I got another pineapple earlier this past week & wasn't thinking about it "plant-wise" at the time, but it was from the dumb little grocery store here that refrigerates everything. It's why I don't buy avocados there, they're always ruined by that cold. Anyway, this pineapple top is not going to be a new plant in my collection. By the next day, the leaves were all brown & falling off. I wonder if some trouble others have had could have been from this same reason - buying chilled pineapples?