just wondering... :)
2006-10-28 06:05:04 · 1 answers · asked by Nay 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Pineapples grow on bushes not on trees.
If you would like to try and grow them yourself keep reading.
It is good fun and if you are not impatient you could have some of your very own, home grown, pineapples.
The most readily available propagation material will be the green-leafed top of a fresh pineapple. The top of a pineapple is cut off 3cm/1in below the leaves and the four lower rows of leaves are then removed. Next wash the stump clean and left to dry, up site down, in the sun for a week. Now you can place the stump on a site with good drainage, in t he ground and firm the soil around it. Use a commercial soil mix to prevent deceases. When the new stalk is about 15cm long you could induce flowering by ethylene gas that dandelions and apples give off. To do that place dandelions or apples inside a large plastic bag that covers the pineapple. When flowering is induced remove plastic bag. The fruit will take then just under 2 years to mature.
However, if new plants are taken from suckers then they will fruit at approximately 15 months.
The following mulch is very effective with pineapples.
Aluminum foil-mulch:
Aluminum foil is spread out beneath or between the rows of plants will double the photosynthesis with the reflected light on the underside of leaves. Hold foil to the ground by placing a few stones on top. It will also act as deterrent for insects as they can not tolerate the intense ultra-violet light that it is reflected. You could damage young, small trees by using foil mulch, because of excessive heat, so you need to use common sense.
Happy gardening
2006-10-28 13:06:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pineapple Tree Or Bush
2016-11-16 01:13:48 · answer #2 · answered by siddiqui 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pineapple Bushes
2016-12-15 21:15:24 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
neither...pineapples are bromeliads...short plants with large firm leaves that produce a pineapple in the center.
You can grow your own from a fresh pineapple from the market. Cut off the top (with the leaves and small portion of top of pineapple), and plant in pot with good soil. It will grow and produce "baby plants" on the sides which can also be planted for new plants...takes a while plus right sun/temperature requirements!
2006-10-28 08:10:17 · answer #4 · answered by MARY D 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pineapples grow on a bush, from the center, just like artichokes.
2006-10-28 06:07:43 · answer #5 · answered by US Lisa 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They grow on plants with hard spiky leaves with the pineapple right in the middle of the plant. Jermaine, please let me know where those palm trees are in Hawaii. I really want to see one.
2014-07-15 14:12:33 · answer #6 · answered by helen m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither....its a plant that grows right on the ground. with long thorny leaves...right in the middle of it....as a flower would...there grows the pineapple....
2006-10-28 06:08:43 · answer #7 · answered by paulina 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
pine·ap·ple (pīn'ăp'əl)
n.
A tropical American plant (Ananas comosus) having large swordlike leaves and a large, fleshy, edible, multiple fruit with a terminal tuft of leaves.
The fruit of this plant.
Slang. A hand grenade.
2006-10-28 06:09:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
they grow in bushes
2006-11-01 04:29:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
in bushes the plant looks like the pineapple's leaves but bigger
2006-10-28 06:09:36 · answer #10 · answered by Cateelk 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋