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Re: Pineapple Plants

Delightful!  What a great way to start the new year.
Wouldn't it be great to have a message like this
about once a week, or even once a month?
Indoor-gardening was never like this.
Vera
-----Original Message-----
From: Depau S. Depau <depau@igalaxy.net>
To: indoor-gardening@prairienet.org <indoor-gardening@prairienet.org>
Date: Saturday, January 02, 1999 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: Pineapple Plants


>Re: Pineapples and Coconuts
>
>When I lived on a small island in the pacific we had problems with Coconut
>crabs and Pineapple crabs.  They were just two of the many pests with which
>we had to contend on a daily basis.  Mowing our lawns was like driving
>through a mine field.  The crabs would climb the trees late a night, cut
the
>coconuts and pineapples loose from their trees, and litter the lawns.  It
>was even worse trying to go on a moonlight stroll.  She or I were always
>falling after tripping over one or the other of them.  A coconut isn't bad,
>but those darn barbs on the pineapple can give you some very nasty
>scratches, and if you happened to step on one of those crabs...well, you
can
>see my point.
>
>One of my neighbors down the street had fifty of the crabs which he trained
>to harvest his crops.  He tried housetraining one of the crabs to retrieve
>cans of beer from the frig, but I don't think he ever really succeeded.  I
>can still see him out trying to walk his crab. He also tried to cross the
>two trees.  He thought the two tastes in the same fruit would be a big
>seller on the mainland, but, and I'm not sure about this, I don't think he
>ever got the trees to cross-pollinate.  But, if it weren't for him, we
would
>be eating a pineapple with a huge seed.  He is the man who figured out how
>to grow pineapples without the big seed in the center of the fruit.  You
>don't see many of the original pineapples anymore.  I think he did it out
of
>exasperation.  From what I understand, his wife bit into a pineapple one
day
>and broke her front tooth.  She raised so much hell he had to do something.
>
>Also, make sure you grow the miniature pineapples.  The larger ones grow on
>trees which can reach 50 feet in the first year, and the fruit which comes
>around during the second year growth can weigh up to 500 pounds.  I think
>those are the ones used by the big hotel chains in Hawaii, but they have to
>feed so many more people.
>
>Happy growing,
>Depau S. Depau
>
>>You know, guys, I don't think I've ever seen a photo of a wild pineapple,
>>and I have no idea what it looks like (except what I see in the grocery).
>>Is that the way they grow in the wild?  And, is the fruit, therefore like
>>a tuber?
>>Julia Redman
>>UMBI-CAB
>>*********************
>>
>>I think they grow like a coconut.
>>
>>
>
>
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