Pineapple plant - short and stocky - Page 4

August 16, 2011

My Pineapple plants were the largest, most attractive in my garden. I did harvest a few good tasting tomatoes from them, but I will be growing a productive plant like Hillbilly that also produces good tasting tomatoes abundantly in that spot next year. Hillbilly would also have made a good windbreak if needed.

Ted

cloz · August 16, 2011

My Pineapple was very healthy too and produced no fruit. I also had a German Red Strawberry, Orange Russian 117 and Coustralee that produced no fruit. I grew 83 plants this year and those 4 were the only ones with no fruit.

August 16, 2011

Thats interesting about the Cuostralee. I've always understood they are good producers. I'm thinking about growing it next year.

Ted

cloz · August 17, 2011

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Originally Posted by tedln

Thats interesting about the Cuostralee. I've always understood they are good producers. I'm thinking about growing it next year.

Ted

I guess it just didn't like my growing conditions.

lakelady · August 20, 2011

I'm in NJ and I have 4 Pineapples growing. I also had San Marzano sown from seed too...the SM took off much faster than the Pineapples, and when the really hot weather hit in early July, the Pineapples shot up fast. I have lots of flowers, great looking plants which did not succumb to the black spot like my hybrid and the SMs did, but only a few fruits. I did lose a lot of flowers when my lake water pump went and I couldn't water on the same schedule I had earlier, so the blossoms dried up and dropped. The smallest of the Pineapple plants has a few very small fruits which has me stumped. These are seeds I saved from my own plants 2 years ago.

Maybe its this odd weather this year? In the northeast we had a very wet rainy cool early summer, went to blasting hot and dry, and now its been a very cool wet August. I just pinched the tops last week, and now I'm wondering what's next for these guys. I love these tomatoes, so I'm really disappointed, but I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who's having issues with these this year.

tam91 · August 20, 2011

Still no sign of a flower or a fruit. Yep, great windbreak.

lakelady · August 20, 2011

That is really weird if you aren't even getting any flowers. Maybe a touch of phosphate will help? I know a lady across the lake is beekeeping, so I have tons of pollinators, my darn plants are just SLOWWWW as honey.

added: Oh, and I did prune mine all through the growing cycle. I had to prune lower branches due to other tomato plants and fungus so now mine look a bit top heavy. Some catalogs say NOT to prune the pineapple but you didn't, correct? I did. Got very late flowers, but some nice big ones so I'm hoping and praying I see fruits and not just bitty ones.

z_willus_d · August 20, 2011

Huh, so I definitely pruned the crap off of my bottom 3rd Pineapple. I had to because of disease, fungus, etc. associated with our early cold Spring and hail. Perhaps the pruning can explain the explosion of near useless, (well I do plan to make salsa tomorrow) itty bitty little yellow tasteless baby fist fruits. I still don't plan to revisit this experience -- not for a long while at least.

cornbreadlouie · September 19, 2011

I ended up digging my plant up to plant a sweet 100 clone in the wine barrel the pineapple was in. Threw it in a hole in the ground and it kept growing. About 5 or 6 tomatoes have to be at least a pound but who knows if they will ever ripen. 3 ripe ones so far, taste was okay. Replanting it caused a stupice seed from last year to germinate too! But its just barely flowering. I will post pictures.when they ripen!!!

cornbreadlouie · October 4, 2011

We had the first real rain of the season starting yesterday. These are all of the tomatoes it produced minus 3 which I picked a while back. A lot of them had already split. The largest one topped out my ancient 500 gram scale. And a black prince just because. http://oi53.tinypic.com/2u3upgy.jpg

I would never grow this plant again.

lakelady · October 4, 2011

My pineapples made somewhat of a comeback surprisingly. With all the wet cool weather I thought for sure they were gonners. But I have several nice green tomatoes with no cracking at all, green and shiny...and I think one of them is finally starting to turn...hurry up hurry up hurry up!

August 20, 2011	#51
tam91 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Crystal Lake IL Posts: 2,484	Still no sign of a flower or a fruit. Yep, great windbreak. __________________ Tracy

August 20, 2011	#52
lakelady Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: northern NJ zone 6b Posts: 1,862	That is really weird if you aren't even getting any flowers. Maybe a touch of phosphate will help? I know a lady across the lake is beekeeping, so I have tons of pollinators, my darn plants are just SLOWWWW as honey. added: Oh, and I did prune mine all through the growing cycle. I had to prune lower branches due to other tomato plants and fungus so now mine look a bit top heavy. Some catalogs say NOT to prune the pineapple but you didn't, correct? I did. Got very late flowers, but some nice big ones so I'm hoping and praying I see fruits and not just bitty ones. Last edited by lakelady; August 20, 2011 at 04:56 PM. Reason: added more info

September 19, 2011	#54
cornbreadlouie Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: SF bay area... north bay Posts: 242	I ended up digging my plant up to plant a sweet 100 clone in the wine barrel the pineapple was in. Threw it in a hole in the ground and it kept growing. About 5 or 6 tomatoes have to be at least a pound but who knows if they will ever ripen. 3 ripe ones so far, taste was okay. Replanting it caused a stupice seed from last year to germinate too! But its just barely flowering. I will post pictures.when they ripen!!! __________________ Do You Like Worms?

October 4, 2011	#55
cornbreadlouie Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: SF bay area... north bay Posts: 242	We had the first real rain of the season starting yesterday. These are all of the tomatoes it produced minus 3 which I picked a while back. A lot of them had already split. The largest one topped out my ancient 500 gram scale. And a black prince just because. http://oi53.tinypic.com/2u3upgy.jpg I would never grow this plant again. __________________ Do You Like Worms?

August 16, 2011	#46
tedln Guest Posts: n/a	My Pineapple plants were the largest, most attractive in my garden. I did harvest a few good tasting tomatoes from them, but I will be growing a productive plant like Hillbilly that also produces good tasting tomatoes abundantly in that spot next year. Hillbilly would also have made a good windbreak if needed. Ted

August 16, 2011	#47
cloz Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Southern Connecticut Posts: 435	My Pineapple was very healthy too and produced no fruit. I also had a German Red Strawberry, Orange Russian 117 and Coustralee that produced no fruit. I grew 83 plants this year and those 4 were the only ones with no fruit.

August 20, 2011	#53
z_willus_d Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Eastern Suburb of Sacramento, CA Posts: 1,313	Huh, so I definitely pruned the crap off of my bottom 3rd Pineapple. I had to because of disease, fungus, etc. associated with our early cold Spring and hail. Perhaps the pruning can explain the explosion of near useless, (well I do plan to make salsa tomorrow) itty bitty little yellow tasteless baby fist fruits. I still don't plan to revisit this experience -- not for a long while at least.