Just updating status of my pineapple rooting. Here is how it looks like:22June2012, outer leaves are really so dried out but the next layer is part green, middle part dry as well:
Have removed the hydroton rocks and gel beads...yey!
I saw one firm growing root! The other older roots are still brownish in color..but does not look dead to me. But I am just so happy to see that one new white root! So my badly dried up pineapple top is indeed still alive and just really very, very slow to make its new roots. One better than none
So that is good enough for me, with summer being here, and luckily today we have an awesome weather, good to repot it now in soil, so it can adjust gradually as the heat ensues further in the season.
So patience, patience in waiting indeed...things I learned, pineapple tops are very resilient, will pout a bit, dry its leaves terribly during rooting in water, but will just take its sweet time to produce its roots.
