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Hello,

Has anyone had experience growing pineapples in the uk? In the garden
centre it said that although they are the commercial variety, it does
not get hot enough to ripen them here and they should be grown for
ornament only. Would a greenhouse not get hot enough? What temperature
do they need.

Thanks.

Well I have a 5 year old pineapple grown from the top of a supermarket
bought fruit, it's still growing strongly, and I keep my fingers crossed
that it will do something eventually.

Bob Flowerdew has grown pineapples in this country, inside a polytunnel, in
a specially heated house I think.

Anyway, what I have constructed is a small, was 18" cube of plastic sheeting
on a frame, I had to up this to a 2 foot cube last autumn. This then sits
inside the greenhouse, and has already this year reached, well over 100
degrees. The real problem as I see it is keeping the light levels up high
enough.

Duncan