HOW TO GROW PINEAPPLE PLANTS IN CONTAINERS
garden once you see how easy it is to
grow pineapples at home you will never
look back let's look at growing
pineapples now you can easily start your
pineapple plant by buying a pineapple
first now you can be specific and buy an
organic pineapple that way you'll get no
pesticide residue with it but in either
case you can just buy any pineapple that
you get in your market and then what
we're going to do is just remove the
head just like that the top part of the
pineapple and then make sure that you
cut well along the side like just like
that and the reason is that you don't
want a lot of pineapple flesh remaining
on the top when you're planting it now
all you do is take a glass of water you
can take any container I just find that
this glass that we you see here this
fits in very well with the shape of the
pineapple so it kind of holds it in
place and what you're going to do is
leave it for a few days like this in the
Sun and then what will happen is it will
trigger the pineapple to produce roots
as you can see here from the base of the
top part of the pineapple and within a
few days you can see that the roots have
grown
in the water and you can keep changing
the water every few days and slowly
you'll see that the roots have developed
and when you see that the roots are
significant enough long enough you can
transplant them into a container now I
would recommend at least at this sized
container that you see here for growing
pineapple this is about 16 inches wide
16 inches high container and the ideal
size is of course a whiskey barrel sized
container now for months and splatting
you can see that the plant has now
developed these leaves the leaves have
become wider and longer and within about
six months you will see that the leaves
are more developed they might turn a
little darker green in color and that
just means that they're growing well and
eventually you will see that in about
ten months you will see the chute
growing this is the main a trunk of the
pineapple plant that will eventually
produce the pineapple
and the kind of soil that you wanna use
for your pineapple should be a well
draining soil make sure that you have a
lot of compost though because your
pineapple plant needs a lot of nutrition
when it is growing in the first year at
least and the plant will grow really
fast during the first one and a half
years and at this stage at fifteen
months I just thought that this plant
was too big for this container it was
just branching out a lot and it needed
more space so what I did was I
transplanted this plant into a larger
container now it wasn't easy because the
pineapple plant has a lot of spines and
very sharp leaves but as you can see
here I managed to do that and this is
why I recommend that you start your
plant in a whiskey barrel container if
you can it's not that the plant is not
gonna grow in the other container it
just looks better and has more space in
this container now 22 months since
planting I was still waiting for my
pineapple plant to produce pineapples
and that's when I saw the first sign of
a flower or a bird growing now it might
take a long time for your pineapple
plant to produce flowers so just be
patient just keep growing up by an apple
plant just keep giving it the adequate
fertilizer it needs and you will
eventually get your fruit and as you can
see here the bird is very evident now
and the pineapple bird the pineapple
flower is one of the prettiest I've seen
you need to grow your pineapple plants
in full Sun they need at least eight
hours of sunlight a day and you can keep
it year-round outdoors in places like
Southern California they will survive
through winters and still produce
pineapples in the next year now 24
months since planting you can see that
our fruit now looks very much like a
pineapple and this is really the moment
of truth this is when you know your
plant is going to produce a nice fruit
now the larger your pineapple plant is
the larger fruit you will get but when
you're growing this at home don't worry
about it even if you have a decently
sized plant you will get decently sized
pineapples the key is to grow sweet
delicious organic pineapples the key is
not to grow huge pineapples like they do
commercially now as you can see here the
stock is very evident now and the
pineapple is now growing very well into
a larger fruit very much it looks like a
pineapple now now I didn't have any
problems with any insects or diseases on
my pineapple plant the only thing that I
noticed was a slight discoloration of
leaves when I transplanted my plant but
I added some fertilizer some fruit
fertilizer around the base of the plant
a slow-release one and it worked very
well you need to add fertilizer for
pineapple plants at least twice per
growing season I would recommend you add
one fertilizer in February followed by
one in June that would give you the best
results for your pineapple you can see
here that it's been 29 months now since
we planted our plant and the pineapple
is slowly ripening and it slowly begins
to look very much like a fruit that is
growing on this pineapple plant indeed a
very beautiful plant to grow in your
garden and within a few days this plant
will ripen it will start turning yellow
and once the fruit turns about 50%
yellow you can be sure that you can
harvest your pineapple
now in my case I was able to see that
the fruit was turning yellow and when I
tried to smell the fruit it smelled a
little fruity so it was about time to
harvest the pineapple now the pineapple
plant has enough defenses to guard
against a lot of predators but you still
do not want to wait too long so use a
nice big pruner to cut your pineapple
from the tree it's a pretty thick stalk
by the way and as you can see here
beautiful looking pineapple almost
yellow all around and it smelled very
fruity very much ready for harvest and
this is really the moment of truth when
you harvest your pineapple it's a really
good feeling to harvest your own fruits
in your backyard and considering that a
pineapple just needs a small container
to grow it's something that you must
grow in your garden doesn't this look
beautiful and I hope this inspires you
to just buy a pineapple buy any
pineapple from your store and start your
plants plant them in a pot it doesn't
matter if you have a lot of space or not
you can easily grow one plant in a
container in your garden in your patio
in your balcony and this is a very
beautiful looking plant so do try it out
and as you can see here we are trying to
cut open the pineapple now it's a pretty
decently sized fruit again not huge as
you would get in the grocery store but
I'm hoping that the subsequent
pineapples from my plant will be larger
you can see here beautiful looking fruit
and this is how I know to cut a
pineapple if you have a better way to
cut a pineapple do let me know in the
comments below so you can see a
beautiful looking fruit we're gonna cut
the thorny parts the sides of the
pineapple fruit and this is how it looks
like again you can see juicy and
beautiful you can see the juice is
dripping down from this piece of
pineapple and we're going to be cutting
the sides the thorns
and this is a really beautiful looking
pineapple for those of you who have been
waiting to grow a pineapple or were on
the edge I hope this inspires you to
grow your own pineapple it is very easy
to grow believe me there's nothing that
should stop you from growing your
pineapples or at least try them out you
won't have problems with a lot of
predators insects diseases it's just
easy to grow in a small container you
need a decently sized container not very
small but I'm sure that by just
following a simple guide like this one
you should be able to grow your own
pineapples and it's a real joy to
harvest fruits like pineapple at home
these are not fruits that you usually
grow at home now if you are living in an
area where you get very cold winters you
can get your pineapple plant indoors
during the winter months your pineapple
plant is not gonna survive a frost
outside so make sure that you get your
plants indoors but in places like
Southern California where you have
milder winters
you can keep your plants outside like I
did and you can see that the plant has
survived for a long time outside and
it's a great plant to grow in places
like zone 9 or above
and here are the pineapple pieces as you
can see beautiful looking pineapple
right from your backyard and this is a
real joy I highly recommend that you try
growing pineapples in your home right
away it's gonna make you very happy
you'll be very happy that you grew
pineapples at home and what happened to
the pineapple tree after the harvest as
you can see here it's now developing a
side shoot you can see here on the left
side there's another chute growing and I
hope to get one more pineapple hopefully
this year somewhere around June or July
that I'll be able to harvest so there we
have it folks
