I live in Alberta, Canada. I started growing a pineapple in my sunroom, off my kitchen 3 years ago. In March of this year, my plant started to put out a flower. 6 month later, I ate a slice of very tasty pineapple fruit. I had a very sunny window but it wasn’t overly hot in the sunroom.
This video was exactly what I needed! I discovered your channel recently and I’ve been so excited scrolling through your past content, finding these gems! I wish I had these videos when I first moved to the islands. The way you so clearly explain everything and your passion that comes through while doing so, is what makes your content so wonderful. Mahalo nui!!
Bought a Hawaiian pineapple that was shipped to me. OMG! That was the MOST tasty, sweetest and juiciest pineapple I've EVER had. My whole house smelled AMAZING. So now I'm growing my own pineapple plant. My question is... how do I produce the same tastiest, sweetest, juiciest pineapple?
Great information, I live in Hawaii in a dry climate. I planted a pineapple top from a small pineapple I got from a neighbors garden last August. I followed your directions but put it in a pot. It flowered in December and is almost ready to pick. It's bigger than the ones I've been buying at the store and it has 4 keiki's and 1 slip. Can't wait to plant the keiki's and slip. Thanks for the video.
Loved this! I live in Puna Mauka and switched from a big spiky unruly bed to large pots and grew the biggest pineapples yet - 8lbs and 7 lbs so far. Been growing pineapples for about 20 years but never read much about them, and was stoked to come across this video. Learned about slips and other helpful replanting tips and more. Mahalo nui braddah 🤙
Thanks for all the tips.....as started my White Pineapple keikis. My pineapples had so many keikis, rooted them first, and then planted them in my vegetable bed.
Hey mate! Aloha from the Pineapple state of Australia (Queensland). Although I have a permaculture garden, I have only really been successful at growing one pineapple at home, so thank you very much for this video and I hope that everyone is safe after the recent devastation in Hawaii! Cheers!
I hope you find success. Pineapples are pretty easy as long as they have heat. Lahaina was a traversing and it will be changing things around here for many years to come
I live in north Carolina an have started a pineapple top in water but the base of the crown has become mushy what can I do it has very few roots I was wanting a little better root system before I planted
I've been soaking the bottom portion of my pineapple top after letting it dry out. The brown nubs have a gel forming now, so I'm hoping the roots form soon. It's been almost a week. I had to take the plant from the sunny window because the cats kept knocking it over to get the water (they were too lazy to walk upstairs to their bowl 😅). Great video. I live in California and can't wait to plant, but I probably should've done this several months back 🤔. Aloha!
Yeah, might be best to get it started in the late spring, then it might hold over better thru the winter. My friends grow some in a greenhouse in Malibu and get great pineapple
Scored about 300 white pineapple slips from a guy up in Kohala last year. Sold some, gave a bunch away, and have 70 of them around the hale. Two have flowered already, even with the slower growing here in Glenwood...
We grew ours from the top as well! That was 3 years ago but we were in Montana! Now that we are in Arizona the plant is growing like crazy! Hopefully we will get a fruit here soon! Gracias! 🍍
Thanks for all the Grrr8 tips here on your channel! I live in S Florida and have (2) 4×8 above ground gardens in my back yard. They both have about 12 in each bed, then I have about a dozen others around the premises of my home. We love growing this marvelous fruit and always look forward to a harvest ! Thanks for taking the time to produce this video....!!!
Good Friday morning, I have planted 12 Pineapples so far and wil slowly increase them. Thank you for posting this video, I have just subscribed. Merry Christmas.
This awesome info is all we need to know to start our pineapple garden. Thank you very much for teaching us these wonderful techniques. I subscribed and liked your video. Very best regards from ON., Canada.
Excellent video! I have pineapple fever! Looking forward to planting my first pineapple here in Southern California. Thank you for your help. Mahalo 👋🏽
@@HomesteadinHawaii That’s pretty awesome! Malibu is beautiful. It tends to be a lot cooler in Malibu than where I’m at. I wonder how well pineapple plants would Inland where summer temps tend to be in the 100’s. Should I plant in full sun?
good video. personally, after harvesting the pineapple, i wouldve left the strongest looking sucker on the original stem and take advantage of the established underground quorm. My experience has shown the single remaining sucker will produce a new pineapple in about a year.
I do that too but sometimes it just gets too old, I e had the vigorous slips, not the keiki, but slips produce in a years time as well after separating
Thanks Sean. I like to rewatch your videos to make sure I don't miss anything or pick up something I missed the first time I watched it. This time I picked up feeding them through their leaves. I totally missed that the first time I watched it. Our bathroom is getting built next and I have the biogas that I will be installing and the fertilizer by product should work well for this. 😎🤙
Hell yeah. Sean on location 😉 We bought the larger biogas that came with the dual burner stove and the toilet. As soon as I finish putting the siding on my daughters room I am building the deck and the bathroom/shower/ laundry room. That would totally be cool.
@@HomesteadinHawaii I tried Strawberries and tomatoes but the ants here in Florida ate them. I’m originally from Long Island and use to grow them there with no problem. I gave up here. That’s when my love for bamboo happened. I bought different Clumping Tropical bamboo online. It’s just beautiful!! I wanted privacy from my neighbors. I got it now😃😃😃😃. They’re not so happy. 😀
Going to give it a try from a cold climate. thanks for the great video. I have never tried before so this may sound stupid but why was it not better just to leave the slip on the plant thats already rooted? Does it grow slower than waiting for the slip to sprout its own roots?
I am hoping my two pineapple plants give me a fruit this year. This will be their second year. Didn’t realize the original plant wouldn’t fruit again. Glad I watched this video because I would have wasted a year thinking I would get fruit off the original plant again.
Mine took over three years. From flower to fruit was 5 months. I’m in Kansas, so the timing to ripen the little pineapple( a little bigger than a grapefruit) was perfect as our summer was very hot. It requires patience for sure. I started it from the top of a fruit brought to us by friends who vacationed in Hawaii. It was fun to do!!!!
Love your videos bro. We just bought 2 acres of cleared land in Hawaiian Acres and will be out there in September to start building our new home. Please keep these informative videos coming!
Wow. First time watching your videos. Very informative. Thank you. I have a small garden with 3 banana trees, 1 mango tree, cilantro, peppers, 2 pineapple plants and 2 tomato plants. I also have lettuce. I'm heading outside soon to fertilize my pineapple plants with fish oil fertilizer. Please send me more videos. ☺️ Thanks again
I live up in mountain view Hawaii. We have about 100 kauai sugar loafs. What i do is lay a layer of mulch and compost kinda like a hugle then stake black plastic over it and just popped wholes where each pineapple is. Did that end of 2020 they flowered about nov dec of 2021 and there just getting bigger and bigger. Plants are 3x3x3. So 3 ft tall 3 ft wide 6 in diameter. Pineapples are gallon jug size and know where near done yet. Theyll be done about august or longer. Beautiful 🤙
Thank you. My pineapples are not doing so well. Fertilizing them wrong could be part of the problem. I RESEARCHED before I put them in. I FOLLOWED their instructions. Thanks again! New sub!
Greetings from KENYA 🇰🇪 🖐️ May be you've planted them WRONG LY.. I just digg 20 / 20cm (depth/wide ) holes , refill them with manure and soil( equal) 50/50 ,plant my pineapple crowns/ Suckers slightly into the holes ➖ not Deep , No fertilizer just Organically ,+ Do thorough weeding and that's ALL.
So…a slip is a regrowth of the plant after it’s harvested. Pups, suckers, cakies grow on the bottom of the plant. All replantable. Slips regrow fruit the fastest. I twist the plant off bush and twist of the crown from the fruit. An excellent video, thanks.
Great video, I'm here in Southside Antarctica and my SugarLoaf that I got Amazon Prime'd from Florida is doing very well on the southern side of our igloo. Thanks for the tips braddah
I am growing on on the road full time and I recently hit a bunch of bumps with my Pina! 😢 First she started to get some yellow leaves due to I think overwatering. I think I fixed that and I repotted her to help let her grow and now I’m seeing some white spots on her I’m trying to figure out what they are. They are smooth spots and after looking around I think it might be fertilizer burn. Any suggestions on how to fix this? I think I’m gonna get new dirt and just put her in there and remove the fertilized soil (it wasn’t liquid like I saw you suggested in another video).
It’s hard to say without a picture and your location. Keep the plant warm, plenty of sun, plants doesn’t need too much fertilizer, even the liquid kind. Maybe only 1x per month, otherwise just plain water. Maybe let the soil dry between watering?
Thank you for sharing this with us. I live in the Netherlands and i wonder if i can bey these"slits" ( i don' t know how to write the name, but i think you know what i mean. Now if i import these slits they need to have an official government certeficate (document) that stats that these slits are free from harmful bacteria, pests or funchie. Do you know if it's posible?
I have 2 pineapples growing right now in Pennsylvania. They are getting huge! Still no pineapples yet but they are only a little over a year old right now
@@HomesteadinHawaii I hope!!! Since it's summer & hot, I just put them in full sun all day & let nature do it's thing. I will water every so often if it doesn't rain for a few weeks but they seem to be growing great! Not sure what part of Hawaii you're in, but my thoughts are with all of you in regards to all the fires happening there.
So the cakie grows out of the soil? Out of the mother plant base? I got new plants growing out of the grown out of between the leaves of the mother plant everywhere. Which should grow the fastest till fruit?
@@HomesteadinHawaii Thx bug time I've got so many plants of all areas and I've bought sugar loafpineapples from a nursery and they are growing tons of the cakies sorry can't remember hoe you spelt it but I've have around 50 total I live in Spokane Washington got lots of grow light let's see what happens thx man really appreciate it
Wonderful video. I live in NC and bought 2 pineapples with tops to try this! Question if you don't mind. I may bring this inside during cold winter, when risk of freezing temps here, or can I just cover the plants outside with a frost blanket? Wondering if you know. If I bring in inside to sunlit door during the winter, do I need to provide supplemental growing light and for how many hours per day does this plant need light to grow. Thanks big thumbs up on video! We only have a very few nights here where temps fall into the 20's, most days in the winter our temp is above freezing and very rarely snow here in coastal SE plain of NC.
I have friends that grow it in a greenhouse in similar conditions to yours. Probably would have to be brought in on the coldest winter days. Maybe a cold frame could help?
I bought a pineapple plant from the store and the fruit is ready to harvest but I dont have any keiki's or slips. Will the mother plant produce any slips if I keep it or do I just need to start with the crown again?
We’ll. That all depends. You can be in a cold climate with a greenhouse in a really warm microclimate and pull it off. Let’s just say, pineapples hate the cold and the extreme heat.
Trying to grow pineapples in the BIG TEXAS barely potted them, do you recommend frequent fertilizing? What do I do for Dec - Feb COLDEST & SOME FREEZING times?
Great video. So they are one and done? I have my first white pineapples almost ready to harvest. I wasn’t sure it the plant would keep producing…you answered that question.
I had the first pineapple and it was wonderful. The second went to the local raccoon. How do I keep them away? I am going to increase the harvest to more than one plant. Thank you for all the great advice. I live in central Florida.
I used to make cages for my crops to keep animals like that away. Along with some traps. Can make a 4x4 base frame. Arch a cattle panel over that and attach to 4x4 and cover in poultry wire. Should keep them out. Good luck!
I have 18 pineapples originally from store caps. They produce every year for 8 years. If Central Florida. Hot as hell here in Summer and Fall! My pineapple fruits in July. They are small though.
What are your thoughts on using honey and cinnamon rather than some sort of growing liquids? I saw it online. I'm very new to plants and whatnot and am planting my first pineapple soon. Thank you!
@@HomesteadinHawaii got one more question... After I peeled back the first few layers of leaves i noticed the pineapple foliage head im using has already spouted a lot of roots. Can it go directly into soil?
@@jonmichael02302 Those pineapple tops can go directly in the soil if youʻre diligent enough to keep them watered. So yeah, go ahead and plant it anytime.
vegan fertalizer ideas? I saw another video that you can cut each top into segments and then trim some from the center and plantlets form in a month or so. i might try a combination glad pinaples are only 2.50 or so on Maui. thanks for the video
I've got a pineapple growing on my kitchen windowsill , I've had it for about a year but no sign of a pineapple, how long does it take please I live in the UK
I rotate between fish emulsion, seaweed spray, and a fermented plant juice of comfrey and katuk, supplying potassium and phosphorus respectively. You can see how I make a fermented plant juice mix in my fermented seawater for coconuts video. As for 2500' they are hardy but you may need a warm southern exposure or grow inside in pots? Experiment!
This was an awesome video, thank you! I have a couple of questions: will I get a bigger pineapple the bigger of a pot I use or will it be a small one no matter what because it's in a pot? Also, what kind of knife are you using? Would love a good harvesting knife recommendation. Lastly, big thanks for the info about it feeding through the leaves. Now I want a compendium of plant names and how/where they feed from!
I'm from the Caribbean and I've been growing pineapples for the past 12yrs.and for me it's not a wise idea to pull the spare plant or the sucker off the older tree it grows much faster and bares a bigger fruit.Allow the spare plant to brake off on its own.
Great, video! I live in Scotland and I'm about to harvest a pineapple which I grew from a crown. It has taken three and a half years, but well worth it.
@@HomesteadinHawaii It was grown in a conservatory, which I think you would call a sunroom. The greenhouse is not heated, so it wouldn't survive the winter. All good things come to those who wait as they say. It produced a couple of slips, so hopefully won't have to wait so long for another fruit.
I live in Alberta, Canada. I started growing a pineapple in my sunroom, off my kitchen 3 years ago. In March of this year, my plant started to put out a flower. 6 month later, I ate a slice of very tasty pineapple fruit. I had a very sunny window but it wasn’t overly hot in the sunroom.
Pretty inspiring! So cool how it can grow in colder places
Trying in Edmonton.
I am about to start growing one! Did you grow from seed or the top?
Hi Carol
That's great. Hi Carol. Are you still in Alberta?
This video was exactly what I needed! I discovered your channel recently and I’ve been so excited scrolling through your past content, finding these gems! I wish I had these videos when I first moved to the islands. The way you so clearly explain everything and your passion that comes through while doing so, is what makes your content so wonderful. Mahalo nui!!
Thank you, I'm glad you find the videos helpful, that's why I make them.
Bought a Hawaiian pineapple that was shipped to me. OMG! That was the MOST tasty, sweetest and juiciest pineapple I've EVER had. My whole house smelled AMAZING. So now I'm growing my own pineapple plant. My question is... how do I produce the same tastiest, sweetest, juiciest pineapple?
Heat
Great information, I live in Hawaii in a dry climate. I planted a pineapple top from a small pineapple I got from a neighbors garden last August. I followed your directions but put it in a pot. It flowered in December and is almost ready to pick. It's bigger than the ones I've been buying at the store and it has 4 keiki's and 1 slip. Can't wait to plant the keiki's and slip. Thanks for the video.
I love how one pineapple can lead to many in a very short time
Loved this! I live in Puna Mauka and switched from a big spiky unruly bed to large pots and grew the biggest pineapples yet - 8lbs and 7 lbs so far. Been growing pineapples for about 20 years but never read much about them, and was stoked to come across this video. Learned about slips and other helpful replanting tips and more. Mahalo nui braddah 🤙
No worries, glad the video was helpful
Thanks for all the tips.....as started my White Pineapple keikis. My pineapples had so many keikis, rooted them first, and then planted them in my vegetable bed.
Wonderful! I hope you have plenty to eat in a year or two!!
Hey mate! Aloha from the Pineapple state of Australia (Queensland). Although I have a permaculture garden, I have only really been successful at growing one pineapple at home, so thank you very much for this video and I hope that everyone is safe after the recent devastation in Hawaii! Cheers!
I hope you find success. Pineapples are pretty easy as long as they have heat. Lahaina was a traversing and it will be changing things around here for many years to come
I live in north Carolina an have started a pineapple top in water but the base of the crown has become mushy what can I do it has very few roots I was wanting a little better root system before I planted
So interesting! I didn't know they fed thru the leaves. Thanks for another great video.
I liked learning about that too
Most plants do its also a good way to stop bugs from eating your crops
I've been soaking the bottom portion of my pineapple top after letting it dry out. The brown nubs have a gel forming now, so I'm hoping the roots form soon. It's been almost a week. I had to take the plant from the sunny window because the cats kept knocking it over to get the water (they were too lazy to walk upstairs to their bowl 😅).
Great video. I live in California and can't wait to plant, but I probably should've done this several months back 🤔. Aloha!
Yeah, might be best to get it started in the late spring, then it might hold over better thru the winter. My friends grow some in a greenhouse in Malibu and get great pineapple
Scored about 300 white pineapple slips from a guy up in Kohala last year. Sold some, gave a bunch away, and have 70 of them around the hale. Two have flowered already, even with the slower growing here in Glenwood...
Awesome! Looks like your gonna be blessed with choke pineapple.
Cool stuff I'm growing bunch of fruit trees hear in Wisconsin nothing like Hawaii growing one day I say I'll move.
Better do it soon. Property prices have pretty much doubled the last couple years.
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We grew ours from the top as well! That was 3 years ago but we were in Montana! Now that we are in Arizona the plant is growing like crazy! Hopefully we will get a fruit here soon! Gracias! 🍍
That is awesome! Arizona is a lot different than montana
Awesome 😎 I’m in Belgrade/Bozeman area and for $4 from Costco 🤙 I’ve just left them on windowsill 🪟
I've watched a lot of pineapple vids, this was the best one, you told me just what I wanted to know without a bunch of distractions.
Thanks for that comment, that's what I try to do with my videos
@@HomesteadinHawaii awesome, keep it up
Thanks for all the Grrr8 tips here on your channel! I live in S Florida and have (2) 4×8 above ground gardens in my back yard.
They both have about 12 in each bed, then I have about a dozen others around the premises of my home.
We love growing this marvelous fruit and always look forward to a harvest !
Thanks for taking the time to produce this video....!!!
Thanks for watching. I just moved and have been hard at work making new grow beds. Hope I can keep them coming
Good Friday morning, I have planted 12 Pineapples so far and wil slowly increase them. Thank you for posting this video, I have just subscribed. Merry Christmas.
Yay! Here’s to pineapples…and more videos
This awesome info is all we need to know to start our pineapple garden. Thank you very much for teaching us these wonderful techniques. I subscribed and liked your video. Very best regards from ON., Canada.
Thanks so much, I hope you have great pineapples in your future.
I grow them in Florida. Maui Gold from a top from Walmart one year. I now have 5 bushes! So fun and delicious.
The white pineapples are my favorite! Enjoy the fruits of your labor 😂😂
Beautiful explanation of how to grow pinnaple. Thank you
Why Thank you.
Excellent video! I have pineapple fever! Looking forward to planting my first pineapple here in Southern California. Thank you for your help. Mahalo 👋🏽
I have friends in Malibu growing tons of pineapple
@@HomesteadinHawaii That’s pretty awesome! Malibu is beautiful. It tends to be a lot cooler in Malibu than where I’m at. I wonder how well pineapple plants would Inland where summer temps tend to be in the 100’s. Should I plant in full sun?
@@Mikedeemcee 100 degrees can be pretty hot, you might want shade
Thanks for the help. Florida in the house.
good video. personally, after harvesting the pineapple, i wouldve left the strongest looking sucker on the original stem and take advantage of the established underground quorm. My experience has shown the single remaining sucker will produce a new pineapple in about a year.
I do that too but sometimes it just gets too old, I e had the vigorous slips, not the keiki, but slips produce in a years time as well after separating
Thanks!! The video was packed with great info, just what I needed!!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks Sean. I like to rewatch your videos to make sure I don't miss anything or pick up something I missed the first time I watched it. This time I picked up feeding them through their leaves. I totally missed that the first time I watched it. Our bathroom is getting built next and I have the biogas that I will be installing and the fertilizer by product should work well for this. 😎🤙
Awesome! I’ve been wanting to review the biogas. Maybe we could do a video sometime once you workout the kinks.
Hell yeah. Sean on location 😉 We bought the larger biogas that came with the dual burner stove and the toilet. As soon as I finish putting the siding on my daughters room I am building the deck and the bathroom/shower/ laundry room. That would totally be cool.
Very, and very good explanation and demonstration,Sir. Thank you.
Thank you
Thanks for this! Do you grow papaya? My new trees have flowers but the fruits fall off when they are very small
I do but have not made a video. You may have a pollination issue. Got any male trees?
Is it possible to grow them in Somewhat Sandy Clay if planted on mounds? Should I amend the soil, if so with what?
Should be fine, fertilze more through the leaves, compost in the soil does help though.
Awesome!!! I live in Florida and plan on getting a greenhouse. Definitely going to include pineapple 🍍. Thank you.
Pineapple might just grow outside there, no?
@@HomesteadinHawaii I tried Strawberries and tomatoes but the ants here in Florida ate them. I’m originally from Long Island and use to grow them there with no problem. I gave up here. That’s when my love for bamboo happened. I bought different Clumping Tropical bamboo online. It’s just beautiful!! I wanted privacy from my neighbors. I got it now😃😃😃😃. They’re not so happy. 😀
Look how happy you are!
Ha! What's there not to be happy about? 🙄
I need this to grow pineapples on my recently purchased land in Hawaii Big Island. Mahalo sir.
Perfect. I hope you find success
Going to give it a try from a cold climate. thanks for the great video. I have never tried before so this may sound stupid but why was it not better just to leave the slip on the plant thats already rooted? Does it grow slower than waiting for the slip to sprout its own roots?
Sometimes it helps to reinvigorate that plant by separating the slip, but not necessary for a few years
Thank you for your tips. I live in South FL and I have 7 pineapple plants growing in pots in my yard. I hope to expand on my plants this summer.
Hope the video helps.you grow successfully. Pineapples are pretty easy
I am hoping my two pineapple plants give me a fruit this year. This will be their second year. Didn’t realize the original plant wouldn’t fruit again. Glad I watched this video because I would have wasted a year thinking I would get fruit off the original plant again.
Technically it will fruit again, it’s like a new branch that is growing off the old one, except vigor increases if you divide
@@HomesteadinHawaii ahh I see. Thanks for the reply.
Mine took over three years. From flower to fruit was 5 months. I’m in Kansas, so the timing to ripen the little pineapple( a little bigger than a grapefruit) was perfect as our summer was very hot. It requires patience for sure. I started it from the top of a fruit brought to us by friends who vacationed in Hawaii. It was fun to do!!!!
@@gg79139 nice, mine didn’t fruit this year, fingers crossed it will be next year. Looking forward to some home grown pineapples.
Love your videos bro. We just bought 2 acres of cleared land in Hawaiian Acres and will be out there in September to start building our new home. Please keep these informative videos coming!
E komo mai. You are about to set out on a fun adventure. Mahalo for watching.
I live in HA too. Welcome neighbor!
Wow. First time watching your videos. Very informative. Thank you. I have a small garden with 3 banana trees, 1 mango tree, cilantro, peppers, 2 pineapple plants and 2 tomato plants. I also have lettuce.
I'm heading outside soon to fertilize my pineapple plants with fish oil fertilizer. Please send me more videos. ☺️ Thanks again
Aloha
Aloha
Great video. How much sun light do they require if you don't mind me asking. We're in south east Florida and was wondering which side of the house
They like full sun
I live up in mountain view Hawaii. We have about 100 kauai sugar loafs. What i do is lay a layer of mulch and compost kinda like a hugle then stake black plastic over it and just popped wholes where each pineapple is. Did that end of 2020 they flowered about nov dec of 2021 and there just getting bigger and bigger. Plants are 3x3x3. So 3 ft tall 3 ft wide 6 in diameter. Pineapples are gallon jug size and know where near done yet. Theyll be done about august or longer. Beautiful 🤙
That’s awesome! You’re gonna have tons pretty soon!
Thank you. My pineapples are not doing so well. Fertilizing them wrong could be part of the problem. I RESEARCHED before I put them in. I FOLLOWED their instructions. Thanks again! New sub!
Where do you live? I hope the tips in the video helped.
Greetings from KENYA 🇰🇪 🖐️ May be you've planted them WRONG LY.. I just digg 20 / 20cm (depth/wide ) holes , refill them with manure and soil( equal) 50/50 ,plant my pineapple crowns/ Suckers slightly into the holes ➖ not Deep , No fertilizer just Organically ,+ Do thorough weeding and that's ALL.
Loved the video -I grow lots of pineapple but I learned some new stuff -thank you !
Mahalo kathy. I'm sure it's hard to teach you anything new. I remember you growing g some killer pineapples.
@@HomesteadinHawaii Always new thimgs to learn
I need an experience to grow pineapple using the top sucker from the fruit . How do I do that.
Some said you keep it up to a week before planting it ?
You can do that or you can just plant it, pineapple is pretty forgiving
Thanks for sharing I'm from the Philippines and im here now in Pennsylvania but I will try to plant indoor pine apple. Full support. Here host
Good luck!
Thanks for the video…. One question…. I have one in a nice sized pot. Will I ever have to repot it or put it in the ground? If so at what point?
Should be ok in a big pot, just use your judgement. If it stops growing, fertilize. If it still doesn’t grow, repot or plant in the ground
What is your thoughts on splitting crowns into 4ths prior to rooting in water and planting?
I haven’t found that to work too well
So…a slip is a regrowth of the plant after it’s harvested. Pups, suckers, cakies grow on the bottom of the plant. All replantable. Slips regrow fruit the fastest. I twist the plant off bush and twist of the crown from the fruit. An excellent video, thanks.
You got it! Thanks for watching
Great video, I'm here in Southside Antarctica and my SugarLoaf that I got Amazon Prime'd from Florida is doing very well on the southern side of our igloo. Thanks for the tips braddah
Gotta take advantage of those microclimates
I am growing on on the road full time and I recently hit a bunch of bumps with my Pina! 😢 First she started to get some yellow leaves due to I think overwatering. I think I fixed that and I repotted her to help let her grow and now I’m seeing some white spots on her I’m trying to figure out what they are. They are smooth spots and after looking around I think it might be fertilizer burn. Any suggestions on how to fix this? I think I’m gonna get new dirt and just put her in there and remove the fertilized soil (it wasn’t liquid like I saw you suggested in another video).
It’s hard to say without a picture and your location. Keep the plant warm, plenty of sun, plants doesn’t need too much fertilizer, even the liquid kind. Maybe only 1x per month, otherwise just plain water. Maybe let the soil dry between watering?
I grow pines in cloth bags in Gainesville Florida. Pulling off the lower leaves exposes the baby roots and jump starts the growth.
I e been doing that lately, it works great!
What do you think about granular fertilizer placed in the leaves?
I like liquid but can experiment
@@HomesteadinHawaii I threw some granular in and around the plant. We’ll see how it goes!
Pineapple requires far more patience, and lifespan than I have lol. So thank you to all the pineapple growers out there!!!
Once they get going they fruit every year. Its pretty nice actually.
@@HomesteadinHawaiiNot getting fruit from the same plant, right? They only produce once and that's it, am I right? 🤔
Thank you! This is the best info I’ve seen so far!
Thanks for saying that!
Thank you for sharing this with us. I live in the Netherlands and i wonder if i can bey these"slits" ( i don' t know how to write the name, but i think you know what i mean. Now if i import these slits they need to have an official government certeficate (document) that stats that these slits are free from harmful bacteria, pests or funchie. Do you know if it's posible?
I ship plants but it’s hard to ship internationally. Do you have pineapple with tops in the stores somewhere?
that's a great video. I will always cheer for you in Korea I'm looking forward to a great video. Have a nice day.
Thank you and thanks for watching. I hope to visit one day!!
Just found your channel!! Definitely subscribed love the garden tips
Awesome. Glad to have you join us!
Very informative video. I live in the Philippines and I grow mine from tops of the pineapples that I usually buy from the market.
That’s how I started my pineapple patch. A great way to grow them!
That’s how I started my pineapple patch. A great way to grow them!
Thanks allot. Educational and impressive video. Question please would miracle grow fertilizer be okay to feed the pineapples?
I’m sure it would be fine. Maybe use it when not fruiting though
Thank you. Good tips. All we have to do now is move over there and practice. I miss Sunday mornings at Kehena 🍄😃🌈🤙
It will happen if you want it bad enough
@@HomesteadinHawaii we actually have a place up in the Acres we have rented. We are putting our sons through college now
My leaves just below the pineapple , or white. Do I need to fertilize them?
Just foliage spray
I have 2 pineapples growing right now in Pennsylvania. They are getting huge! Still no pineapples yet but they are only a little over a year old right now
Oooh!! Coming soon!
@@HomesteadinHawaii I hope!!! Since it's summer & hot, I just put them in full sun all day & let nature do it's thing. I will water every so often if it doesn't rain for a few weeks but they seem to be growing great! Not sure what part of Hawaii you're in, but my thoughts are with all of you in regards to all the fires happening there.
So the cakie grows out of the soil? Out of the mother plant base? I got new plants growing out of the grown out of between the leaves of the mother plant everywhere. Which should grow the fastest till fruit?
The keiki comes of the base of the pineapple. The slips growing out of the leaves are what will grow the fastest
@@HomesteadinHawaii Thx bug time I've got so many plants of all areas and I've bought sugar loafpineapples from a nursery and they are growing tons of the cakies sorry can't remember hoe you spelt it but I've have around 50 total I live in Spokane Washington got lots of grow light let's see what happens thx man really appreciate it
Wonderful video. I live in NC and bought 2 pineapples with tops to try this! Question if you don't mind. I may bring this inside during cold winter, when risk of freezing temps here, or can I just cover the plants outside with a frost blanket? Wondering if you know. If I bring in inside to sunlit door during the winter, do I need to provide supplemental growing light and for how many hours per day does this plant need light to grow. Thanks big thumbs up on video! We only have a very few nights here where temps fall into the 20's, most days in the winter our temp is above freezing and very rarely snow here in coastal SE plain of NC.
I have friends that grow it in a greenhouse in similar conditions to yours. Probably would have to be brought in on the coldest winter days. Maybe a cold frame could help?
Best video I’ve seen yet regarding pineapples!
Mahalo
Thanks I needed all of this
Awesome! I had fun making this video
Nice! What kind of pinapple is that? It's more reddish purplish than green.
We call it white pineapple because if the sweet white flesh
If pineaples feed from leavea, should u also water it top down?
Yep, even better if it has some liquid fertilizer in it
What soil did you use? nice job
Just the native cinder soil
I bought a pineapple plant from the store and the fruit is ready to harvest but I dont have any keiki's or slips. Will the mother plant produce any slips if I keep it or do I just need to start with the crown again?
Usually the mother will just keep on growing and producing. I’d leave it and plant the crown
Is hormonal pills for pineapple useful? What are the pros and cons about that product? I saw them online
I don’t know anything about hormonal pills. Good organic fertilizer is all you really need
Do they have to be pollinated to produce fruit
Nah, they fruit on their own
Very informative! Was hoping for temperature highs and lows for success.
We’ll. That all depends. You can be in a cold climate with a greenhouse in a really warm microclimate and pull it off. Let’s just say, pineapples hate the cold and the extreme heat.
Trying to grow pineapples in the BIG TEXAS barely potted them, do you recommend frequent fertilizing? What do I do for Dec - Feb COLDEST & SOME FREEZING times?
Bring them inside into a warm southern window for the winter and in spring feed some fish emulsion or compost tea once or twice
very informative video, thanks
Mahalo for watching
Newest subscriber. Hello from Florida
Aloha! Mahalo for subbing
Great video. So they are one and done? I have my first white pineapples almost ready to harvest. I wasn’t sure it the plant would keep producing…you answered that question.
They do keep producing. But new slips are better
What do you do with them in the winter
Nothing. Maybe mulch a little
How do you prepare the bunch of many pineapple stems
Just like I do in the video
Great video, thank you!❤
Mahalo for watching
How often do you fertilize your pineapples with that Alaskan liquid fertilizer?
3 times better in spring
Beautiful! Thanks!
Thank you too!
OMG though----hat black RICH soil of the wonderous H A W A I I !!!!!!!!!!!!! jealous again.😅
We just don’t have much of it. Mostly rock
I really enjoyed this video... Thank you.... Looking forward to more of your content.
Mahalo for watching...and commenting
I had the first pineapple and it was wonderful. The second went to the local raccoon. How do I keep them away? I am going to increase the harvest to more than one plant. Thank you for all the great advice. I live in central Florida.
I used to make cages for my crops to keep animals like that away. Along with some traps.
Can make a 4x4 base frame. Arch a cattle panel over that and attach to 4x4 and cover in poultry wire. Should keep them out.
Good luck!
I have 18 pineapples originally from store caps. They produce every year for 8 years. If Central Florida. Hot as hell here in Summer and Fall! My pineapple fruits in July. They are small though.
Hey. Sometimes the small ones taste better!
What are your thoughts on using honey and cinnamon rather than some sort of growing liquids? I saw it online. I'm very new to plants and whatnot and am planting my first pineapple soon. Thank you!
I haven’t tried honey and cinnamon but pineapple roots pretty easily, I wouldn’t worry
Thank You
You're welcome
What liquid pineapple fertilizer do you used?
Fish emulsion, fermented plant juice, compost tea, whatever liquid fertility concoction you want to make really!
Great information, very much appreciate it.
Mahalo.
Good information on propagation of pineapples thank you 😊
MAHALO
Do I need to let the top sit out of water for a day or two before I place it in water or can it go directly into the water?
It can go directly in
@@HomesteadinHawaii 🙏 Thank you!
@@HomesteadinHawaii got one more question... After I peeled back the first few layers of leaves i noticed the pineapple foliage head im using has already spouted a lot of roots. Can it go directly into soil?
@@jonmichael02302 Those pineapple tops can go directly in the soil if youʻre diligent enough to keep them watered. So yeah, go ahead and plant it anytime.
@@HomesteadinHawaii you're the best thank you! 🙏
Great tips Bro
Mahalo
fantastic video and information 🤩 thank you for posting 💗
Thanks for watching!
vegan fertalizer ideas? I saw another video that you can cut each top into segments and then trim some from the center and plantlets form in a month or so. i might try a combination glad pinaples are only 2.50 or so on Maui. thanks for the video
Vegan fertilizer is typically anything nitrogenous. Leaves from an ice cream bean or pigeon pea. Can also look into Korean natural farming
I've got a pineapple growing on my kitchen windowsill , I've had it for about a year but no sign of a pineapple, how long does it take please
I live in the UK
Can take two years for a pineapple to grow for the first time
Thank you , I've started a new one waiting for roots to appear , the other is on my windowsill , been there about 12 months
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Wow! Thanks for the fertilizing info.
Made a world of a difference when I learned that tip
What liquid fertilizer are you using? Also Im at 2,500' will that make a difference?
I rotate between fish emulsion, seaweed spray, and a fermented plant juice of comfrey and katuk, supplying potassium and phosphorus respectively. You can see how I make a fermented plant juice mix in my fermented seawater for coconuts video.
As for 2500' they are hardy but you may need a warm southern exposure or grow inside in pots? Experiment!
Really appreciate the complete info on starting. growing and time for growing
@@teresameyer4574 glad I could help. Mahalo for watching
This was an awesome video, thank you! I have a couple of questions: will I get a bigger pineapple the bigger of a pot I use or will it be a small one no matter what because it's in a pot? Also, what kind of knife are you using? Would love a good harvesting knife recommendation. Lastly, big thanks for the info about it feeding through the leaves. Now I want a compendium of plant names and how/where they feed from!
You just need a pot big enough to hold a fruiting plant without falling over all the time. The pineapple primarily eats through its leaves
Excellent video
I'm from the Caribbean and I've been growing pineapples for the past 12yrs.and for me it's not a wise idea to pull the spare plant or the sucker off the older tree it grows much faster and bares a bigger fruit.Allow the spare plant to brake off on its own.
So just do nothing essentially?
Am from the Caribbean also i leave the old one in the ground just start this 2 years now and am reaping my second pineapple
My friend just went to Kauai and brought me back two Sugar Loaf pineapple tops. Excited to grow them in Southern California
Enjoy! They're the best. No Ka Oi
@@HomesteadinHawaii Thank you they are delicious. One of the tops is already growing a lot of roots but the other one is growing roots very slow.
Wish I lived in an environment where I could grow pineapple in my yard.
It has its pros and cons. Pineapples being one of the pros
Great, video! I live in Scotland and I'm about to harvest a pineapple which I grew from a crown. It has taken three and a half years, but well worth it.
Sometimes you have to wait for a good thing. I take it that it is growing in a greenhouse?
@@HomesteadinHawaii It was grown in a conservatory, which I think you would call a sunroom. The greenhouse is not heated, so it wouldn't survive the winter. All good things come to those who wait as they say. It produced a couple of slips, so hopefully won't have to wait so long for another fruit.
Awesome!! Thanks
The leaf tips are sharp, so watch your eyes.
Yeah, googles should be required
Awesome video,can you grow a pineapple plant if you live in North Alabama outdoors!😊
You would probably need a greenhouse. Let me know if you succeed!