How to grow pineapple in pots. Have you ever tried growing pineapple in pots? If you live in a mild climate area, or if you have a rather sheltered spot in your garden or home, you can try growing pineapple. The simplest methods for growing pineapple suggest starting with scraps. This way you can buy a fresh pineapple and start growing without spending anything more. Here are some helpful tips and methods to experiment with growing pineapple at home.
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Have you ever tried to growing pineapple in pots? If you live in a mild climate area, or if you have a rather sheltered spot in your garden or home, you can try growing pineapple.
The simplest methods for growing pineapple suggest starting with scraps. This way you can buy a fresh pineapple and start growing without spending anything more. Here are some helpful tips and methods to experiment with growing pineapple at home.
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first method
The first method is the simplest and consists in choosing a fresh pineapple to buy in a trusted supermarket. Some of you may have the opportunity to purchase fresh fruit at an organic or fair trade store. Any fresh pineapple is fine, however. Separate the leaves from the fruit with a clean cut, keeping a part of their base. Soak it in a bowl of water for a few days, until you see the roots sprout. When they seem long and strong enough, transfer everything to a pot with soil.
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second method
A second method suggest to choose your pineapple carefully. There must be no yellow leaves or insects at the base of the leaves themselves. Also, if the leaves come off easily, it means that the pineapple is overripe. Remove the leaves from the pineapple with a rotary movement and energetic. Their base and part of the pulp will remain attached. You can remove the pulp, but the base of the leaves must remain intact. It is also advisable to let the base dry for a week, placing it near the window with the leaves facing down, and then placing it in water. But there are also those who transfer the still fresh base into the water.
Remove some of the lower leaves so that the base remains uncovered. So choose a glass or a vase tall and narrow, fill it with water and place the base inside it, making sure that the leaves remain on the surface, anchored to the edge of the glass. Wait for a couple of weeks, until root formation. Change thewater every two or three days to avoid the formation of mold and rot. Then you can plant your pineapple in pots with soil.
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third method
The third method for growing pineapple suggests detaching both the leaves and the base from the fruit, including a part of the pulp, in order to form a sort of stem. Inside you can insert wooden toothpicks, which will allow you to place the stem in a glass of water so that it does not fall down. The toothpicks and edges of the glass will support it. Within a week or two you will notice that the leaves will start growing and that roots will begin to form. When the roots appear strong and long enough, transfer your potted pineapple by planting it in fresh potting soil.
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Useful Tips
L'pineapple is a tropical fruit. It is recommended to start its cultivation in spring. The temperature ideal for pineapple growth is not never lower than 18 ° C. If the weather is dry, water your pineapple frequently. In winter, move your pineapple plant to a sheltered location and place it near the window. It needs a lot light throughout the year to grow.
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The pot can stay outdoors even in winter only if you live in a warm climate area. If the weather isn't excessively dry, that's enough water pineapple once a week. It may take more than a year before the plant grows and before you can taste new fruits. In any case, it really costs nothing to try, so why not try pineapple cultivation?
In some cases, it may take years for your pineapple plant to develop flowers and then fruit. Don't give up and keep taking care of it. Your patience and waiting can be rewarded by the appearance of small red cones, followed by blue flowers and therefore from fruits. A pineapple fruit, to mature and develop, it can take up to 6 months. To promote ripening, enrich the soil with homemade compost.
Plant your pineapple clumps in vasi be it at least 10 centimeters deep. you can plant pineapple already at the end of winter, if you want, but keep it in a warm and sheltered place, for example at home near a window. As it grows, transfer it to a larger pot. If you are lucky, you will see it bloom in the summer and fall you will reap the first fruit. Transfer the pineapple plant warm in winter, if you don't want it to die from cold and frost. If you let your pineapple overwinter outdoors, the cold could block its development, with the risk that the plant will never flower and never bear fruit.
The multiplication of the pineapple takes place just as we have described, using the leaves and tufts of leaves with their base. This is because most pineapples does not contain seeds. It is possible to find pineapple seeds in the fruit only occasionally, but it is not certain that planting them will develop a new plant. Much better, therefore, to try to grow the pineapple starting from the upper waste part.
Here are some final tips for pineapple cultivation from the blog Chlorophyll:
- The secrets of Pineapple 1: how to grow it at home? Use the tuft.
- The secrets of the pineapple 2: sow it? Eat it!
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