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Dick Wilson is my pineapple Santa... we hae oer 100 planted so far and are aiming for a total of 500. Wooo hooo!
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If someone was very limited on their space, but wanted to continually add pineapples to their yard, how close can pineapples be planted together?
And did the white and yellow cross or not cross... I know there was much discussion on this prior but I can't remember what the advice was.
Enjoy the day! Ann
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Ann,
Pineapple fruits develop with or without pollination. The fruit is unaffected by pollination and the plants are only vegetatively propagated. As long as the planter does not mix up the starts, white gives white and yellow gives yellow.
Allen
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Allen
Finally in HPP
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Ann, I have over 60 in several places on my small lot about 3' apart. They get crammed but so far so good, and they take up maybe 20% of the free space on the lot. All white tops have yielded white pineapple and yellows yellow. This summer most had been in the ground two years and it was 1 or more per day for about 6 weeks. I've stopped planting any more whites because they tend to all come at once while the yellows are ready at various times throughout the year.
As far as planting, I just pick out 1 small rock where I want to plant, put in a bit of soil, and put the top in a couple inches. They seem to thrive even in an almost zero soil situation. I mulch too.
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Allen, as soon as I read that I remembered.... duh.... LOL
Rob, your place is my dream food garden! Thank you for your continued advice about raising food on your small lot. I'm amazed you had 1 or more per day for about 6 weeks! Thats a lot of pineapple! Bet you were looking for recipes.
Didn't know that about the whites tending to come all at once though. Just amazine about growing pineapples in so little dirt!
Enjoy the day! Ann
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My plant to fruit times reflect what I was told by a friend who grew them in Fern Acres. I will gladly wait another 6-12 months! It's all good. I love all the information we get here. I did plant 3 ft apart throughout. Heck, I'll be happy whenever they come in as long as they do come in!
If anyone has white tops to get rid of, I would love a few rows of them!
I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says
"Oh Crap, She's up!"
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"Oh Crap, She's up!"
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I have to agree about all the great info on here. I did not know that all the whites come in all at the same time. I heard they can't ship them to the mainland because they don't last. pslamont, sounds like your staying busy with your project. Any chance of seeing some pictures?
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Steve
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Frankly, it's not much to look at. Just a field with lots of mulch and leaves of pineapple tops sticking out that you can barely see. Give it 6 months and they grow bit... then it will be something to see!
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Having lived in Ha'iku on Maui's north shore for a couple of years and seeing many pineapple fields between Pukalani and Makawao, we're pretty certain the commercial fields were planted much closer than 3'. Probably more like between a foot and a foot and a half. Many times the pineapples were planted in a bed fashion, maybe three or more across and then a path.
The biggest problem we've had in Puna (nice to find a great crop that likes our rain!) is keeping the weeds down between those sharply pointed, closely packed leaves. On Maui commercially, they use plastic sheeting extensively and the weathered, tiny broken-down bits are everywhere. We're experimenting with planting with a stronger ground cloth (slitting the cloth to plant the top) and covering with our wood chip mulch to keep the sunlight off, and using cardboard for the same purpose. Hopefully this will keep the weeds down to a dull roar.
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a-yep, "keep the weeds down to a dull roar"
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