Ripening pineapple. Also dragon fruit seedlings advice.?
Question:I have a pineapple plant in my conservatory which has produced a sizeable pineapple. This is the second pineapple, the last one over-ripened and tasted beery. How can I judge when the fruit is ready for eating without actually cutting it from the plant. I have also managed to germinate hundreds of dragon fruit seeds anyone have any experience relating to this.Advice would be appreciated.
Answers:
Ahhh dragon fruit, very nice. I had dragon fruit in Thailand and loved it, i get it from tesco and it has not much taste, shame. I must admit i don't know what it looks like as it grows but if it gets to about the same as you get at tesco you should be OK.
By the way i would love to grow it but where did you get the seeds, and how did you get them to germinate?
When you see the pineapple skin starting to turn yellow, it's ripe and ready to eat. You don't have to wait for the entire skin to turn yellow because by that time it will probably be more ripe than you like. Typically, if you see about 3 to 4 to inches of yellow shading on the top starting where the leaves are, then it will be ready. Dragon fruit I don't know about. Sorry. Does it have another common name?
Hi Derek, I had a similar situation when living in the Mid-East, and found that cutting down my pineapples before they were ripe, ie still very firm, then putting them in a cupboard with bananas from the little banana tree (stating the obvious), the gases produced by said bananas ripened the other fruits in days. Melons and alsorts.
Lovely stuff. So I suppose in the UK, hack them off early, and store them with supermarket bananas should do the trick.
Say a few days, up to a week.
All the best with it, as I once ended up with a pineapple the size of a tenpin bowling ball, but bananas about three inches long.
Oh well !
Bob
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