{"id":15151,"date":"2015-03-11T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=15151"},"modified":"2015-03-08T14:47:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T00:47:32","slug":"pineapple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=15151","title":{"rendered":"Pineapple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another experiment in growing tropical fruit&#8230;  Deb had sprouted a pineapple using the top to one she had bought at the farmers market.  With roots showing she asked me to set up a more appropriate home for the plant.  That came in the form of a large pot on our front lanai.  I was surprised when the pineapple not only survived but thrived.  the plant is an attractive pot plant just outside our front door.  I have shared some photos of the geckos and <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=14519\">anoles that call the plant home<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then the first signs of blooming appeared&#8230;  In place of a new leaf a little spiky ball appeared at the center of the plant.  This has developed into a very nice looking fruit, a recognizable pineapple covered with little purple blossoms.  It is another tropical fruit I never imagined myself growing, one of the interesting things about living in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>Now I just need to figure out when to harvest it!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15152\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=15152\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15152\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/CH17-72-15067-DC.jpg\" alt=\"Pineapple\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15152\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pineapple in fruit on our front lanai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another experiment in growing tropical fruit&#8230; Deb had sprouted a pineapple using the top to one she had bought at the farmers market. With roots showing she asked me to set up a more appropriate home for the plant. That came in the form of a large pot on our front lanai. I was surprised &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=15151\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pineapple&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[377],"tags":[1835,2101,562],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15151"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15156,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151\/revisions\/15156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}