Kim_Johnson
I chose Ratoon for the #usethisword Challenge made by Ghostwriter. She gave us a list of words to choose from and I liked this one. Here is that list of words link.
https://virily.com/virily_poll/not-exactly-what-i-thought/
I also noticed that RasmaSandra also picked this word. You can find her post here, where she explains what ratoon means and the processes of ratooning.
https://virily.com/virily_poll/ratoon-use-this-word/#comment-754098
I thought I would surely have a new shoot of something I could use from my garden pictures.
I had to look up the word Ratoon. I noticed one article about ratooning pineapple so they grow new pineapples for next year. This made me super happy as I realized that my accident in weeding and pruning was a good accident. You will see below what I mean.
#1 My mishap in pruning and the definition
#2 This is what happened.
#3 I knew it could take two years.
For the adult plant to produce fruit. I then forgot about it. I had this ground cover that took over, and buried my little plant. One morning I was pruning the ground cover and accidentally chopped off the pineapple plant at the base. I thought I had killed it, until the other day while watering I noticed it came back and had some babies.
A few days later Ghost came up with this challenge and I noticed the word I used for the cover. Ratoon. I had to look it up and that is when I realized I might have helped my little plant instead of killing it. This year it should produce fruit, I will keep you updated.
Good Challenge first time I heard of it until now
It is cool, you should do one.