Family heirlooms with plants

[catjac1975]

I found this lovely pineapple bud in my greenhouse today. It will flower and give me the sweetest pineapple to share with my family. It will take around 8 months to ripen if my memory holds true.

I have told this pineapple story before. My first plant came from the top of a store bought pineapple that I served to my family along with my parents so many years ago. It took about 3 years for the first one to fruit. Is was not something I thought would happen in a home greenhouse. Over the years I have gotten quite a few lovely fruits. Each time I cut the tops and grow it again. The original plant split into 3 and produced more delicious pineapple. All of these clones have been growing since around 1998. Every time I get a bloom it brings my wonderful parents to mind. I know many people have heirlooms from long gone love ones. For us it's plants.
Love you Mom and Dad. You probably already know we have a new baby girl in the

family.

 

[baymule]

That is beautiful catjac, just beautiful.

 

[Carol Dee]

I love that you are able to get the pineapple to fruit. For us it is a Christmas cactus that belonged to my MIL and her MIL before that. No one has any idea just how old the plant is!

 

[catjac1975]

I love that you are able to get the pineapple to fruit. For us it is a Christmas cactus that belonged to my MIL and her MIL before that. No one has any idea just how old the plant is! View attachment 30679

Wow! That must be very old. That is quite a feat for a Christmas cactus.

 

[baymule]

I love Christmas cactus, used to have lots of house plants, now I don't know where I would put any.

 

[Carol Dee]

I love Christmas cactus, used to have lots of house plants, now I don't know where I would put any.

I have the same problem. DH winters over some pots in the basement under grow lights. The cactus is out side from last frost to 1st frost , then in the kitchen for the winter. so far I have not killed it!

 

[digitS']

Grandmother Pearl had tomatoes from which she saved seeds. She called it "the peddler's tomato". My youngest uncle was a gardener. He gave me seeds about 25 years ago. He said that Pearl grew this tomato since the Great Depression.

A few years passed and I read a description of Porter tomatoes. I was curious and bought some seed. The first year, I thought that there might be a difference in foliage, the fruit was identical. The second year, I couldn't see any difference in the plants or fruit!

I asked my uncle if he would like some Porter seed. You might have been as surprised as I was how quickly he said, " No!" Maybe, we shouldn't be surprised.

Porter and Son Seed Company (long closed) was in Stephenville, Texas about 300 miles south of where Pearl lived in SE Oklahoma. Doesn't much bother me .

Stephen

 

[baymule]

I have the same problem. DH winters over some pots in the basement under grow lights. The cactus is out side from last frost to 1st frost , then in the kitchen for the winter. so far I have not killed it!

Start more and spread them around the family!

 

[Carol Dee]

Start more and spread them around the family!

We have and then some.....