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- From: "Stephen Sadler" <Docshiva@Docshiva.org>
- To: "'Candyce'" <clgunderson@bellsouth.net>, "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] pineapple question
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 14:58:46 -0700
Your pineapples look fantastic, and I’m
amazed to see someone growing them in zone 8. How did you start them? I have a summer place in zone 3. Nobody
lives there in the winter – the roads aren’t plowed, and don’t reach most
homes, which are only accessible by foot or boat. This gives me some idea of
what a zone 3 summer is like, but winters I can’t imagine. BTW, a zip code USDA zone finder lists
that home as zone 9… ~ Stephen From:
nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Candyce Okay; you guys & gals, I'm a newby
here, but I have a question about pineapples. I'm a North-Florida (zone
8A) resident now, having moved here from Hollywood (FL). As a true
South-Florida-Native, I've missed my guavas, papayas, mangos, citrus,
avocados, and pineapples. So I've had to give them the old-college
try here. You can count on the temp here dropping down to 11 to 15
degrees. I've put the southern "trees" in cut down garbage cans
(with wheels) so I can move them into the garage on these bitter (yes, to me,
it's sweat-pants & sweatshirt sleeping bitter) nights, but I have
managed to grow about 200 pineapples outside. I string
Christmas lights around the plants and have hundreds of feet of frost
cloth that I unroll every cold night and roll it back up
every warm morning. Here's my question. Is there a "male"
and a "female" pineapple? I have one pineapple that seems to
have no top on the pineapple - only small little "pups" growing out
of the base of the pineapple fruit. All the other pineapples are growing
normally (some w/pups growing out of the base of the plant).
I'm attaching a photo, if anyone cares to identify. I've only tried
this gardening-thing for about 3 years, and nobody seems foolish enough
to try to grow pineapples up here, so I'm open to all help. Talk
about foolish, I'm thinking about a move to eastern TN (if I can find that
perfect |
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[NAFEX] pineapple question,
Candyce, 07/06/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] pineapple question, Stephen Sadler, 07/06/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] pineapple question, Lon J. Rombough, 07/06/2007
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Re: [NAFEX] pineapple question,
Donna &/or Kieran, 07/07/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] Hope is on the way!, Donna &/or Kieran, 07/07/2007
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