I was taking a little stroll around the property and happen to walk by the pineapple plants we planted, and…well, LOOK!!
Hay un pina!! Yay! I’m so excited about this! Every time we eat a pineapple, we have been planting the tops around the property in hopes of growing our own pineapples. I used to obsessively check the pineapple plants everyday, but then I read that it takes around 2 years for a pineapple plant to produce fruit, so I decided to ignore them for a while :). It worked, it worked!
Growing your own pineapples is actually very easy. Just cut off the top of a pineapple, stick it in water and it will sprout roots. Plant it in the ground and in a year or two you should get a pineapple! Pineapple plants arn’t very pretty (in my opinion) and they are spiky as hell (I can’t tell you how many times I’ve shed blood on that damn pineapple plant, trying to plant it, weed around it, etc.), so I prefer planting them somewhere out of the way.
Isn’t Puerto Rico wonderful? Throw some seeds on the ground, throw a plant in the ground, forget about them, and voila! Papayas! Pineapples! Bananas! It’s a good thing!
Christine
Ha, thats cool. Someone living in PR told us you couldn’t do it that way! Thanks for the proof.
I never thought a baby pineapple could be so cute!
OMG 2x…wow, that is a big pineapple you have on the glass, just the top is huge. I love the plant, I am going to do that as soon as I get to Rincon again. Congratulations on your first pineapple!
YAY Pina!!! It is so satisfying to be able to grow your food. Ricky and I just found out our artichoke is going gang busters on us. Looks like we may have LOTS of artichoke to eat in the near future
Hi guys! I didn’t know it was so easy to plant a piña!!! Are you having problems with the dogs getting to close to the plant? I would like to plant one but my dogs are too curious and I think they could damage it. Stefan I am still waiting for the complete bathroom pictures!!!
