Photo depicts a farmer holding two uniquely-shaped pineapples in San Sauveur
Photo by Odiel Bonnie
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very interested; this needs to be looked into. Where did he find the seeds or plants from? How long has he been planting these crops? Could these be from GM plants? just checking. lots of people get imported seeds that are GM. We need to know what genes are in these before we can make a decision. We should try to promote original grown species from the older farmers, and stop planting the imported one developed by Mo…….
There need to be a market where farmers can get plants or sees hereditary to DA or the caribbean. They might not be perfect or good looking but they taste good, and will not have fish genes in there.
Love you uncle, wish I could be there to taste it. My mouth making water.
Do worry what these useless say ……. ……………….. ……
Allez my love ……..
Truly amazing
Interesting and beautiful.
Caused by excessive sunlight on the inflorescence. (Check google)
More Common in hotter countries, and it has been unusually dry on the East coast recently.
these comments are baseless in human, animals and plants since i was a kid i usally see abnormal situation
….. divers things shall happen in divers places…
Never seen that before but just like all of you all on the blog who have ACCESS I did some searching ON THE NET!!! and here is what I synthesized. This is called Fruit and Crown Fasciation. The cause is not really known but it is said to be associated with high vigour of plants, which take longer time to flower. High fertility of soil, warm weather and calcium or zinc deficiency. The other school of thought is that it may be associated with random genetic mutation or disruption from hormonal imbalance, the bacterium Rhodococcus fascians, viral infection, or damage to the plants by animals (including insects), chemical or mechanical injury – even forking around the plant have been implicated….. People the internet is a great tool.. in this age of information don’t write on the net and prove yourself to be ……..
Do you realize you said the cause is not know and these are also speculations. Let people express their wild imagination even if it may sound stupid.
This due to all the stuff that’s coming in from the sea, that you people are using as fertilizer, without knowing the repercussions….search the net as much as you want, the answer is in the seaweed! the point is when people start using things they think that is fee, without knowing what’s in it this is the result……y’ll have not seen nothing yet….those who have started eating products that was grown using this type of seaweed fertilizer will soon realize too late, it starts with the plants and then the consumers……mutant we going to have soon….watch this space
Thanks for the enlightenment. But very interesting. Would have been of interest if DNO had conducted a short interview with the grower, and of course shared a summary of that interview with readers. For example was this the first time the gentleman got those unusual shaped fruits. Hoe long has he Bennett into zannanna cultivation etc etc..
Could be a rare pinaple gene that showed up. That is probably how the first pinaple looked before artificial selection. I would plant seedlings from them see if it is replicated. Would be cool.
What did it taste like?
Are these natural or were they grown from some sort of packaged seeds? One is already something but two? ummm
too much fertilizer all you using dats y
Agreed too much seaweed…lol
Wow amazing
For a minute there I thought it was photoshopped. Wow.
I wonder what could the science explanation be behind this…very nice.
seems to be his kind of pineapple https://cwvelimanam.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/dsc_0017.jpg
Just as I thought, it must be from a packaged seeds which were imported and purchased
Weird but really unique pineapple.
Put that in the Guinness Book of World Records… never seen before
2 two not to
genetic engineering gone mad!
more like seaweed overuse gone mad
Whatssssss thattttttt!!!!!!???????
This is truly amazing! Thanks for sharing!