How to grow pineapple
1, pick the right pineapple
Want to use the pineapple head to grow pineapple, you must pick a robust pineapple. When picking, gently pull the leaves, if it is relatively sturdy, not easy to pull out, and there is no insect eye on the leaf bush, and the pineapple is not greenish green, then it is ready to use.
2, cut down the leaf bush, pruning
buy home the pineapple, cut down the leaf bush, the leaf bush with the pulp should also be cleaned up, and then the leaf bush lower leaves broken off, revealing the white rhizome. Then put it in a cool and ventilated place and let it dry for 1-2 days to let the wound dry out.
3, hydroponic pineapple head
Prepare clean containers, plastic bottles or tea cups can be. Pineapple head suspended in the mouth of the bottle, if the mouth of the bottle is too large, poke a few toothpicks, the pineapple head on the mouth of the bottle, add water towards the bottle, the water level is about half of the pineapple head can be.
4, hydroponics rooting
1 time a day to change the water to increase the amount of oxygen in the water, to promote rooting, when the sun is placed on the windowsill in the sun for 3-4 hours, the rest of the time are placed in the diffused light in a good place, about 15020 days, hydroponics pineapple head will be able to root it!
5, transplanted on the pot
Wait until the hydroponic pineapple root system grows to more than 10cm, you can prepare to pot! Prepare loose and breathable soil, and just transplant the rooted pineapple head into the pot.
6, daily maintenance
After transplanting on the pot, first put the pineapple in a cool and ventilated place to slow down for about 1 week, and then transferred to a place with sufficient light to continue to care for, found that the potting soil is dry, water, 1 month towards the pot to bury a few composite fertilizer.
7, 3 years after the results
General of their own home raised pineapple, it takes about 3 years to result, all the flower friends if you want to eat a delicious pineapple, remember to be patient Oh!
Pineapple skin compost
Hand planted out of the big pineapple, hurry to pick and taste it, the taste is not sweeter? So what to do with the rest of the pineapple skin? The first step is to make sure that you have a good idea of what you're doing.
Steps:
1, prepare to leave the pineapple skin, rice water and brown sugar, and then prepare a clean large plastic bucket.
2, the pineapple skin, brown sugar and rice water are all loaded in the plastic bucket, sealed up, placed in the sun fermentation, about 3-5 days between the time to open the lid to breathe.
3, spring and summer temperatures, placed in the sun, probably only need about 1 month of time, pineapple skin can be completely composted.
4, the pineapple skin and water, according to the ratio of 1:50 into a solution, directly to the home of the moon season, trillium and other flowers. Because the composted pineapple peel is rich in phosphorus and potassium, you can make the flowers at home bloom more and more!
How to Grow Your Own Pineapple at Home
Step 1: This is the most crucial step, which is to find a suitable pineapple. It has well-developed and overall intact leaf clusters. For the small leaves in the core to be extra careful, not gently pulled off. There are no yellow spots on the leaf surface and no mesquite.
Step 2: Cut from the junction of the leaf clusters and the pineapple without pulp.
Step 3: Peel off the outer green leaves one by one from the lower green leaflets, leaving 5-10 big leaves according to the size of the leaf cluster. Be careful to strip only the outer green leaves. There may be some small leaves hidden between the green leaves and these are retained. This leaves 1.5 cm to 2.5 cm of white stem exposed in the lower part.
Step 4: Leave to dry in the shade for a few days and then hydroponize in a glass or suitable bottle with water halfway up the white stem but below the base of the leaves. Place in front of a window in bright diffused light. Change the water daily. Roots usually appear within a few weeks.
Step 5: Plant in slightly acidic, well-drained cultivation soil. Pineapple is a fibrous root, afraid of stagnant water in the soil. Cultivation soil does not need to be fertile, without adding basal fertilizer. Because the pineapple's root system is not developed, the pot does not have to be very large, the second year when the pot for a large pot (> 10 liters).
Give 6 hours of sunlight after a week. Keep the cultivated soil moist. Watering is a little special. Pour a small cup of water into the center of the leaf clusters and on the leaves, allowing the water to flow down the plant into the pot.
Start fertilizing when new leaves begin to grow. If using a compound fertilizer, choose a variety that is free of copper and boron. Prepare a small cup of fertilizer water at 1/4 concentration as directed and pour it over the center of the leaf clusters and over the leaves just as you would water. In the absence of a sound root system, pineapples absorb water and nutrients retained in the leaf clusters primarily through the foliage. This is much like an ornamental pineapple. After two months of planting the root system is fully developed and cared for like any other long day flower. Note that pineapples are more drought tolerant, so don't overwater.
Pineapple planting techniques
The first step, the choice of garden is very critical, for the pineapple, it is the most favorite soil is sparse, breathable acidic soil, in the PH value of 4.0 to 5.5, note that more neutral and more alkaline soil is not suitable for planting pineapple. For the planning of the garden, it is generally more suitable for the ridge, which can reduce the impact of wind, reduce the loss of soil and water, increase the degree of air, for the growth of pineapple, has a very big help. In terms of roads, we have to choose easy transportation as well as management and mechanical work to consider. For the drainage system, the top of the pineapple garden on the hillside should have a certain open loop mountain road, so as to prevent the rainwater flow from the top of the mountain rushing pineapple garden, should dig 50CM width of the drainage ditch, try to maintain the original two years of the back of the mountain. For the forest garden plowing, first of all said that should choose the local lot to be pushed flat, again using a tractor to plow over, for the size of the slope to decide whether the planting density can enhance the planting of the unit area as well as yield, appropriate density, increase the unit area as well as the number of strains, increase photosynthesis to enhance the capacity of the index, so as to improve the yield of pineapple.
The second step, about the way of planting, lies in the uphill road on the larger section of the use of planting density, both sides can be planted under the circumstances, to ensure that the unit area as well as the number of seedlings planted, and at the same time can be eaten in the orchard ventilation and light transmission, convenient for our management, in the same number of plants on the same situation of management, the use of mulch cover planting can be a higher yield, in the planting, the planting. Digging smaller pineapples are valued according to the plan specifications. In the application of fertilizer, the cost is small, effective, do not apply any base fertilizer plots, need more additional fertilizer, but also be able to increase the yield than other fertilizers, in the whole orchard can be applied in bulk.
The third step is the more critical orchard management, in terms of fertilizer pineapple needs potassium is very much, you can properly increase the probability of fertilization is still very much, in the specific requirements on top of the application of fertilizers should be the first is to re-add scaled fertilizer should be said to be after the release of the orchard in terms of weed control, new planting pineapple orchards should be three times a year weed control, of course, the artificial Weeding will be more complicated, it is recommended to use chemical weeding, can greatly improve the efficiency of work. Then for the pineapple buds, if all left behind will affect the growth of the fruit and affect the subsequent growth, so it is necessary to remove the excess branches and buds slowly, choose the appropriate buds to stay as next year's fruit plants.
There is a more critical is for pineapple planting common pests are heart rot, and foliar decay, you can use drugs to prevent available Rogaine spray, for the more serious disease seedlings should be said to be thoroughly dug up and burned clean, and heart rot, or mainly due to the rotting heart of the seedling and the death of the main prevention and treatment is the seedling is spread out, rolling back and forth, under strong sunlight, you can use grass or newspaper on the ground, the seedling can be used to prevent the disease. The main control is to spread the seedlings, rolling them back and forth, under strong sunlight, you can use grass or newspaper on the pineapple for preventing sun damage pineapple fruit.
Pineapple is not sweet how to do
The cause of pineapple is generally pineapple contains biogenic glycosides and pineapple enzyme. This enzyme is more abundant in the less mature pineapple, which is because the pineapple picked for easy transportation is more raw. So, pineapple is not sweet how to do?
1, salt water bubble
If you eat pineapple before not soaking in salt water, resulting in eating the feeling of astringent mouth, not sweet, then it is recommended to soak in lightly salted water. To make the pineapple sweet, you can cut it into small pieces, placed in the salt water soak about thirty minutes, you will find that the taste becomes sweet, because the pineapple pulp in addition to being rich in vitamin C and sugar also contains a lot of organic acids, such as malic acid, citric acid, etc., can make the pineapple part of the decomposition of organic acids in the brine, so that the pineapple flavor is sweeter. In addition, pineapple also contains oxalic acid, which affects the body's absorption of calcium and iron, soaking in salt will also neutralize its acidity, reducing the possible harm to the body. The salt salinity can improve the sweetness of the pineapple.
In addition, if you don't eat it without soaking it in salt water first, this enzyme has a stimulating effect on the tender epidermis of our oral mucosa and lips, which can make us feel a numbness and pain. Salt can inhibit the vitality of pineapple enzyme, inhibit the pineapple enzyme on our oral mucosa and lip stimulation, thus greatly reducing the occurrence of allergic reactions, but also feel the pineapple more sweet. Soak the pineapple in salt water first try to taste it, if the salt is too high, you can rinse it with water. If it's still not very sweet after a long soak, then fish out the pineapple and eat it with sugar.
How to soak pineapple in salt water: buy back the pineapple home cut into chunks, not too small or too big. Chunks into a vessel. Cooking salt do not put too much, about 1 spoon can be. Add an appropriate amount of cold water to soak. The soaking time is about half an hour.
2, hot water blanching
In addition to soaking in salt water to make the pineapple sweet, you can also get the pulp out and put it in a pot and boil it, which will make the protease contained in the pineapple be killed by the high temperature, so as to improve the taste of the pineapple. Or add a few spoons of sugar after boiling, the taste will also be good.
3, made into sugar water pineapple
Sometimes salt water soaked to eat when still good sour, can also be made into sugar water pineapple.
Cut the pineapple into pieces and soak it in salt water for about 20 minutes. Rinse the pineapple, put into the pot add water over the pineapple, high heat boiling, boiling skimmed foam, according to taste add rock sugar, medium-low heat cooking for about 20 minutes. Turn off the fire, delicious sugar water pineapple is done.
4, made dishes
If the pineapple is too raw, salt water soaked or not sweet at all, then the pineapple can be used as a dish. Pineapple can do dishes have pineapple rice, pineapple goulash, pineapple ribs, pineapple shrimp ball, pulling the pineapple, etc., the flavor is very tasty, fried vegetables, pineapple sweet enough to put sugar to make up for it.
Note: Generally pineapple is not sweet because it is still relatively raw. But pay attention to this situation. Hainan pineapple small size, sweet flavor, if you choose a cooked Hainan pineapple, its texture and taste is good, and cooked Hainan pineapple is not need to soak in salt water, soaked instead of not so sweet, sugar are lost. Therefore, Hainan pineapple instead of soaking in salt water, or it will lead to the situation of not sweet. Of course, if the Guangdong pineapple is the opposite, its own flavor is more sweet and sour, soaked in salt water will appear more sweet, ripe Guangdong pineapple can also be soaked in salt water, but the relative concentration of salt water can be put down some.