I did! Out of curiosity after eating a pineapple I decided to see if I could get it to grow and here are the results after 18months or so. Hopefully it will fruit next year!
Any one ever start their own pineapple plant?
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Pretty easily actually...
First buy a pineapple...funny story here so Im going to tell it first. I use to hate pineapple and for what ever reason, last summer I started to love them and ate them all the time. Well, now Ive developed an allergy to the fruit and cant eat it! haha ironic huh?
Anyway, you take the pine apple top and clear away all the fruit. Then start peeling away the leaves until you see what look like little tiny root nodes. Put the top in some water, keep it fresh so it doesnt rot. Soon it will grow roots, then just plant!
I actually did this while visiting my dad in Alabama so its at his house. I just saw it for the first time in a year and took these pics and was shocked! He just stuck it in his basement under an indoor plant light during the winter.
First buy a pineapple...funny story here so Im going to tell it first. I use to hate pineapple and for what ever reason, last summer I started to love them and ate them all the time. Well, now Ive developed an allergy to the fruit and cant eat it! haha ironic huh?
Anyway, you take the pine apple top and clear away all the fruit. Then start peeling away the leaves until you see what look like little tiny root nodes. Put the top in some water, keep it fresh so it doesnt rot. Soon it will grow roots, then just plant!
I actually did this while visiting my dad in Alabama so its at his house. I just saw it for the first time in a year and took these pics and was shocked! He just stuck it in his basement under an indoor plant light during the winter.
Hmm I was going to try this method once...apparently you are supposed to pick the plant by the ones that have the hardest leaves to pull out of the top.
I started one once (only let it grow to seedling...never transplanted it) from the seeds. They are in the fruit...in what I guess you would call the peel. Little cavities.
It would be awesome to get a fruiting one. I have a fruiting grapefruit...up here in wisconsin though it takes almost a year and a half for the fruit to reach maturity. As opposed to florida where it takes nine months.
I started one once (only let it grow to seedling...never transplanted it) from the seeds. They are in the fruit...in what I guess you would call the peel. Little cavities.
It would be awesome to get a fruiting one. I have a fruiting grapefruit...up here in wisconsin though it takes almost a year and a half for the fruit to reach maturity. As opposed to florida where it takes nine months.
If you cut an apple in half and place it at the base of the plant. It helps it to fruit dunno why. I have a bunch of them. They get really big if you give them a bigger pot.
Nice plant, while you can start it out in water, after you remove the plant from the fruit, make sure you let it dry, at least over night. By doing this you can plant directly into the ground, and prevents rot of the roots. You can only get about 3 pineapple out a plant before it wont produce fruit. Take about a year to get a full fruit, and every fruit after that is smaller. On a side note, the pineapple is the only bromeliad that is edible.
If there is one thing I like as much as fish, its pineapple.... Mahalo
If there is one thing I like as much as fish, its pineapple.... Mahalo
I just might try this and I always thought that they grew on trees like coconuts and banana...I am currently growing papaya from the seeds that I removed from the fruit.