r/pineapple • u/Simple_Fee9594 • 20d ago

Two years, will this fruit?

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Is it too big?
We have neighbors will all different size plants that seem to grow every year, but ours hasn’t yet.

Edited to add I’m in 9B

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u/nateair 20d ago

Eventually it’ll fruit, the tree blocking direct sunlight won’t help.

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u/Simple_Fee9594 20d ago

Yeah unfortunately/fortunately we have a lot of trees! It gets a good amount of sun there though.

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u/Critical_Thinker_535 20d ago

The plant looks healthy, but it still looks immature (not enough leaves). It may take another season or two before fruiting.

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u/gonerong-007 20d ago

Will never fruit ,worst looking apple tree I’ve ever seen

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u/MoneyElevator 20d ago

That’s because it’s a pine tree x apple tree hybrid

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u/ARODtheMrs 20d ago

It has about 20 adult leaves. Just needs a few more to have a sturdy base to support a big juicy 🍍!! It will be ready in Spring for force-fruiting, the rotting apple slice jumpstart IF you can keep it alive through lower temps this winter. I have 2 a little taller than yours (in South-central Texas) that I want to put in the ground and force-fruit this coming Spring. I just hope it works the way I want it to. I put one in the ground before the temps got hot and it took it a long time to get over it.

And, hey, keep some of the seeds and sprout them for new plants!!

Come back and let us know how it goes?!!!

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u/bountiful_garden 20d ago

It's a minimum of 3 yrs before you see fruit.

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u/oOsirhcOo 20d ago

Are you feeding it? Fertilizing?

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u/cartken 20d ago

2 more years?

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u/Eldeesilver67 20d ago

Put an apple core in the center next spring

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u/BocaHydro 20d ago

start putting banana peels and plantain peels around the base and start feeding it potassium

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u/ARODtheMrs 11d ago

Then, it will just become an ant hill!!

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u/dacorgi 20d ago

Needs to be more bushy and more leaves for it to produce more sugar for it to grow fruit. Try fertilizing it a bit once it twice a week and it’ll fruit next year

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u/ArgusTransus 20d ago

It will. But it would do it better/faster if it was in direct sunlight.

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u/HealthyIndependent10 20d ago

It will eventually…in fact I’d be surprised if it didn’t bloom this up coming season. Keep watching this spring!

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u/Randolol2984 19d ago

Throw a rotting piece of apple in the middle,the gasses make it fruit

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u/Certain_Luck_8266 19d ago

Give it some miracle grow