Yes! You can grow a new pineapple from your pineapple!

Homegrown!

Pineapples are bromeliads, and they are super low maintenance to grow. They readily sprout long, sharp, spiky leaves that have burrs on the sides, though they will take up to 18 months to start producing a pineapple.

Prepare your pineapple

So when you buy a pineapple.make sure you get one with a nice, healthy looking crown, and as far as the pineapple concerns, the. Yellower the pineapple, the sweeter it is.

When you get ready to eat your pineapple, wrap a kitchen towel around the crown to protect your hands, hold your pineapple top near where it attaches to the pineapple, and start turning it like twisting off a bottle cap. It will come off with a pointy cone.

Planting your Pineapple

Here in Florida, you can just stick this pineapple top about an inch into the soil, and keep soil slightly moist. I water mine twice a week. the leaves will start growing and after about 18 months, you will have a pineapple. If you need to grow in a pot, can be a 5 gallon pickle bucket (firehouse subs selld them @ $3.00) a 3 gallon nursery pot, or a fancy pot.

Some additional tips

To get a pineapple to flower, occasionally, add a rotting apple to your pineapple plant. The ethylene gas that releases forces your pineapple to produce. I did this in a patch and my patch sprouted 4 pineapples this year.

Pineapples are pretty resilient, but they get frostbite from cold. If you live in a climate that experiences frost, at 28F, please know that this can kill your pineapple plant, so adding Christmas lights, or planting in a pot instead if you live in a frosty climate, is recommended. If you have a patch like I do, you can cover your patch with frost cloth and Christmas lights as if it is a glowing blanket of snow!

When you finally spout a pineapple, note the flowers that sprout on the sides of the pineapple, this is something you do not see in the stores. Your pineapple will take a while before it gets ripe! Resist the temptation to pick it green, you can thank me later. Wait till it is golden yellow! it will be so sweet and you are going to be happy that you waited.

Save the tops and do not discard your old pineapple, but watch what happens because pineapples will produce offspring through shoots on the side called pups. The original plant you grew is not producing anymore, but the babies will! You can separate the babies and so you may have two or three pineapple plants going when you plant then all separately! I actually grew a pineapple in Zone 7b Virginia. Here in Florida, i could just toss them in the woods and they will grow, they love it here, in Virginia it was more like a houseplant in a pot. And i would move it outside in the sun after the frost date.

Enjoy!