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The pineapple discussion is also going on on the rarefruit list, I couldnt resist forwarding this comment.  What an image that would be...



On Saturday, July 26, 2003, at 02:01 PM, tabbydan wrote:
> Now here's a whacked story I got from someone who used to work for
> Dole in HI: She told me that on one occasion they sprayed an already
> fruiting pineapple with ethylene and caused it to flower again.  The
> result was: the base plant had a fruit growing out of it, and the
> crown of that fruit ended up with a smaller fruit growing out of it! 
> Pretty wild!  I imagine with intensive feeding and this technique one
> might produce several pineapple layers (nothing great in terms of the
> fruit production since each successive fruit is smaller, but probably
> pretty amazing and beautiful to look at- something to do in the
> distant future when I retire).