TheBanyanTree: Pregnant Pineapple Dialogue

[Laura Hicks]

Huh! Every time I try this, I get a bundle of brown leaves atop a chunk of
rotten pineapple. I just have to accept that I have a brown thumb, I guess.
Though once I did manage to grow an avocado seed. That tree got to be about
5 feet tall, until I discovered that little fungus gnats had got into the
soil, and I put it outside in the snow. Oddly enough, it not only killed
the gnats, it also killed the tree. *sigh*

-- 
Laura
wolfljsh at gmail.com

"Still limited, still struggling, not perfect, slightly broken, but okay.
Such is life."
-- Mayim Bialik


On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Tom Smith <deserthiker2000 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Back a few years, NancyLee opened my eyes to a wondrous
> possibility: "once you eat your first real pineapple, you cut
> the top off . .and replant it.  Closest thing to a perpetual
> plant, seems to me."
>
> Dee caught the same wonder: "You actually get an edible
> pineapple the following year? Wowser!"
>
> NancyLee gave the details and offered, "I don't know what
> success you might experience, or how long it might take. But,
> it's fun to try."
>
> I tried it. NancyLee spoke true.
>
> Took me a few years.. It WAS fun.
>
> Laura asked, "I don't suppose you have a picture or two you
> could share of this very kewl thing, do you?"
>
> Yes.  Here is a photo of a very kewl thing:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/9482738@N07/8256238602/
>