The plant is monocarp and seems to be self-pollinating.
History: in 1998 Lydia Köhres from Erzhausen, Germany told me about a plant she found in Jalisco near Chamela near the Club Polynesia that looks like T. makoyana but has red flowers with open throat. And I got a herbar from her. Even dried I saw the big difference of the details of flowers to T. makoyana.
In December 2002 I was on a trip though Mexico with Lydia and Gerhard Köhres and I was very keen to go the the place in Jalisco where Lydia found the red-flowered Tillandsia. But we did not need to go to the Club Polynesia. We took a little road along the river San Nicolas and found the plant very soon. A very nice and big plant where I could already see it was coming into spike went with me to Stuttgart and I could study all the details of the inflorescence when it was flowering. The plant on the photo has a more spreading rosette as the plants I recollected at the same location when I came back in February 2002. I collected some plants that flowered in my collection in autumn 2004. We found on the trip in 2002 the new species also near the main road near Tomatlan. So it seems it is widely spread in this area. Interestingly there is also T. aff. makoyana growing nearby. —SeeJ. Bromeliad Soc.
