modenacart

I have had better luck starting mine in water. Prepare by twisting off the top, removing the lower leaves and cutting off a little of the bottom to make sure you removed all the fruit. Then I put the bottom part that I removed the leaves from in warm water and put it in indirect sun. I change the water daily and in about two weeks you should see some nice roots growing. They will be a white color. The middle might start to rot on you. Don't worry, just remove the rotted parts. If you don't see roots in a couple of weeks it most likely died.

buzzwinder

Thank You Pete, Brian, James and Mitchel for the Great pointers, I have got to try this, The kids will get a real charge out of it not to mention my wife and myself, I'm gonna do alittle more research on the topic ( I know absolutly nothing about pineapples other than taste, and what you guys just informed me of ) any ideas on a place to get more onfo on the subject? Thanks

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momoese

Just wait til you taste one that you pick ripe off the plant!! The thing with pineapples is that they do not ripen anymore once picked and you'll never see a fully ripened fruit in the store.



Just do a google search on growing pineapples, there's tons of info out there!

buzzwinder

Thanks Mitchel, I'm all over it!

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momoese

Still ripening on the plant.


Freshly picked fruit.


And here is the crown from that fruit as of today! It's been potted in that 2 gallon container for over 2 months now. I've just moved it to full sun.

NANAMAN

I can't stress enough how good a ripe, homegrown pineapple tastes. Most people I know are not too keen on pineapples, because they have never tasted a ripe one! Also, Sugarloaf, Natal Queen,and Pernambuco are much better tasting than the standard Smooth Cayenne commercial varieties found in grocery stores! IMHO. There is one caveat though, it is reported that pineapples need full sun, and warm to hot humid conditions to produce optimum fruit sweetness and flavor.

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As of Sunday, September the 9th



And a close up.

NANAMAN

Beautiful Pictures!!!

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D_&_T

forgot to ask about overwintering pineapple, hate to froze them around here!
how well do they do inside over winter under grow light?

Dan & Tara

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buzzwinder

Beautiful pictures, Ditto the overwintering question fron Dan and Tara,Thanks

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momoese

Last winter here in Cali we had some serious frosty nights from an Arctic blast. During that time I built a make shift green house over them with sticks and plastic sheeting. The wall the pineapples are planted in a corner against is the south/east facing wall of my garage which has tons of lighting inside so I kept the lights on all night to help keep that south facing wall warm. I also added the black lava rocks and a couple big stones to trap some warmth in the daytime from the sun. The other wall they are against is the greenhouse/storage space that has glass windows on the Pineapple's side so that helped to transfer some warmth for them too. This year I'm going to add X-Mas lights around the plants and leave the garage lights off to save electricity.

I have heard they can be over wintered indoor in a bright window with constant sprayings of water but I've never tried it.

Steve in France

Inspired by all the pics and posts I've ordered three small Kona Sugarloaf .
Keep the pics coming.
Later
Steve

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modenacart

I grow mine in pots and have brought them in for the winter without any problems. They grow really slow then, but I expected that.

BabyBlue11371

you can also grow pineapple from seeds.. though pineapples from Hawaii will not have seeds
as they do not have humming birds to pollinate the flowers..
Here is a pic of a seed still in the fruit... the brown speck just below the straw..


Here is one of the seedlings..


The mini greenhouse I grew the seeds in..


I lost LOTS of the seedlings to cold..
they grew to this big before I missed watering them and they died...


I can not say how long from seed to fruit as my babies died..
I was told that the resulting fruit would be hybrids and not taste like the fruit that I got the seed from..

Just another idea for you..


momoese,
very beautiful pictures!! Congrats!!!!

Gina *BabyBlue*

NANAMAN

Hey Gina, I saw this thread before, on another forum. I found a couple seeds in commercial pineapples and sprouted one just to get the experience. I didn't let it grow though, I don't want to grow commercial varieties. But I'm hoping that my Natals, Sugerloafs, and Pernambucos will cross pollinate, and give me a new hybrid to try. Thanks for the pictures, and informative article!

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Here are a few pics. of pineapple ratoon and regular suckers:




And a nice size Natal Queen:

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MediaHound

Wow Gina, I honestly did not know that!

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momoese

Well my dogs got a lttle carried away playing ball the other day and crashed into the plant breaking about half the root system off. As of now it seems to be stunted. It has finally started to send some slips though!

NANAMAN

That Bites!!! I hope it heals fast, is that the one with a flower on it?

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