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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pineapple thread
« on: April 01, 2021, 09:59:29 PM »
Quote from: spaugh on December 20, 2020, 12:26:16 PM
Those temperatures are a bit low but shouldnt kill the babies.  They might be better in the window on a heat mat though.  A greenhouse thats really warm during the day would be ideal through winter.


I had a casualty here.  This was the first cheese pine fruit I had and it got heavy and snapped off.  It still need a couple of months and is compost now  :'(



Heres some new ones from Malaysia.  Thry are supposed to be giant sized, they are called Paun or Puan.  These ones are in 10gal squat pots.



And a couple other new ones nearing flower
This one is a kona pine.  I got it from someone in HI and dont know anything else about it.  Maybe a smooth cayanne cross.  The plant gets really long leaves that are spineless and has a nice coloration.



This one is a josapine from malaysia.  They are supposed to be high end fruit.  The plant is nearly spineless and smaller in size with a really nice purple color.



The cheese pine pineapple plants I was growing don't grow to well in the part of florida I'm in during winter the cold killed them even with protection over them.. I didn't have any more growing material so I couldn't try again... .most of the pineapple plants I grow like Natal Queen Don't mind the cold and don't take hardly any damage

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pineapple thread
« on: November 28, 2020, 12:25:05 AM »
Quote from: Mike T on November 28, 2020, 12:14:09 AM
I went out to bag myself a good pineapple today. Nothing less that a festival (pina colada) or jubilee will be good enough.


No not Mareeba gold


aussie rough looks good but it is just a type of queen


Aha bagged it and with a name like piñata sounding like pina colada it must be jubilee.
Googled it chums and I have been swindled. It is just a 73-50 and I paid $4 ($US2.80ish) so I bet they are still high 5ing and laughing about it at the market.
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The 73-50 is a sweet pineapple. Its parentage includes 54% Cayenne, 20% Mordilona, 13% Pernambuco, 13% Red Spanish and 3% Queen. It was considered by PRI breeders to be a high yielding cultivar with low acidity and high vitamin C ..... It's also the same variety of pineapple grown in Hawaii called Maui Gold

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Looking to buy Pernambuco, Abacaxi, Cabezona Pineapple
« on: October 26, 2020, 02:41:37 PM »
I have one Abacaxi pineapple plant growing right now but it won't be ready till next season to flower and even than I won't have enough suckers or slips to offer anyone till I can get a few more plants to grow off this mother's plant and that will still  take time and maybe by then I will have some to offer

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pink Pineapples are finally available for purchase!
« on: October 16, 2020, 09:16:39 PM »
Most places where del Monte grow there pineapples at there are tons of humming birds that pollinate the pineapple flowers so it's possible the pink pineapple could have seeds. But not sure they would grow true or not

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pineapple thread
« on: October 13, 2020, 03:24:06 PM »
I'll wait till stores get them and than buy some I'm not paying that price for one pineapple and with no crown there is very little crown left I wouldn't take a chance for that price lol

I would guess they are using the crown for growing material only because the plant doesn't grow slips or suckers

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pineapple thread
« on: October 12, 2020, 03:18:47 PM »
i found an older photo of one of my Cheese Pine plants


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pineapple thread
« on: October 12, 2020, 03:10:21 PM »
Quote from: spaugh on October 12, 2020, 03:04:54 PM
Quote from: Evildeadguy on October 11, 2020, 05:32:48 PM
Quote from: spaugh on October 11, 2020, 12:44:21 PM
Im pretty excited for these 2 new types

This one is a cheesepine from Simon and Jim.  I have no idea why its called cheese pine.



This one I got from a guy in Malaysia, its called nanas paun.  Its supposed to get really large.




About Cheese Pine you wont find much info about it online. The only info is from the USDA

A specimen known as Cheese Pine—collected in Guatemala in 1935—may be sweeter and richer in vitamin C than any other pineapple in the collection. And Pseudananas sagenarius, brought from the Rio Negro region of Argentina in 1938, always gets a second glance. Not a true pineapple, but a member of the same plant family nonetheless, P. sagenarius boasts a botanical quirk: The sharp, thornlike spines along its leaves arch away from the leaf tip instead of towards it. It’s an oddity that some experts are quick to notice.

Jim I looked and it seems like the cheese pine has throws pointing towards the leaf tips.  Does your point the other way?


I'm not sure now cause i don't grow them anymore.... but its the sample the USDA sent to my friend along time ago and i got them from him

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pineapple thread
« on: October 11, 2020, 09:55:26 PM »
Quote from: saltyreefer on October 11, 2020, 08:27:12 PM
Why not plant in the ground. seems like everybody is keeping them in pots?
 Is it the climate? I'm in east central Florida, would planting in the ground be
better?

If I owned my own property I would grow in the ground but I rent so I'm not allowed to. And growing in Florida soil you need to worry about nematodes

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pineapple thread
« on: October 11, 2020, 05:42:35 PM »
here is a photo of my Natal Queen Pineapple plants this season should flower sometime during winter time


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pineapple thread
« on: October 11, 2020, 05:32:48 PM »
Quote from: spaugh on October 11, 2020, 12:44:21 PM
Im pretty excited for these 2 new types

This one is a cheesepine from Simon and Jim.  I have no idea why its called cheese pine.



This one I got from a guy in Malaysia, its called nanas paun.  Its supposed to get really large.




About Cheese Pine you wont find much info about it online. The only info is from the USDA

A specimen known as Cheese Pine—collected in Guatemala in 1935—may be sweeter and richer in vitamin C than any other pineapple in the collection. And Pseudananas sagenarius, brought from the Rio Negro region of Argentina in 1938, always gets a second glance. Not a true pineapple, but a member of the same plant family nonetheless, P. sagenarius boasts a botanical quirk: The sharp, thornlike spines along its leaves arch away from the leaf tip instead of towards it. It’s an oddity that some experts are quick to notice.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Pineapple thread
« on: September 12, 2020, 05:39:05 PM »
Awesome Thread this will be helpful for others wanting to grow pineapple plants... you should only use calcium carbide if you have a-lot of plants and you want them all to flower around the same time.. otherwise let mother nature take care of it

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: White Jade Pineapple Slips
« on: August 07, 2020, 03:00:38 PM »
Where did you get red Spanish and Victoria from ?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Clementine fruit tree?
« on: July 18, 2020, 03:15:14 PM »
I'm in polk county florida Zone 9b

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Clementine fruit tree?
« on: July 17, 2020, 10:51:07 PM »
Quote from: Oolie on July 17, 2020, 10:46:41 PM
There's no one size fits all fertilizer. It's dependent on your soil and water.

You can have soil or leaf analysis done, or use other means of determining what is needed.

Where I am, soils are dry for most of the growing season and pH tends to climb, so adding things like sulfur and gypsum greatly benefits most of the fruit trees in the orchard, as well as a source of potassium (sandy soils leach most of this during the rainy season). There tends to be enough plant residues to supply nitogen and the soil is not deficient in phosphorous.

Depending on your situation, you may have much amending to do or none. What kind of soil do you have and what is the typical rain situation throughout the year?
I'm going to be growing in pots using Pro-Mix HP potting mix.... I won't be growing in the ground

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Clementine fruit tree?
« on: July 17, 2020, 10:40:50 PM »
What do you all fertilize your trees with any recommendations?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Clementine fruit tree?
« on: July 17, 2020, 05:14:12 PM »
Quote from: Epicatt2 on July 17, 2020, 04:52:45 AM
Hey EDG,

Try Brite Leaf Citrus Nursery in Lake Panasoffkee, FL.  They offer grafted 'Nules' Clementines, both regular and on dwarfing rootstock.  And if you will be growing it in a pot they sometimes have inexpensive, 'rooted cuttings' of it.

Here's a link to their website: [ www.briteleaf.com  ]

I've bought about a dozen different sorts of citrus from them and all have thrived.  Plants arrive always safely packed & are promptly shipped. My Clementine from them produced about a dozen fruit the first season I had it and it was still in the 5-gal pot that I'd planted it in to start off with.

OK — HTH

Paul M.
==

Thanks i will look into it

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Clementine fruit tree?
« on: July 16, 2020, 10:04:50 PM »
What is a good dwarf variety Clementine fruit tree to get one that doesn't get to big will grow good in a pot and will bare a good amount of fruit and has a good sweet taste and where can I buy them online?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Rose (pink) Pineapple crowns search
« on: December 24, 2019, 04:46:02 PM »
Are you talking about the new Del Monte Genetically-Modified Pink-Fleshed 'Rosé' Pineapple ?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Abacaxi Pineapple Plant
« on: December 01, 2019, 06:09:50 PM »
Abacaxi Pineapple that was started from Tissue culture getting bigger once spring gets here i will put it outside.... sorry if photo doesn't look so good i have it under an Led grow light


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cheese Pine Pineapple
« on: October 29, 2019, 04:21:24 PM »
update cheese pine pineapple getting bigger


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cheese Pine Pineapple
« on: October 21, 2019, 05:20:37 PM »
Quote from: IndigoEmu on October 21, 2019, 05:04:29 PM
How’d the fruit from the first flower turn out?

Also mind sharing your fert schedule and what you use for potting mix?


i didn't get to try them out last time cause they got cold damage and died hopefully i will get a chance this time to try them

and i use Pro-Mix BX potting soil and i add some osmocote to start them off with than around 3 months i start using acid fertilizer mixed into water and given once a month

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Cheese Pine Pineapple
« on: October 21, 2019, 03:31:26 PM »
One of my Cheese Pine pineapple plants has flowered can't wait to see how it turn's out


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Abacaxi Pineapple Plant
« on: September 19, 2019, 08:48:57 PM »
Quote from: Oolie on September 19, 2019, 06:58:01 PM
I really, really enjoyed the abacaxi I found at a store, but not even close to the best pineapple I have eaten, best I have eaten had honey oozing from between the segments.
Abacaxi pineapples are very sweet, and if you grow them you’ll love the fact that they are resistant to disease. They weigh from two to 11 pounds and are considered some of the tastiest types of pineapples, although they are a little too soft to use for commercial purposes. Abacaxi pineapples are spiny and tall, and they have juicy flesh that is white and nearly translucent in color.

The reason that they are rarely used commercially is that they do not ship well, due to the fact that they are extremely fragile. There are also different types of Abacaxi pineapples, including the Montufar, which is very yellow in color and extremely juicy, and the Sugarloaf variety, which is round or conical in shape and has a tender but rich flesh. In fact, Black Jamaica is actually derived from the Sugarloaf pineapple, so the Abacaxi pineapples come in several different varieties.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Abacaxi Pineapple Plant
« on: September 19, 2019, 05:58:51 PM »
Quote from: mangaba on September 19, 2019, 05:48:25 PM
  Did you know why is it called  " White Abacaxi of Pernambuco" ? In the past century there were shiploads of this variety of Pineapple being shipped from the Port of Recife - Capital of the State of Pernambuco to Florida (USA) and other countries like Argentina.  This variety  is extremely sweet with white pulp. The fruit form is more conical compared to other "barrel" shaped pineapples.

Thanks for Sharing that info about it

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Abacaxi Pineapple Plant
« on: September 19, 2019, 05:27:42 PM »
update: Abacaxi pineapple plant getting bigger it was started from Tissue culture


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