So this guy is a lovely deep color and smells like a perfect ripe pineapple, better than what I typically smell when choosing a pineapple in the grocery. Are you saying the core may be large and if I wait longer the core will shrink?

Yeah, I will. The plant has the 2 pups growing off the stalk. I was thinking I could take one off and plant it, and leave the other one on to see what it does.

That makes sense. Also a smaller fruit would theoretically be getting more energy from the plant and maybe develop more sugars?

That’s what I’ve read before, that they’re one-and-done. But my cousin just told me he grew a second one from a plant he had, and that an uncle of ours in Hawaii said the 3rd generation is the sweetest – so I’m not so sure. Maybe Hawaii’s climate is more conducive?

In terms of starting them, it’s been hit and miss. This is the 3rd time I’ve tried and the first time I’ve succeeded at getting a top to root. I recall I trimmed away more flesh and peeled more leaves off the bottom than I had done before, and I think I was much more patient when it was in water to wait for roots to emerge.

My understanding is they like well draining soil and don’t like it too wet. I watered it about once a week with about 6 oz water – watering the plant itself so the water is primarily trapped in the bottom of the leaves and maybe the soil gets an incidental light sprinkle – and a bromeliad fertilizer every other week. It was outdoors during the summer but once it dropped into the mid 50s at night I brought it indoors. (ETA I’m in zone 10a or b).

Since this is a giant sample size of 1 I’m definitely not going to claim any definitive must-dos. Just reporting on what I did.

Oh, they’re losers and suckers now in Rump’s book.

I largely agree with you. The web was already long enshittified with SEO and the browsers themselves loosening their own rules that would trim down results. Any search that’s moderately complicated often get results that are barely relevant and/or trying to sell you something. The AI summary IMO does help.

Yanking IVs out of the arms of old people and throwing their medications out the window, laughing maniacally, then handing over wads of cash to Elon Musk, Clarence Thomas, etc

Lobster mushroom definitely does taste seafoody. Hard to find though.

There’s a video going around today with a reporter following Trump down some hallways as he’s talking about blue slips, and in this 21 second video we can see at least 8 pictures of him lining the walls. Dude just cannot get over himself

And, unfortunately, a 900 page TOS guarantees that the average consumer never reads it.

Great information, thanks! I had planted a few tops a couple years ago – got lots of flowers, got seeds, and did indeed get some carrots from those seeds, but the failure rate was insanely high.

Yep. The MBTA is a treaty between Canada, the US, and Mexico – not so easy to simply ignore.

I can see knife/blade in a sexual context but not for a political stunt. But as you suggest maybe that’s sexual too

I don’t get the cutting. For a stunt I think that’s super unhinged. All the other stuff is temporary. Though I suppose if she’d gotten away with it she’d have a story for life and the scars to “prove” it.

Nazis pretending to be air traffic controllers. Not so likely that MAGAts willing to do ATC for free are qualified.

"Instead of physically jailing prisoners, Optimus could “follow you around and stop you from doing crime,” he said

This is going to last all of 30 seconds as that is the amount of time it’ll take for a criminal to hop a cyclone fence and take off never to be seen again. Or we can have the 10 minute scenario where criminal and friends take sledgehammers to the thing and sell it for scrap.

They’re the type of nonwhite who believe they’re “the good ones” and will be accepted if they try hard enough. They desperately wish they were born white. They may not realize it but they will never be fully accepted.

The hell, centrists are radical communists and socialists in their book. Pretty sure ‘radicals’ was used to describe hippies.

I think coding a contingency for loss of internet connectivity has got to be as basic as preventing Little Bobby Tables from deleting your data.