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title: "Is my bromeliad 🤒? The color has gone out"
description: "Is my bromeliad 🤒? The color has gone out"
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author: "Show me the Greens!"
published: "2023-07-10T22:30:14.15Z"
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# Is my bromeliad 🤒? The color has gone out

_Posted by Show me the Greens! on 2023-07-10_

Is my bromeliad 🤒?  
The color has gone out

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/IRQx0M2Gzl97_PsATuntVFTt1ZCqi4SvZNpXxoYJJYw/afff44dee98746acb346f88b009098b9.webp?size=large)

## 6 comments

### Danika commented on 2023-07-10

Bromeliads have a life cycle that once the bloom is done, means the mother plant will begin to go too. (This understanding is for most but probably not all bromeliad species so could be wrong depending). They will however, grow pups (babies) off to the sides in which starts the whole cycle again.  
For now, just cut the dead bloom away and enjoy the rest of the plant until it makes babies.

There are tons of you-tube videos about this cycle for a better more in depth understanding fyi. 🤓

#### Show me the Greens! replied on 2023-07-10

Wow! Thank you Danika. I had no idea.

### Cplants commented on 2023-07-11

I think I can already see babies down the bottom :)

#### Show me the Greens! replied on 2023-07-11

🥹 you can?!? 🤗

#### Cplants replied on 2023-07-11

Yeah I think that is one

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/AeMzDPwW8ARZ0Q6K4d8HQxIl4gRpypBf7rHIzzMnCwQ/a5950b1a5a384a548905c7c1f114a1c8.webp?size=large)

### Cplants commented on 2023-07-11

This is what my bromeliad babies look like a few weeks in if that helps but they started like that one I circled

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/AeMzDPwW8ARZ0Q6K4d8HQxIl4gRpypBf7rHIzzMnCwQ/560a0fde74ba47dfa23aed1676cef0e3.webp?size=large)

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