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   Morgan Picillo 🖤 🌿

   4 months ago

   I did a few years ago it was fun to watch, but it ended up getting mealy bugs really bad so I tossed it but I started another a few weeks ago, but it's looking a little rough 😅

   

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   Just.Jo

   4 months ago

   I just started one today

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   LadyTenorJD

   4 months ago

   I did a few years ago, and before I could harvest the first and only pineapple from that plant, the rabbits got to it. I never got any more pineapples from that plant because it died in a hurricane that season (I live in Central Florida). But I'm growing several more now, and they're doing well. I don't have any pineapples yet because these are new plants, except for one. All six of my plants are organic pineapples I bought from a supermarket. The exception is a pineapple plant that I planted last year. The other five I all planted in the past month. The oldest plant from last year is already growing a pup, and this is even after I forgot to cover it during Frostmageddon here in Central Florida earlier this year. It lost a lot of leaves and had a lot of frost damage, yet it is growing back and is growing a pup right now. I am hopeful to get a pineapple from it, if not this season, maybe next season. It actually regressed a little bit because I forgot to cover it during the unprecedented frostmageddon here in Florida earlier this year. But it actually rebounded and is doing better, so season. I plan on planting more pineapples throughout the coming months, so that way I'm succession planting, and then eventually, I'll be getting pineapples all the time. I think you should try it. I think you will do well with it. I didn't have much success putting them in water to root first. I just twist the crown off the pineapple from the store, pull off the leaves around its base, and then I stick the crown in dirt. I container garden, so I stick them right in the prepared dirt I have in my container. You could stick them straight into a raised bed, in the ground, or in a container and water it. It does not need a lot of water. Pineapples can grow in slightly dry conditions, so you don't need to drench it with water. I did that once, and then I mulched the container since I was afraid of it drying out here in hot like Hades Central Florida. The two pineapple crowns I put in that particular container rotted. It probably didn't help that they were on my lanai, which is partially shaded. So I don't mulch them anymore, and I just water them good every so often. I check the soil when the Planta app tells me to water it. If the soil is dry, I water. If it's damp, I don't. Sometimes when I'm outside watering other plants that need it, I check the pineapples to see if they need water. If they do, I water them. But if the soil is damp, I do not. I've gone out of town for a week at a time. Other plants have wilted and given problems, but the pineapples are always fine. So it's kind of like a hands-off plant, if you ask me. I think you should try it, and I think you will do great with it. My good friend has gotten several pineapples from crowns that she planted that she bought at the grocery store. Much cheaper than buying a pineapple start plant in the big box stores or at a nursery. An organic pineapple can cost me five or six dollars here at Sprouts or Publix, if I find them in Publix. I normally don't find organic pineapples in Publix. A non-organic starter plant is 15 or 16 bucks in Home Depot or Lowe's. For that price, I can get three organic pineapples from Sprouts and plant them in my house, and I just have to wait. The only thing about buying the upstarts from Home Depot or Lowe's is that you will get a fruit quicker. Most of the plants that I've seen in Home Depot and Lowe's that are for sale already have a small pineapple growing on it while it's sitting there in the store. I'm patient. I can wait. Give it a try and see how you do, and post pictures so we can celebrate with you when you are successful.

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   LadyTenorJD

   4 months ago

   Here are some pictures of my pineapple plants. Some are in full direct sun, and others are in partial shade. My oldest plant was once in partial shade, where I have my three little ones I just planted in the big white pot. It got pretty big back there before I moved it to the front, and the frost got it earlier this year. The oldest of my six plants is the one in the single off-white planter container by itself. If you can see, I'm not sure if it's really distinguishable in the photo, that plant is smaller because, like I said, it lost a lot of leaves. It had a lot of frost damage that I cut off and removed from Frostmageddon. But off to the side of the middle, a little bit to the bottom left, there are some greener leaves, and that's the pup that is growing. I'm hoping that is going to give me a pineapple in the next 12 months. It's probably going to be less than 12 months because I hear it takes about 18 months from the time you plant a crown to get an actual pineapple. I planted that crown a year ago. I don't know if the frost is going to set it back any or not. When the frost hit, it had not given me any pups yet, so I'm not sure. This is the first pup that I'm seeing. The two pineapple crowns that are in the yellow container, I planted last month. The three in the white container, I planted yesterday.

   

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