First and only bromeliad. The flower spike has been gone for awhile (4-6 months). Clearly a baby has emerged from the base. Do I just keep watering as the main plant slowly dies off? Or should I separate, repot? Could I gradually pare away dying leaves and leave the baby to mature in this pot?

I got this bromeliad for free from my local nursery but I have no idea where to even begin :(

I never knew there's so many types of bromeliads!

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About a year and a half ago I put a few tiny offsets of this no ID hybrid in a 10" pot and it wasted no time in forming a small colony. This was the first Dyckia I tried under high intensity LED panels after having success with hybrid Aloes. It has been extremely happy despite going through a period of extreme neglect over the spring and summer when I didn't water it for about 5 months. If you look carefully you can see subtle lines on the younger leaves showing where the plant paused its growth and went dormant. Aside from a few leaves that showed minor tip burn this was the only indication the plant gave that the months long artificial drought affected it at all. Hard to believe that a plant with no water storage structures could be so tolerant of long periods without water.

I got this hybrid back in Oct 23', and it really reinvigorated my love of Dyckia. Hard to believe back then it barely had 8 mature leaves, and now it fills an 8" pot. Because of their desire for full sun they are not the most popular houseplants. Before high intensity LED lights this sort of plant was restricted to those in the tropics or those with a greenhouse. But now I have over two dozen growing on a couple shelves besides hybrid Aloes and succulents looking better than they do outdoors. The base color is a deep burgundy leaf that is so heavily covered in trichomes that it looks silvery-gray, and with those big white teeth it looks absolutely menacing.

I've really fallen in love with these drought tolerant bromeliads over the years, and I'm happy to add 'Wasabi' to the herd. It reminds me of a Tillandsia xerographica, but with pink marginal spines. These grow extremely well under high intensity LED panels with many getting better colors than they do outside. I keep mine evenly moist since they're always getting maximum light, but I did skip watering the one in the back for 5 months last year with no ill effects. One of the toughest plants around as long as they get the light they need.

This is my sister’s bromeliad and it seems to have been under a lot of stress because it is producing pups but did not flower. I am pretty sure that these pups need to grow a little larger (it seems like the rule of thumb is about 1/3 of the mother plant?).

Are these ready to be cut off or should I wait a little longer?

This is my first plant, and I’ve had it for a few months now and I can’t tell what it’s doing, when I got it, it started fading within 2 weeks, and I kept it in good light and watered it when necessary. But I really don’t know what’s happening now, it’s still taking water but is it close to dying? And I haven’t seen any signs of pups yet.

Purchased from a local seller in California but have had no luck IDing it