Do you like houseplants? Do you want to grow up something exotic and fruitful at home? Are you afraid of the difficulties in planting and caring for a tropical plant? Then try to find out how to properly plant pineapple at home. It's not so difficult: a little effort and in 3-4 years the plant will please you with the first fruits.
Pineapple is a tropical herb-perennial plant that successfully grows both on the open ground in tropical countries and in greenhouses. The fruits of pineapple are extremely useful, rich in vitamins and, finally, simply tasty.
To understand whether it is possible to plant pineapple in your home, whether it will develop well and bear fruit, it should be remembered that this is a light-loving plant growing only in a warm room. The optimum temperature for normal growth of pineapple is 25-27 degrees, at a temperature below 20 the plant can die. The light day for the plant should last about 12 hours, in winter, additional fluorescent lamp lighting is required. If you can create suitable conditions in your house, you can safely embark on growing.
How to plant a pineapple properly?
To make pineapple well established and rooted, it is necessary to perform several simple actions, as close to the process as possible to the natural order of plant reproduction. Let's look at how to plant a pineapple, in stages.
- First, we'll select the planting material. At home, it is easiest to grow a plant from the top of a ripe fruit. The best time to buy pineapple for planting is summer or the beginning of autumn, the fruits frozen during the cold season are unfit for planting. The bought pineapple should be ripe, but not overripe, with juicy leaves and without damage.
- Now prepare the sprout. With a sharp knife, it is necessary to carefully cut off the top of the fruit with the leaves, carefully cut the flesh and remove 3-4 lower leaves. The rest of the delicious fruit can be eaten with pleasure. The resulting barrel length of 1-2 cm is treated with ash or a solution of potassium permanganate. Before planting the top of the pineapple, it should be dried for 2-3 weeks strictly in the vertical position with leaves down.
- After drying, the tip is ready for planting. For rooting, a small pot is needed, approximately 0.6 liters, with good drainage and substrate (1-2 days before planting it is recommended to treat the substrate with boiling water). The sprout is planted at a depth of 2 cm and covered with a plastic or glass cap. The pot should be in a well-lit place (but without direct sunlight) at a temperature of 25-27 degrees (in a cold time, the pot with a sprout can be placed on the battery). Periodically, you need to spray the leaves, but watering the sprout should be only in case of complete drying of the earth. An important rule: pineapple can be watered exclusively with warm, almost hot water. After 1-2 months, young leaves appear on the stem, which means that the pineapple has successfully taken root and you can remove the cap.
Now you know how to properly plant a pineapple and successfully cope with this task.
Care for growing pineapple
Care for an adult plant is also not too complicated. A prerequisite for the normal development of pineapple - not too abundant watering with warm water and frequent spraying of leaves. During the growing season, the plant needs to be fed with a complex of mineral fertilizers. Approximately once a year, the pineapple should be transplanted, each time in a slightly larger pot, gradually bringing up to a volume of 4-4.5 liters. After 3-4 years, if the conditions of detention are observed, the first flower should appear, and in six months the first fruit will ripen.
So, now you know how to plant and grow pineapple, and after a while you will be able to please yourself with a hand-grown delicious fruit.