pineapples are a joy to grow in your
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
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 of
course a whiskey barrel sized
container now four months since planting
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 10 months you will see the shoot
growing this is the main trunk of the
pineapple plant that will eventually
produce the pineapple
and the kind of soil that you want to
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 15 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 your 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 going to
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 bud
growing now it might take a long time
for your pineapple plant to produce
flowers so just be patient just keep
growing your pineapple plant just keep
giving it the adequate fertilizer it
needs and you will eventually get your
fruit
and as you can see here the bud is very
evident now and the pineapple bud 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 pineapple plant is the
larger fruity will get but when you're
doing 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 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 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 will 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 fifty percent 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 wait too long so use a nice big
pruner to cut the pineapple from the
tree its 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 back
yard and considering that the 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 is a very
beautiful looking plant so do try it
out
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 you can see a
beautiful-looking fruit we're going to
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 juices
dripping down from this piece of
pineapple
we're going to be cutting
the sides the thorns and this is a really
beautiful-looking pineapple
for those of you 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 going to 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
three 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 shoot 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 that was our episode on
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