Should I bring my new pups/slips (thanks Brad!!) indoors?  Nighttime temps here in coastal so cal 10a are in the high 40F.  Daytime temps have been 60-70F range. 

They have been outside the past several days, but I can put them by a south-facing window that gets light most of the day.  Once my electricity is back, I can even add a heating pad, but I don't think that's necessary, lowest indoor temps are around 55F.

Hello!  Original poster here.  I believe I've discovered the err in my attempts!  Way way way over watering.  I had been watering the soil and occasionally a dribble down the core every 4-7 days.  This would lead to rot in 3-4 weeks.

Early October an exchange with Millet spurred a memory from the prior year with the first successful top that was growing, I simply misted it with water once or twice a week.  I have resumed this, and the last three tops I tried in October have yet to fail.  They all appear healthy so far

I get what JakeFruit is saying, and definitely empathize with him/her/it.  My only two ground-planted citrus are small and young, their new leaves were hit by leaf miners and slugs, and it got a bit worse even after weekly spraying with neem oil+soap last couple months.  It looks ugly and makes the trees look sick, but I've left them on since I'd really like the plants to grow some more before any pruning/shaping.

For those who come across this thread looking into research and more info, I found the following links helpful in understanding differences:
https://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/pineapple.html#Varieties
https://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/pineapple.html

Quote from: Jaboticaba45 on October 16, 2020, 05:36:25 PM

Looks pretty cool although there is no way that I am paying $49 for some pineapples

I almost did. I am glad FLNative posted.

That was my reaction first, but then I remembered purchasing a $100 bottle of champagne once to bring as a New Year's gift to my gf's family.  It was yellow and had a rooster on it, the bottle was empty within minutes of being opened, and I don't even drink.  So I'm curious to try this fruit!  If it doesn't become available locally, I'll purchase one in a few months when I get together with some friends of mine.  

It does seem like more of a novelty, and the marketing suggests it is intended to be served with adult beverages. 

Also, it appears purchasing any pineapples direct from the growers are just as expensive.  I've always wondered why - is it the shipping?  Or is there more to it?

Has anyone tried growing pineapples from seed?  When I cut into a pineapple last week from the store, it was full of seeds - never noticed this before.  I rinsed them and put them in a seedling tray (peat/coir/pumice) with heat mat and humidity cover.  Curious if they'll actually sprout.  Just for laughs

I struggled with this at the end of 2019 and early into 2020.  I ended up testing many of these products:
1. Gardener's brand seedling orchid bark, runs about $9-11 for a 2cuft bag; the local company "Kellogg" owns this brand; no need to sift
2. Forrest Products "soil conditioner", it's a 3cuft green and white bag, runs about $12-14; no need to sift
3. Look up local soil/mulch/compost companies and call to see if they let you purchase by bag or bring your own bag to fill with a shovel.  I've got at two near me in OC.  One offers both bark fines and hummus, but only certain times of the year.
4. I think EB Stone might have orchid seedling bark as well
5. reptibark - at many pet supply.  I ended up not purchasing this, the price is stupid, and the orchid seedling bark is just as good
6. Some feed supply places may carry various barks as well, you'll have to visit, I did not have luck with this
7. Same as #3, except check horse yards to see if there are any small compost companies there and look at their compost product - the one near me does a bark and horse poop mixture which looks like it will work well mixed with perlite/pumice and maybe a little less peat.  I plan to try this with some veges next spring.  I believe Camarillo should have a lot of stables and isn't too far?
8. Kellogg organic mixes, such as garden soil

If you are trying to find omri or organic, good luck.  I got caught up for a couple months searching high and low to find the perfect components in order that my container plants perform at their peak, and my experience has been it doesn't really matter what you purchase as long as you can get it to drain well, which is accomplished by adding perlite/pumice.  And you probably won't save money going this route vs. just picking up any of the kellogg bags ("garden soil" is cheapest down here).

One last thing: if you go route of product that has compost or organic matter in it (e.g. kellogg), be prepared for fungus gnats.  If they are non-edible plants the imidichloprid based granules are perfect and will stop them.  if they are edibles, uhmm... good luck. :p

Forgive my ignorance are we talking sand/silt/clay proportions like we do with soil in determining if it is a loam etc.

If this is in regard's to Millet's lesson re-learned for citrus, I believe the planting medium may be independent of his lesson.  He's growing his citrus in a 5-2-1 medium (bark, peat, perlit or variations).

Hi there, I enjoy your posts very much.  Having difficulty understanding the lesson?  If the medium dries out, you should water gradually?  Or don't let the medium dry out?

Thank you, sorry to be a bother.

Hi there:

It appears I have leaf miner, grasshoppers, and slugs?  I have four small citrus: 2 that I cut down and am letting rootstock grow for grafting next spring, these are in pots, and two dwarf in the ground.  The leafminer and grasshopper bites seem worst on the potted one, while the in-ground ones doesn't seem so bad, but they are covered in some sort of strange residue.. slugs?  Uh boy, I'm confused.  One of the plants also has a lot of ants but I don't see aphids, they are just crawling up and down the branches.

Thank you for reading

I looked into this a couple months ago and wanted to try growing it in either a self-watering container or variation of this (semi-hydro) since my climate tends to be 65%+ humidity.  The cost of the plant kind of threw me off.  Those of you in so cal, where did you get the pandan?  A little bit of searching shows only a few sources and their prices seemed like a gouge for something apparently easy to propagate?

The picture makes it look dry, but in person it appears to be alive and fine.  I keep the soil moist, how often depends on temp and sun here.  Maybe I'll take it back indoors until it has leaves?

I have no idea wheher this rootstock is healthy, so this is becoming more of an experiment and learning exercise.  I am "OP", see first post of this thread for what I'm doing.