Living with the nature is living abundantly, since the nature provides many kinds of things such as food, medicine, beauty, and fresh air. Not to mention the nutrients are possessed in each of that plants, or animals that we can take for food sources. Amazingly, the nature has provided us with tremendous amount of things we need to live our life. But most of them are still unknown or haven’t yet researched. Only a few of them we have known or even cultivated and developed. We need to learn more for the benefits of our natural resources for better use, and the most important is to encourage people to protect it willingly.
This yellow flesh of pineapple is not only delicious but also has a lot of health benefits
This time let’s talk about the yellow juice fruit calls Pineapple, a fruit with the leaves on the top that I call “The Crown”. The yellow edible juicy flesh which is mostly grown in tropical country like in my place Indonesia, is not something new. It is widely sold in the market both traditional and modern. We can see it in many forms as well, but the fresh one is always the best to take as long as you can find one. Last week, I walked around my farm and found out some pineapple's stems left aside and started to grow by itself. It crossed my mind that I could take it and grow it for regenerating it and to preserve the purity of the local variety of the pineapple. You may have difficulties to find the pure local Acehnese pineapple, which is very important to keep it and preserve for next generations (my own hobbies actually …LOL)
The Medical Benefit of the Pineapple.
But, since I actively involved in homesteading community and natural medicine community it has given me more attention to do and share something valuable world-wide base on my own experience. I felt my shoulder was rigid and got vomit for several times. I talked to my friend about that, and he suggested checking my blood, because it seems I had high bad cholesterol in my blood. That was one day 3 year ago, I started to aware that I had lots of bad cholesterol in my blood, I checked it in the clinic and the doctor said that my cholesterol was 248 mg/dL, but honestly I did not know what is supposed to be means. I came back to talk to that friend, and he suggested consuming pineapple after eating some specific food. Basically, there are many kinds of natural medicine can be used to overcome the cholesterol. Why pineapple?, What I have found in many kinds of medical and herb journals says pineapple rich of vitamin, enzyme and minerals. Two of them are C vit and Manganese which are the two components that help to break the amino acid and protein and produce energy and reduce the fat, and finally reduce the bad cholesterol, and the most important function of manganese is to decrease the glucose in the blood. And pineapple has special enzyme calls bromelain, and this enzyme helps our body because this enzyme work as anti-inflammatory. This fruit surely has many other benefits and posses a lot of good nutrients beside B1 Vit, B6 vit, and folate. Yes, it has sweet juicy taste of course, but be careful if you have specific allergic to this fruit.
The two pineapples I bought from the local market, to take the crown and to make my favorite juice
How to grow it
Talking about the benefit, some of you may have a question of “how I can grow it?”. Hereby would like to share how I grow this beautiful and tasty fruit. I have learned this way of growing this from my father long ago. We used to have our own pineapple “garden”.
1. Preparing the shoots before planting it to the ground. These are some method to prepare it, after selecting the good shoots
a. Take the young shoots from the old stem. I took those shoot from the stem that have been dumped away when the land was cleaned for planting papaya. So I collected some good shoots.
b. Take off some lower leaves for ensuring the roots have easy access to the soil, because it has roots under the leaves.
c. Dry it under the sun to ensure the mucus or liquid under the leave to dry before planting it to the ground.
2. Preparing the ground and holes
a. First step is clean the land from the weeds and other unnecessary grass
b. Make shallow holes on the ground, I use hoe to make the holes and the soil in the holes need to be plowed nicely to ensure the rood has enough oxygen at it first stage of growing.
The worm in the hole is the sign that the soil is perfect to plant anything. The soil must be plowed to the dirt.
c. Make sure the holes is not too close to avoid the leaves of it are twisted each other and the most important thing is to ensure easy access when we need to clean the weed. I made 1 meter space in between, because I need to take the shoots from it one day. The most ideal space between the hole is 60 cm.
d. Add some fertilizer into the holes, I used waste coffee powder that I collected from the coffee shop. That is excellent for fertilizer and I used it for many other plants including cherry tomatoes, papayas, cayenne pepper, and flowers as well. This is how the waste-coffee powder looks like. But, you need to remember that this waste-coffee powder must be left for a month before using it as the fertilizer.
This is the waste coffee powder that I used for fertilizer, I have left it for months in the sack for composting.
3. Planting it to the grounds
a. Planting the pineapple into the ground is an easy part but risky, pat good attention to the rooting part of the shoots.
b. Mix evenly the organic fertilizer with the soil to ensure the roots reach the soil faster.
c. Put it carefully into the holes, and press the fine soil to wrap the root of the stem, and then cover of the clean part (the part without leaves) with the soil.
d. Done
One thing to remember.
The pineapple can be grown from the “crown” at the top of the fresh pineapple. Because this crown has roots, the crown is the tuft of stiff leaves on the top of the fruits. I bought two of pineapples from the local market to take the crowns. It prices was not really expensive, which is IDR 20,000 / 2 pcs (about $1,3 USD). I have planted it to take the shoots when it grows older and ready to regenerate the best Pineapple by myself.
So, if you buy the pineapple please do not throw the crown away since you can use it to grow your own pineapples. Don’t worry about the land that you don’t have, you can grow pineapple in the pots and in plastic bag!.
The other benefit of the pineapple
Besides it possesses high nutrients, the pineapple has some other benefits. The eldest of my village once told me that long ago in the colonial era that our elder used the pineapple leaves for the yarns and finally made the clothes from it, or to saw the torn clothes. The method I took the yarns when I was a kid was by taking the leaves and smashed it carefully with the small wooden stick. When the fiber of yarn appears I took one by one and selected it carefully. I used the single yarn to make a bird trap by making the loop at one end and tie the other end on the small wooden stick and then nailed it into the ground. Indeed, I caught a lot of wild pigeons to eat by that way (I will share about making the traps in the survival post nest time).
I have two kinds of pineapple that I have planted a few days ago. One is the pure local pineapple and the other one is what it calls “Honey Pineapple” or in local name is “Nenas Madu”. The different between those two are the color of the leaves and the thorns. The local pineapple has a lot of thorns at both edges of the leaves are fully green. And the “Honey Pineapple” has no thorns and you can see the violet color in the middle of the leaves.
1. The Local Pineapple:
2. Honey Pineapple
Alright my fellow friends, this is how I live my life with the nature. I give one and then I will receive hundreds of benefit. It is time to return and relay to our mother nature for better life. Have a great day and happy farming. Thank you very much for reading my blog.
With my best regard
@el-nailul
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Very good description Exquisite fruit
hi @hosgug, nice to see you here. How was the things with your post. I am so sorry for what you had a few days ago my friend. thank for stopping by my post
very informative. I love pineapple.
Thank you very much, you will have no problem with the cholesterol if you consume it regularly @hennessy. wish you all the best
hope so ))))
I love the taste of pineapple, but can it grow anywhere or does it need a certain type of climate?
Great! We didn't know that pineapple has so many good stuff inside! Wish you wrote this 2-3months ago, then we could have plant a pineapple on our farm, but now we're about to leave the Costa Rica and in Poland is the middle of winter.
Ahhgg....but when the winter is over you can plant it, or if you are on your traveling, just enjoy the fresh pineapple somewhere you can get Daniel and Monika, and plant it when you get back to Costa Rica. wish you all the best @route-m-d
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Yet another informative post! You write so well - a combination of personal anecdote, facts and a how to as well. I can't grow pineapple where I'm from, but I absolutely love it and am going to buy one today just to enjoy it. it's awesome how you propagate it. I know the bromelain is helpful - when I went to Asia, I forget my asthma preventative and my lungs were terrible (pollution doesn't help) so I was eating lots of pineapple and turmeric which was meant to help. Thanks for this great post again, @el-nailul, hope you are well and healthy xx
I just made a post about my routine @riverflows with a little wish that someone else will get benefit from it. There are a lots of things (plant or herb) around us that can be used for medicine or healing our body. We just need to learn more, and ask from other people. in our community the first thing the would suggest is looking for natural remedy when we discuss about our illness what ever that is. Sometimes I just forget the herbs combination about that and this community has brought me back to my natural life. Thank for your support
Oh I love this fruit so so much! I often use it everywhere and anytime I can. I love it on pizza even! Thank you for this great and educational info about it!
You are most welcome @zen-art, and thank you for supporting my blogs. You cam make wine with this fruit if you like it. and this also good for healthy heart (some says)
Hi @zen-art, thank you for stopping by my post, you can make the wine from this fruit if you like it. and this fruit also has good benefit for the healthy of your heart (some says).
Would be great to try to grow one here in Houston. Just looked it up and it turns out that they will grow here.
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hi my friend @toddjohnson, it seem you can grow it at your place, just give a try when you buy one. take the crown and plant it either in the pots or directly to the ground.
This has some great information in it, but I think the climate I live in is not tropical enough to grow pineapples.
I think you can give a try for it, when you buy the pineapple try to grow it, let see what would happen. I don't know which area of climate they will produce the best. thank you for stopping by my post @steveblucher
I would love to grow pineapple like this! I had no idea they had roots already growing inside there. How cool and bizarre all at the same time. I'd heard that they can be grown from the crown, but I've never tried it.
Thank you for this awesome post! I love pineapple and use it frequently for its anti-inflammatory properties. :-)
hi @mattifer, how is you skiing going?, you can grow it in the pots as well...enjoy you skiing trip and wish you all the best
It's going very well! I'm about to go take my second lesson and try not to fall on my face this time. :-)
I may try some pineapple pots this spring.
I wish you get great success this time @mattifer
Thanks! I'm going to need all the wishes I can get! :-)
Love it since I was a child and I watched 'The Fruitties'.
Nice to know how it can be grown. Does it require much warmth? Can it be grown in a room?
if you grown it the room you will need to give it to the sun light for some time in a week, I think if you plant it the room it will be nice as the flower too. Wish you could try something out of it @manoldonchev
Who knows... maybe I will. When I find a bigger room, hopefully.
wish you get it soon @manoldonchev :D
I could eat pineapple all day long, it's just the right amount of sweet and a little tart. Thanks for the information about its health and other benefits, as well as growing it. Very informative :)
I love too, I cannot stop eating it before the plate is empty or my kids take it faster then me LOL. you are most welcome @sigilmancy
Wow ! This is amazing. I never thought that growing pineapples could be so easy. Even in a plastic bag.
Thanks for sharing. And the photos are just great.
if you grow it in the plastic bag, just make sure the plastic is big enough for the pineapple to grow, because it needs at least 25x25x30 cm of the volume of the soil for optimum growing. thank for stopping by my blog @ireenchew
I don't eat pineapple nearly enough so thanks for the information on the benefits it has. Didn't know it was so bountiful but I need to get over the tanginess of the juice (unless the rubbish ones in the hotels have been left for too long)!
You need to eat the flash then to avoid the smell, but the fresh flesh has fresh smell too. thank you for stopping by my post @nickyhavey
Mmm OK I will consider that next time I go to have a pineapple. Thanks for the info 🙂
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I knew that it was a great and healthy but I want to grow them to now hahah
just do it, when you have something in your own garden no matter it will produce the fruit well or not, but the stem itself is really good for decoration. and you will start to love it when it grow. the most beautiful thing for me is watching them growing up day by day :D. thank you @brittandjosie for stopping by my post. Have a great day
Its now always winter here but for sure going to try
You may want to try something for you tea while enjoying your evening in the winter @brittandjosie:
2 cm of cinnamon
2 cm of fresh ginger (slice it)
2 tea spoons of coriander
2 tbl spoons of honey
directions:
put those 3 ingredients and boil it in 2 glasses of water, and wait until the water turning into brown or the water left 2/3 of it first amount.
Pour it into the mug and add the honey
in can help to cure the fatigue, cough and fever/cold. and the most important is it will warm you body better than the liquor and much more healthier I believe.
enjoy the winter and wish you all the best
Dear I did and I am blogging about it !
I am happy that we are on the same path, I love home steading as well as natural medication.
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Thank you for the thorough post on pineapples. I had no idea how they were planted.
that is really good if you can get some benefits from my post too @gmatthe2. I hope you can give a try to plant it now.
Oh I wish we could grow pineapple here! It is just a bit too cold in the winter time for it. My boyfriend did attempt to grown one from the crown, but it died off once it got cold. When we went on vacation to the Dominican Republic in the spring I think I just about ate my weight in fresh pineapple! It was so good!
Dominican Republic has very good of kind of pineapple I think. You can try to grow it again when the winter is over @plantstoplanks. any time you buy the pineapple, just try to get the fresh one with the crown
All I know is I like pineapple on my pizza. I appreciate you taking the time to tell us more about this amazing, sweet treat!
Ren
Hi Ren, thank you for you appreciation of this post of mine, it will be lots better if you have time to try the fresh flesh of this juicy fruit. have a nice day @xcountrytravelers. obviously, you love to travel and see the world, don't you?
We do love to travel. We went to place out in California that grilled whole slices of pineapples and it was amazing! nom nom nom!!!!
Ren
How amazing is that?
To grow your own fruits and eat them
Living in a high rise doesn’t allow for that but I do enjoy fellow Steemians enjoying the fruits of their labour
Literally 😊
The pineapple with the jagged leaves are common here
Don’t think I have seen the Honey Pineapple ones
I shall look out for them at the market next time round
Thank you for sharing 😊
the are many kinds of pineapple actually, the honey itself has many varieties in my country, the smaller and even the biggest one can be twice of the one I show on the pics. what is your altitude at you living home @kaerpediem?. if you can not grow it at least you can find the fresh one in the market
Bang @el-nailul, Is it true pineapple juice may help soothe symptoms of a cough or cold?? i have heard that pineapple juice was part of an effective treatment for tuberculosis, to soothe the throat and dissolve mucus..
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yes it can, as long as that is not caused by allergic. but in some case as I knew it can be use for gastric problem as well. some says it can be use for cough and work really well, but I never try it before.
Did not realize they are so easy to plant, I throw the heads in the garden for the monkeys to eat (which they love), will try planting them since they are locally available and we eat when in season @el-nailul
How to test fruit is ripe, pull on one of the leaves if it releases easily it is ready to eat, too many pick fruit too soon where I live and that method I found resourceful when shopping for ripe fruit.
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as long as it touch the soil, it will grow eventually, but it must have enough water. the way you can see the ripe one is the size and the color of the skin, if the color is orange-reddish, that is good to go. but sometime they use chemical thing to stimulate the ripe process. and your method is new thing to me, thank for sharing it @joanstewart
How much pineapple do you consume? Do you juice it also?
@el-nailul This is very educational and so I assume your cholesterol is now normal. #steemitbloggers
hi @rebeccabe, thank you for stopping by my post. Yes I feel normal now, and able to eat curry again LOL, but I haven't checked my cholesterol for so long. when I got bad cholesterol I ate one a in two days, for a week and then I feel nothing wrong with my body anymore. I ate fresh flesh instead.
Ah I love an aul pineapple after the hard work is done.
Love this pineapple sketch.
hahahaha...thank you for the video, the conversation is so funny. especially when the man with glasses say "Pineapple on the pizza". thank you @blanchy
I wish they would grow where it snows. I would love fresh pineapple. The ones you pictured look perfect too. The ones in the store here are very green then go bad quickly and very acidic. Once in a while we get a really good one.
I found out last year about using it as a cough suppressant and it works wonderfully. Tastes so much better too.
Thanks for sharing @el-nailul. You always have great posts.
the way you choose it is by flicking on it and hear the sound, if the sound is load like knocking on the empty box, that is good enough or you can try the method of @joanstewart
or look at the color of it if you can find some @tryskele. thank you for stopping by and how is the winter going there?.
You may want to try something for you tea while enjoying your evening in the winter:
2 cm of cinnamon
2 cm of fresh ginger (slice it)
2 tea spoons of coriander
2 tbl spoons of honey
directions:
in can help to cure the fatigue, cough and fever/cold. and the most important is it will warm you body better than the liquor and much more healthier I believe.
enjoy the winter and wish you all the best
Oh both are great ideas. We usually go off of color if it's yellow with a tinge of brown, no questions we buy it. If we happen to get one with any green it changes so quickly and usually is very acidic.
I am definitely going to try the tea. Sounds wonderful. Thanks @el-nailul. You always teach me so much :D
I grew up in an area where pineapples were cultivated and they always remind me of Christmas. And thank you for reminding me of how easy they are to grow - although they are a long crop. As I recall, it's about 2 years before they bear. right.
You may also want to join the @ghscollective (Global Homesteading Collective), so here's a link to the discord group. Hope to see you there https://discord.gg/sbYhyx
Hi @fionasfavourites, thank for stopping by my post, we don't cultivate here for large quantities, but you are right, if we take the crown to grow it will need about 20-24 month to produce, but if we take the shoots form the other stem, it depend on how big the stem is. Normally it will take 10-12 month to produce, but another shoots would have been growing around and will produce within another 4-5 months.
thank you very much for the invitation, I think I have been in GHSC discord channel for a while now
I never realized that pineapple had so many benefits , I just eat it because I like the taste. Thanks for the education on it.
you my friend @sultnpapper, how are you there?, thank you for stopping by my blog. it has more benefits than we have already known. and only a few of them we human have discovered so far.
Doing fairly well @el-nailul, thanks for asking. You doing okay?
Yes, I am, but a bit hard busy with the farm and papaya, I remember our friend in Africa that you support, how is she/he doing now?
What a lovely way to know about something unique. I have seen so many pineapple seller on street but because never thought it can be grown like this.....an amazing way explain the benefits and homesteadingof the sweet fruit....
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it is my pleasure to share what I am doing in my daily life my friend @steemflow, thank you fro stopping by my post, yes and you can try to plant it now by taking the crown leaves and put it into the ground. have a nice day
Great post @el-nailul
I love pineapple now but that has not always been the case. In the UK pineapple is tinned or if it is 'fresh' it is a bit dry. Then I moved to Thailand a little while ago and tried some pineapple from the farm next door to the school that I was working at. WOW! What a difference. It was the juiciest, sweetest, tastiest pineapple I have tasted by a a long, long way. I have been converted! 😁
Thanks for your detailed info.
Gaz
Thai, Philippine, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia and many more south east asia has many similar thing in common @cheese4ead, You should visit Indonesia for your next vacation. I love to welcome you and your family in my place. Enjoy your lucky life in Thailand, the people are very hospitality. yet, not to mention the foods
Alas, I only stayed for two years in Thailand. I now live in Romania but I was lucky enough to visit lots of places while I was there, including Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia. I went to Amed in Bali and did some wonderful scuba diving.
Amed in Bali??? I use to live there for 3 month working with the villagers making Canoe and plant super sour grape for wine, Indeed that is so quiet place, not too many tourist come there at the moment I stay. I help friend who is making bungalow there as well @cheese4ead. wish you all the best
Very cool. We stayed for a week and did some diving. We were totally in love with the place and the people. I hope to go back one day.
I have never liked this fruit much and hence never even bothered to read much on it, but I can see it has many good health benefits. Thank you for sharing your knowledge
it time to try it, but find the sweet one @nainaztengra. I hope you would change your mind when you try a good tates :D
My favourite is pineapple
do you plant it @wales?, the fruit is so favorite and can be seen in many places in the world, people would love bruschetta and pizza with pineapple toping...hmmm so nyummi
I was always a pinapple person because they are so yummy but I never really knew about the benefits. As a person with hereditary cholesterol issues, this is good news!
I just wish I was in a tropical area so that I could grow my own! I wonder if it is possible to grow them indoors in Canadian climate?
But the REAL question is, should pinapples be on pizza. I say HELL YES!
I would say SUPER YESSSSS!! pizza with pineapple topping, but here in my place that is hell expensive and not affordable for me, and yet the bruschetta with pineapple toping...so nyummmiii @zekepickleman. I have no Idea to plant it in Canada, but I am sure it can be grown between 15-25 celsium degree, or some varieties can be grown even in lower temperature than that.
Bruschetta! I never thought of that! I have learned 2 new things in the last 5 minutes now! Awesome!
It is between 15 and 25 here maybe 1/4 of the year so no outdoor growing for me. That is why I was wondering about indoor growing but have no idea how well a tree would do.
That is a fabulous post! I didn't know you could grow it from the crown, I'll definitely try it (indoors, as our climate here isn't great!)
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You should try it indoor @felt.buzz, but that is long time produce fruit. it can be 2 years if you plant it from the crown. but at least you will be very happy to see it grow day by day.
I will try that:) thank you! :)
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