Pineapples are popular amongst people who like a good tropical cocktail, or like exotic juices. They are available in cans and on stands of grocery shops and supermarkets alike. A slice of pineapple is a real asset to a sweet beverage and cakes with sweet pineapple bits can be really delicious. Some people think these pineapples are only available from the local shop and grow on trees near the equator.
Wrong and wrong. First of all, anyone can grow a pineapple plant, whether the average temperature is above 90 degrees throughout the year or 40. It is a rather durable specie and if you live where the sun is strong enough you can have one yourself. It doesn't really like frost and too much water though, but the good news is that you can grow it indoors.
Pine Apples
Second, pineapple is not a tree. Some people think pineapples grow on thirty feet tall palm trees and cultivators climb up with belts to harvest them like coconuts, but that is nothing more than just a wrong stereotype. The fruit grows in the middle of a bush like plant. The leaves are long and slick with a sharp point at the end. They look like the crown of a pineapple, only the leaves are longer.
It is also a commonly forgot fact that pineapples are poisonous in default. If you've ever bought a slightly unripe pineapple you might have noticed the acidic aftertaste they have. This is a poison and is present in higher concentration in green pineapple. It causes mouth and throat burn and heavy diarrhea.
The fruit is a bunch of transmuted flowers. If your plant bears flowers you will see that they're arranged as they could shape a pineapple fruit. This is why these are called compound fruits.
Growing your pineapple "tree" is one of the easiest tasks you could ever have in the garden, or your living room. First, you will need a healthy whole pineapple with the crown still on it. You can buy it in the local supermarket or the grocery, doesn't matter much as long as there are fresh leaves in the middle of the crown. If they are missing or dried out pick another one that looks health enough.
You can have just about any pineapple variation but the big sweetloaf version is well suited for growing at home.
When you have your pineapple you'll have to come up with a few recipes to make good use of the fruit as you won't need it at all for growing. Make a clean cut about an two inches under the crown, so that it is the bunch of leaves and some excess fruit you have left.
You will have to put it where the sun can heat it so the fruit flesh dries and hardens. You don't want to plant pineapple top still dripping of fruit juice as it is extremely prone to fungi and that can kill your plant still in its growing phase.
The little pineapple tree needs light soil, preferably little sandy. If you don't have any of it use plain sea to mix 1 piece of it with 2 pieces of normal planting soil. Cover the plant in sand so that only about half an inch of fruit is above ground and the plant is firmly put in place.
Water regularly in early weeks, but don't overdo it because pineapple trees die of rotting the most often. Some of the lower leaves will dry and die off but that is fine. After it is settled touch the sand and water when you feel it dry enough. It takes more water through the leaves than through the roots so water it with a sprinkler of some description by pointing it to the middle of the crown.
The plant grows about two to four feet tall and the same in diameter, therefore it is suited for indoor gardening. Pineapple trees are biannual plants. It means that they grow leaves in the first year and bear flowers in the second or third if they don't really like the weather.
Pineapple trees can give you some quick success if you are just starting to get your feet wet in gardening as they are easy to take care of and give fruit fast. They are cheap too, a whole pineapple can be had for under a dollar depending where you live.
It Isn't As Hard to Grow a Pineapple Tree As You Would Think
Thank you for reading my article about the pineapple tree. If you'd like to read more on growing plants like pear trees I suggest taking a look at my other articles too.
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