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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 mountain view). Again, thanks for all of
the articles that you have posted. I have read all of them & enjoy
them immensely - just can't imagine a zone 3!!! |
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