How to grow pineapple at home from the top. Exotics on the windowsill

Pineapple - a tropical fruit that develops from the core of the thick bushes growing on the ground. This fruit is not only pleasant to the taste, but also useful.

It is believed that it is difficult to grow at home due to its tropical origin.

Consider what actions to take to the top of the pineapple is not only rooted, but also got into the fruit.

Training

The fruit from which you will take root tip, must be dense to the touch, have a golden yellow color. It is desirable to acquire at the end of summer.

In the winter, it can be primorozhen, and from such a fetus does not get a quality plant.

To prepare the top step by step:

1. Retreat from the withers of 2-3 cm, cut off the tip of a sharp knife along with the leaves.

2. Strip the lower part of the cut-off portion of the skin and leaves. As a result, the bottom rounded heel turn.

3. The flesh is cut, cut a little dried.

4. Pour into a glass of warm water, immersed cutting so that it was covered with liquid on 2-3 cm.

5. Vessel with appendage is exposed to light, a warm windowsill.

Every 2-3 days is necessary to change the water. After 18-20 days, the handle will be rooted, and it can be planted in a pot.

Landing

Initially prepared pot. It should be small in size, have drainage holes for excess water leakage.

In pineapple root system grows horizontally, so it required a shallow container, but in a wide scope.

The sapling is planted container prepared as follows:

1. On the bottom of the pot is placed a thin layer of drainage.

2. Pot filled with a substrate consisting of sand and peat.

3. Make a small indentation in the middle, put there rooted material to fill it with soil (before leaf growth).

4. Lightly compact the substrate, and then pour it.

5. Cover with foil plants.

Pot with the plant is necessary to put in a bright, warm room. Film every day should be opened for ventilation seedlings.

When the top of the socket will begin to appear young leaves, the film is removed. Further care is watering, fertilizing, transplanting as pineapple growth.

The first flowering occurs in 3-4 years.

When the plant will give fruit, it gradually begins to die. But at the same time from his roots begin to grow young bushes, which can also be transplanted into individual pots and in a few years to gather the harvest from them.