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After 5 long years my pineapple plant is finally starting to flower! (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by MegadethRulz@lemmy.world to c/houseplants@mander.xyz

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[-] Annoyed_Crabby 3 points 6 months ago

Nice! I planted 4 pineapple in my garden and i heard from farmer it'll be a looong wait before it start to flower, since i plant it using the head of the pineapple. It's gonna be some time i get to eat the fruit 😅

[-] MegadethRulz@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

From what I’ve read, it’s like 2 years to grow and then it’s another 6 or more months to actually grow a full fruit. Thing is, it’ll lay dormant when it gets cooler conditions and takes a while of proper warm conditions to finally flower. Or something along those lines.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 3 points 6 months ago

Ya that's what i've heard too, but 2 years is the minimum according to the farmer, and we lived in tropical country. Sometime natural phenomenon like el nino or la nina can knock the grow time off. Idk i'll just plant it and forget

[-] MegadethRulz@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

You can try to force it to flower with an apple too. The apple releases some compound when it decays that stimulates flowering apparently. Sorry I’m too lazy to look up the specifics.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 2 points 6 months ago

Naw it's okay, i just plant it last month so it would be at least 2 years before it's necessary

[-] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

Probably ethene

[-] MegadethRulz@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Relevant article about pineapple growing.

The paragraph about flowering indeed mentions the ethylene gas.

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