It's ALIVE, my pineapple plant is ALIVE!!!

                              My pineapple plant is growing.

You can read all about the expirement --HERE--

I am so excited. I was hoping it would go OK, and it has.

The roots are growing really well, as you can see in the pictures.

The leaves did get a bit dry at the ends, but I just snipped that off.

Also I ended up taking quite a few leaves off from the base.
They were starting to rot, from being submerged in the water.

I have changed the water three times, since putting it in the vase, and so far so good. I will end up planting it in dirt soon.

My carrot on the other hand, not so good, lol. I really wanted to swap out the DEAD carrot for a growing one, and say it also was thriving but I am being honest, it just shriveled up, and looks pretty scary. I actually left it up, for my halloween party --READ ABOUT THAT HERE-- and I can tell you several people got grossed out, by banging their head on the DEAD hanging carrot, lol.

Anyhow, I knew that it would also grow, but maybe not as a hanging carrot plant. I think had it been one of those massive huge carrots, that would hold more water, it might have had a chance.

Either way, low and behold, when I went to the store last week, the bag of carrots I bought, were literally all growing. PERFECT, so I just cut the tops off like 12 of them, and stuck them in little tuna cans, with some pebbles, and look at these beauties now. Oh yeah, that's what I am talking about.

So go grow you some fruit, and vegetables.

This was surely fun, and I will update again, in a few months, to let you know how it's going, I mean growing. :)

 Don't these look awesome, well everything except that DEAD carrot. I am so happy it turned out. I hope you all enjoyed it.

I am linking to these fun parties. I have added a link list, so lets see if this helps my problem of adding the party buttons, lol. Go ahead and add your party if you would like me to link up, just make sure to leave a comment telling me you've done it, so I can make sure to link up.

As always ENJOY!

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Hanging Carrots, and a Pineapple Plant

Hey everyone, I have been wanting to try this out for a while, and with my princess home sick, I thought a REALLY quick project would be fun. Pineapples were on sale so we bought one. We love pineapple. I've seen houseplants being grown from vegetables and fruits before, so I just had to try it out myself. 

Here I just cut off the top of the fruit, trimmed all the flesh, leaving only 3/4 inch of the core. Placed it in a vase, and done. According to what I read on the net, this should start growing roots, and when the roots are several inches long, it's ready to be planted in soil. 

Next up was a carrot top, hollowed out, and made into a mini vase. You can see I made 2 small holes, and hung it from my light fixture in the kitchen next to my window. Fingers crossed, that these things grow, pretty cool they do, and I can't wait to show you guys the pics then. Of course so you can stop laughing, which I don't blame you for doing right now. Ok enough, get up of the floor, and stay tuned OK. This might just turn out really cool. 

Looks pretty cool doesn't it. The pineapple looks so cool, I think, that even the vase is shaped like a pineapple. The carrot should grow upwards covering the carrot, and only a pretty fern like plant will be seen. The carrot vase is really small, I didn't have any HUGE carrots, mine are organic, and they don't come that big, so make sure to keep water in there AT ALL TIMES. 

Ok, off to clean, cook, and give my princess another breathing treatment, she has bronchitis, and is wheezing, but doing so much better than yesterday, thank goodness. 

Oh and have you guys noticed blogger has a new picture uploading format, or something. It used to be that before I would upload my pics one by one, which I hated, but when you go back to add another to your post, all the pics you uploaded were there. Now, you can upload more than one, which I love, BUT, I don't always want to add all selected at the same time, on my post, and when I go back to add the rest, THEY are GONE, and I need to upload them again. Any suggestions, am I just weird, and doing something wrong, please come forward with all info. It's just something new, I noticed, and just wanted to see if you guys noticed this too. 

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As always ENJOY!

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