Thursday, May 19, 2011

Tropical Plant Roots

This is just a little update on my efforts to propagate a couple of the tropical fruits I recently bought for a salad.


Here is the current status of the pineapple rooting in water.  I initially had it in way too much water, which caused some of the bottom leaves to begin rotting (not rooting).  I peeled them off, washed the plant well, and put it in a much smaller jar with water only covering the bottom nub part where the roots were coming out.  It is doing much better and should be ready for planting in soil in a week or so.



The mango seed has obviously sprouted and started putting out roots.  I'm not ready to dig it out of the damp peat moss yet for planting, but probably will check on it this weekend.

2 comments:

  1. Fun! Thanks for the update, maybe I need to go buy a pineapple.

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  2. Do it! They are tasty. :)

    I'm not holding my breath that I will get a new pineapple out of either of my two pineapple plants but it's fun to try. Fun for kids, too.

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