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Other Little published: much of this is inferred from related species

Guzmania kareniae

Guzmania kareniae was described by Harry Luther and Karen Norton in 2007 in the Journal of the Bromeliad Society and is known from a handful of Ecuadorian collections on both sides of the Andes, from the Carchi-Esmeraldas cloud forest in the northwest to the Loja and Zamora-Chinchipe highlands in the south, at about 1100 to 2500 m. It is a cool-intermediate cloud-forest epiphyte and is practically unknown in cultivation.

At home, aim for
Day IntermediateTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry
Light Dappled lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
Expects a seasonal restGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

Epiphyte of montane cloud forest on mossy trunks and branches in filtered light. Habitat is inferred from the genus and the collection sites; the protologue's field notes were not available.

Few records carry elevations; the georeferenced sites lie at about 1100 m in the northwest and 2000 to 2500 m in the south, so it probably spans 1000 to 2500 m.

EcuadorCarchiZamora-ChinchipeLoja

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The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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