I have a couple different varieties of pineapple. One took three years and produced a small fruit - but it was the sweetest pineapple I have ever tasted. It made a pup and I also planted its top, which took. I'm willing to wait another three years for a couple pineapples that sweet. I'd wait a decade, considering it is a very small plant and I can tuck it any number of places and just wait. The other makes a really large plant and has beastly serrated spines that make it impossible to weed near it. But the two I have of that variety produced stunning hot magenta fruits this year - they were basically worth the two-year wait for their ornamental value. I may have picked the first one too early - it was not edible. Or, the person who gave me the pups told me last night, it may have been an inedible one. Apparently some of the hybrids will produce edible and inedible varieties. In the hopes that it is edible, I'm waiting to pick the second fruit. Wish I had taken a picture when they were both on the plant and upright - they were really stunning. My friend also told me that she had been told that a pup from an inedible fruiting plant may produce edible fruit the next time. Anyone know more about pineapples than me? Wouldn't be hard since what I know is from two types of plants and a conversation at a cocktail party last night with a weekend gardener like me. :)

Dear Garf, Again you are welcome to join me at Fairchild tomorrow if you want and if you want to go Sunday I can go Sunday too. Again you cna go in oon my membership and your wife is welcome too as I can admit four people. HOWEVER: I tried to email you my phone number and I do not see anyway of doing that on your page. Either you do not have an email link or I am doing something wrong. Can you or someone else help? I can email you my phone number as soon as I can figure it out. I will check back here in the morning and we cannot figure it out I can leave you a ticket at the door. Let me know.

Sorry, can't add "and a dick" in there, don't have one (BIG BIG HA HA) (whew am I grateful for that!) However I can see it does apply to you. Very self descriptive there, it must be a gift you have. Hey, where've you been? Our landscape up here in the Arctic isn't brown at all! Far from it! Everythings still rocking and rolling up here. Nice and green, stuff blooming all over the place. We haven't been smitten so am still looking at a nice green, not brown, landscape, yessiree. And you misread me, I am not "smug". Truth is, I really don't care about the difference between the temperatures in No and So FL, or if we freeze and you don't, or if I get to grow in a greenhouse and not in the yard. I really don't care if you can grow a Sealing Wax palm outside. I have 2 in the greenhouse and they are very happy. And I am not overly fond of Medillina. I would like to have an Amherstia nobilis, but just don't have space...sigh...so many plants, so little time. The most fun part about this thread for me has been seeing the hair trigger defensive attitude you all have down there. The entertainment value here is, well, seemingly unlimited. You're like the little lap dog, blow on its ear and it snaps. Then you get to laff and jump back and do it again. And see, those "ha ha's" are contagious, aren't they? Just can't stop yourself can ya? (Who's really trying to act smug, here, you gotta ask that about now. Imitation is, well, you know...) Yeah, eggo, I lived in So Cal for an extended period of time. I actually liked it. Weather is generally great there on the West Coast. Lottsa great tattoo shops too. Ohhh and the RESTAURANTS! Ethnic food heaven! Everything you need for fun and games. I happily welcome you to the rogues gallery. We have all the real fun in here, without all the angst. Besides, you SO FL guys are moving up here to my neck of the woods in DROVES! All the homes going up around this area....anything from $300,000-900,000.....the largest percentage are being snatched up by people from South FL who "just can't take it any more" down yonder....too much crime, too much traffic, too crowded....willing to mortgage themselves into oblivion to GET AWAY from SO FL...THANKS! You all are fueling our local economy something fierce and ensuring we have lots of moola to spend on our landscaping! Keep it coming, I have 5 acres to do up!

Even if you should loose the growth above the soil line, as long as the roots do not freeze over, there is always the possibility the tree will survive.. If I were you and I were concerned about the fruit, buds, and leaves, I would seriously invest time into finding ways to cover them and keep them warm if that kind of cold weather persists..It is a gamble for many since most fare badly with such cold temps.. Experience with these trees in the Tropics tells me that that is the only place they are safe unless you have them in a pot..They are "tropical plants" that are not meant to be grow in-ground in Florida, not native to that area... I wish you all the best and here is another thread that will give you many great ideas..I would find a way to cover them for sure and take no chances by keeping them warm... I have lost a many blooms when temps dipped inreasonable lows in PR, and that being in the mid forties.. Good luck and please tell us what you decide to do..Just my two cents..One plant that can not take even below the the 50's, excuse my spelling is the Carnepwrs. Extremely intoleraant of cold weather..I would check the minimum they can take.. Mango temperature is a very important. Cold weather is a major health factor. They die or suffer great damage at 32 degrees.They go temporarily dormant at about 40. You might want to read this very imformative site about Mangos too.. www.tropicalrainforest.com/mango_trees.htm Mike Here is a link that might be useful: Cold weather in Florida and Mangos