Sugar cane. 00:53 Pineapples. 09:05 Papayas. 20:39

When my Tia , was here from Colombia, we planted Papaya seeds from fruit we bought at the store, i let the seeds dry out on a paper plate first, we had a bunch of really nice little Papaya plants growing and in one night a snail or slugs ate them all down to stumps. We had them in pots, but they were on the patio floor and they climbed up and had a feast. You have to grow them in pots when they are small, and keep them away from where snails and slugs are, because they love to eat them when they are small seedlings etc. It's happened to me before, it's sad when it happens, hopes this helps you have success!

Thank you Gary, been waiting on pineapples.

absolute legend.

A pineapple pup for $30 or so. In a few years, you get 1 pineapple. Add in the cost of water, fertilizer, manpower, and land..... that's 1 expensive pineapple.

Thank you, Gary. Hoping to add pineapple to our food forest soon.

can you do a show on guavas and cherimoyas mango etc

Any thought of discussing mango cultivation?

my outdoor pineapples are half scorched, hit -3 a couple times, they are against a wall hoping for the best, we havnt hit -5c since the early 90s either

Is it at all possible to grow papaya in containers with nothing but pumice or perlite as the substrate? My papayas grow excellently over the summer months, but they always succumb to root rot and sciarid fly larvae come winter time, when I use a substrate of equal parts coir to perlite (I've lost a number of container citrus over winter, too). While I have great success using 100% perlite to root cuttings of various species, I find that a purely inorganic (mineral-based) substrate does not have the same pH buffering capacity and nutrient retention of a mix that contains at least some organic matter like coir or peatmoss. In a 100% perlite substrate, I encounter chlorosis and poor growth. Furthermore, I've found that a substrate based on nothing but perlite or pumice dries out way too quickly in the summer sun, and the dessicated (hence, dead) roots set the plant back, as it has to expend energy to replace those dead roots. Maybe I'll have better luck keeping papayas alive over winter if I increase the proportion of perlite; say 3 parts perlite to 1 part coir (or 1 part peatmoss)? I'll try innoculating my growing substrate with probiotic bacterial (Bacillus subtillis, etc) and fungal (trichoderma and mycorrizae) innoculants, to see if it staves off fungal and bacterial pathogens that attack the roots.

cantaloupe on a stick haha