Look at my pretty pineapple
I started growing this pineapple five years ago. It finally bore two tiny, but lovely pineapples. We are going to eat them soon. What was interesting was as the pineapples were ripening on the plant, the ants showed up and covered most of the leaves. My assumption is the sweetness of the pineapple attracted them, but does anyone have a better explanation for this. Thank you in advance.
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@andrea745 WOW! Was this in a greenhouse or inside your home or are you in the tropics?
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I am jealous! No way I could raise one here, but impressive feat. As for the ants, I have no experience with them on pineapple plants but I did find an article: https://homeguides.sfgate.com/ants-pineapple-plants-50959.html hope that gives you some answers.
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Beautiful!!!!!!!!!
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This give me hope that someday the 2 largest plants will finally bear fruit!
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Wow! That looks too good to eat!
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We did eat them and they were the sweetest pinneapples I have ever eaten @stephanie447 and thank you @VickiP for locating that article. I will check it out....
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I'm not sure about the ants, but I know when I visited Hawaii a long time ago, there were ants EVERYWHERE! We went to a pineapple plantation and they were on everything there, too.
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@andrea745 did you start the pineapple from the top of one you purchased from a store? Glad you ate them. The picture was a beautiful fruit. Too beautiful to waste by not eating it. Did you save the top to start another one for 2025 or 2026?
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That is gorgeous!
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That is a beautiful pineapple! Congrats!!!
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@tomandcara we have a few more. Not this time because we have several other. A friend gave me the original plants that she had grown from babies.
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Ant sometimes do that with field peas, too - they will go just above the pod and cover the stem right there at the joint. I think it must be a plant hormone that attracts them. Perhaps, a bunch of ants there protects the fruit from other bugs?
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I have three 'tops' growing. two in raised beds and one in a bucket. since my first fruit one developed about three months ago i have become a fan. They are a beautiful plant to begin with, adding lots of contrast in the garden for a few years and then O M G they produce delicious fruit! what could be better?
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How cld this take 5 years? No frost? Beautiful plant!
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Very cool! @andrea745 What region are you in? Did you use a greenhouse?
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It looks better than any store bought I have ever seen. I am still waiting on mine to produce for me. Hopefully my pineapple turns out as good looking as your!
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@Jannajo @Bryce Langebartels I live in sunny hot humid SW FLorida and I have a lania. At first we had the plant outside and then we decided when we saw the pinneaple starting to put it in the lania. It may have been more like three years than 5. I lost track because we basically ignored it until we saw the cute pineapples popping out. Then we watched and waited six months for them to grow and ripen. @Cornelius have faith and talk to it.
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@andrea745 okay, nice! I think it would prove a bit difficult in my zone (5b) unless I tried it in a greenhouse.
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