Watch Me Grow: Pineapple Plants Batch 2 (May 1 '09 pics)

These are recent pics of my new pineapple fruits in my parents' backyard. My last post about them was dated April 10, 2009.


Above: My pineapple plant #1

Above: I am holding Pineapple #1. I have Size Small (latex examination glove size) hands so you can have an idea how small the pineapple is.




Above: Pineapple #2 . The fruit showed up later than Pineapple #1 so it is still small.


Above: You can see that Pineapple #2 is so small compared to my hand!

Watch Me Grow! : My Pineapple Plants (batch 2)

Last February 9, I wrote a post about a new pineapple fruit on one of the pineapple plants I planted in my parents' backyard.

Last March 22, 2009, I found yet another pineapple fruit! So that's two pineapples for this 2nd batch.

Here are some new pictures:

Below:Pineapple #1(pic taken Mar. 22 '09)

Below: Pineapple # 1 (pic taken today, April 10, 2009)


Below: Pineapple #2 (pic taken Mar. 22, '09)


Below: Pineapple #2 (pic taken today, April 10, 2009)

Another Pineapple Fruit from A Pineapple Top I Planted

Several months back (March 2008) I posted about a pineapple fruit that grew from the pineapple plant in my parents' backyard. (The plant came from a pineapple top.) I had several posts on how it grew:

post #1- April 2008, post #2- April 2008 post #3 - May 2008

and when it was harvested : post #4- June 2008

Yesterday I was at my parents' house and lo and behold, I saw another pineapple fruit on another plant! It has been so long, I had stopped looking. I think this plant was planted June or July 2006. It came from a pineapple top! ( A Dole Tropical Gold pineapple- the small and really sweet ones.) It took 2 and a half years to bear fruit! (No chemical fertilizer was used.)

Watch Me Grow: My Pineapple Plant: 26May2008

I took this picture with my cellphone camera.(Nokia N70)

I think pineapples really take a long time to grow.

Rainy season (June to December) is setting in in the Philippines, so I hope the rain will nourish my pineapple plant.

Watch me grow! - My Pineapple Plant:: 29 April 2008 picture

I took this picture using my cellphone camera. It's a little fatter now! I counted all the pineapple tops I planted, there were 23, this is the only one that has bore any fruit. :-) p.s. I do not place any fertilizer or chemical on the pineapple plants.

Watch me grow! - My Pineapple Plant:: 04 April 2008 pictures

Watch me grow! I took these pics April 9, 2008.

Are we seeds?

Are we seeds?

Many times throughout the Bible God used agricultural terms to explain things to His people, as He spoke through His prophets, through the Lord Jesus, and also through the apostles. As we know, societies were primarily agricultural back then. The Lord always used sowing, reaping, seedtime, harvest, chaff, winnowing, threshing and many other agricultural terms like spring rain, latter rain, to explain His kind of care, His future judgments, His blessings, and other things. But what about the seed?

I found these verses on people being seeds planted by the Lord.

We are a Planting of the Lord

Isaiah 61:3
...They (-meaning those in Zion) will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of his splendor.

We are seeds whom the Lord has planted. As Corrinne May said in her introductory spiel to "Beautiful Seed" at her concert:
"...the seed is such a beautiful metaphor for ourselves and our lives. We start off being really really tiny and really small, very insignificant actually that you even need an ultrasound to see that little dot in the mother's womb. But then all the potential for who we are and who we will be is already there and that's so amazing to me.. that everything that we are, we just came from that small insignificant seed."

God has a dream for each of us even before we were born.God said, "before I formed you in the womb, I knew you"(Jeremiah 1:5). Psalm 139:16 says, "all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." He placed us in the world as a tiny seed in our mother's womb, to grow and grow into His dream for us.

We Must Die to Ourselves : Let God Plant You in the Ground

I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.
The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.
John 12:24-26

As we follow Christ, we take up our cross and follow Him in His death, but in following Him,we have life. And because He rose from the dead, we have hope after death and power over sin. True freedom is found in following Jesus. The abundant life is the life that is surrendered and obedient to God. Not the life wherein one follows his own dreams and ambitions. It has been said, "there is no destination that is impossible to reach when one walks with God". Let God guide you and hold your hand. The most miserable and empty life is a life lived apart from and in rebellion against God.

Place yourself in the Maker's hands as a seed. Let God put His plans and purposes in your life. Let go of yours. Let Him plant you. You are a beautiful seed.

Finally, a pineapple fruit!

Around 20 months ago we planted pineapple tops (from grocery-store pineapples) in the garden of my parents' home.

I finally found a fruit on one of the plants! Woohoo!

Here's how the fruit looks like:


We have planted around 15 or so pineapple tops. Here are three of the pineapple plants (the plant with the fruit as seen above is the one on the right):