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- Harvesting and sowing seeds - that's how it works
- Seed harvest is pure luck thing
- Professional sowing of pineapple seeds
- Tips & Tricks
Harvesting and sowing seeds - that's how it works
A fully matured pineapple may have seeds. If you like to experiment as a hobby gardener and breed new varieties, you will sow them. The following instructions point the way to successful propagation by sowing the seeds.
Seed harvest is pure luck thing
The culture pineapple from the supermarket rarely contains seeds. Since cores are undesirable in modern fruit, they are bred away without further ado. Into this comes the fact that pineapple plants are self-sterile. As a result, the fruits thrive without fertilization - no fertilization - no seeds. If Fortuna weighs you, grab a specimen of seeds anyway.
Choose a particularly large fruit, as it can hide up to 30 seeds here. They are 5-15 millimeters under the brown shell. With a length of 2-3 millimeters, a width of 1 millimeter and their reddish-brown color, they stand out clearly from the golden yellow flesh.
Professional sowing of pineapple seeds
If the harvested and cleaned cores lie in front of you, they will first receive a pretreatment. If seeds come from a pulp, they are always provided with a hard shell for germ inhibition. Because they are too small to roughen the hull with a file, they are soaked. Put the pineapple seeds in lukewarm water for 24 hours. Then you handle the sowing so:
It takes a temperature of 28-30 degrees Celsius and an air humidity of more than 80 percent to put the seeds in a good mood. Ideally, a heated mini greenhouse is available for this purpose. Alternatively, put a plastic bag over each potty. As a rule, the nuclei take 8-12 weeks to germinate. During this time, they must not get under direct sunlight.
Tips & Tricks
Did you know that a pineapple is not a single fruit, but a fruit dressing made up of more than 100 berries? These close together around a fleshy inflorescence axis in the middle of the juicy-sweet pulp. This fruit stand axis is also edible but not very popular due to its hard consistency.
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