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Eine grüne Pflanze mit langen, spitzen Blättern, die in einem kleinen Topf wächst. Die Blätter sind gestreift und weisen eine auffällige Textur auf, ideal für Innenräume.

Vriesea ospinae T6

Offshoot from the bromeliad subspecies of Vriesea in a 5.5 cm pot, native to the lower regions of the tropical rainforest of South America in the humid shade of the large trees.
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Vriesea ospinae is a decorative bromeliad from the humid rainforests of Colombia.
It is named after the Colombian botanist family Ospina and is one of the most popular species in the genus Vriesea due to its striking leaf pattern. With its elegant growth, it is ideally suited as a houseplant with a tropical flair.

Characteristics:

The plant forms a sprawling rosette of soft, leathery, elongated leaves. These are light green with striking, transverse dark green bands. The eye-catching pattern remains visible even outside of the flowering period. During flowering, it produces an upright, flat inflorescence with mostly yellow bracts and small tubular individual flowers.

Care Instructions:

Light: Bright to semi-shady, no direct midday sun – good light conditions enhance the pattern.
Water: Regularly fill the center of the rosette with low-calcium water; substrate should be slightly moist but well-drained.
Humidity: High (above 60%), regularly mist or keep in humid rooms.
Fertilizer: In spring and summer, 1–2 times a month with our special bromeliad or orchid fertilizer in diluted form directly into the rosette.
Temperature: 18–28 °C, permanently not below 15 °C.

Note: Vriesea ospinae is ideal for stylish indoor greening. It remains permanently attractive and produces offshoots after flowering, which can be easily cultivated further.

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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.

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