Pineapple

I use to have 23 pots of roses and 20 pots of bougainvillea, most of the roses commit suicide when i left home to study. My mum throws away the bougainvillea because it never flowers. This is what happens to my flower pot... . She replace it with pineapple plant. Early next year it will bear fruit since it takes about 18 months before it mature.

a row of pineapple in a pot, in front is my tiger orchid

Pineapple

Today one of my pineapples is ripe for picking. This is the second pineapple that i harvest this week. As usual i almost cut the pineapple before i remember that i have to take the photo for my blog! This is Josephine cultivar so the fruit is not big but what it lacks in size it makes up by early fruiting. For next 2 months i think I’ll have pineapple every week. Even though the entire pineapple seedlings were planted at the same time, Josephine is the first to fruit and there are cultivars which just bear fruit which translate to a long season of pineapple. In the tropic pineapples are available year round, but rarely we can eat sweet pineapple because it was harvest too early for cooking purposes or to be eaten as fruit salad. That is the reason why i plant pineapple in pots. Freshly picked ripe pineapple is sweet and crunchy. Um! Yummy :-)

Josephine cultivar

a row of bigger pineapple

newly form pineapple and soon to ripe pineapple

Pineapple.... Finally

I wish a belated happy new year to visitor of my blog. This pineapple plant surprises me usually it takes about 14 to 16 months before it start to fruit. This pineapple is only 12 months old.

attractive purple pineapple flower surrounded by red leaves