Re: Pineapples are ripe

I'm also jealous. I can only eat a bite of fresh pineapple and my mouth
starts to itch. Any more or too often & my mouth is raw & bleeding. But it
is one of the most delicious things around.
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From: "james singer" <islandjim1@verizon.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 11:26 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Pineapples are ripe


> We have 12 30-gallon pots with pineapples in them--one plant per pot.
> Four of them fruited this year. When they fruit, the plant dies, but it
> sends out suckers first. We've found, however, that rooting the tops of
> the fruit is better than trying to save and re-pot the suckers, so when
> a plant fruits, we usually clean out the pot, re-mix and fortify the
> soil, and start all over. It takes an average 18 months from pineapple
> top to edible fruit. But soooo good [!] because we don't have to pick
> them green to get them to market.
>
> We've got two more 30-gallon pots in the patch that we're trying to
> fill with yard waste that will compost down and make new growing
> pots--but that's a long process, mostly because I forget about them.
> Originally, we had wanted 24 pots, but I doubt that we'll ever get
> there.
>
> On Jul 30, 2005, at 7:00 PM, Cersgarden@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Jim, you have pineapple on ranch?  How wonderful!
> >     Ceres
> >
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> Island Jim
> Southwest Florida
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> Heat Zone 10
> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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