Purple girl : DUH .
Sometimes I'm slow. It makes me, feel really dumb.
Butt ! Now I got it. You've got them all stashed up in pot for winter. Yea . I figured it out.

DAM-IT I got to pay better attention. 🕵️

Live long. And. Prosper.
Ta ta 👍
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You're fine, my friend! I've said something somebody doesn't understand, it's probably my fault, not theirs. TY for the opportunity to clarify & thanks again for your interest. :+)

Purple girl ! I just got up. It's to early in the morning to argue, about who got corn-fuzed ! Besides, who wants to argue ? Not me.

Now I saw my last post to you. Some people liked it. I mean I got 3 thumbs up, AND 10 ACORNS on it. Gee wow. Thanks ? 😎😎😎 to you, or whoever it was.

Ttfn 💃
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How are everyone's pineapple plants doing?

The gumption to unpot this giant thing that's dying to slice me up and put it in ground again is just not there. It's still in its' pot. If the Coleus starts wilting, I'll find a bigger pot. I suspect the roots have ventured through the drain hole to the ground below.


My 2016-started plant remains potted too. I started 9 more about a month ago, on the ground. They seem rooted @ this point. And no, I don't know what I'll do with them but the tops were saved from going to a dumpster. The part of me that saved them wishes I'd grabbed more. The part that has to figure out what to do with them by fall at the latest is a little annoyed with that other part. LOL! The struggle is real, right?

Because you asked, I had a two year old and five first year pineapple plants that were rooted. The old one wintered in a 5 gallon bucket and the other five spent their winter in coffee cans, all in the greenhouse.


I left some soil on the roots and wrapped the root ball in sphagnum moss. It made it easy to keep moist.

I have been planting them out in beds and this is what they look like when I remove them.










The roots amaze me after they overwintered like that.

This was the second year I dug the large one up, overwintered and replanted it. Only mistake I made this year was setting it out before the cold was over. It looks rather ugly. I was going to try to make it bloom this summer.

As they grow larger overwintering is definitely an issue.

Mine is doing okay new growth and all. This is year 2. But I don't like the yellowing leaves. Might have gotten dried out for too long in the GH? But now maybe too much water with the drip/mister system? Or maybe Maui Gold is supposed to have gold leaves?? Stumped. It's baffling me! It got a big new pot cuz I read that perennials should have BIG pots to emulate being in the ground? It's been fed.

Something with "gold" in the name is likely to supposed to be yellow (gold.) I know nothing about named pineapples though, just guess-hoping. ;)

What is it that one is supposed to do to try to make their pineapple (noun) pineapple (verb?)

Larger group of new tops in direct sun from about noon until sundown are actually not looking as good as the 2 that I put in a lot more shade. But IDK how much of an indicator the old foliage is. Probably spent a couple weeks in a box, and lost their acclimation to the sun. All seem to be rooted (lots of resistance to a gentle tug) but I can't tell yet if new leaves are growing. Having a stretch of no rain for 3 weeks & relying on me to dribble a little high PH tap water from the hose is not helping, but should be fixed tomorrow (fingers crossed!!)

What is it that one is supposed to do to try to make their pineapple (noun) pineapple (verb?)

Are you trying to hatch a bloom?

If that was what you were asking, I believe you place a cut apple in the top and cover it with a plastic bag. Which I can't imagine doing in this heat. I saved the directions somewhere ~ she says as her grey hair gets in the way of her memory.

Lucky you on the chance of rain. The long range forecast is showing zip, zero, nada for me.

Fascinating, TYVM! And I can't imagine either, that sounds like a cool weather activity. ;)

Thank you for the nut, Girl! I need to remember to share them as well.

If I find the blooming specifics, I'll let you know.

An update on the tops started by bringing home 9 of them from a fair.

Although the ones placed in a more shady spot never developed as much browning on the foliage that existed when planted, at this point the ones in more shade are not as robust. IDK if the pics convey this or not, but here are a couple pics.

Only a few hours of late evening sun:


Direct sun from about noon until maybe an hour before sunset:

I love the looks of the foliage on the pineapple plants.

A branch fell on one and it seems dead now. (frown)


But its' neighbor is as perky as ever.


The one we started May 2016, in ground for summer vacay.

Whatever happened with folks' pineapples?

The original one I started in 2015 has been in the ground since summer of 2018. It stayed mostly evergreen through a couple of mild winters and it finally made an incredibly delicious pineapple last summer! I thought it had died over this last winter because there was nothing but dead foliage showing until about a week ago. Now it looks like this.


The 2016 plant has been in a pot without being taken out for summer the past few summers and made a very small pineapple in 2019. It's so beastly, I've kept it inside so far this summer.

A couple of the saved-from-the-dumpster plants are still alive, outside the whole time, but not where I go with the hose, so they hardly look any different, just kind of stuck in time.