Quick question. The tips on some of the leaves of my pineapple plant are turning brown. Should I be worried?
is it an indoor or outdoor plant colourmegrae? is it in the ground or in a pot? could be too much water? i don't know much about pineapple plants, but googling might help.
see if this might help colourmegrae... http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 324AAGZt6F It could be the water you are using is high in salt content (Not table salt just minerals that remain when the water is evaporated off) The salt is picked up by the roots with the water and then is left behind in the plant. Do you have white crusty stuff at the water line? To prevent salt poisoning in soil-less plants do not just add water always change the water by overflowing it in a sink. Plants that exhibit these same brown tips in soil can be placed in a large sink or tub filled with water to the soil line for a couple of hours before the water is drained. As this treatment will also remove the fertilizer from the soil feed with the next watering. Potted Plants can handle a certain amount of salt but once the tips turn brown the tips are dead. they can be trimmed with a sharp pair of scissors to look better and with care the new leaves will not get the same salt poisoning. The plant it self is not in danger since there is still plenty of leaf surface. there are more links here... http://www.google.com/search?q=pineappl ... tnG=Search
Mine sometimes brown up, I just snip them off. Mine are grown indoors in a large planter. Hoping mine will fruit next year.
It won't hurt to snip a little of it? The leaves are super long, anyway. Do they do well inside, too? I need to bring my plants in for the winter.
colourmegrae and ej, did you start these plants from pineapples you bought in the store or are these plants you've ordered? i tried planting the top of a pineapple a couple times, but they never took off. i remember my mom doing it when i was a kid and she had great success...that was when we lived in Maine and she had a mini greenhouse.
Mine was given to me by a friend that started it from a pineapple top. She had three of them that were taking over her apartment porch so she was looking to get rid of one. She must have done something right.
Bunkie, I have grown lots of pineapple plants and yes, I use the tops. What I do is choose a pineapple in the fruit store more for the green than the fruit itself. Once home I don't cut the top but twist it off - this can be quite hard, especially if the top is very hard and spiney, so you can wrap a teatowel around the green to get a good grip. It should twist off like a cork. Then leave it somewhere cool and dry for a couple of days. After 2 or 3 days I start to remove some of the bottom leaves. You will then see some very small rootlets around the base of the stump. These embryo roots are what you want exposed. A lot of people don't remove these lower leaves, but these will just rot, and cause the roots to rot. So, I remove about 4 rounds of leaves, peeling them carefully back off the stump. I then prepare my compost, usually a good quality potting compost, mixed with a couple of handfalls of grit to improve drainage. I then plant the pineapple top, water well and mulch with more coarse grit to stop the new plant from getting neck rot. I grow them in my warm conservatory so they get maximum light and plenty of heat in the summer. I water a lot in the summer but hardely at all during the winter months. I also feed everytime I water during the summer. Mine usually take about 3 years from first planting until fruit production, and the fruit can take a good 8 months to ripen fully on the plant as we don't get the temperatures here in the UK to get them going quickly and I don't provide lots of artifical heat to the conservatory, it gets heated on the household central heating, but we do tend to have a cool house. Hope that helps. Oh, just to add, sometimes they make HUGE plants, one of mine is currently over 6 foot wide, others make smaller plants, some send out lots of pups, others just produce one big plant.
