How to Grow a Hawaiian Pineapple Plant -- Indoors or Out
Did you know that it is quite easy to grow your own Hawaiian pineapple plant? Pineapple plants are not grown from a seed or plant cutting, but rather from the green spikey crown at the top of every pineapple fruit!
If you live in Hawaii growing a pineapple plant is as easy as literally throwing the pineapple crown onto some dirt in your yard and making sure it gets rained on everyday (easy to do if you live in Hilo, Hawaii where it rains a lot!), or watering it by hand. Of course if you take the time to bury it in the ground a few inches and fertilize it, your pineapple plant will probably do much better. We have planted dozens of pineapples the lazy way and nice way, and they have both bore sweet juicy pineapple fruit after two years -- yes, it takes that long for a delicious ready to eat fruit to appear.
If you do not live in a tropical zone or do not have a yard to grow things in, you can grow a pineapple plant in a pot as a houseplant. I already researched online for you and this is the best directions I found for growing a pineapple plant indoors.
If you do not have fresh Hawaiian pineapples at your local supermarket, you can order fresh pineapple fruit with crowns online. Ship them to yourself or to someone else as a delicious gift that may end up being the gift that keeps on giving!
A while ago I grew tired of trying to grow an avocado tree from a seed. You know, by putting toothpicks in the side of the seed and hovering it over a glass of water until it sprouts.
So I just cleaned off a seed and stuck in the ground. Three years later an avocado plant started to grow there. And it turned into a little tree. Sadly I moved away before we found out if it could bear fruit. But I remember reading it took many years, like 20, before it could yield avocados.
Now-a-days I have much better luck with basil and we have lots of fresh pesto.
Posted by: Kenyo | July 31, 2007 at 08:02 PM
Aloha Ken,
I think you could grow pineapples in Florida. I assume you can get them at your local market imported from some other country. Let me know if you decide to give it a try!
Posted by: HawaiiVacationGifts | August 01, 2007 at 12:24 AM
That is so neat! I am going to give this a try with my dad at his greenhouse. Thanks for the information!
Posted by: Sheila | August 01, 2007 at 03:34 PM
You're welcome Sheila. Don't forget to take a photo afterwards, you are a great photographer!
Posted by: HawaiiVacationGifts | August 03, 2007 at 05:35 AM
My mum and dad have been to Hawaii twice and went to a pineapple plantation. It's funny how there's a popular party song which has the words "shake a pineapple off the tree", yet they grow on the ground!
Somehow I don't think I would have much success growing them in Scotland!
April
Posted by: April | August 15, 2007 at 08:40 AM
Scottish people can grow anything!
Posted by: HawaiiVacationGifts | August 16, 2007 at 05:52 AM