Pineapple honey can not be planted in the north.
Pineapple honey is vertically distributed below 300 meters above sea level. Need high temperature, humidity, frost-free climate, suitable for born in the annual average temperature above 22-24 ℃, the coldest month average temperature is not less than 12 ℃, the absolute low temperature is not less than 0 ℃, the cumulative temperature of more than 7500 ℃, the annual rainfall of 1200-1800 mm of the region.
Saplings and young trees are sensitive to low temperatures, when the radiation-type low temperature occurs 0 ℃, the terminal buds, leaves, cold damage, down to -2 ℃ when the blight. Advection-type low temperature occurs when the average daily temperature of 9 ℃, adult trees occur serious frost damage.
Producing areas appeared more than fifty days of rainy low temperature (8.9 ℃) weather, many plants freeze to death. Drought resistance is moderate, long drought often drop fruit, too much rain during flowering, also affects pollination.
Pineapple honey picking process
Pineapple honey live tree 6-8 years fruit; thirty years of life to reach the fruiting period, there is a distinction between large and small years. Generally February-March flowering, July-August fruit ripe. Individual places also have two flowers and two ripe a year.
Take the seed mother tree should be selected fast-growing, early fruiting, high yield, at the same time, the fruit should be selected trunk lower, fruit large, outer skin spines thick and sparse, wrapped in a fat flesh fully ripe almost ask for a few days to place the fruit.
Soften the fruit, and then break open to take out the seeds, wash with water and dry. Seeds are not resistant to storage, the vitality can only be maintained for about twenty days, should be picked up with the sowing.