pineapple, pepper, charmed

[asakiyume]

Pineapple
I discovered that a pineapple top I'd tossed in the compost bin was looking very healthy and green, not at all like something that was falling apart to make way for other life. Checking online, I found that yes, pineapple tops grow new pineapples.

You know what this means? I can have my very own bromeliad! I can have another ungainly, climate-inappropriate plant! In three short years, I might harvest my own pineapple.

So I have transplanted it.



in the compost bin, flourishing


waiting bucket of soil


pineapple top, transplanted


The word for pineapple in Ticuna is chi'nu.

pepper
My Amazonian pepper, which I nursed along through the winter despite houseplant-plaguing little bugs, has come back with a vengeance this hot, wet summer. Look at all its peppers! They are about the size of the top part--the fingerprint part--of my middle finger. They're not ripe yet. When they're ripe, they'll be orange. And hot!



The word for hot pepper in Ticuna is meë.

charmed
Today, the prompt word for the daily prompt thing I'm doing was "charm"...

I am magnificent in infinitesimality.
I am a tiny fragment, but I partner--elegantly.
Come to me for symmetry.
I have been called "a magical device to avert evil,"
for I prevent unwanted decay in the physicists' theories.
Come to me for blessings.
I am not up, or down, and there is nothing strange about my nonduality.
You may find me enjoying my life in an accelerator near you--it's very brief, but charmed.



(Charm quark I do not understand the physics of any of this, but I do love the lingo and the quotes.)

Comments

[sovay]

In three short years, I might harvest my own pineapple.

May it be so!

(Charm quark I do not understand the physics of any of this, but I do love the lingo and the quotes.)

I like your quark monologue.

[asakiyume]

Thank you! I love how on the extreme edges of science, they get so rhapsodic.

[troisoiseaux]

Checking online, I found that yes, pineapple tops grown new pineapples.

2000s anti-piracy ad voice: YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A PINEAPPLE

(Which is to say, congrats on your new plant!)

[asakiyume]

Thank you! I hope it'll be as happy in that bucket as it was in the compost bin (... though I have a feeling the compost bin was, ahhh, more lively.)

And I made a typo! I meant "grow," not "grown"! Fingers, you betray me.

[sartorias]

I hope your pineapple makes it!

I'm charmed by the reverie on charm, heh.

[asakiyume]

Thank you for the good wishes--maybe if I can collect enough of them here, it'll be like fertilizer ;-)

And I'm happy you liked my micro-meditation, too.

[anna_wing]

Good luck with your plants! And the poem is undoubtedly charming!

[asakiyume]

Thank you for the good wishes for plants and poem alike <3

[wayfaringwordhack]

Pineapples, peppers, and plays with words, Oh My! My your thumbs be the greenest of thumbs yielding sweetly acidic and fiery harvests, give a take a few years between them.

Love the riff on charm, quarks and all.😜

[asakiyume]

quarks and all ---HA! That's good :D

Yes, I await my harvests with great hope!

[squirrelitude]

While I never got my pineapple to flower (and never researched how to, to be honest) it did prove to be a remarkably durable houseplant.

Or rather, its babies did! The meristem on mine had died, and so it ended up producing little offshoots from the bottom that I eventually cut off of it and transplanted into their own pots. Maybe 5 in total. The parent plant slowly died, but I had a bunch of babies to grow and give away.

I think that might happen with yours as well. The center looks dead as it did on mine.

[asakiyume]

Thanks for the tip! I will look for the babies, in that case. And I'm prepared for disappointment when it comes to flowering. However long it wants to grow for me, I'll be delighted.

[gingicat]

Love the charm poem!

Somewhere I have a button that says "i've had enough of relationships with top and bottom; I'm looking for relationships with strangeness and charm."

[asakiyume]

Hahaha, love it!

[osprey_archer]

Love your rescue of the pineapple plant. And the little peppers are so cute. Do you have a recipe you'll use them in?

[asakiyume]

I will probably make them into the sort of salsa that I had while I was over there, something with fruit, onion, the peppers, and cilantro.

[yamamanama]

The name of the fruit guaraná comes from Mawé and I was poking around Wikipedia for samples of the language and the word for pineapple is "amanda" and I wonder if they find it funny that Amanda is a common name in the US.

[asakiyume]

I love that! I bet they would.

[lokifan]

Fingers crossed for your pineapple! And ooh Amazon peppers, that's so cool!

[asakiyume]

Thank you for the finger-crossing magic. Here's hoping!

[med_cat]

That's great re: pineapple-to-be, and the tiny hot peppers :D

And what a great take on the charm prompt!

[asakiyume]

Thank you thank you!

The peppers are tiny but very mighty!

[med_cat]

:))