We successfully grew our first Lower Alabama pineapple , as of yesterday :
Now that ’s satisfying !
How we Grew Our Pineapple
It ’s simple . Three old age ago , I plant a grocery store pineapple plant top in a pot and it settle down up nicely and started growing . Sometime last year , the plant bloomed . The resultant pineapple took all winter and into the spring to mature up , due to the cold-blooded weather condition .
Yet it smell and looks astonishing , despite being a petty small . The scent is perceptible multiple feet from the pineapple itself .
This is not really the right mood for pineapple . AsUF put forward :
Pineapple plants are best adapted to the warmest country of Florida , along the southeast and southwest coasts . However , pineapple plant life are farm in protect locations and landscapes throughout Florida . The time from constitute to harvest depends upon the cultivar , ethnic practices , and temperature ; it ranges from 18 to 24 month .
ananas plants do not support freezing temperature below 28 ° F ( -2.0 ° C ) , and temperatures below 60 ° F ( 15.5 ° C ) and above 90 ° F ( 32 ° C ) may slow plant growing . Optimum temperature for pineapple maturation mountain chain between 68 ° F and 86 ° F ( 20 - 30 ° snow ) . Chilling injury because of abject , near freeze temperatures or light frosts may leave in the upper folio open developing a scarlet / white flecked , scorched visual aspect and pulp magazine rotting of the fruit . Some security may be incur by covering out-of-door ananas flora with an insulating fabric such as blankets or mulch . Plants turn in containers may be taken indoors .
My Grandfather grew pineapples in his Ft . Lauderdale yard when we were mature up , tuck them into the landscape gardening .
We have to grow pineapples in pots instead .
Pineapples in the Food Forest
I pen more on pineapple plant inCreate Your Own Florida Food Forest :
You may do good okay growing unsheltered pineapples in North Florida for a few geezerhood , then BAM ! , you get a 20 - something degree dark and your pineapple plant are all in . However , if you plant pineapple plant around the bag of large trees they ’ll often do just fine through wintertime and will finally give you fruit . I think the canopy of a solid food wood organisation will help immensely in keep on them alert . Though pineapples like full sunlight , they still fruit in some shadowiness .
ananas have shallow etymon system that take a couple years to bring about from a top or a gaucherie , yet you may get going them any meter you require , put them aside , start more , put them aside , and eventually , you ’ll have tons of pineapple plant . Just do it in between consider care of your faster - produce works and you ’ll get there .
In South Florida , pineapples can be tucked into any empty space as you have planting fabric . The thorny type are particularly good for boundary telephone line and places where you do n’t want traffic . Pineapples like mulch and compost . If the leaves start to get very yellowed or reddish , it often means they ’re starve . A lightsome fertilizer solution or some compost is ordinarily good enough to make them happy again .
As your plant grow , they often make side shoots which you’re able to come apart and plant life . Some pineapple varieties make a bunch of small shoots on the base of the fruit which act as planting textile .
When planting pineapple tops , peel off the remaining fruit and the bottom few leaf of the top until you see some little root nubs beneath , then plant the top in the soil . This helps the works get established quicker . I do not recommend rooting tops in piss as they ’ll often rot . Plus , it ’s comfortable to just stick them in the ground to root .
Pineapples are very gentle to tally here and there throughout a solid food timber , climate permitting . Down in Grenada , they are often planted in rows at the edge of properties .
Growing Pineapples in Colder Climates
Here in Lower Alabama outside of Brewton , we probably ca n’t grow pineapple plant in the earth , even beneath trees . Perhaps powerful near the coast you could , as the ocean greatly chasten all-night depression , yet here the weather sometimes plunges down into the adolescent and sometimes ride out below freeze for more than twenty - four hours at a time . Pineapples are unlikely to survive those precondition , so we spring up them in pots instead .
pineapple are well - suited to grow in pots . When it freezes , convey them inside . In 2 - 3 age , you ’ll get fruit .
There ’s a human race named David who exploit at one of the grocery computer storage in townspeople and he keeps a collection of pineapples alive at his firm via bring the pots in and out . It was him who encourage me to do the same three years ago , when I tell apart him I was going to plant some ananas tops .
It ’s not too grueling , and the predilection of genuinely ripe ananas is awful .
Now that we ’ve harvested one , I desire to institute more pineapples in the reason inside the glasshouse so we can enjoy an abundance of fresh pineapple plant yield . They are undemanding plants , and well - worth growing , despite our inauspicious clime misalignment .
