You might think that growing pineapples would have to be harder than just putting the tops in a pot of potting soil and setting them out in the sun...but it really isn't. That is exactly what I did with 7 pineapple tops that I cut off of pineapple from the store. I cut them off, let them sit two days for the bottoms to dry, peeled off several of the bottom leave until I could see the little roots. Gently pushed just the bottom into a pot of potting soil and set them right out in the sun....and they grew. For two years they grew before I noticed a difference in the center of one of them....it was starting to make a pineapple.
And then the wait really begins because it takes months to make a pineapple. ...
and more months
and more months
and once you have a pineapple shape, there are more month before it ripens. You want a nice yellow color before you pick it .
And it is going to be the sweetest, most wonderful pineapple you have tasted.
Okay, so it is pretty simple. I started them mostly in 1 gallon pots, then after the first year I moved them up to the biggest pots I could find. Most of them went into 16 inch pots but some ended up in smaller sizes and still did well.
I have harvested two this summer and three are still making pineapples and we are in November and I just put them in the greenhouse to finish up.
I watered them when they needed watering and I think I put in just a little granular fertilizer at the beginning of the second year.
If you live in a sunny place like here in Georgia, I hope you will try growing your own. Enjoy!
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