Name: Anne Summerville, SC (Zone 8a) Only dead fish go with the flow!
I like the prickly border idea but I doubt they would survive and zone 8 winter.
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Name: Kate Holmes Beach, FL (Zone 10a) Not all those who wander are lost.
My 6 year old son and I planted a pineapple top in some dirt for a fun experiment, and BEHOLD...it took root! My grandmother was an old-school Floridian gardener with the greenest thumb I've ever seen. She did the overripe apple in a grocery bag trick and made all her bromeliads bloom. The apple trick works. We started the plant in Northern VA...upstairs in a toasty bedroom during the depressing winter doldrums up there...then we moved to south FL and by goodness that pineapple was NOT staying behind if my son had anything to do with it! We got a pineapple after a little over a year of growth, and it ripened in an additional 4 months. It was very small but sweet.
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Name: Anne Summerville, SC (Zone 8a) Only dead fish go with the flow!
I'll have to try that next time.
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Name: Anne Summerville, SC (Zone 8a) Only dead fish go with the flow!
Awesome!!!!
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Name: Anne Summerville, SC (Zone 8a) Only dead fish go with the flow!
I misted mine daily.
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Thanks guys! It's in a warm humid greenhouse and I'll make sure it has plenty of water. 60's in there at night and 80's during the day. I suppose that I'll have to pollinate it myself though? How precise do I have to be when that time comes? Do you think just lightly dusting each flower with an artist's brush will do it?
Name: Anne Summerville, SC (Zone 8a) Only dead fish go with the flow!
Holly, I don't think that will be necessary to hand pollinate the flowers .. considering the shape of the flower and how closed it is in full bloom, all you'd need to do is pat the fruit from time to time to knock off pollen inside. Just be uber careful of the leaves when reaching in to pat the fruit .. they are serrated and can do some nasty damage.
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Name: Elaine Sarasota, Fl The one constant in life is change
Yup, pretty vicious aren't they? I nipped the sharp pointy ends off the leaves on mine since it was sticking out into the walkway and poked me every time I walked by. Just 1/4 in. or so makes the difference in whether you give blood every time you visit the plant or not. Not much you can do about the serrated edges except wear tough gloves, though.
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Name: Kelli Canoga Park, CA, Sunset 19 (Zone 10a) Where summer is winter
I leave mine outside (on the porch) and the temperature gets down into the 40s at night. We even had a couple nights in the 30s. It looks fine but it doesn't have a fruit.
We get hard freezes here so this one has to be in the gh all the time. I didn't pollinate it but here's what it looks like today so I guess it's doing it's own thing.
I'll have to ask at the grocery store if they'd save some tops for me.
