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Nice! I planted 4 pineapple in my garden and i heard from farmer it'll be a looong wait before it start to flower, since i plant it using the head of the pineapple. It's gonna be some time i get to eat the fruit š
From what Iāve read, itās like 2 years to grow and then itās another 6 or more months to actually grow a full fruit. Thing is, itāll lay dormant when it gets cooler conditions and takes a while of proper warm conditions to finally flower. Or something along those lines.
Ya that's what i've heard too, but 2 years is the minimum according to the farmer, and we lived in tropical country. Sometime natural phenomenon like el nino or la nina can knock the grow time off. Idk i'll just plant it and forget
You can try to force it to flower with an apple too. The apple releases some compound when it decays that stimulates flowering apparently. Sorry Iām too lazy to look up the specifics.
Naw it's okay, i just plant it last month so it would be at least 2 years before it's necessary
Probably ethene
Relevant article about pineapple growing.
The paragraph about flowering indeed mentions the ethylene gas.