I'm cutting my pineapples off the water wagon and see if that jump starts them. I agree about the taste of local pineapples vs those cut somewhere else. We are getting some fairly good ones in the stores from places like Honduras that are farther south but the ones from our area will start in a few weeks. Then, I can buy them from the back of trucks that are really fresh and sweet. Same with mangos, the local ones are just starting to get ripe. I'm happy to buy the Honduran ones now but I'll be really happy in a few weeks when everyone is trying to give them away by the box full. Then I'll start making chutney and cutting them up to freeze.
How about bananas? I've got 2 bunches that are about to ripen and I just last week made 2 more batches of banana bread to get rid of the last of the frozen ones from the previous bunch.
I grow these bananas mainly for the foliage, they are very broad leafed and not very tall. The fruit is good, it's a bit smaller and sweeter than the regular grocery store type, which are called Roatan here. I'd love to have some of the small red ones that taste of apples but the foliage is much too tall for my space, so I buy them on the corner when I see them.
