How does pineapple grow, and how can you "tame" this exotic plant

"Eat pineapples, grouse grouse!" - in his time Mayakovsky branded representatives of the bourgeois class, pointing to a very high level of their life. After pineapple in prerevolutionary Russia could appear on the table only among those people whose finances significantly exceeded the average subsistence minimum.

Today, it is not so rare in the homes of Russian citizens is pineapple. Even an average-sized family can afford to put on its table this marvelous delicacy, albeit in small quantities, and not every day.

Another question: is it worth eating pineapple, a fruit that does not grow in our climatic zone and, perhaps, does not meet the requirements of our body?

The science of dietetics answers unequivocally: pineapples are extremely useful! You can eat them, and even very necessary. It is not for nothing that pineapples as components are part of the baby food, starting with the very first complementary foods.

We advise this, still recently exotic, fruit and with a variety of diseases. After all, it, thanks to a complex of biologically active substances contained in the flesh of the fetus, promotes the sanation of the intestine, has a stimulating effect on digestion, breaks down fats and reduces the viscosity of blood in humans.

Useful properties of this product are known today very much. But not everyone knows how pineapple grows . Although everyone knows for certain that this plant is thermophilic. And in fact, his homeland is considered Paraguay and the south of Brazil. But today pineapples began to be grown also in southeast Asia. The original specific method of CAM photosynthesis of this plant allows it to adapt in places of high drought. After all, carbon dioxide has the ability to store leaves in the night, so during the day the stomata of the leaves are closed, which reduces the evaporation of moisture. Also, the absorption of rainwater falling into the axils of the leaves is an excellent device for survival during droughts.

Speaking about the growth of pineapple, we should also clarify the fact that such delicious and useful fruits do not appear on palms, as many ignoramuses consider. A plant called "pineapple" is, rather, a perennial grass, but not a tree.

First, a rosette is formed from the lower long prickly leaves, then a flower-bud appears from its middle, on which bisexual flowers are formed. In nature, they are pollinated by birds of the hummingbird. As a result, under the "scales" of the copulation (and the pineapple "bumpkin" is nothing more than a copulation, and not just a single fruit!) Seeds that resemble apple, but smaller ones develop.

Therefore, pineapple can be propagated by seed method. Only the taste of fruits grown in this way is much inferior qualitatively to the fruits of the plants of new selection self-pollinated seedless varieties. Yes, and find in the middle band of Russia, the hummingbird will not be easy at all.

Thanks to the self-pollinated varieties of pineapple, it became possible to get the product year-round, growing it on specially equipped plantations or even in greenhouses and at home. In order for the pineapple at home to bloom at the time when we need it, in the axils of the leaves pour acetylene - a solution of water and calcium carbide.

Of course, the plant is extremely capricious and requires a lot of care. But after all, some species of cactus blossom once in a hundred years, but this fact does not frighten cacti. Therefore, if there is a desire and patience, you can try to plant on your window in the pot this amazing plant.

But how does pineapple grow, how does it multiply in domestic or greenhouse conditions? As we have already shown, we can grow only hummingbirds without seedless self-polluting varieties. And the plant can be propagated either by lateral shoots that appear in the plant from the sinuses of leaves, or from the "tuft", located above the plant above the oviposition - "cone". The germination of the "tuft" stuck in the ground occurs for about one month.

So now, knowing how the pineapple grows and how it multiplies, you can bravely tackle pineapple cultivation. And then the poet's words about pineapple will cease to be accusatory, but will become the motto of a hardworking and patient home pineapple.