Final update on my pineapple plant journey. Time to eat this little guy and replant the top to do it all over again hopefully!
Final update on my pineapple plant journey. Time to eat this little guy and replant the top to do it all over again hopefully!
I hope I can keep the cycle going with this pineapple lineage for many generations to come.
Ooooooooh!
Who lives in a ᵀᶦⁿʸ pineapple under the sea?
Maybe the pineapple is normal sized, but the leaves are positively gargantuan.
Dude, that's some amazing job, specially given the conditions.
Don't feel discouraged by the size - the next generation will be probably larger, since you got a really large crown. I think that they try to reduce crown size for commercially grown ones, dunno, but the second gen is typically better.
Fertilisation also plays a huge role on fruit size - as the plant is young you want to give it lots of nitrogen, but as it starts blooming shift the focus to potassium and phosphor. (I do this all the time with peppers.)
Thanks for sharing the journey.
How was the taste?
You’re welcome! For anyone else interested in the story about this pineapple adventure, check my previous posts.
I haven’t cut into it just yet because of a complicated situation with my diabetes but I figured all that out and I will probably have it for breakfast in the morning and then I will update this comment.
Edit: I couldn’t wait, it tasted delicious af!
Is that how it works? The fruit can regenerate from the head? Bcos I just cut up a pineapple for munchies.
Yes! I originally cut the top off of a store bought pineapple and planted it and then after many years it grew a new pineapple fruit. The new pineapple is much smaller but the head on this baby is pretty large and healthy.