Pineapple Inflorescence

The pineapples look good. I believe that two of them will be fairly large fruit when mature. One of the sugarloaf is kind of odd shaped but has lots of suckers forming. The other sugarloaf is uniform but I don't see any suckers yet. The Frances pineapple is uniform, as lots of suckers, and looks really plump in comparison to other inflorescences I have experienced.

Pineapple Inflorescences

They are looking great.  I might even get a few decent sized fruits.

Pineapple Inflorescences

The sugarloaf pineapples are progressing nicely.  Grandma F's pineapple is now producing an inflorescence.

Sugarloaf pineapple inflorescence

Out Everybody!!!

I put my avocado plants (what's left of them), dragon fruit plants, and citura tangerine outside in the greenhouse. I don't know if the avocado plants will make it. I left them out on the porch one night when it got down to 18F degrees, and they lost all their leaves and some of the branches were black. I pruned the trees back to where I found evidence of green cambium. I hope they recover. The dragon fruit is growing steadily, but is quite spindly due to low light conditions. Even though I have them by a window, the new branches are thin. I hope the greenhouse will either afford the plant more light and thus thicker branches, or I hope the plant goes dormant so that it is using its resources to grow weak branches. The citura tangerine was just in the way. My other citrus trees are doing well in the greenhouse, so I didn't feel that moving the citura would be a detriment to its growth.

White Sugarloaf Pineapple Blooms

The white pineapples are blooming, and they did so voluntarily. I have been meaning to enclose them in a plastic bag with some apples but never got around to it. They've kind of been neglected, having little to no sunlight and scant amounts of water. I hope I get some big, juicy, sweet pineapples.

Avocados

the meteorologists are calling for possible snow tonight. its gonna be cold for the next two to three days. I pulled the avocados in of the porch.

dragon fruit

still growing

Clementine Going to Flower

My clementine orange tree is going to flower.  It's been a long time since she's showed signs of vigor. I hope I can get some fruit to set and the tree continues to grow.

dragon fruit

my dragon fruit plant has come a long way over the summer. perhaps one of the five plants fruit this coming summer. the Physical Graffiti plant seems to be the most vigorous.

air layered tangerine

The air layer tangerine is very vigorous. I hope to see fruit in the next year or two. Meanwhile I still have the original plant.  It's about six foot tall.  Maybe the original plant will produce fruit this year.  She's getting too tall to keep in the green house, in the house, or on the porch.  I'll have to chop her back or put her in the ground.

Over-wintering

I've got a variety of over-wintering strategies in effect: plants in the house, plants on the porch, plants in the greenhouse, and plants covered with hay.