I got this from one particularly sweet and juicy pineapple at the markets. As it seems to have multiple shoots, would I be safe to separate them to create multiple plants or do they need to stick together? I just stuck him in the soil/compost a couple of weeks ago and seems to be doing ok. Thanks
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Not all of mine made suckers. Those that do increase your next crop quite a bit. The fruit needs to have a bent stalk to be ripe and it doesn't always take 6 months to ripen. The flavour is amazing.
Sorry to Rain on your parade, but it takes 18months for a sucker, and 24 months for a pineapple top, so hang in there, at least once it fruits it will produce suckers and they will only take 18 months.
Cane Toad. Looking for a damp spot to hole up for the day. Have a shovel handy when you go to look, if you spot it, give it a really decent whack on the back then sever its spine. Bury it there to make some use of an otherwise useless animal.
Nice, yeah, now that I realise how easy it is, yet how long we will need to wait, wishing I had got more also! Some animal has been moving/derooting my pineapple tops every morning! Possum?
My double topper seems to be growing extremely well too. I've got five going from free tops that were going to be thrown away at the fruit market. I should have grabbed more.
We're all waiting with baited breath ;-) My two-topper is growing well and should produce fruit this summer if it's going to. Will update when I have some fruit.
I had one like this that I bought from markets too. I split up as much as I could and have ended up with 4 decent plants and about 5 more that are still alive but not yet thriving. I reckon you could separate yours easy.
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Haha Elaine - good thinking, there are heaps of cane toads at the moment.
James, happy to wait!
Not all of mine made suckers. Those that do increase your next crop quite a bit. The fruit needs to have a bent stalk to be ripe and it doesn't always take 6 months to ripen. The flavour is amazing.
Sorry to Rain on your parade, but it takes 18months for a sucker, and 24 months for a pineapple top, so hang in there, at least once it fruits it will produce suckers and they will only take 18 months.
Cane Toad. Looking for a damp spot to hole up for the day. Have a shovel handy when you go to look, if you spot it, give it a really decent whack on the back then sever its spine. Bury it there to make some use of an otherwise useless animal.
Nice, yeah, now that I realise how easy it is, yet how long we will need to wait, wishing I had got more also!
Some animal has been moving/derooting my pineapple tops every morning! Possum?
My double topper seems to be growing extremely well too.
I've got five going from free tops that were going to be thrown away at the fruit market. I should have grabbed more.
We're all waiting with baited breath ;-) My two-topper is growing well and should produce fruit this summer if it's going to. Will update when I have some fruit.
I had one like this that I bought from markets too. I split up as much as I could and have ended up with 4 decent plants and about 5 more that are still alive but not yet thriving. I reckon you could separate yours easy.
Would be interesting to see if all three tops managed to produce a fruit. Two year experiment.
Separating them might ensure three fruit.