms on the ground are there's no real soil so we have to make our own compost I'm a big a big nice hole put the thing in and at least once a year we have to top dress the soil mulch around it to to maintain it this is a really cool operation I mean thanks for showing this because it's miraculous to see all the different fields of bromeliads and to see the operation a work in progress and also just working [Music] it's a lot of work stay tuned because we have more tours of the plant collections here at nong nooch tropical gardens in the meantime follow along on my other channels including my instagram at homestead brooklyn and on my blog at homestead brooklyn calm if you enjoyed this episode do me a favor give it a thumbs up and hit the notifications button it'll help more people find videos like this and let you know when another episode launches

Channel: Summer Rayne Oakes

Views: 332,114

Keywords: Summer Rayne Oakes, Homestead Brooklyn, Plant One On Me, plants, houseplants, indoor plants, garden, gardening, house plants, houseplant care, Nong Nooch, Nong Nooch Tropical Garden, Nong Nooch Botanic Garden, botanical garden tour, Botanical garden Thailand, Thailand Nong Nooch, Pattaya Bay Thailand, Thailand travel, Thailand gardens, plants in Thailand, Nong Nooch garden, bromeliad, tillandsia, tillandsia propagation, bromeliad propagation

Id: 7s33RIfa8pA

Length: 47min 20sec (2840 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 26 2019

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[u/markodochartaigh1]

Interesting to see that there are some genera that they cannot grow.