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Originally Posted by NANAMAN
You just make sure that there is some water down inside the center of the plant, and drop about a pea sized piece of calcium carbide in the water. Takes about 4/6 wks. till ya see the flower forming in there. Calcium carbide when put in water produces acetyleen gas, which the plant absorbs, and that tells the plant to produce a fruit!
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Interesting. We (those who grow pineapples in greenhouses) used similar technique, but the acetylen gas was released from a rotting apple. You just have to enclose the rotting apple with pinapple in a plastic bag and just wait for a bloom.
