Growing a Pineapple Entry 4 + Lilikoi sprouts

Update on the pineapple:  our new pineapple plants is going strong, with the leaves in the center growing quite a bit, and new leaves being added.  see the picture below.

Additionally, about the same time that we planted the pineapple, we planted about 30 lilikoi (passion fruit) seeds in a rectangular tray.  Two weeks ago we had two sprouts:

This past week, I split them apart before their roots could intertwine, and so the smaller one was put in a new small pot.  since then, two more sprouts have popped up (one is still very small and barely visible in the back-middle of the tray).

Growing a Pineapple Entry 3

After two weeks in the glass of water, the pineapple crown had grown decently long roots as shown in this picture:

We had a medium sized pot (8" diameter) available as well as some potting soil, so I filled that and made a small depression for the new plant:

And here is the planted pineapple crown:

After a couple of months, this will need to be reported into a 12" pot.  By then I should be needing to repot the avocado trees, which are currently occupying that size pot.

Growing a Pineapple Entry 2

Update on the pineapple.  At this point it has been 6 days since I started the pineapple in the glass, and now it has started to grow a few roots from the root nubs.  I will probably be potting it sometime this week.

Growing a Pineapple Entry 1

Due to a request, I am documenting how we have been growing pineapple plants.  We have some that are over a year old, so we can keep them alive for at least that long.  They don't produce fruit for at least a year and a half, so the jury is still out on whether ours will do that.  I started a new plant yesterday for this series of posts.

Without further ado, let's start:

Step 1:  purchase a pineapple with a crown.
Step 2:  grip the fruit and crown in separte hands and twist apart.

Step 3:  remove several bottom layers of leaves until you have a couple of rows of root nubs visible.

Step 4:  place the crown in a glass of water such that the roots are covered.

I will add more posts as this new plant grows.  However, until then, here are some of our current plants that are a range of ages.  We also have a couple of avocado trees that have successfully sprouted.  Sadly, I failed on the mangos.  Next year!

Mango Sauce

Note: we've been quite busy lately and thus no posts in a while, but it has been a good thing. :-)

Question for you: have you ever gotten so many mangos (for free from coworkers, they seem to be the zucchini of out here, when you have some, you have a ton) that you can't eat them all before you go bad?  Well have I got the solution for you!

Mango sauce!  Like apple sauce, but with mangos.

Not much too this, I cut up about 5-10 mangos into about half inch cubes, and cooked them down with some cardamom in place of the cinnamon you might use in apple sauce.  When I only had unripe mangos, I added some sugar, but the best was to have a combination of ripeness.

Cut mango in the pot.

Ono mango sauce ready to serve.

Mango season was back in June/July, but I just realized that I had forgotten to make the post.