Emerging pineapple
@allknowing (153544)
India
July 30, 2022 6:13pm CST
It takes almost a year for a pineapple to show up on the plant. These days however we have not seen them till maturity as the mongoose gets them even before they are ripe.
While we are happy that we have mongooses roaming the garden as they keep the reptiles away they dig up the garden specially anything that grows underground as well.
We have now planted the pineapple in an enclosed area where the mongoose has no access.
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@RasmaSandra (97954)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
31 Jul 22
I have never seen a pineapple plant I thought they grew on trees or have ai confused something here?
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@marguicha (230351)
• Chile
31 Jul 22
Is it true that you can have a pineapple plant made with part of the pineapple?
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
31 Jul 22
The top leafy portion of the pineapple is planted and that is how we grow our pineapples.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
31 Jul 22
We have had them but the mongoose gets faster than us some times (lol)
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@louievill (28846)
• Philippines
31 Jul 22
What a lovely fruit. I had planted 3 pineapples on 3 large buckets but It seems I could not get them to fruit. We don't have mongoose in our country, cats are the main problem of my plants but I don't think they would even dare go near those sharp spines.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
31 Jul 22
What could be the reason why there were no fruits? Pineapples need very little maintenance.
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@louievill (28846)
• Philippines
31 Jul 22
@allknowing perhaps it's asking to be transferred to an even bigger container, I had tried putting organic fertilizer that I made myself but still no sign of fruiting.
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@luisga814 (7138)
• Quezon City, Philippines
31 Jul 22
I really missing to eat pineapple. That pineapple on the photo is so cute.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
31 Jul 22
They look nice specially when they just start emerging.
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@luisga814 (7138)
• Quezon City, Philippines
31 Jul 22
@allknowing Yes. I love the way it emerged. I appreciate of sharing this.
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@Beestring (15373)
• Hong Kong
31 Jul 22
Pineapples are popular here. Our pineapples are mainly imported from Taiwan.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
31 Jul 22
I just have 3 one in an enclosure and two outside.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
1 Aug 22
I have a few photos of the mongoose. Will look them up.
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@DaddyEvil (174336)
• United States
1 Aug 22
I've never seen a pineapple growing before. That really looks interesting! 
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
1 Aug 22
It is more interesting when it just about shows up
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
1 Aug 22
@DaddyEvil You can plant it in a large pot
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@DaddyEvil (174336)
• United States
1 Aug 22
@allknowing I'd love to try growing some here, even though I'm not fond of pineapples. Pretty loves them, though. We just don't have room in our house to grow something like that.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
31 Jul 22
This is an old photo and I do not remember whether we got to eat it (lol) but now we have three two outside and one in an enclosure. Keeping my fingers crossed.
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@misunderstood_zombie (8765)
• United States
31 Jul 22
That's cool that you have mongooses and it's even cooler that they kill and eat snakes. I love your little pineapple, it is so cute.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
31 Jul 22
What's so "cool" about the mongoose eating our pineapple?
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
1 Aug 22
This is an old photo. I now have three plants two outside and one in an enclosure
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