When the plant is about 12 months old, it should sprout an unmistakeable bright red cone.

If the cone hasn’t appeared by 14 months, it’s time to “coax” it out by putting the entire plant, with its pot, in a plastic bag. Place a ripe apple in the bag and tie it closed, move to a shady spot and leave for three days. Remove the bag and return the plant to its usual sunny location. The bright red cone should appear within eight or nine weeks.

The next stage will bring row upon row of bright blue flowers, which open over two weeks. When the petals of the last flower have dried, the fruit begins to develop. When your fruit is six months old, it will ripen, becoming sweeter and turning from green to a rich gold on the inside and outside.

Place the top out of doors where it can get lots of sun all day sun if need be, this is to dry out the top and put the growth pattern of the top into the condition need to try and obtain fruit within say 2 years, they can take very much longer than that in some circumstances.
The minimum time for drying out is around 4 weeks I have let them go up to around 8 weeks with no worries, so long as the bud leaves inside the crown are green it matters not if all the outside leaves range from dead to yellow(the lowest point ones to on the way to dead closer to the top).


3.. When time to plant peel the lowest and the smallest leaves off app' the 3 layers from the bottom, if you peel too many lower leaves off the growing top might become damaged. Once you peel those leaves off you will see little root nodules.
This is the time to plant the top, it can be pot planted but i would suggest a 3 gallon pot/tub. If planting into the garden it must be a high well drained position they don't like wet feet, on the farms predominately stoney dry soils with not a high nutrient level, and full all day sun.



4.. Water in as normal and initially until good growth appears water maybe once a week, then not much more than average rainfall untill the fruit appears and a little more water then, for me I generally get fruit at 2 years, it may not always be full sized fruit but as many may not be aware the farmers fruits aren't all those large marketable ones either, the farmer rejects many some to the mulch heap others to the juice factory.
It will not matter much the fruit will all be the sweetest juiciest fruit you have ever eaten, you may never want to buy another pineapple from the store again.

Не к теме, но смешно.

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