2006-10-20 05:31:41 · 16 answers · asked by Rosanna C 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
The pineapple is technically not a single fruit, but a sorosis. The fruits of a hundred or more separate flowers grow on the plant spike. As they grow, they swell with juice and pulp, expanding to become the "fruit." Pineapples do not grow on trees, as many erroneously think. They are the fruit of a bromeliad, rising from the center on a single spike surrounded by sword-like leaves. The pineapple plant is the only bromeliad to produce edible fruit. Commercial plants are only harvested two to three years since the fruit begins to get smaller with each year of plant life. Pineapples weigh between four and nine pounds on average but can reach weights up to twenty pounds. The waste parts left from canning plants, including the skin, core and ends, are used to make alcohol, vinegar and food for livestock
2006-10-20 05:38:47 · answer #1 · answered by Alan D 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Cut the top off of a pineapple, about 2 inches below the leaves. Strip the bottom 1 inch of leaves off (near the remaining fruit) and put in a pot, covering the stripped leaf area. (No need to let it dry out) Water and full to part sun location. In time a stalk will begin to grow up from the center of the leaves, on top of this a new pineapple will grow.
Done it many times, have fun.
2006-10-20 13:06:38 · answer #2 · answered by reynwater 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pineapples grow from a plant similar to a yucca. The plant is about 3ft high. The "fruit" grows from the center and is harvested by cutting off the plant. They definitely "do not" grow from a tree.
2006-10-20 13:40:57 · answer #3 · answered by bugear001 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nature
2006-10-20 12:39:29 · answer #4 · answered by Fudgie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How to grow your own pineapple
Get a pineapple and cut the top off. Allow the top to dry out for one to three weeks. Plant it in soil, and it will root itself. The pineapple grows on the central stem of the plant with only one fruit borne on each plant. Every plant produces suckers and these grow in a leaf axil off the parent stem. These suckers subsequently produce a second or "ratoon" crop of fruit. The first and second crops normally constitute the commercial yield of a plant
2006-10-20 12:34:50 · answer #5 · answered by Brite Tiger 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
they grow on a yucca type plant that doesn't get very tall - to several feet..a stalk comes up like the flower of a yucca - only the pineapple grows from shoot. Wouldn't you just love to drive thru a pineapple plantationand smell the ripening fruit. yum
2006-10-20 12:43:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
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2006-10-20 12:46:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
they don't grow on trees they grow on a stalk that grows about 18 inches off the ground
2006-10-20 12:36:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Up wards
2006-10-20 12:38:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
with silver bells,
and cockleshells,
and pretty maids all in a row.
.......oops! no thats mary's garden,
sorry, dont know then.
2006-10-20 12:46:00 · answer #10 · answered by Dr Doom 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋