I love this video you remind me so much of my grandpa who would slowly, carefully explain something and howtos. I’ll send this to my mama who’s stressed out in her retirement so she can pretend to be on a beach!
Thank you for all of the info! I’m just getting started with keeping plants at home, and I figured what better to start with than a plant that I can source from fruit I already buy! I appreciate the info on soil, this is great to know! ❤️
I grow all sorts of plants but plants that have direct human use are always excellent choices. Without plants we would not even exist. O2 is a very important gas.
In tennessee we have a few neighbors growing pinapples in greenhouses. I will be trying this, thank you for the enjoyable videos. - signed Clif's wife Robyn
I'm in Michigan, going to grow one. Starting to go planting crazy. Lost a lot of plants 20 years ago so I'm starting over on a budget. I do have some sunny windows.
Every time I move I sell of my plant collection, donate it or find a friend that needs one. The trail of plants I left behind numbers in the millions by now. "You can't take it with you" was the best advice my elders ever gave me as a child. Moving from California to Hawaii made it really hard to bring any plants. The next move will be to the here after and darn near impossible to take plants with. Are there pineapples in heaven? Never heard there might be. Aloha and thanks for tuning in.
Great information Bill. It took me years to get it right. Hard freeze last winter took care of all the ones outside. I have one left from the grow room. Enough of that fun. Best wishes Bob. 🌴🌴
I recall pushing the envelope of climate in California with pineapples. They were doing so well in my yard, they had half grown fruit on top and I risked them outside in December. By New Years I had gray mush instead of fruit.
Dayum! Your comments section is so worth the subscription alone LOL! The dialogue in the comment section is so entertaining and informative! I'm a new subscriber as well as a new grower. I live in Florida and was recently given a pineapple from a homegrown pineapple plant a friend had. I have followed the video regarding planting the top and now have a planted pineapple top🤗 recently started some tomatoes. I live in a condominium LOL on the bottom floor, I've always wanted to have a garden and so it has begun. 👍💜
Both tomatoes and pineapples make pretty good container plants. The fruit is smaller on a container pineapple but still good. Make sure to feed and feed frequently. Potted plants are always out of fertilizer. I have heard that the comments are a show to themselves. Most of the questions get decent answers. The real fun starts when someone thinks they are smart and tries to shove me around. Some of these are my best work. Aloha
Hey Bill! Another outstanding video tutorial. Keep'm coming. I hate to sound like an idolator but I have to say that your videos are the best tutorials I've ever seen. That includes resident classes at UC Davis, Cal State Chico and Cal State Sacramento. By the way, Sac State has a killer greenhouse. Once I have sufficient funding I'm gonna build one just like it on my property. Perhaps a bit smaller, but the same design. Many thanks for your willingness to share the vast store of knowledge you possess.
I wrote almost all the classes for Navlet's Nursery in the San Francisco bay area. Guess after retiring I can't help myself and I keep at it. Thank you for the feed back.
Welcome, haven't heard from you in a while. I'm so busy watching lava over here I have neglected the garden videos. This is an attempt to normalize a wild time in Hawaii.
Oh I never miss a video :) I was very happy to hear ya all were safe and out of harms way. I heard about the earthquakes and wondered if that was scary? They never bothered us in California. I have been busy working and havent had alot of time so I am always multi tasking lol and making time for a good glass of wine. Happy day be well and safe:))
Over 25 years in California quakes and I never felt anything like the 6.9 we had 2 weeks back. I was outside and the ground rolled in waves like the ocean up to 12" high. My coffee trees danced a hula. I hit the dirt for fear of being knocked over. I watch quarter sized rocks dancing past my nose! The grand children would never believe the story.
haha I bet it was a roller. That is really a strange feeling. Never had one that big but it still makes you have a wee bit of nausea. I had heard they were good size and often there. Ugh but look at where you live and how beautiful :))
I like using those lava rocks from the grill section of Walmart, Lowe's or Home Depot in the bottom of my pots for great drainage that keeps me from putting a deep amount of soil in the pot. Seems to work well and the rocks are cheap and clean.
Pots have drain holes so adding materials don't really make more drainage. I've seen broken pot pieces block the holes and kill plants. Rock probably wouldn't do that. I have used light materials like pine bark chunks to fill in the bottom of large containers. The last time i used rocks the weight knocked the bottom out of a red wood container when i moved it. Citrus tree fell right through. I gave it up after that. I knew a grower in california who would toss one large rock in the bottom of his pots so the trees in them wouldn't blow over in the nursery.
Thank you for the very informative video. My mother bought me a pineapple plant that was already flowered for my birthday [in November]...now, the flower is falling off, and leaves on the mother plant are turning yellow. Wish I’d seen your video earlier. I live in an apartment in the Midwest...luckily, I do have a cpl of picture windows facing south, and southeast...I plan to try this again. I have no doubt that I overwatered my plant..won’t make this mistake again. Sending you good vibrations🙏🏽✨🌊Thanks for the information 😊
Cool video . some time I'm torn between economic and hobbies, the darn thing sale for 2.50 here in the supper market and they are 1.5 each in the Hispanic market. I spend more money on dirt work then my house per square feet worth. Gardening is a noble addiction except for the criminal collecting act. One your are noble all action are noble :) Happy gardening
I have a 'toothy' variegated pineapple I call Medusa. You may have her in your collection. She's vicious and will bite if you get too close. She will draw blood. I've been growing her lineage for the last 20 + years. Was able to get a tiny fruit while in Pennsylvania. The mother plant then died and didn't give any pups (bromeliad talk for offshoots, same as ratoon in pineapple plantation talk). From the tiny crown from the tiny fruit, I've gotten four plants that have been traveling around with me throughout the Midwest. I'm in Upper Peninsula Michigan now and the plants have not fruited in the last 18 yrs. Probably not getting enough sun. Only can bring them out for 4 months of the year. But by the end of that time, they blush a beautiful pink. People get amazed at seeing real pineapple plants, especially a variegated version with its green and white striped leaves and blushing accents. I warn them not to get too close because Medusa will bite. Her allure is so great they want to touch her, they get bitten.
Back in a recent video I mentioned a collection of unusual pineapple varieties I refer too as the weird pineapple farm. In that collection I have the scary plant you are referring to. I received as the Living Fence from Argentina. It is beautiful but wicked. I had considered using it along the front fence to keep the pigs away but the county often spray weed killer in the ditch and it would probably not survive.
That was my original thought of the use of the plant when I was still in Hawai'i. At the time I was living in Manoa Valley on Oahu. My job as an environmental geologist allowed me to visit a lot of pineapple growing areas on O'ahu, Maui, and Lana'i monitoring chemical contamination. They would often give me cases of pineapple for my company. No one wanted the crowns so I took them home and grew them as a fence. This was along the road, so people would pick the fruit before I could get to them. I was given the Argentine from O'ahu's Dole facility and planned to plant it in front of the kinder pineapples as a guard. It worked. But the plant was so lovely, I couldn't leave it behind. This variety will sprout pups below the fruit, so I picked one of them and brought it with me along with a lot of ginger rhizomes when I left Hawai'i. Today it lives in a tropical garden room during the winter. But boy she bites when I have to move her. I have to look for a home for her soon because of my move back. I may call on you the get her back in my life on the Big Island.
Yeah, don't bother moving it. If you come by with a shovel I will let you dig the entire row, please! I intend to only keep enough around to maintain a stock in the nursery. It is lovely and it does sell to some extent. Pineapple farming has really changed here. Dole sold 80% or so of Lanai to Larry Ellison, the software mogul. A friend of mine right next to the current flows has been selling him exotic trees to turn the place in to a botanical garden on the old pineapple fields. So much for software genius. You would think planting food to create a sustainable Hawaii would be smarter. Except for some token Dole patches so they can claim to grow Hawaiian pineapples the industry is dead here. Small farmers growing exotic white fruit pineapples are taking over the market. I have somewhere near 1000 plants of the white here in Puna. Frank's on Oahu has bred a white called Honey Cream that is selling for $5.99 per pound! Ours are worth $3 per pound. Frank's is being stingy. they put a patent on it and twist off all the tops before they sell the fruit. Not good business. I refuse to buy their fruit. If they left the top on though I would just steal the crop. All great gardeners and farmers are thieves at heart when it comes to plants.
As one aihue kanu talks to another. I feel you brother. I've done my share of plant thievery. What makes frank's Honey Cream worth 6 bucks, is it better in some way or just because? Mahalo for the offer. My property will be barricaded behind a fence of Argentines, followed by a row of your white. Aloha no.
Frank's claims their Honey Cream Pineapple has the highest sugar content of all pineapples. I will probably never find that out at $6 per pound with the top twisted off before sales.
@@backyardsnackyard I lived in the great Lakes area for decades. I didn't come here for the weather but it tends to be some of the best on Earth. Aloha
@@GreenGardenGuy1 funny how we end up various places; I left Denmark to study for one semester in London (didn't move here for the weather either😉), and here I am a lifetime later.
@@backyardsnackyard If we listen closely we instinctively know where we should be on earth. In a manner of speaking Hawaii placed me here, I only conceded.
Hi from Alberta Canada! I have a 3 year old pineapple plant that started to flower in March of 2021.. A small fruit has formed in the center of the plant. I have a sun room with south and east sun exposure providing the needed light . As we get very cold weather here, I was shocked to see the flower form. The sunroom is cooler than the rest of the house, so I added an oil heater for extra heat.
Temperature has a bit to do with flowering but mostly it is triggered by the photo period. Pineapples have regular fruiting cycle controlled by the length of day. They tolerate night temperatures down to 50 f. Ours do well here between 50 and 85 degrees in the field. Expect ripe fruit by fall. Do not over water the soil in cool weather. The roots rot if too wet when it is cold out.
No. In the field I use organics like fish emulsion and chicken manure. In the nursery i use Nutricote 360. It is a 12 month time release fertilizer. Miracle Grow must be applied every 7 to 14 days. I am too busy for that. Aloha.
Very informative video, I’m trying to grow pineapple for the plant only if I get a pineapple, bonus. I have one top in dirt one in water and the leaves are turning brown is that what they do before taking off growing? The one in dirt had a root the water one is growing a root and is less brown on top. Blessings
A professional grower would never plant pineapples in water. I once soaked tops in a sink for 8 hours to remove some ants. It ruined the tops. I had to dump them. They are terrestrial plants and do not handle aquatic culture well. Here are more videos about growing them in pots. They pretty much cover it all. th-cam.com/video/H4BwInaMKUY/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/0J2QA9S3CKs/w-d-xo.html
What about the coffee tea..picked two little trees up from the Home depot. The pot is about 3inched and the Bush really looks healthy. I'm in south Florida, do you think they have a chance of surviving and producing that arabica bean? Pineapples grow fine in my environment. Happy growing.
In a container you will need to water. How often depends on the temperature, the size of the pot, size of the plant and the structure of the growing media. Pineapples are typical as far as water use is concerned. If you have other similar sized potted plants water them in the same cycle. A moisture meter will take out all of the guess work. Watering the soil is okay but in cool winter climates with short days wet soil can cause a root rot. I just wouldn't flood or soak the pot unless it was warm and high summer.
Hi Sir. If you still have this channel up, I have a question. I'm using your process for a pineapple house plant 🦋 I have been reading different ways but, your's is the way I want to go. In other articles they say that after you have pulled the lower leaves off that you should let it dry out for 2 days . Will this not start to kill the plant leaves off? I am planting mine tomorrow, so I'd very much appreciate your advice on this... Thank you 🦋
Pineapple slips are extremely durable and difficult to kill. Due to this nature almost any set of instructions will work. There is no need to dry the base. We plant hundreds of this each year. It rains 120" per year here, the ground is always wet. I don't waste time while planting. We strip the leaves, jam the slips in the earth and keep walking. So far we have never lost a pineapple plant that wasn't eaten by a pig.
First time grower, still not a show-er 😂 Excellent video! I started a million of them and quit but your narration and personality made me subscribe! Question though, I am in FL (on the East coast of the state). I started some pineapple last year. Once they hit about 2 feet I placed them in the ground however they rotted. This year I tried again and placed them in various locations to see where they liked the best. The best were potted on my covered porch however I lined the porch so they do get full sun but blocked from rains (humidity here has been 80 to 100% outside all summer). At this point most of them are approx. 3 feet, however they are all rotting! Every location too, covered, not covered, full sun, different soils 😭🤦♀️ The centers are just fall out and the heart appears to be soaked. Yet the soil is fairly dry (also no water trapped in the leaves). What am I doing wrong? I am getting ready to go to our local organic market and get some more tops. I want to try again but I'm tired of failing I think one of the worst things is, that I have neighbors who all have them who are producing fruit. I know mine won't produce fruit for a few years but how are theirs still alive and mine just keep dying. When I ask they all say they just threw Them in the ground and they grew. Am I missing something from their lifecycle.
Sounds like Pineapple heart rot. Since the neighbors do not have it then I would blame your cultural practices, infected plant material or the infected soil. I would also consider your nematode issues, infestations can trigger the rot. Also, the variety you are using could be the issue. What do you use as soil? The soil used in containers is very important. We get 150" of rain each year here and I've never seen a crown rot in our crops. Pineapples do not develop well in pots but if you do this use one of the high porosity commercial growers medias and leave the commercial potting soils on the shelf. Some are good but most are junk. Sungrow or Pro Mix work fine. Here is some more info. It covers organic approach too. www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/PD-106.pdf
@@GreenGardenGuy1 thank you for reply and information! I used a miracle grow soil (we had slim pickings) and terracotta clay pots. I'm thinking it's my soil causing the heart rot. I tasked my teen to get rid of the dead plants and infected soil and she admitted last night she poured the old soil back into my new bag. Do you think switching the soil might save them? My other concern now is I just purchased some new house plants and repotted them with that same soil 😳
@@slopez7598 You appear to have two problems, recycled soil and the brand. I realize you are using a major national brand name but the product is low grade and probably why you had rot. It holds way too much moisture and the particles are too fine. Use a soil with a large particle size and high porosity. Pineapples do not like being potted or transplanted. I would leave the survivors alone and just reduce the watering. Use a moisture meter. In the meantime I would start over again with new plants and new soil.
Try starting your roots in water and get something like a Patio Pickers raised bed and proceed that way. The soil in your area might not be good for pineapples
Hi triple G, are you a fan or recommend the use of using fertilizer tea to water and feed the plants? New England doesn't have a long growing season so I'm thinking this plant will be grown indoors. How long does it take to mature and produce a fruit? Thank you, 👍🏻🇺🇸
The only time I ever used fertilizer tea was when I had a flock of 200 chickens and more crap than I knew what to do with. I would put 25% poo with 75% water and keep refilling the bucket as a poured it along the rows until it looked thin. Otherwise i put everything on the earth and let the rain make the tea. Cuts out the middle steps. I raised pineapples in a greenhouse in California. They took the same 24 months to fruit that they do in HI but the fruit was smaller and not as tasty.
I think I either got extraordinarily lucky, or just happened to pick an unusually hardy pineapple top. I forgot to take off the fruit part of the top, but for some reason the rot didn't hurt the plant. The soil I used was _truly terrible-_ no normal fertilizers, instead I'd used a bunch of stuff I wanted to compost later like cat hair, banana peels, leftover hamburger helper, coffee grounds, and a bit of dusty dirt from around the yard. After two years mostly indoors next to an eastern window, it's grown larger than any piece of furniture I own. Utterly inexplicable.
They are relatively easy to grow. This is why they are a common farm crop in the tropics. They will often grow even when neglected. I have seen old plants that we removed from the field and piled send out fruit.
The white pineapples are high sugar, high moisture and low acid. This makes them a gourmet item at a farm stand but they don't ship. I could never fly them into California from here without them turning into vodka.
If you have very large, sunny, southern windows they will probably get by. Otherwise full spectrum high intensity plant lights will be required. Pineapples grow under full tropical sun. To grow them in a temperate climate you need to simulate natural conditions.
I cannot find white pineapple in Maui on my trip. I ordered white jade and Kona White starts from wellspring gardens. Do you recommend them for it? How would a north window do on them.
Both of these pineapples are related to the Hilo White. Pineapples under go somatic mutation when planted in different environments. I have the Kona here, it is very similar to the Hilo. Time to ripen in a bit earlier and the flavor isn't as sweet when grown in Hilo but probably perfect when grown in Kona. A north window would be considered to dark and cold for pineapple. I used to grow them in a hoop house in CA under full sun and the flavor was still short of the ones grown on the Islands. They grow on the mainland but never match the produce under tropical sun. Maybe some of the LED lights they use for Cannabis would work.
Pineapples are terrestrial bromeliads, not trees so don't be surprised when it does not grow upward or form a trunk. The season pineapples bear in depends on the variety and the climate in your location. If you know some one else in your area who grows the same type asking them would give beat information. Here in Puna Hawaii, at 1600 feet elevation, the Hilo White pineapples takes 24 months to fruit from a top. The season here is August to October but this year it spilled over into November. Other types have different seasons and the people who live down the mountain start picking in July.
The mother plant dies after fruiting. Continuation of growth is by planting the tops or the slips that form below the fruit. There will also be one to three basal suckers that come from the base. One or more of these can be left in place to continue growth.
You just identified the reason I don't discuss them! If you live in Hawaii on the Big Island I can help you. In Hilo either Nursery Things or BEI has the product. Off Island you will have to do your own search. If you live away from commercial growers supply houses then just use Osmocote. It is the home version of the same product and it is sold almost any place that has fertilizers.
I tried growing 2 from the tops and they both died but i thinks it’s due to the weather I have here. Live in a cool temperate zone so yeah it’s not super freezing cold but it’s cold 🥶 in winter.
Pineapple don't tolerate temperatures below 50 degrees f. They do not have to freeze but freezing turns them into gray putty. Wet soils under 50 cause the crowns to rot. Keep them in a greenhouse and do not water the soil in winter. Water the whorls and just let extra water trickle to the soil.
I never use grow bags but I assume 10 stands for 10 gallon. A 5 gallon should hold one, a 15 would hold three in a triangle. We grow ours a foot apart, in triple rows and triangulated.
I thought I mentioned that but perhaps I deleted that information. Dang video was 45 minutes long before i started chopping at it. How long will always depend on growing conditions but variety is the main control there. I have some types that actually make fruit in a single year from planting. Others take 18 months. My favorite, the Hilo White Pineapple usually take two years from a planted top. Occasionally they are earlier but I'm not sure why that is.
Just listening to you i can tell you know what your pineapple. I've seen videos where ppl cut the top in half to make 2 plants, do you recommend this or not. It seems kind of radical to cut it like that.
The internet is full of miss information and strange ideas. The only reason a person might consider dismantling a perfectly good pineapple slip is rarity. This amounts to tissue culture and lab work with nutrient agar media and glass flasks. Most of us are planting common pineapples that are readily available. We sell the suckers by the truckload, there is no scarcity. Chance of failure if the top is cut is pretty high.
It is legal to ship the tops but i have to take them 20 miles to town, let the AG inspectors pick through them for bugs, get the boxes stamped and sealed by the inspectors and then run them to the airport of Fed X. It is sort of an expensive pain for a pineapple top. I never do shipping of live plants for orders less than $100. If you are interested you can contact by email and I will provide a list of plant materials from the nursery. greengardenservice@yahoo.com
@@GreenGardenGuy1 thank you for your video mr. BILL WE LIVE ON THE ISLAND OF PUERTO RICO WE PLANT ALOT OF PINEAPPLES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH Again. For your videos. Mr. Jimmy.
Nice we're going to try THIS !!!!! Mom makes a great pineapple + BEAN , chip dip, that is Killer buddy !!!!! Oh MAN. We killed a whole large bowl of it at last Christmas with the family hahahahaha. Out the park hit even the children liked it I'm sure. NO Composter for YOU, pineapple top !!!!!! :-D
myr 2-3 yr old pineapple plants (the top from a fresh pineapple I bought)...hss a little wee pineapple starting in the middle- I ive in 6a zone -never expected a pineapple to show up- haveno idea how long it will take to grow big...all my ibn and out depending on weather is worth it! What???? the mother plant will grow- I'm devastated- there aren't any off shoots...guess my smaller ones will have to replace the ig one...any way to preserve the main one??? We've been thru a lot together...so sad now
I advise never getting sad about a plant, they can't feel it, only you can. If you are in zone 6 either the pineapple grows in a pot, in protection or you are actually in zone 10 & 11 where pineapples grow. When you remove a crop from it's suitable habitat it can be expected to do all sorts of unusual things. I have never seen a pineapple that didn't produce some form of slips and suckers. If the fruit is tiny then you are too early to worry. Slips and suckers form after fruit. At the least you will have the top for replanting. Having the mother plant die away after fruiting is normal. A mother that survives fruiting would be a very strange thing. Not particularly desirable though. One of the reasons we like pineapples is unlike orange trees they grow a completely new plant every time.
No not so. I went on to describe how pineapple is propagated after the harvest but the darn video got so long I left that part on the cutting floor. Different types vary but the variety i grow produces 7 off sets at every fruiting. Plant one top and at harvest time you also get one top back, 3 ratoon suckers and three basal suckers. This process is the same with all bromeliads. After fruiting the mother plant always dies but the process continues by replanting the off sets.
Yes you can cross pineapple. They have very deep flowers pollinated by humming birds. You would need to mimic the birds activity to pollinate and have two different varieties that you wish to combine.
Soaking pineapple slips in water injures them. It is also not required. If you note in this video, we do not soak pineapple. I have no idea where this idea came from. I have hundreds of pineapples in the field, sell them to the market and the only soaking they ever get is from the rain.
Hello : I have a pineapple I grew from a top of a pineapple from the store and its now been a year and its big and really healthy. I have a question ?? I have it in I think a 12" pot and its a in-door plant. Do I need to repot it or is the pot its in big enough. Thanks in Advance. Terry in Ky.
Pineapple fruit weight between 3 and 8 pounds each. The container mass has to be large enough to hold things up right if the fruit starts to lean. A three gallon pot is usually about right. I have fruited pineapple in a one gallon pot before but it stunts the size and they flop over easily.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 Thanks so much for taking the time to get back to me about this. So if I transplant it to another container. What time of year should I do that and also. I'm in Kentucky. How long do you think it will be before it produces a pineapple ??
Any reduction in sun from full light reduces yield and quality by a corresponding percentage. Pineapple are full sun plants. Plants in 50% fail to fruit.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 ya I know mine just a few months old. First time growing one. they really don't like alot of water at all. I'm used to growing cannabis lol 😆 I had it outside for the summer had to bring it in because Canada getting to cold for it. I put under mars hydro ts600 for a few hours day but I'll probably start it on 18/6 this week. Thanks for your time and video. Do you ever let the base dry out for a few day before planting. I seen some people say it helps? I had a hard time rooting them I was doing it in cup of water and the would rot. But then I looked up and seen you don't have do that way lol. I must of did 3 or 4 that just died lol they seem like fun to grow tho
@@brockeaton9338 I know the daylight cycles for Cannabis but the photoperiod for pineapples are a mystery to me. I grow them out in the sun and never bother to figure out the day lengths that trigger flowering. You have a project on your hands. 18/6 will work fine for green growth but when you shorten the cycle for flowering is trouble. It takes 1 year to grow up the plant and another to make a ripe fruit. You will have to do some deep research to figure this out with lights.
I think my pineapple is sterile😂.. but after learning that it dies after fruiting, I hope it doesn’t produce.. but I would like to know if it’s possible for it to just live without producing or just not time (it’s about two years old and came top bought from grocery store ) Any helpful tips for its growth and health
The plant must produce in order to live on. The process of fruiting is concurrent with the development of the top, the slips and the basal suckers that continue the growth. Only the mother dies after fruiting.
I stumped a pineapple head prolly 6 weeks ago. Kept it in water, changed water and it’s never rooted, just turned brownish. The leaves on top continue to grow. Should I plant it, cut bottom off? I don’t know what to do. Thank you!
Soaking pineapple shoots in water is a good way to kill them. They do not tolerate this treatment. You will see in the video, we do not use water. You can try moving the top to some good quality potting soil but it may be too late. If so, I would start over again with a fresh top in soil.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 I saw another video and that’s how they did it and I guess I held out hope because the top is still producing leaves but base is brown. I already planted a new one today b/c pineapples were 87 cents! Now avocados, that’s another story! ($2.59 EACH)😳 thank you!!!
No, I have never seen mold or mildew on Pineapple. It is possible in cold wet soil to develop a root and crown rot. Chinese wax scale is a common pest. Pigs will eat the fruit. These are the only pests I've ever seen other than flower blight.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 Thanks for the reply. I just love the taste of pineapple, but I'm almost 75 years old so I think I will not be in a position to grow my own plants.
@@hawkeye-vv4kb I'm 71 and will continue growing pineapples until I fall flat on my face, dead. I am unsure what human age and growing pineapples has to do with each other. You never harvest what you don't plant and what you don't live long enough to harvest doesn't matter because the dead don't eat. Aloha.
Garden soil belongs in the garden. When native soil is put into a container it acts nothing like it does in nature. That is the reason we have potting soils and why they are different from native soil. IF you have a good sandy loam garden soil it is possible to use up to 10% in a potting soil mix but it is best just to go buy a bag of high quality potting soil. You will have much better results.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 thank you. I live in the UK and was given an indoor pineapple plant as a gift. Two slips developed but the stem to the fruit dried. Thought I'd replant the slips.
Pineapples grown indoors produce really small fruit and most of the time they need to be forced into blooming. In temperate climates due to lack of heat and sun it might take much longer for plant to mature (over 3-4 years). Also be careful with selecting variety, some of stored sold golden varieties can get over 4 x 4 ft in a pot and they have stiff blade like leaves which might cut unprotected skin like a razor when brushed against. Not a good idea for indoor plant when you have kids or pets.
As a man who collected cacti for 50 years and had two children my opinion is kids can be taught about touching plants and growers can keep plants where they are not a hazard to children. As for pineapples failing indoors, I never had the experience. I assume your plants must have been short of fertilizer, proper light or both. The pineapples I grew in CA were normal although they seldom develop the quality of the field grown Hawaii fruit. This video was posted for people who really want to grow tropical fruits in temperate climates. There is a lot of interest in this currently. I ship tropical fruit seeds all over the country to places they do not normally grow. If you can think of a better tropical fruit for home culture than the pineapple please speak up instead of being a critic. I have no use for people who complain but offer no constructive comments. I placed this video here for the enjoyment of others. Since you did not enjoy it we can assume it wasn't aimed at your interests in life. Aloha
I love this video you remind me so much of my grandpa who would slowly, carefully explain something and howtos. I’ll send this to my mama who’s stressed out in her retirement so she can pretend to be on a beach!
Hope she enjoys it. Aloha
Yet, another great video Bill. Very informative!
Glad I could help.
Thank you! I have been trying to decide if I should give these plants room in my greenhouse. You have convinced me! 😊
They are an excellent choice, compact, fast maturing and rather tough. Aloha
Thanks so much for all the valuable information! 🥰
You are so welcome!
Thank you for all of the info! I’m just getting started with keeping plants at home, and I figured what better to start with than a plant that I can source from fruit I already buy! I appreciate the info on soil, this is great to know! ❤️
I grow all sorts of plants but plants that have direct human use are always excellent choices. Without plants we would not even exist. O2 is a very important gas.
superb informative vid Bill! Lots of love and positivity from London UK! Thanks bro
You are welcome. It is pineapple season here. Sell fruit, drying fruit, and selling slips is about all I've been doing.
Thank you so much, from Canada! I just started mine today. Hopefully it takes and makes it to my back patio in late May.
Keep the soil fairly dry in cool weather. Water into the leaf whorls and just let a bit trickle over into the earth. Aloha from pineapple land!
Got my first plant...Thanks,
Enjoy the process. It is a fun crop.
Informative, well presented, and enjoyable to watch. Thank you. I plan to do this in Pennsylvania.
Have fun. Pineapple is one of the few tropical fruits that will fit in a home window.
GReat stuff. Thanks so much!
You are so welcome. Thanks for watching.
In tennessee we have a few neighbors growing pinapples in greenhouses. I will be trying this, thank you for the enjoyable videos. - signed Clif's wife Robyn
Aloha and welcome, love Clifton's banjo picking. Have fun with the pineapples.
thanks man! greetings from Romania :)
Aloha from Hawaii
Very well done and informative. Thanks. I also enjoy your energy as a person. Be well.
Mahalo
Thanks so much for this information.
You are so welcome!
Great information! Thanks
Enjoy, aloha
I love your video you are so happy sweet and knowledgeable ! Wish I was your neighbor lol I’d be growing everything! Thank you so much
Thank you so much! Aloha
Best “how to grow pineapple” video! Mahalo.🌱
Thanks glad to hear it makes the grade! Aloha
Great info.
Have fun with it. Thank you.
Very informative , great presentation.Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Good info.thank you..
Enjoy
thank you Sir for sharing your knowledge cheers from Canada
Aloha from the Big Island of HI
Great video.. from Florida.. Really needed this education.. watched many vids.. this one stuck.. Thanks..
You're welcome. Pineapples are one of the crops we raise here.
I'm in Michigan, going to grow one. Starting to go planting crazy. Lost a lot of plants 20 years ago so I'm starting over on a budget. I do have some sunny windows.
Every time I move I sell of my plant collection, donate it or find a friend that needs one. The trail of plants I left behind numbers in the millions by now. "You can't take it with you" was the best advice my elders ever gave me as a child. Moving from California to Hawaii made it really hard to bring any plants. The next move will be to the here after and darn near impossible to take plants with. Are there pineapples in heaven? Never heard there might be. Aloha and thanks for tuning in.
Great information Bill. It took me years to get it right. Hard freeze last winter took care of all the ones outside. I have one left from the grow room. Enough of that fun.
Best wishes Bob. 🌴🌴
I recall pushing the envelope of climate in California with pineapples. They were doing so well in my yard, they had half grown fruit on top and I risked them outside in December. By New Years I had gray mush instead of fruit.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 was a quick one
Dayum! Your comments section is so worth the subscription alone LOL! The dialogue in the comment section is so entertaining and informative! I'm a new subscriber as well as a new grower. I live in Florida and was recently given a pineapple from a homegrown pineapple plant a friend had. I have followed the video regarding planting the top and now have a planted pineapple top🤗 recently started some tomatoes. I live in a condominium LOL on the bottom floor, I've always wanted to have a garden and so it has begun. 👍💜
Both tomatoes and pineapples make pretty good container plants. The fruit is smaller on a container pineapple but still good. Make sure to feed and feed frequently. Potted plants are always out of fertilizer. I have heard that the comments are a show to themselves. Most of the questions get decent answers. The real fun starts when someone thinks they are smart and tries to shove me around. Some of these are my best work. Aloha
@@GreenGardenGuy1 I would love to see that kind of dual! THAT would be epic! Can you recommend a fertilizer for container plants please?
@@awakeatdawnrae6456 Osmocote is an excellent choice for containers and is easy to find.
Thanks a lot for yr information Mr Farmer SIFU l enjoyed your advices l am keeping Ur video for reference in u tube library
It's my pleasure
Hey Bill! Another outstanding video tutorial. Keep'm coming. I hate to sound like an idolator but I have to say that your videos are the best tutorials I've ever seen. That includes resident classes at UC Davis, Cal State Chico and Cal State Sacramento. By the way, Sac State has a killer greenhouse. Once I have sufficient funding I'm gonna build one just like it on my property. Perhaps a bit smaller, but the same design. Many thanks for your willingness to share the vast store of knowledge you possess.
I wrote almost all the classes for Navlet's Nursery in the San Francisco bay area. Guess after retiring I can't help myself and I keep at it. Thank you for the feed back.
Patrick Steinmetz ..I agree..bill in very interesting
I had forgotten you could do this... We did this as a kid living in Wyoming and they grew great! Thanks for the info Bill. :)
Welcome, haven't heard from you in a while. I'm so busy watching lava over here I have neglected the garden videos. This is an attempt to normalize a wild time in Hawaii.
Oh I never miss a video :) I was very happy to hear ya all were safe and out of harms way. I heard about the earthquakes and wondered if that was scary? They never bothered us in California. I have been busy working and havent had alot of time so I am always multi tasking lol and making time for a good glass of wine. Happy day be well and safe:))
Over 25 years in California quakes and I never felt anything like the 6.9 we had 2 weeks back. I was outside and the ground rolled in waves like the ocean up to 12" high. My coffee trees danced a hula. I hit the dirt for fear of being knocked over. I watch quarter sized rocks dancing past my nose! The grand children would never believe the story.
haha I bet it was a roller. That is really a strange feeling. Never had one that big but it still makes you have a wee bit of nausea. I had heard they were good size and often there. Ugh but look at where you live and how beautiful :))
Fun indoor or outdoor project. Good for kids & adults.
Very easy gardening project. Aloha
I like using those lava rocks from the grill section of Walmart, Lowe's or Home Depot in the bottom of my pots for great drainage that keeps me from putting a deep amount of soil in the pot. Seems to work well and the rocks are cheap and clean.
Pots have drain holes so adding materials don't really make more drainage. I've seen broken pot pieces block the holes and kill plants. Rock probably wouldn't do that. I have used light materials like pine bark chunks to fill in the bottom of large containers. The last time i used rocks the weight knocked the bottom out of a red wood container when i moved it. Citrus tree fell right through. I gave it up after that. I knew a grower in california who would toss one large rock in the bottom of his pots so the trees in them wouldn't blow over in the nursery.
I use them too. They are Great for drainage. I add the smaller ones through my whole potting mixes for extra drainage.
Good information
Thanks, hope it was useful.
Thank you for the very informative video. My mother bought me a pineapple plant that was already flowered for my birthday [in November]...now, the flower is falling off, and leaves on the mother plant are turning yellow. Wish I’d seen your video earlier. I live in an apartment in the Midwest...luckily, I do have a cpl of picture windows facing south, and southeast...I plan to try this again. I have no doubt that I overwatered my plant..won’t make this mistake again. Sending you good vibrations🙏🏽✨🌊Thanks for the information 😊
Cool conditions and wet soil are probably at fault. Try again. Aloha
Cool video . some time I'm torn between economic and hobbies, the darn thing sale for 2.50 here in the supper market and they are 1.5 each in the Hispanic market. I spend more money on dirt work then my house per square feet worth. Gardening is a noble addiction except for the criminal collecting act. One your are noble all action are noble :) Happy gardening
We can only see gardening as an addiction since we have food distribution networks. I consider it an act of feeding myself. Am I addicted to food?
I have a 'toothy' variegated pineapple I call Medusa. You may have her in your collection. She's vicious and will bite if you get too close. She will draw blood. I've been growing her lineage for the last 20 + years. Was able to get a tiny fruit while in Pennsylvania. The mother plant then died and didn't give any pups (bromeliad talk for offshoots, same as ratoon in pineapple plantation talk). From the tiny crown from the tiny fruit, I've gotten four plants that have been traveling around with me throughout the Midwest. I'm in Upper Peninsula Michigan now and the plants have not fruited in the last 18 yrs. Probably not getting enough sun. Only can bring them out for 4 months of the year. But by the end of that time, they blush a beautiful pink. People get amazed at seeing real pineapple plants, especially a variegated version with its green and white striped leaves and blushing accents. I warn them not to get too close because Medusa will bite. Her allure is so great they want to touch her, they get bitten.
Back in a recent video I mentioned a collection of unusual pineapple varieties I refer too as the weird pineapple farm. In that collection I have the scary plant you are referring to. I received as the Living Fence from Argentina. It is beautiful but wicked. I had considered using it along the front fence to keep the pigs away but the county often spray weed killer in the ditch and it would probably not survive.
That was my original thought of the use of the plant when I was still in Hawai'i. At the time I was living in Manoa Valley on Oahu. My job as an environmental geologist allowed me to visit a lot of pineapple growing areas on O'ahu, Maui, and Lana'i monitoring chemical contamination. They would often give me cases of pineapple for my company. No one wanted the crowns so I took them home and grew them as a fence. This was along the road, so people would pick the fruit before I could get to them. I was given the Argentine from O'ahu's Dole facility and planned to plant it in front of the kinder pineapples as a guard. It worked. But the plant was so lovely, I couldn't leave it behind. This variety will sprout pups below the fruit, so I picked one of them and brought it with me along with a lot of ginger rhizomes when I left Hawai'i. Today it lives in a tropical garden room during the winter. But boy she bites when I have to move her. I have to look for a home for her soon because of my move back. I may call on you the get her back in my life on the Big Island.
Yeah, don't bother moving it. If you come by with a shovel I will let you dig the entire row, please! I intend to only keep enough around to maintain a stock in the nursery. It is lovely and it does sell to some extent.
Pineapple farming has really changed here. Dole sold 80% or so of Lanai to Larry Ellison, the software mogul. A friend of mine right next to the current flows has been selling him exotic trees to turn the place in to a botanical garden on the old pineapple fields. So much for software genius. You would think planting food to create a sustainable Hawaii would be smarter. Except for some token Dole patches so they can claim to grow Hawaiian pineapples the industry is dead here. Small farmers growing exotic white fruit pineapples are taking over the market. I have somewhere near 1000 plants of the white here in Puna. Frank's on Oahu has bred a white called Honey Cream that is selling for $5.99 per pound! Ours are worth $3 per pound. Frank's is being stingy. they put a patent on it and twist off all the tops before they sell the fruit. Not good business. I refuse to buy their fruit. If they left the top on though I would just steal the crop. All great gardeners and farmers are thieves at heart when it comes to plants.
As one aihue kanu talks to another. I feel you brother. I've done my share of plant thievery. What makes frank's Honey Cream worth 6 bucks, is it better in some way or just because? Mahalo for the offer. My property will be barricaded behind a fence of Argentines, followed by a row of your white. Aloha no.
Frank's claims their Honey Cream Pineapple has the highest sugar content of all pineapples. I will probably never find that out at $6 per pound with the top twisted off before sales.
What a brilliant video. I'm in England and love my mini (but still delicious when they fruit) pineapple houseplants🙂
Glad you enjoyed it. We grow a lot of pineapples here. The Hilo White is my favorite. Extra sweet, subacid, juice to flood the counter. Aloha
@@GreenGardenGuy1 sounds amazing. Someday I would like to visit Hawaii. It always sounds even more appealing during our cold Winter months here😀
@@backyardsnackyard I lived in the great Lakes area for decades. I didn't come here for the weather but it tends to be some of the best on Earth. Aloha
@@GreenGardenGuy1 funny how we end up various places; I left Denmark to study for one semester in London (didn't move here for the weather either😉), and here I am a lifetime later.
@@backyardsnackyard If we listen closely we instinctively know where we should be on earth. In a manner of speaking Hawaii placed me here, I only conceded.
Hi from Alberta Canada! I have a 3 year old pineapple plant that started to flower in March of 2021.. A small fruit has formed in the center of the plant. I have a sun room with south and east sun exposure providing the needed light . As we get very cold weather here, I was shocked to see the flower form. The sunroom is cooler than the rest of the house, so I added an oil heater for extra heat.
Temperature has a bit to do with flowering but mostly it is triggered by the photo period. Pineapples have regular fruiting cycle controlled by the length of day. They tolerate night temperatures down to 50 f. Ours do well here between 50 and 85 degrees in the field. Expect ripe fruit by fall. Do not over water the soil in cool weather. The roots rot if too wet when it is cold out.
Very helpful! How do you feel about Miracle Gro ferts?
No. In the field I use organics like fish emulsion and chicken manure. In the nursery i use Nutricote 360. It is a 12 month time release fertilizer. Miracle Grow must be applied every 7 to 14 days. I am too busy for that. Aloha.
Very informative video, I’m trying to grow pineapple for the plant only if I get a pineapple, bonus. I have one top in dirt one in water and the leaves are turning brown is that what they do before taking off growing? The one in dirt had a root the water one is growing a root and is less brown on top.
Blessings
A professional grower would never plant pineapples in water. I once soaked tops in a sink for 8 hours to remove some ants. It ruined the tops. I had to dump them. They are terrestrial plants and do not handle aquatic culture well. Here are more videos about growing them in pots. They pretty much cover it all.
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What about the coffee tea..picked two little trees up from the Home depot. The pot is about 3inched and the Bush really looks healthy. I'm in south Florida, do you think they have a chance of surviving and producing that arabica bean? Pineapples grow fine in my environment. Happy growing.
I believe it should be possible. Coffee is tropical but it is a mountain crop.
Great video!! I subscribed! I live in California....how often should I water and do you never water the soil? Thank you
In a container you will need to water. How often depends on the temperature, the size of the pot, size of the plant and the structure of the growing media. Pineapples are typical as far as water use is concerned. If you have other similar sized potted plants water them in the same cycle. A moisture meter will take out all of the guess work. Watering the soil is okay but in cool winter climates with short days wet soil can cause a root rot. I just wouldn't flood or soak the pot unless it was warm and high summer.
Mine is about 3 or 4 months old and i water it 2 times a week
Hi Sir. If you still have this channel up, I have a question.
I'm using your process for a pineapple house plant 🦋
I have been reading different ways but, your's is the way I want to go. In other articles they say that after you have pulled the lower leaves off that you should let it dry out for 2 days . Will this not start to kill the plant leaves off? I am planting mine tomorrow, so I'd very much appreciate your advice on this... Thank you 🦋
Pineapple slips are extremely durable and difficult to kill. Due to this nature almost any set of instructions will work. There is no need to dry the base. We plant hundreds of this each year. It rains 120" per year here, the ground is always wet. I don't waste time while planting. We strip the leaves, jam the slips in the earth and keep walking. So far we have never lost a pineapple plant that wasn't eaten by a pig.
First time grower, still not a show-er 😂 Excellent video! I started a million of them and quit but your narration and personality made me subscribe!
Question though, I am in FL (on the East coast of the state). I started some pineapple last year. Once they hit about 2 feet I placed them in the ground however they rotted.
This year I tried again and placed them in various locations to see where they liked the best. The best were potted on my covered porch however I lined the porch so they do get full sun but blocked from rains (humidity here has been 80 to 100% outside all summer). At this point most of them are approx. 3 feet, however they are all rotting! Every location too, covered, not covered, full sun, different soils 😭🤦♀️ The centers are just fall out and the heart appears to be soaked. Yet the soil is fairly dry (also no water trapped in the leaves). What am I doing wrong? I am getting ready to go to our local organic market and get some more tops. I want to try again but I'm tired of failing
I think one of the worst things is, that I have neighbors who all have them who are producing fruit. I know mine won't produce fruit for a few years but how are theirs still alive and mine just keep dying. When I ask they all say they just threw Them in the ground and they grew. Am I missing something from their lifecycle.
Sounds like Pineapple heart rot. Since the neighbors do not have it then I would blame your cultural practices, infected plant material or the infected soil. I would also consider your nematode issues, infestations can trigger the rot. Also, the variety you are using could be the issue. What do you use as soil? The soil used in containers is very important. We get 150" of rain each year here and I've never seen a crown rot in our crops. Pineapples do not develop well in pots but if you do this use one of the high porosity commercial growers medias and leave the commercial potting soils on the shelf. Some are good but most are junk. Sungrow or Pro Mix work fine. Here is some more info. It covers organic approach too. www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/PD-106.pdf
@@GreenGardenGuy1 thank you for reply and information!
I used a miracle grow soil (we had slim pickings) and terracotta clay pots. I'm thinking it's my soil causing the heart rot. I tasked my teen to get rid of the dead plants and infected soil and she admitted last night she poured the old soil back into my new bag. Do you think switching the soil might save them? My other concern now is I just purchased some new house plants and repotted them with that same soil 😳
@@slopez7598 You appear to have two problems, recycled soil and the brand. I realize you are using a major national brand name but the product is low grade and probably why you had rot. It holds way too much moisture and the particles are too fine. Use a soil with a large particle size and high porosity. Pineapples do not like being potted or transplanted. I would leave the survivors alone and just reduce the watering. Use a moisture meter. In the meantime I would start over again with new plants and new soil.
Try starting your roots in water and get something like a Patio Pickers raised bed and proceed that way. The soil in your area might not be good for pineapples
Hi triple G, are you a fan or recommend the use of using fertilizer tea to water and feed the plants? New England doesn't have a long growing season so I'm thinking this plant will be grown indoors. How long does it take to mature and produce a fruit? Thank you, 👍🏻🇺🇸
The only time I ever used fertilizer tea was when I had a flock of 200 chickens and more crap than I knew what to do with. I would put 25% poo with 75% water and keep refilling the bucket as a poured it along the rows until it looked thin. Otherwise i put everything on the earth and let the rain make the tea. Cuts out the middle steps.
I raised pineapples in a greenhouse in California. They took the same 24 months to fruit that they do in HI but the fruit was smaller and not as tasty.
I think I either got extraordinarily lucky, or just happened to pick an unusually hardy pineapple top. I forgot to take off the fruit part of the top, but for some reason the rot didn't hurt the plant. The soil I used was _truly terrible-_ no normal fertilizers, instead I'd used a bunch of stuff I wanted to compost later like cat hair, banana peels, leftover hamburger helper, coffee grounds, and a bit of dusty dirt from around the yard. After two years mostly indoors next to an eastern window, it's grown larger than any piece of furniture I own. Utterly inexplicable.
They are relatively easy to grow. This is why they are a common farm crop in the tropics. They will often grow even when neglected. I have seen old plants that we removed from the field and piled send out fruit.
Wish I could find a white one in the UK (and not just already pre-chopped up)
The white pineapples are high sugar, high moisture and low acid. This makes them a gourmet item at a farm stand but they don't ship. I could never fly them into California from here without them turning into vodka.
Thank you! Growing two in my garden in Ohio. I need to bring them in for the winter. Will they be ok without a grow light?
If you have very large, sunny, southern windows they will probably get by. Otherwise full spectrum high intensity plant lights will be required. Pineapples grow under full tropical sun. To grow them in a temperate climate you need to simulate natural conditions.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 thank you!!
I cannot find white pineapple in Maui on my trip. I ordered white jade and Kona White starts from wellspring gardens. Do you recommend them for it? How would a north window do on them.
Both of these pineapples are related to the Hilo White. Pineapples under go somatic mutation when planted in different environments. I have the Kona here, it is very similar to the Hilo. Time to ripen in a bit earlier and the flavor isn't as sweet when grown in Hilo but probably perfect when grown in Kona. A north window would be considered to dark and cold for pineapple. I used to grow them in a hoop house in CA under full sun and the flavor was still short of the ones grown on the Islands. They grow on the mainland but never match the produce under tropical sun. Maybe some of the LED lights they use for Cannabis would work.
Hey should I prune it when the leaves get really large?
No we do not prune pineapple. It would reduce plant energy and yield.
I live in the west Indies, I'm growing a pineapple tree, it's still small, but growing. When is the season that they bear?
Pineapples are terrestrial bromeliads, not trees so don't be surprised when it does not grow upward or form a trunk. The season pineapples bear in depends on the variety and the climate in your location. If you know some one else in your area who grows the same type asking them would give beat information. Here in Puna Hawaii, at 1600 feet elevation, the Hilo White pineapples takes 24 months to fruit from a top. The season here is August to October but this year it spilled over into November. Other types have different seasons and the people who live down the mountain start picking in July.
How do you care for the mother plant after harvesting?
The mother plant dies after fruiting. Continuation of growth is by planting the tops or the slips that form below the fruit. There will also be one to three basal suckers that come from the base. One or more of these can be left in place to continue growth.
I know you said you don't want to talk about fertilizers, but... where do you get Nutricote?
You just identified the reason I don't discuss them! If you live in Hawaii on the Big Island I can help you. In Hilo either Nursery Things or BEI has the product. Off Island you will have to do your own search. If you live away from commercial growers supply houses then just use Osmocote. It is the home version of the same product and it is sold almost any place that has fertilizers.
I tried growing 2 from the tops and they both died but i thinks it’s due to the weather I have here. Live in a cool temperate zone so yeah it’s not super freezing cold but it’s cold 🥶 in winter.
Pineapple don't tolerate temperatures below 50 degrees f. They do not have to freeze but freezing turns them into gray putty. Wet soils under 50 cause the crowns to rot. Keep them in a greenhouse and do not water the soil in winter. Water the whorls and just let extra water trickle to the soil.
If I grow the pineapple from a store bought pineapple, what size fabric grow bag should it grow in as a permanent home? 5, 10, 20, 25, etc.
I never use grow bags but I assume 10 stands for 10 gallon. A 5 gallon should hold one, a 15 would hold three in a triangle. We grow ours a foot apart, in triple rows and triangulated.
how long does it take to generate a mature ripe pineapple?
I thought I mentioned that but perhaps I deleted that information. Dang video was 45 minutes long before i started chopping at it. How long will always depend on growing conditions but variety is the main control there. I have some types that actually make fruit in a single year from planting. Others take 18 months. My favorite, the Hilo White Pineapple usually take two years from a planted top. Occasionally they are earlier but I'm
not sure why that is.
Just listening to you i can tell you know what your pineapple. I've seen videos where ppl cut the top in half to make 2 plants, do you recommend this or not. It seems kind of radical to cut it like that.
The internet is full of miss information and strange ideas. The only reason a person might consider dismantling a perfectly good pineapple slip is rarity. This amounts to tissue culture and lab work with nutrient agar media and glass flasks. Most of us are planting common pineapples that are readily available. We sell the suckers by the truckload, there is no scarcity. Chance of failure if the top is cut is pretty high.
Morning Bill, are you allowed to ship pineapple tops to the mainland? I would like some of the white pineapple crowns you talk about.
It is legal to ship the tops but i have to take them 20 miles to town, let the AG inspectors pick through them for bugs, get the boxes stamped and sealed by the inspectors and then run them to the airport of Fed X. It is sort of an expensive pain for a pineapple top. I never do shipping of live plants for orders less than $100. If you are interested you can contact by email and I will provide a list of plant materials from the nursery. greengardenservice@yahoo.com
@@GreenGardenGuy1 thank you for your video mr. BILL WE LIVE ON THE ISLAND OF PUERTO RICO WE PLANT ALOT OF PINEAPPLES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH Again. For your videos. Mr. Jimmy.
@@nildaluz2369 Aloha from Hawaii
Nice we're going to try THIS !!!!! Mom makes a great pineapple + BEAN , chip dip, that is Killer buddy !!!!! Oh MAN. We killed a whole large bowl of it at last Christmas with the family hahahahaha. Out the park hit even the children liked it I'm sure. NO Composter for YOU, pineapple top !!!!!! :-D
Pineapple, persimmons, papaya, mango, jicama and Yacon all make great salsa. Try them all!
myr 2-3 yr old pineapple plants (the top from a fresh pineapple I bought)...hss a little wee pineapple starting in the middle- I ive in 6a zone -never expected a pineapple to show up- haveno idea how long it will take to grow big...all my ibn and out depending on weather is worth it! What???? the mother plant will grow- I'm devastated- there aren't any off shoots...guess my smaller ones will have to replace the ig one...any way to preserve the main one??? We've been thru a lot together...so sad now
I advise never getting sad about a plant, they can't feel it, only you can. If you are in zone 6 either the pineapple grows in a pot, in protection or you are actually in zone 10 & 11 where pineapples grow. When you remove a crop from it's suitable habitat it can be expected to do all sorts of unusual things. I have never seen a pineapple that didn't produce some form of slips and suckers. If the fruit is tiny then you are too early to worry. Slips and suckers form after fruit. At the least you will have the top for replanting. Having the mother plant die away after fruiting is normal. A mother that survives fruiting would be a very strange thing. Not particularly desirable though. One of the reasons we like pineapples is unlike orange trees they grow a completely new plant every time.
So after my plant produces a pineapple thats it? Thats all it will produce?
No not so. I went on to describe how pineapple is propagated after the harvest but the darn video got so long I left that part on the cutting floor. Different types vary but the variety i grow produces 7 off sets at every fruiting. Plant one top and at harvest time you also get one top back, 3 ratoon suckers and three basal suckers. This process is the same with all bromeliads. After fruiting the mother plant always dies but the process continues by replanting the off sets.
Hi i live in Barbados. Our pineapple is call black tail . I was wondering if you could cross different pineapple varieties.
Yes you can cross pineapple. They have very deep flowers pollinated by humming birds. You would need to mimic the birds activity to pollinate and have two different varieties that you wish to combine.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 Thank you so much for that information.
@@neilsmall6518 Sure thing.
Bought pineapples plant
Have fun. Aloha
Why do the tips of my pineapple turn brown when in water - waiting to root?
Soaking pineapple slips in water injures them. It is also not required. If you note in this video, we do not soak pineapple. I have no idea where this idea came from. I have hundreds of pineapples in the field, sell them to the market and the only soaking they ever get is from the rain.
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Hello : I have a pineapple I grew from a top of a pineapple from the store and its now been a year and its big and really healthy. I have a question ?? I have it in I think a 12" pot and its a in-door plant. Do I need to repot it or is the pot its in big enough. Thanks in Advance. Terry in Ky.
Pineapple fruit weight between 3 and 8 pounds each. The container mass has to be large enough to hold things up right if the fruit starts to lean. A three gallon pot is usually about right. I have fruited pineapple in a one gallon pot before but it stunts the size and they flop over easily.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 Thanks so much for taking the time to get back to me about this. So if I transplant it to another container. What time of year should I do that and also. I'm in Kentucky. How long do you think it will be before it produces a pineapple ??
@@terry4265 Pineapple is tropical so in Kentucky you will want to transplant during active growth in the summer.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 OK . Thanks for the help. So my last question. What size do you recommend I use ?? Terry
@@terry4265 The pineapple doesn't need a lot of root space. A squat 3 gallon container would be just fine.
How much light should I have for veg and how much light for flowering?
Any reduction in sun from full light reduces yield and quality by a corresponding percentage. Pineapple are full sun plants. Plants in 50% fail to fruit.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 ya I know mine just a few months old. First time growing one. they really don't like alot of water at all. I'm used to growing cannabis lol 😆 I had it outside for the summer had to bring it in because Canada getting to cold for it. I put under mars hydro ts600 for a few hours day but I'll probably start it on 18/6 this week. Thanks for your time and video. Do you ever let the base dry out for a few day before planting. I seen some people say it helps? I had a hard time rooting them I was doing it in cup of water and the would rot. But then I looked up and seen you don't have do that way lol. I must of did 3 or 4 that just died lol they seem like fun to grow tho
@@brockeaton9338 I know the daylight cycles for Cannabis but the photoperiod for pineapples are a mystery to me. I grow them out in the sun and never bother to figure out the day lengths that trigger flowering. You have a project on your hands. 18/6 will work fine for green growth but when you shorten the cycle for flowering is trouble. It takes 1 year to grow up the plant and another to make a ripe fruit. You will have to do some deep research to figure this out with lights.
I think my pineapple is sterile😂.. but after learning that it dies after fruiting, I hope it doesn’t produce.. but I would like to know if it’s possible for it to just live without producing or just not time (it’s about two years old and came top bought from grocery store ) Any helpful tips for its growth and health
The plant must produce in order to live on. The process of fruiting is concurrent with the development of the top, the slips and the basal suckers that continue the growth. Only the mother dies after fruiting.
I stumped a pineapple head prolly 6 weeks ago. Kept it in water, changed water and it’s never rooted, just turned brownish. The leaves on top continue to grow. Should I plant it, cut bottom off? I don’t know what to do. Thank you!
Soaking pineapple shoots in water is a good way to kill them. They do not tolerate this treatment. You will see in the video, we do not use water. You can try moving the top to some good quality potting soil but it may be too late. If so, I would start over again with a fresh top in soil.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 I saw another video and that’s how they did it and I guess I held out hope because the top is still producing leaves but base is brown. I already planted a new one today b/c pineapples were 87 cents! Now avocados, that’s another story! ($2.59 EACH)😳 thank you!!!
@@sandyliggett4011 To be sure, these fruit are inexpensive enough to grow plenty and eat them too. Pineapple come true to type. Aloha
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Are pineapple plants susceptible to mold or mildew infestation? Thanks
No, I have never seen mold or mildew on Pineapple. It is possible in cold wet soil to develop a root and crown rot. Chinese wax scale is a common pest. Pigs will eat the fruit. These are the only pests I've ever seen other than flower blight.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 Thanks for the reply. I just love the taste of pineapple, but I'm almost 75 years old so I think I will not be in a position to grow my own plants.
@@hawkeye-vv4kb I'm 71 and will continue growing pineapples until I fall flat on my face, dead. I am unsure what human age and growing pineapples has to do with each other. You never harvest what you don't plant and what you don't live long enough to harvest doesn't matter because the dead don't eat. Aloha.
Dear sir , I have a huge pineapple, in my kitchen windowsill since I don't when .
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Could I just dig up some soil from my garden??
Garden soil belongs in the garden. When native soil is put into a container it acts nothing like it does in nature. That is the reason we have potting soils and why they are different from native soil. IF you have a good sandy loam garden soil it is possible to use up to 10% in a potting soil mix but it is best just to go buy a bag of high quality potting soil. You will have much better results.
@@GreenGardenGuy1 thank you. I live in the UK and was given an indoor pineapple plant as a gift. Two slips developed but the stem to the fruit dried. Thought I'd replant the slips.
@@PerigoBerro Sounds like a fun project. Aloha
Pineapples grown indoors produce really small fruit and most of the time they need to be forced into blooming. In temperate climates due to lack of heat and sun it might take much longer for plant to mature (over 3-4 years). Also be careful with selecting variety, some of stored sold golden varieties can get over 4 x 4 ft in a pot and they have stiff blade like leaves which might cut unprotected skin like a razor when brushed against. Not a good idea for indoor plant when you have kids or pets.
As a man who collected cacti for 50 years and had two children my opinion is kids can be taught about touching plants and growers can keep plants where they are not a hazard to children. As for pineapples failing indoors, I never had the experience. I assume your plants must have been short of fertilizer, proper light or both. The pineapples I grew in CA were normal although they seldom develop the quality of the field grown Hawaii fruit. This video was posted for people who really want to grow tropical fruits in temperate climates. There is a lot of interest in this currently. I ship tropical fruit seeds all over the country to places they do not normally grow. If you can think of a better tropical fruit for home culture than the pineapple please speak up instead of being a critic. I have no use for people who complain but offer no constructive comments. I placed this video here for the enjoyment of others. Since you did not enjoy it we can assume it wasn't aimed at your interests in life. Aloha
I have no sunny window... thus they are dying😢
Yes, pineapples need very strong sunlight to develop. Try using grow lights instead.
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Great info, Thank you
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