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Quote from: fruitlovers on April 01, 2017, 05:50:07 PMI am currently planting side shoots of the red pineapple, so hopefully next year i will have enough to sell to any forum member interested. Awesome, sign me up for as many as possible. Is the flesh red as well?
I am currently planting side shoots of the red pineapple, so hopefully next year i will have enough to sell to any forum member interested.
Here's a list of several ways to increase the number of plants you can generate with propagation material. I wish they had more illustrations, but it was written back in 1987, when the world was in black and white.
Stump sectioning. Stumps are harvested after the one-inch open heart flowering stage or after fruit harvest. Leaves are stripped off starting at the base, or they are cut off leaving the leaf bases attached to the stump. The stump is cut longitudinally into quarters or sixths, which are then cut into wedge-shaped sections weigh ing 15–20 g, each having at least one axillary bud. The sections are dipped in fungicide and planted bud upward 2.5 cm apart and 2 cm beneath the soil in a well-prepared, fumigated nursery bed. The bed may be lightly mulched with straw or compost. As many as 50 sections may be obtained per stump. A section will produce another stump in about two years.
Crown sectioning. Crowns are cut vertically into quarters or sixths, starting at the top and cutting toward the base. The vertical sections may be cut horizontally in half between the crown base and apex. After drying for one to two days, the sections are dipped in fungicide and sown 2.5 cm apart in nursery beds, with the leaves above ground. Plantlets from crown sections should reach the original crown size in less than one year. Under semisterile conditions, crowns have been micro sectioned to produce up to 100 plants.
Here's a picture of a top I got about two months ago with three clones coming out of it. Simon