This is my post for #freewriters 2586 prompt vile secretion hosted by
Before Hurricane Milton I pushed all of the big pineapple plants together and tied a rope around them, I had three pots with five pineapples on them, they are late season pineapples and should not be ripe until January and February.
After the hurricane, I spread them back out not thinking which side of the pineapples the sun was hitting before I moved them. After a week of being spread back out, I noticed them turning white, but only on one side.
The only thing that I thought could cause this was the sun, this had to be the shaded side before I moved them. I placed a piece of window screen over them to try and save them. do not know if it helped but it did not spread.
Now they started looking like they were going to rot and they looked like they were getting ripe 3 months too early. I left them as long as I dared.
The rotten spot grew to the size of the pale spot and gnats were flying in and out of it, I had no choice but to pick it before some vile secretion came leaking out.
It was the worst tasting pineapple I have grown. Even though it looked ripe, it was not near ripe. My husband said sometimes when a fruit gets injured it will ripen prematurely.
The other one in the same pot had the same fate and tasted as bad. I have two more in another pot, I think I will take my chances on leaving them longer.
I did not move this one for the hurricane and nothing happened to it, that is why I am sure the others were sunburned. It should be ripe in March or maybe early April unless we get a freeze.
photos are mine
