wacky wednesday - my pineapple plant progress

Almost two years ago I planted the top of a pineapple to see if I could grow a pineapple plant in the desert. Okay, it's in my house, not outside in the sweltering dry heat of an Arizona summer. But the point is, I wanted to see if growing a pineapple was possible. You can read that post here.

Last summer I wrote a post about the progress of my pineapple plant. It had finally, after much coaxing, started to grow.

I was excited thinking it wouldn't be long before a tiny little pineapple started to grow on a stalk shooting up from the center of the plant. At least that's what I was told would happen.

Yeah, that didn't happen.

What did happen was my pineapple plant took off and is growing like a weed!



Although it still has some of the original crown leaves, my pineapple plant has sprouted quite a few new leaves. It's "leaf-span" is about 48-inches by 36-inches by 24-inches high.

In the fields in Hawaii, pineapple plants grow to six feet by six feet before producing fruit but as a "houseplant" they generally produce fruit (often smaller) when they reach a height of 24 to 28 inches. Winter is their fruit-bearing season and according to the internet, there are several methods to "force" them to produce fruit.

Maybe next summer we'll have a home-grown pineapple.

Really.