07-01-2021, 04:43 PM
Most of those will do well in poor soil if they get occasional fertilizer. Pineapples prefer foliar feeding and can practically grow in nothing if you splash some fertilizer on them. Commercial growers feed them heavily with spray so they grow twice as fast and then they artificially induce them to flower so they cut the fruit harvest time in half. The flavor and sweetness of pineapple is heavily influenced by the season that the fruit ripens and is picked, so that need to be planned long ahead of time when its planted if they aren't going to be artificially induced to flower. The only fertilizer our bananas get is whatever we throw on the ground from cleaning animal pens. They are otherwise mostly growing in rock. We don't really fertilize our palms, though we probably should, but we run chicken tractors over their root systems and that seems to be enough. The bananas like that too.