{"id":5326,"date":"2014-11-14T07:12:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T12:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=5326"},"modified":"2021-12-07T08:56:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T13:56:33","slug":"pineapple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/11\/14\/pineapple\/","title":{"rendered":"Pineapple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5306\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/11\/14\/pineapple\/dscn0711\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSCN0711.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"922,691\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;COOLPIX S6200&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1411223831&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;22.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSCN0711\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSCN0711-600x449.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSCN0711-800x599.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5306 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSCN0711-600x449.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0711\" width=\"600\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSCN0711-600x449.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSCN0711-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSCN0711-800x599.jpg 800w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSCN0711-144x107.jpg 144w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DSCN0711.jpg 922w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve moved the pineapple.\u00a0 Initially I was worried about moving the plants when they were so large, but they needed sun that they weren&#8217;t getting in their original location:\u00a0 against the North side of the house.\u00a0 Without sun, they will never bloom; I found this out while trying to figure out what the plants were.\u00a0 I also found out that though it is really easy to grow pineapple from the top of any pineapple you buy in the store, it takes the plants two to three years before they flower and fruit.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a crazy investment for one primary and two secondary fruit crops before the plant is kaput.<\/p>\n<p>It feels really great to look out on those derelict veggie beds and see something growing that I meant to put there, even if the pineapple plants came with the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve moved the pineapple.\u00a0 Initially I was worried about moving the plants when they were so large, but they needed sun that they weren&#8217;t getting in their original location:\u00a0 against the North side of the house.\u00a0 Without sun, they will never bloom; I found this out while trying to figure out what the plants were.\u00a0&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/11\/14\/pineapple\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pineapple<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[212,295,214],"class_list":["post-5326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-gardening","tag-pineapple","tag-the-house"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8509,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2019\/08\/27\/pineapple-growing-myths\/","url_meta":{"origin":5326,"position":0},"title":"Pineapple growing myths","author":"leems","date":"August 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"When I first figured out that the huge, sharp, spiky plants that came with our house were pineapple, I went looking online for instructions and tips for growing and harvesting the plants. 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