begsaresponse Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Discovered this in my garden this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momo8 Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 You don't recognize a pineapple when you see it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetchariot Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Careful mate, I know where you live. I might be out scrumping tonight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
begsaresponse Posted February 23, 2008 Author Share Posted February 23, 2008 You don't recognize a pineapple when you see it? Thought it was! Don't know if it is edible or not? Or one of those decorative ones! sweetchariot I'm one the case! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossy Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 You don't recognize a pineapple when you see it? Thought it was! Don't know if it is edible or not? Or one of those decorative ones! sweetchariot I'm one the case! It's the highly poisonous "Sideways" pineapple, luckily easily converted into the deliciously sweet variety by liberal application of sugar, salt, chilli and Photoshop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
begsaresponse Posted February 23, 2008 Author Share Posted February 23, 2008 Now the next question is when will I know to pick it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momo8 Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Get the macheti out when it starts getting yellowish.Mate you live in Thailand and you've never seen a pinapple,really? You can also grow more pinapples if you cut the top off a mature one and stick it in the ground with the leaves exposed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crossy Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Get the macheti out when it starts getting yellowish.Mate you live in Thailand and you've never seen a pinapple,really? You can also grow more pinapples if you cut the top off a mature one and stick it in the ground with the leaves exposed. Detailed instructions here http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/instruct/chlee/p...n/pineapple.htm gotta love these things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSnake Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Got me!! look likes a GMO pineapple to me. Over to Y'All. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
begsaresponse Posted February 23, 2008 Author Share Posted February 23, 2008 Get the macheti out when it starts getting yellowish.Mate you live in Thailand and you've never seen a pinapple,really? You can also grow more pinapples if you cut the top off a mature one and stick it in the ground with the leaves exposed. Detailed instructions here http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/instruct/chlee/p...n/pineapple.htm gotta love these things Crossy thanks for the link. Have seen many pineapples but the surprise of seeing one in my garden took me back a bit. Thanks everyone for your help. begs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momo8 Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Well you may find tomatoes as well if you're near an open sewer as tomato seeds can't be digested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chownah Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 I've got pineapples. You can propogate them from the top of the fruit as already mentioned but that takes a long time before you will get fruit. A better way is to get a sucker off of the plant. After you pick the fruit look at the plant carefully and if it is a vigorous plant (good enough soil, enough sunshine, and enough water) you will see suckers (small plants) growing out of the central stalk. These are easy to seperate from the main stalk when they are ready and if you are lazy like me and let them go for awhile they sometimes will fall off of the main stalk by themselves. Anyway you take a sucker and remove the dried out short leaves at the base and then plant it so that the base (which will probably look brownish and with small roots already forming and looking obviously like it wants to be underground) and the bottom inch or so of the lowest most leaves are covered....DO NOT put dirt in the center. If you google around you can find instructions and picutures to reassure you....that's what I did. I planted mine in a double row, staggered, so that there is 60 cm between every plant. I planted mine in a raised bed since they abolutely do not like their roots underwater and will get a root disease if they don't have good drainage. The nice thing about pineapples is that they can take a drought really well....they can even efficiently utilize dew which collects on their leaves. Looks like the one in the picture was not getting alot of sun (the leaves don't seem to be very big like some I've seen in the shade) so it might not make any suckers....don't know. Chownah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
begsaresponse Posted February 23, 2008 Author Share Posted February 23, 2008 I've got pineapples. You can propogate them from the top of the fruit as already mentioned but that takes a long time before you will get fruit. A better way is to get a sucker off of the plant.After you pick the fruit look at the plant carefully and if it is a vigorous plant (good enough soil, enough sunshine, and enough water) you will see suckers (small plants) growing out of the central stalk. These are easy to seperate from the main stalk when they are ready and if you are lazy like me and let them go for awhile they sometimes will fall off of the main stalk by themselves. Anyway you take a sucker and remove the dried out short leaves at the base and then plant it so that the base (which will probably look brownish and with small roots already forming and looking obviously like it wants to be underground) and the bottom inch or so of the lowest most leaves are covered....DO NOT put dirt in the center. If you google around you can find instructions and picutures to reassure you....that's what I did. I planted mine in a double row, staggered, so that there is 60 cm between every plant. I planted mine in a raised bed since they abolutely do not like their roots underwater and will get a root disease if they don't have good drainage. The nice thing about pineapples is that they can take a drought really well....they can even efficiently utilize dew which collects on their leaves. Looks like the one in the picture was not getting alot of sun (the leaves don't seem to be very big like some I've seen in the shade) so it might not make any suckers....don't know. Chownah Thanks very much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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