Eight-Years Ago Today. Backyard Urban Garden in St. Petersburg, Florida.

A Pineapple growing in my parent’s backyard urban garden. When I worked at the produce department at Publix, the manager told me that I could grow a Pineapple from the tops of the fruit we cut off and would have discarded. It would take a couple of years for the plant to grow big enough to produce the fruit again. Somewhere else I learned that calcium carbide can be used to induce flowering in one year old plants. The calcium carbide reacts with water to produce acetylene gas which is similar (but not the same) as ethylene.