Guzmania Fairy T6
Guzmania 'Fairy' is a charming cultivar of tropical Guzmanias, known for their elegant rosettes and vibrant bracts. The variety "Fairy" captivates with delicate pastel flower colors – mostly in shades of pink, salmon, or cream – giving it a particularly soft and decorative appearance.
Guzmanias originally come from Central and South America and grow epiphytically in humid warm rainforests.
Characteristics:
The plant forms a funnel-shaped rosette of glossy, smooth-edged leaves in fresh green. From the center, an upright flower spike grows with intensely colored bracts – in 'Fairy' they are usually pale pink to salmon-colored. The actual flowers are small, tubular, and pale yellow or whitish. As a houseplant, it impresses with its long flowering duration and exotic appearance.
Care instructions:
Light: Bright to partially shaded, without direct sunlight – plenty of light promotes flowering.
Water: Regularly fill the rosette with low-calcium water; keep the substrate slightly moist, but not wet.
Humidity: Medium to high (from 50 %), occasional spraying supports health.
Fertilizer: In spring and summer, fertilize 1–2 times a month with our special bromeliad or orchid fertilizer in diluted form directly into the rosette.
Temperature: 18–28 °C, do not keep below 15 °C permanently.
Note: Guzmania 'Fairy' is ideal for bright living spaces or as a gentle color accent in tropical plant groupings. After flowering, it produces offshoots that can be cultivated separately.
Our greenhouses are equipped with modern energy screens and double glazing to efficiently save on heating costs. Additionally, we collect rainwater over the entire roof area of 9,000 square meters and use only this water to irrigate all our crops. We collect the rainwater in underground tanks with a total volume of 600,000 liters.
Since 2007, we have been heating our entire operation with a fully automated 850 kW wood chip heating system and a 100,000-liter buffer storage tank. Environmentally friendly and CO2-neutral. Only to support during very cold winter days and nights is a conventional oil heating system available.
Since 2014, the heating has been supported by a solar thermal system with an annual yield of about 20 megawatt-hours.
In 2020, we installed a photovoltaic system with 30 kW peak and have been producing more green electricity per year than our entire operation requires.
Since 2021, we use exclusively pots for our self-produced plants that are not only 100% recyclable but are also entirely made from recycled pots. To this end, we collect all used pots that arise in our operation and have them picked up in big bags by our pot supplier Göttinger. There, the pots are cleaned and processed in a water-free recycling facility into new pots that come back to us.