How my Cycad looks Now
in January this year (2019) my beloved Cycad grew the pineapple like seed pod in the centre of the leaves. It has been about 5 years since this last happened. Eventually the pineapple will burst open and scatter all the individual seeds. I will collect these and plant them in pots, because the last time they were not collected (I was overseas) and insects bored into each seed, consuming the contents so they were no longer viable seeds.
In a previous post "My Rainforest Garden" I included a photograph of my 30 year old Cycad, which has grown huge now despite the fact that it has bamboo growing all around its roots. I spent several months last year removing all the bamboo roots from the garden it resides in but I could not remove what was around it's roots for fear of damaging its root system. So I have to painstakingly chip away at the bamboo to prevent it from totally crowding out the beloved Cycad.
Spring Shoots
Every Spring it grows a set of new leaves which are very soft and delicate when the first appear, so I pray we don't get a storm until they have hardened which takes a few weeks. The photo below was taken just after the new shoots appeared, and started to open up to reveal beautiful, bright green sof leaves.
After New Leaves Hardened
The photo below was taken after the new leaves fully oped and firmed up. They are the leaves which are now closest to the pineapple.
I hope you enjoyed this post and the photos of my 30 year old Cycad.
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Thank you so much I really appreciate that🙏
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Thanks so much really appreciated
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Hi @enjoycompany. That is very cool. Shame it took it five years for another one to grow. Good luck with the seed collecting from this one.
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Thanks for stopping by and featuring my post. I will take some time to check out what you do.🤙
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That's amazing! Looks like growing pineapples is kind of hard, eh?
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Thanks for liking my post and commenting and thanks again to @stortebeker for featuring it.🙏
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That's SOOOO cool!
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I love it, I have waited patiently every year hoping it would happen and finally the year after I dug up all the bamboo roots, it finally happened. I burned the bamboo roots in a huge bonfire that burned for days, it was a several month long mission to dig it all up. It paid off! Thanks for your comment & upvote🙏
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Would love to plant pineapples in my garden.
The problem is: I live in Germany.
No chance for that...
Maybe one day in Sardinia :-)
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Each pineapple you eat you just keep the top and plant it and a new pineapple will grow out of the top of the old one. Very lucky people sometimes get two growing out of one top (twins) but this is rare. Good luck hope you get the chance to try this 🙏
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Congratulations!
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Thanks for your comment 🙏
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Just to be clear, I call this a Pineapple but it’s not actually an edible fruit, it just looks like a Pineapple. You could try growing a Pineapple in a green house in Germany.
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