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CValentine
Prolific Epistemologist
Registered: May 2009
Location: Bell County, Texas
Posts: 3846
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Fri January 8, 2010 10:58pm
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Rating: 10.00
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix
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BananaLee
Registered: October 2009
Location: St. Clair MI
Posts: 732
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Sat January 9, 2010 12:31am
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Wow! Different! It's cool!
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Rmplmnz
Banana Patch Attendent
Registered: August 2005
Location: Tampa, FL
Posts: 2448
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Sat January 9, 2010 1:47am
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Rating: 10.00
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4th Ratoon?
4th pineapple from the same plant?
I am going to have to get more sophisticated with pineapples....I just pick them when I see them (looking ripe) and divide the new crowns.
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momoese
Banana grower
Registered: August 2005
Posts: 7590
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Sat January 9, 2010 6:29am
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Yes, 4th fruit from one plant.
Ratooning:
After the fruit from the mother plant is harvested, a second or ratoon crop develops on suckers produced on the mother plant stem. The plant crop takes 18-20 months from the time of planting to mature while the ratoon crop is produced in only an additional 12 months. Sometimes, as many as three ratoon crops are harvested before the field is knocked down, tilled, and replanted. Usually the yield declines with each succeeding ratoon. Much of the profit is made from ratoon crops because the costs of field preparation, planting, and weed control have been paid for by the mother plant crop.
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ez
Registered: June 2010
Location: Pompano Beach, Florida
Posts: 1175
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Tue November 5, 2013 1:14am
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Rating: 10.00
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