Great to see a new video from you.

Lol welcome back Chris, first video for a year ! Hope you'll find time to do a couple of updates this Summer 🤞😁😎

@gotropicaluk8362

3 жыл бұрын

😂 will try!👍🏻

@TT-zm7xm

2 жыл бұрын

How did you get on

Thanks for video. You convinced me, tomorrow I'm buying a pineapple😁. Looking forward to see some updates on your lovely citrus plants❤️. I left my outside during the winter and some of them nearly died 😔..

Everything tastes better when you grow yourself. God-bless you brother.

I am impressed! I bet that your home-grown pineapples are far more aromatic compared to those which have been shipped thousands of miles to reach the UK. The supermarket pineapples were grown in ideal climatic conditions, but they lose so much flavour and aroma en-route to our shores and when sitting on the supermarket shelves.

@gotropicaluk8362

3 жыл бұрын

yes it was a very good tasting pineapple! The plants are pretty versatile... and will grow in quite a range of climatic conditions. the only really main requirement is frost free, (which is why they are generally confined to tropical climates), and well draining soil.👍🏻

Wow its great to see you back doing videos, love this one. I tried growing a pineapple but failed, must try again as you’ve inspired me now, thanks. 😊

Great video! Looking forward to more videos from you this summer

My plant fruited in the fifth year and looked exactly the same as yours, i was really surprised how sweet it was, best pineapple i ever had, old plant is more than 3 ft now.

Great video, good to see you again.

Amazing :) I came looking to see if you'd done any vanilla orchid videos, but now I'm going to sort out my neglected dwarf pineapple instead :p

You're back! Glad to see you around again

@gotropicaluk8362

3 жыл бұрын

thanks.👍🏻

This channel deserves many more subscribers!

@gotropicaluk8362

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks.👍🏻

Hi, I remember coming across a video from a long time ago I believe 6 years ago about Desert King Figs. I’m wondering id be able to purchase some of its cuttings??

Brilliant, my next project! Cant wait! Thank you 😊

Another cool video! i started my Chilean Guava after watching your video and it's massive now. How is your dragon fruit tree getting on? A load of update videos would be great to see

@gotropicaluk8362

3 жыл бұрын

hopefully il be able to get a few more done over the summer! dragonfruit is doing well! still waiting for some flowers!😬👍🏻

Thank you this is great, do you only get one fruit off each plant?

Thanks for sharing. I’m going to have a go 🤞🏻. Wish me luck lol

Very much agree with your comment about not just the end product but the whole experience of trying to grow a pineapple in a pot. I have just planted one in a small plant pot, let’s see how well it goes.

@gotropicaluk8362

2 жыл бұрын

all best with your pineapple growing.👍🏻

@michaelbalfour3170

10 ай бұрын

1 year update?

Impressive video Chris. I have harvested at least 3 of my home grown pineapples and at present have 5 on the go. I overwinter indoors in a spare bedroom, because I have tried in our unheated green house with polycarbonate panes with disastrous results. I am still considering whether to install a heat mat. I have shared your videos on citrus plants and eagerly await an update

@gotropicaluk8362

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you’ve been enjoying some success with your pineapples. They’re a pretty low maintenance plant, and very suited to container growth. All my citrus is doing well. Will try and do citrus update during autumn.👍🏻

Good morning. Thank you for sharing - this is an excellent video. Could I possibly ask you … could the pineapple be planted into pot of compost and then kept indoors? Thank you. I send you love and light.

Could you please make an update from your garden? It is great to see what grows in the milder part of the Uk. I whant to plant next year a view more subtropical trees at my grandmas farm near Eastbourn.

can we plant these in the winter season??

Amazing!

I have 3 of my fruiting & flowering pineapple 🍍 plants growing in 28 litre plant pots, the bigger the pot,the bigger the plant & the pineapple 🍍 grows. In Australia I can keep them outdoors all year around since I live just north of Sydney (Newcastle) because it's not very cold during winter time in there. My first pineapple 🍍 plant started flowering about 2 1/2: years after I planted them it as a top,I have another 2 plants which I planted at the same time which flowered about 1-2 months later !

Welcome back, good to see you again. I'm attempting to grow pineapple as well. Great video. Chris you got any updates on your Hardy avos? Are you still selling them?

@gotropicaluk8362

3 жыл бұрын

I have one seedling left, as i sold all the others... haven’t got anymore seeds this year, as my avocado friends in texas are recovering from a bad winter... but i’m sure i will get some more in the future.👍🏻

Might try it out

wait overwinter in a unheated greenhouse? do you need to cover them with fleece to protect from frost??

@gotropicaluk8362

2 ай бұрын

no… i’ve not used fleece on plants in the greenhouse. the only heat source is a propagation mat. But it’s enough to keep the frost off and the plants still growing, although at a very slow rate.

The man from Del Monte says yes.

Hi, I'm a first year polytunnel, fruit and veg grower in Chester Cheshire area, I'm loving growing my first watermelons, melons, and now I see you can grow pineapples. I have a question, at the end of the video you cut the top off the first pineapple, if you wanted to grow from that top, do you have to put it as it is in water, or do you need to twist the cut fruit part off first? or do you plant that straight in the soil, I wondered if you did whether you risk the fruit part going mouldy? You demonstrated almost everything except this part, if you can help advise I'd be grateful thanks.

wow well done Go tropical, I am waiting for your Dragon fruit😊

@gotropicaluk8362

3 жыл бұрын

me too!😂👍🏻

Hi brilliant video-Thank you .I live in Oxfordshire and would love to have a go at this.When would you keep your plant outside (what month ish to what month)and when to keep it in a unheated greenhouse (what month ish to what month).Thanks again/Would appreciate any feedback 👍

@gotropicaluk8362

Ай бұрын

Generally they are moved outside around May time. Sometimes earlier depending on the weather. Then moved back to the Greenhouse by the end of October. You could keep them inside the greenhouse the whole time, but I find they take up quite a bit of space when i’m sowing summer crops in there, and so am quite happy to get them out of the way.👍🏻

@justinlovstrom9823

Ай бұрын

@@gotropicaluk8362 Thanks so much-Much appreciated , Thank you👍

Great looking result. Thank you for sharing. What's the best time of year to start the plants off? Cheers

@gotropicaluk8362

3 жыл бұрын

now is a good time to start some plants if your growing them from tops... otherwise slips and suckers can be done anytime.👍🏻

@RichardAStonemasonNOTfreemason

3 жыл бұрын

@@gotropicaluk8362 Thank you. i'll give it a go.

Awesome

Thanks mate, great info. I'm also trying tropical in temperate Melbourne Australia..

@gotropicaluk8362

3 жыл бұрын

sounds great... i see you got your dragon fruit to flower! i’m still waiting!!🤦🏼‍♂️

@UrbanBounty

3 жыл бұрын

@@gotropicaluk8362 the Vietnamese Pearl variety seems the hardiest so far. I'm actually in the garden making a setup for more sensitive dragonfruit under the house eaves now. I bought my dragonfruit stems very advanced. Maybe 4 or 5 years old in a forgotten corner of an old nursery so that helped a lot.

@gotropicaluk8362

3 жыл бұрын

@@UrbanBounty yeah mine was seed grown, so i guess it always takes longer. it must 5 years old by now. one day tho! one day!👍🏻🤔

@UrbanBounty

3 жыл бұрын

@@gotropicaluk8362 good on you mate!! 👍

I've just watched your new video but your settings don't allow me to comment. It's lovely to see something new from you. Please could you do an update of your citrus etc. I'm just getting into citrus growing.

@gotropicaluk8362

2 жыл бұрын

I know! Just realised that… trying to sort now.👍🏻

@gotropicaluk8362

2 жыл бұрын

Just sorted it…🤦🏼‍♂️ Yes will plan to do a citrus update soon! They are currently in there growth flush and are pushing flower buds.👍🏻

Hi, wondering if you can give some tips? I’ve tried many times to root a top, and it always goes mouldy, I clean the fruit off, I’ve tried the water method to grow roots and then plant, I’ve tried just putting them in the soil and every time the leaves all come loose turn brown and grow mould. What am I doing wrong? What’s your soul composition?

@gotropicaluk8362

2 жыл бұрын

i can’t really say that there’s anything technical to it. Make sure you root them during the summer, with plenty of warmth, light and ventilation. A Greenhouse is ideal for that or a sunny window sill. The soil needs to be acidic and very well draining. So mix potting grit into it. Keep it just damp, not soaking wet. Don’t use a pineapple top from a fruit that is too ripe. You can also let the top dry out a few days before planting… think that’s pretty much it. 🤔 All the best!👍🏻

Are pineapples adaptable to the lower humidity levels of the typical UK summer without experiencing leaf scorch? The Victorian-era 'pineapple pits' maintained high humidity levels. I have found that humidity-loving tropicals fare better under a shadecloth in the summer to lower UV. Otherwise, new leaf buds dry out and fail. This is what I have found, anyway. High humidity sort of acts like a 'moisturiser' for humidity-loving tropicals, and it mitigates against high solar UV when tropicals have been indoors throughout the colder months with minimal UV exposure. Even better, an extra large clear polythene bag works wonders, I have found, to encourage new vegetative growth for humidity-loving tropicals. Temperatures inside the clear polythene bag get very comfy (it acts in the same way as a proper glass greenhouse), and the evaporation and evapotranspiration is trapped, raising the humidity to sauna-like levels. My Nam Doc Mai mango is loving its polythene 'greenhouse', as are my Mediterranean citrus plants, which have since put out lots of new leaf growth. Because my plants have been indoors for much of the year, I find that the strong solar UV, combined with our lower humidity levels of summer (UK summers rarely see rainforest-like humidity levels) slows down the rates of delicate new leaf bud formation. To prevent the temperatures inside the polythene bags from rising to insanely high levels (40+ degrees C), I ensure that my 'bagged up' plants are under a 40% UV-blocking shadecloth.

@gotropicaluk8362

3 жыл бұрын

any plant that has spent most of its life under class with suffer sunburn when brought straight out in the summer. i always have tried to keep my plants outside as much a physically possible... the growth will of course be slower than in a greenhouse, but it will be stronger. to keep the humidity up on pineapples, make sure there is always water among the leaves. this is how they naturally collect it... even tho the soil it self can be on the dry side. 👍🏻

Any cutting that you would sell ? Thank you

How's your chocolate vine doing? Do you still have it?

👍👍👍

Great to see a video after such a big gap. Didn’t realise it takes a few years for pineapple to fruit! Thank you for the information. Are you still growing Mexican avocados and more importantly have you any spare seeds please? Have you been successful?

@gotropicaluk8362

3 жыл бұрын

i haven’t been able to get anymore seed at the moment, the winter in texas was pretty brutal severely damaged or killed many mexican avocado trees, so may be a while before i can get some. i have one seedling left which is doing fine... the rest were all sold to people who wanted them. if the tree i have continues to grow well, i will propagate it via cuttings and will make this available i people.👍🏻

@53peace

3 жыл бұрын

Oh dear I seem to have missed your sale. Are you planning to grow the avocado in containers? I’ve seen them growing in large containers in hot countries. Good Luck

@gotropicaluk8362

3 жыл бұрын

@@53peace the plan is to eventually plant it in ground.👍🏻

@edark94

2 жыл бұрын

@@gotropicaluk8362 If you grew the avocadoes from seed, how do you know which variety you'll get? They aren't as far as I can see online true to seed, which is why I haven't bought seeds online & attempted to do this myself. Cheers!

@gotropicaluk8362

2 жыл бұрын

@@edark94 The seeds aren’t sold as named varieties, only as seedlings of a variety. Because the seed i got was from mexican avocado plants, the plants will show similar cold hardiness. The pure mexican varieties aren’t commercialised and so have less inter breeding, so are more likely to have similar properties to the mother plant the seed was taken from. The fruits are not shipped outside their native range, so you won’t find them very easily.

Hi Chris, are you still growing ice cream bananas? Had any luck getting them to fruit yet? Also would love a citrus update video if you get a chance

@gotropicaluk8362

3 жыл бұрын

no i lost the ice cream banana in the week long freeze we had this winter... you win some you loose some. i will plan to do a citrus update soon.👍🏻

Good to see you back! How are the persimmons getting on?

@gotropicaluk8362

3 жыл бұрын

Hi John, unfortunately i lost the tree to verticillium wilt! so i now need to remember not to plant anything similar in the same spot or il loose that to!👍🏻

Do you do anything with them in winter ?, as you have them in the ground there don’t you ?.

@gotropicaluk8362

3 жыл бұрын

keep them on the dry side through winter. stop watering them around october, and then you can start again around march time. i also have a propagation heat mat in the greenhouse, so when we had that week of freezing weather, i just put the plants on that. didn’t loose a single plant!👍🏻

@gotropicaluk8362

3 жыл бұрын

no they are grown in containers.👍🏻

@garycard1456

3 жыл бұрын

@@gotropicaluk8362 Sort of treat them like cacti and succulents- keep on the dry side during winter to prevent root rot

@garycard1456

3 жыл бұрын

@@gotropicaluk8362 Good luck keeping pineapples alive in the rain-sodden flower bed of a UK garden during winter! 😂

Yo Chris! Welcome back!

@gotropicaluk8362

3 жыл бұрын

😂 thanks Dan!👍🏻

@homegardens7682

3 жыл бұрын

@@gotropicaluk8362 how did your Musa Dajiao do?

@gotropicaluk8362

3 жыл бұрын

@@homegardens7682 bit the dust... ☠️ which i’m surprised at 🤔 musa basjoo came through absolutely fine!🤦🏼‍♂️ i may try Dajiao again tho... it may have a better chance if it has a couple of years without a hard winter to get well established. But will have to see... how’s life in essex?

@homegardens7682

3 жыл бұрын

@@gotropicaluk8362 I will drop you an email!

I've tried so many times but unsuccessful because I found out in the end that they always rot in the middle already when you buy them from the shop. Apart from one I bought from Spain and the pineapple was so fresh and ripen.

@Shayne-pq1rs

Ай бұрын

If they rot in the middle, leave them grow because they will send up side shoots from the old stem.

Hi you sure do have green fingers, wonderful work. Can I ask have u got any updates of your Dragon fruit as it's been 3yrs plus not seen or heard anything, are the still alive? Can we get an update plz.

@gotropicaluk8362

2 жыл бұрын

dragon fruit is still going strong. Nothing new to report as yet, still waiting for flower buds… maybe one day!🤔

@leewatson3688

2 жыл бұрын

@@gotropicaluk8362 one day hopefully , I will keep my eyes open as I started some earlier in the yr, from cuttings brought online..respect! Keep on doing what ur doing, are u on Instagram?

@gotropicaluk8362

2 жыл бұрын

@@leewatson3688 Thanks mate… no i’m not on instagram. I usually throw out a few pics of what’s going on around the garden here on youtube once in a while, but don’t find much time lately for recording videos…

@leewatson3688

2 жыл бұрын

@@gotropicaluk8362 understandable, suppose it's time consuming, anyway respect still will keep my eyes open..bless young man!

Hi Chris, Is that an avocado??? Where did you get it i would love to buy one

@gotropicaluk8362

3 жыл бұрын

avocado?🤔

@frfr9524

3 жыл бұрын

@@gotropicaluk8362 lol i mean the plant to the right of you. It has tons of small brown fruits and leaves look like avocado. Might be wrong probs something else i was just wondering

@gotropicaluk8362

2 жыл бұрын

@@frfr9524 sorry for late reply! thought i’d sent message… the plant in the video is a seckle pear. 👍🏻

Bom dia amigo sou agricultor no Brasil 🇧🇷 e produzo abacaxi 🍍 parabéns pelo vídeo saudação do Brasil 🇧🇷

@gotropicaluk8362

2 жыл бұрын

Obrigado! Saudações a você do Reino Unido.

2024 as more tropical weather inbound thought why not try grow a pineapple

Dragon fruit update?

im in kashmir long winters killed my two pineapple plants only one remaining

😅jjl