Tips for pineapple fruiting - In commercial pineapple production there are a couple of ways to induce fruiting. Ethylene is one. In some places people use calcium carbide to stimulate fruiting. Calcium carbide produces acethylene, which is a ripening agent, but calcium carbide seems to be forbidden in some countries due to bad effects on human health.⠀ ⠀ Or you can try using apples 🙂 Apples, as well as many other fruits, produce ethylene as they mature and ethylene is a fruit ripening agent. A

In case you didn't have success propagating pineapples,here are a few tips:⠀ 1) buy a pineapple with healthy leaves, not the ones that are already turning brown/dying, make sure the center leaves can’t be easily pulled out⠀ 2) The chance of rot is reduced by trimming the bottom of the crown, the so called crown butt, to remove fruit tissue high in sugars ⠀ 3) After taking the crown off, you can wait for it to callus (not absolutely necessary) and dip the bottom into a fungicide powder, to reduce

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