PINEAPPLE PART 1: PROPAGATING YOUR FIRST PINEAPPLE

When your store bought pineapple is ripe and you are ready to eat it, TWIST the top off, remove a few rows of bottom leaves to expose the roots then plant.

Things to keep in mind:

• It takes two years to get a pineapple propagated in this manner so think out where you will plant it
• We plant ours in 4-gallon pots and larger 
• Since we have lost pineapples to hungry critters in the past, we bring bring the potted plant onto the lanai as it starts to ripen
• We use recycled potting soil from another crop and amend it with some fertilizer
• We pretty much ignore the pineapples other than watering plus a few times a year to fertilize and weed
• After you have pineapples growing you no longer need to use the pineapple tops to propagate them, but that is another post

BTW. Don't throw away your pineapple cores! Cut them into small chunks and freeze for smoothies.