Growing pineapple in Florida
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Comments (5)Probably the best results I have had with growing pineapple tops is by twisting the top off of the fruit and letting the bottom where the fruit was removed dry and callus, usually this takes from 3 to 4 days. After the bottom has dried and callused you should remove some of the base leaves to reveal several small brownish and sometimes white bumps, these are the roots, many times you will even have larger roots that have already formed. This is where I believe many people make there mistake, when you plant the top in soil, make sure that the soil is slightly moist not very moist and not wet, then take the top and just place the base on to the soil, not in it, I made the mistake when I first started experimenting with pineapple top by covering the whole base with soil, usually my result would come out to a top that had all its leaves dying and eventually a non growing piece of compost. Your probably saying, how can the top hold itself up, well it cant, so what I would suggest would be to start your tops in styrofoam cups that are filled part way with the soil and then prop up the tops in the cup. Now what you want to do for the next month or so is, nothing. Leave the top alone, except to occasionally check if the soil is totally dried out, if it is then water it sparingly, but don't at this stage water it in its crown, that makes them rot very quickly, especially when there in doors. After about a month, if the leaves have not totally died and turned brown, then you know that the top has possibly taken root, don't get worried if the tips of most of the leaves turn brown. Wait another month before you repot the top, these plants take a very long time to grow so be prepared to wait until there established into a nice looking plant. Good Luck! Algreen...See MorePineapple Growing Question - Strange Occurance
Comments (13)The pineapple tops I planted were "Tropical Gold" variety, grown in Hawaii. I know that Del Monte completely stopped production in Hawaii but Dole still has some there. Most of the time if I buy a pineapple that is Dole it will say Product of Costa Rica but if I'm lucky I'll get a Dole grown in Hawaii. Why lucky, what's better about Hawaiian than Costa Rican? Not sure but it just seems more of a rarity now to get a Hawaiian grown pineapple than a Costa Rican. Also the Hawaiian ones I recently got were very sweet and looked to be ripened on the plant and not cut off green. Dole says green is ripe but I beg to differ. The Hawaiian ones I got were gold and gold off the plant but the Costa Rican ones I see are always green with no sweet scent. Question to you, the Hawaiian one the tag has Tropical Gold. From the Dole website Topical Gold are grown in Latin America, I suppose Costa Rica to be specific. So would you say that the ones in Hawaii are the exact breed as in Latin America since both are called Tropical Gold? Or do you think there is some variation in the Tropical Gold variety between Hawaii and Costa Rica? What is the difference between Tropical Gold and the Smooth Cayenne varieties? The Dole page doesn't go into that but just say that Dole started with Smooth Cayenne and then developed the Tropical Gold 100 years later. Thanks...See MoreCan you grow (or has anyone tried to grow) campanulas in Florida
Comments (2)I've tried. I'm in zone 10 so I would only expect one year but I haven't found the right light. Too much sun and they die, too little and they don't bloom. I'm still experimenting. Nancy...See MorePineapple suckers growing from the fruit
Comments (6)There are some pineapple threads on the bromeliad forum. I get fruit on my pineapple plants, but I have to protect them from pests, such as squirrels (I think) when they are starting to ripen. You can cut the top off now and try to root it. I would probably grow it as a cluster, and that might look prettier. Here's a pineapple in my back yardand here is one just starting to make a flowerIt is intersting to watch the flower develop. It becomes red in one of the early stages....See Moresumala
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