Will,

I have a couple little pineapple plants. How long does it take to produce fruit?

wills, it seems things are really fast at your location. peaches already ripening.. 

Forgot the picture of the mulberry fruit.

Pete,

Everything is quicker here as our spring comes early.

Rafed,

It can take awhile.......18-24 months.  For you probably a bit longer due to the short growing season.  I have a bunch, 40+ so always have about 20 a year that produce fruit.  After they produce two fruit you tear it out and replant and the cycle starts over.  

I was warned on Garden Web that nobody can stick a mulberry in the ground and have it root!  I have 4 glorious Pakistan mulberries rooted.  They do have berries, but this is not the year for the berries.  Next year we will have a crop of berries the size of a man's palm.

Suzi

Well I will have to say they are wrong as well.....I bought a branch, brought it home cut it in to pieces and stuck it in the soil and about half rooted:)    Some forms of mulberry will not root that way ever some are easy.  

Wills, I'm gonna have to sit down with you and pick your brain on how to grow the pineapple you gave me. Good job!

Bam, you must be running out of room? You can't keep this break neck pace for ever you know? You are beast! Nice pics and he's the mulberries are excellent table fair.

My Dad had another Tupi sprout up last week so that's 2 out of 4 now. Any more of yours sprout?

Ryan,

They are pretty easy to grow, I keep them next to the house and that protects them from the cold.  



Robert,

Still just the one, checked a week or so ago and the root I looked at was still alive.  

Pineapple too?  Florida sure sounds like paradise.

Those mulberries are enticing and if they taste as good as they look your in for some memorable pie.

Have you ever made wine with the mulberries?  My wife, who is a artistic genius in the kitchen, has been going on about wine ever since I told her we were getting mulberries this year.

Don,

We made wine up in PA from the white mulberries.  I do make wine from my blueberries as well.  

The pineapples were about the only thing that survived my greenhouse failure this winter. They stayed about the same size but did not die. Looking forward to getting them some good, humid summer weather, so they can catch up. The mulberries and pomegranates are all waking up and taking off like crazy. Thanks again for the trades.

Worlds apart!
Those beautiful pictures of fresh mulberries on tree there and snow failing at -3C here.

Enjoy the fruit while we enjoy your posted pictures.

JP,

What greenhouse failure?


Ottawan,

Well when I am melting in July you will be a lot more comfortable:)  

It was about 30 degrees colder than normal here. I underestimated when buying a heater. It worked too hard and the auto shutoff engaged, sending my greenhouse down to around 28. I lost nearly every tropical plant I had overnight. Broke my heart. I had heliconias, bird of paradise, cinnamon tree (it is a struggling little stick now, trying to come back), cardamom, turmeric, ginger, galangal, many others. Only the pineapples and cacti came out unscathed.

Once I get projects outdoors completed, I'm going to tackle the greenhouse retooling. More (or better) plastic, better insulation, better heater - some of those, all of those, who knows? I have all summer to figure it out and try again. And maybe Mother Nature will not beat the hell out of us next year.

It really is not that hard.  I pruned the tips off the limbs then bent the limbs to the ground and tied them there.  The limbs then send new upright growth from the highest point of the bend.  I let those grew upright 4 feet or so then pruned the tips and bent and tied them down.  It makes it basically look like an umbrella on the ground.  Once the perimeter of the "umbrella" is filled out you just it go and it will get a bunch of upright limbs.  After the fruit picking is done you prune the tree back to the round form and new wood grows that will fruit the next year and the tree/bush is kept under 10 feet tall.