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Post by Tarpon65 on Jul 15, 2023 11:54:02 GMT -5
You can grow pineapple in Florida? Yes, been doing it for decades at my home in Sarasota. Just plant the top from store bought fruit and wait two full years. As mentioned above, some of the best tasting I've had comes from my yard, but I do leave mine in the ground until what you see in the photos, so I do lose the occasional ripe fruit to animals that beat me to it. I probably have in excess of two dozen plants in various areas of my "flower bed".
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Post by BallaCoiPersici on Jul 15, 2023 11:56:49 GMT -5
You can grow pineapple in Florida? You have stolen my question 😤🤣
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Post by BallaCoiPersici on Jul 15, 2023 12:00:31 GMT -5
You can grow pineapple in Florida? Yes, been doing it for decades at my home in Sarasota.  Just plant the top from store bought fruit and wait two full years.  As mentioned above, some of the best tasting I've had comes from my yard, but I do leave mine in the ground until what you see in the photos, so I do lose the occasional ripe fruit to animals that beat me to it.  I probably have in excess of two dozen plants in various areas of my "flower bed".  That’s really cool. The most important thing: never on the top of pizza!!!
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Post by mindyabiness on Jul 15, 2023 12:04:19 GMT -5
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Post by One Man Gang on Jul 15, 2023 12:11:27 GMT -5
Here are a few of today's crop, although two of the three were a bit stunted. Cleaned up for a nice sized gallon bag, and the smaller bag is the core of the pineapple which I like to gnaw on. ![](https://i.ibb.co/R3DcwpY/PXL-20230715-143026052.jpg) ![](https://i.ibb.co/Wsn1tLm/PXL-20230715-144003441.jpg) We currently have 4 going strong. Three are getting close to picking. They're only surpassed in flavor by the freshly cut pineapples we used to get in Hawaii. We ate those things like giant corn on the cobb when I was killing swordfish and tunas over there.
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Post by hig on Jul 15, 2023 13:06:48 GMT -5
I bet you don't eat those like corn on the cob.
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Post by conchydong on Jul 15, 2023 15:08:47 GMT -5
Long before Hawaii was a state, the Florida Keys were the biggest pineapple producer in the United States. I just like to throw out tidbits now and then. Google Benjamin Baker and pineapples and you can read about it. BTW he was a relative of mine.
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Post by mindyabiness on Jul 15, 2023 16:04:09 GMT -5
I bet you don't eat those like corn on the cob. I wouldn't..... Those are Jalapeno-Fuego. Not sure what that means...but my guess is "flaming asshole"
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Post by chronicbreak on Jul 15, 2023 17:39:58 GMT -5
Here are a few of today's crop, although two of the three were a bit stunted. Cleaned up for a nice sized gallon bag, and the smaller bag is the core of the pineapple which I like to gnaw on. ![](https://i.ibb.co/R3DcwpY/PXL-20230715-143026052.jpg) ![](https://i.ibb.co/Wsn1tLm/PXL-20230715-144003441.jpg) We currently have 4 going strong. Three are getting close to picking. They're only surpassed in flavor by the freshly cut pineapples we used to get in Hawaii. We ate those things like giant corn on the cobb when I was killing swordfish and tunas over there. Best pineapple I’ve ever eaten we pulled over at one of the plantations on the north shore on the way to surf. I rarely eat store bought because of the taste. And to Balla’s point never on pizza, that’s just not right.
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Post by gardawg on Jul 15, 2023 17:47:54 GMT -5
I live on Plantation Key ... it was named that because it had pineapple plantations on it.
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Post by gardawg on Jul 15, 2023 18:46:24 GMT -5
That’s really cool. The most important thing: never on the top of pizza!!! That's true in Italy. But in the good ole USA there is no telling what is going to be put in or on a pizza. It may have a rutabaga crust with horseradish sauce, smoked rhubarb with bean sausage and Velveeta.
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Post by swampdog on Jul 15, 2023 19:59:39 GMT -5
Tarpon65 do you fertilize your pineapples? I have about 8 ripening and was curious as several are on the small side.
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Post by TRTerror on Jul 15, 2023 21:07:19 GMT -5
There was quite the Schooner Trade between the Keys , 10 thousand Islands and points North back in the day. Sugarcane , Pineapples , Coconuts..what ever they could grow. I lived in the Ten Thousand Islands for a number of years and you can still see the coquina stone water cisterns and what use to be cleared mangrove swamp farm areas. Hard times for Crackers for sure.
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Post by Tarpon65 on Jul 16, 2023 5:23:27 GMT -5
Tarpon65 do you fertilize your pineapples? I have about 8 ripening and was curious as several are on the small side. No, I totally ignore them to be honest, so they don't even get water unless it rains. I'm not saying fertilizing wouldn't help improve them, I just don't.
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Post by gandy on Jul 18, 2023 11:32:55 GMT -5
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