Look at what I found in my greenhouse.

[Nyboy]

My peeler came in todays mail

 

[seedcorn]

No pix?

 

[catjac1975]

@Nyboy I eat one a week lately, Love them. I have prepping them down to a science. Looks like I should try growing some from the discarded tops! Looks easy enough, thanks @catjac1975

I wonder if anyone else has this problem with fresh pineapples. If I get overcome with how delicious they are and eat too much my tongue feels like it is burned. Any one else feel this?

 

[waretrop]

Yes the acid takes our tongue coat off. If feels picky......

for those who have top starts and can't get them to bud up, put them in a clear plastic bag with a piece of apple and seal it. The gas that apples produce help the pineapple bloom....

I love pineapple.

 

[thistlebloom]

I wonder if anyone else has this problem with fresh pineapples. If I get overcome with how delicious they are and eat too much my tongue feels like it is burned. Any one else feel this?

I've had that too.
I used to eat fresh pineapple all the time, but these days it makes my stomach very painful. And that's weird because I can eat just about anything and everything without problems.

 

[Carol Dee]

@catjac1975 I have two tops ready to plant. Grandsons are coming for the day Monday. I thought we would plant them up. How do you plant them?

 

[catjac1975]

@catjac1975 I have two tops ready to plant. Grandsons are coming for the day Monday. I thought we would plant them up. How do you plant them?

Leave them out for the cut end to dry on a sunny window. I use a pretty big decorative plastic pot-would guess 3-4 gallons. Use a nice fluffy growing mix-toy can put both tops in. I just place them on the soil-don't really bury them. They will just sit forever-I bring them outside in the summer. When you bring them back in in the fall use an organic insecticide so as not to bring in pests. It may take 3 years to bloom-I don't really keep track.I use orchid fertilizer on them when I think of it. Then one day the center will start to grow tall and that singles that the fruit is ready to bloom.

I know that I have told this story before. My first pineapple came from one I had prepared to a my parents when visiting-mid to late nineties. I have kept it alive all of this time, so the plants mean al lot to me. When it ripens I share it with my children and now my grandchildren. Eventually the plant will split into 3 plants and keep growing. I again plant the top after we eat it. I have 2 big pots of plants with quite a few plants in each pot. I just put the new top in with all the others as long as there is some soil surface. It takes a long time to ripen. Once I had a deer eat my ripe fruit just as I was about to pick it. When it is ripe it gets quite yellow and the perfume of pineapple will fill your house. I have had a few get quite large but they are usually smaller than store bought. But soooo juicy.

 

[catjac1975]

Past success.

 

[catjac1975]

Yes the acid takes our tongue coat off. If feels picky......

for those who have top starts and can't get them to bud up, put them in a clear plastic bag with a piece of apple and seal it. The gas that apples produce help the pineapple bloom....

I love pineapple.

I have never done this but I will try it.

 

[Nyboy]

Oh cat a deer ate pineapple just as it ripened I know that hurt I get the tongue tingle eating fresh but not canned.