Ananas Comosus Fruiting Pineapple Live Plant Great Indoors Outdoor 5" Pot Garden

Ananas Comosus Fruiting Pineapple Live Plant Great Indoors Outdoor 5″ Pot Garden Simple to develop Low maintenance Incredible holder plant that can be filled in even chilly zones and brought inside for the colder time of year Easy to grow The plant you will receive is growing in a 5″ pot with fruit. Distribution and habitat: Ananas comosus are native to Tropical America. The Ananas comosus is a cultigen not know in the wild. It prefers light, permeable soils rich in organic matter with a pH between 5.5 and 6.0, although it will grow in heavier, poorer, more acidic soils. Bad drainage will inhibit the growth. Description: Ananas comosus is a perennial monocotyledonous rosette plant with long, narrow leaves bearing sawtooth edges, having a terminal inflorescence and a terminal multiple fruit. Adult Ananas comosus plants are up to 1m (3 feet) high and 0.5m (1.5 feet) wide. The inflorescence consists of 50-200 individual hermaphrodite flowers with tubular corolla. Flowers are normally self-sterile and fruit development is parthenocarpic. Ananas comosus makes a distinctive houseplant. It takes 2 years for the plant to mature enough to bloom and produce fruit. The fruit is produced on top of a sturdy stalk at the center of the plant. Homegrown pineapples are not as large as commercial pineapples. Houseplant care: Ananas comosus is slow-growing and do not have a regular annual rest period. Light: Ananas comosus likes really bright light, including direct sunlight. The sunnier the position, the stronger foliage colour will get. Temperature: Ananas comosus require warm growing conditions. They do best when they have high humidity which can be provided by standing the pot on tray of moist peat or damp pebbles or occasionally spraying of foliage. Favorable temperatures range from 21 to 28°C (70-82°F); temperatures in excess of 32°C (90°F) will result in leaf damage due to excessive transpiration. It is susceptible to cold, growth stopping at temperature below 20°C (68°F). Watering: Water moderately, enough to make the potting mixture moist throughout, but allowing the top centimetre (0.4 inch) of mixture to dry out before watering again. Fertilising: Apply to Ananas comosus standard liquid fertiliser every two weeks throughout the year. Potting and repoting: Use the potting mixture recommended for terrestrial bromeliads. Ananas comosus do not require a big pot for they have relatively little root. While yang plants may need to be moved into pots one size larger every other spring, a 15-20cm (6-8 inch) pot should be the largest size needed. It is best to use clay pots for these plants, since Ananas comosus in a plastic pot may become top-heavy and topple over. Propagation: Vegetative propagation is the dominant form of reproduction by the use of vegetative shoots including the crown, slips and suckers. Ananas comosus are propagated by cutting the leafy top from a commercial pineapple. Make sure to clean all of the yellow fruit from the leaf top. Peel 4 layers of leaves off and root damp sand-peat mixture (equal parts peat and coarse sand). Place the pot in a warm, slightly shaded position. The roots should appear in about eight weeks. After roots appear, transfer to an 20cm (8 inch) pot for growing. They are also started from offshoots from the main plant. Possibly flowering in 20–24 months and fruiting in the following six months. We would like to inform you that the item that is being sold is not the same as the picture, but is something similar and not necessarily identical.