Laura PerryIt's silly, I guess, but I still get excited every time one of our pineapple plants starts to make a fruit. Nature is amazing and beautiful!
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I don't think it is silly at all. If I had a tree producing fruit I'd have a baby monitor to watch it 24/7.
I don't think it is silly at all. If I had a tree producing fruit I'd have a baby monitor to watch it 24/7.
Artsea@TheTempleMom That's really pretty! I never knew pineapples flowered like that!
@ArtseaGardener They're really amazing! It's also an incredibly slow-motion process. It takes six months from the first appearance of the bloom to the ripe fruit.
@TheTempleMom That's fascinating. It makes me appreciate the fruit even more. Do they only make one pineapple per year? I read they make "offsets", but the article doesn't say if that means baby plants, like an aloe, or baby fruits.
@ArtseaGardener Each plant fruits once every other year. It's a slow process. Yes, they make offsets, sometimes called "pups," which are baby plants, like aloe plants make.