How to Grow Your Own Pineapple

Every pineapple you eat can be propagated to grow another one. Growing your own is fun and rewarding, plus you get a free pineapple!

Emma
29 January 2015

Did you know that you can grow your own pineapple tree from the green bit you usually cut off and throw away? It’s pretty easy too, here’s how.

You will need:

1 x Pineapple
1 x Jar
1 x Pot
Water
Soil

Step 1. Cut the top of the pineapple off, just below where the leaves start. Or you can twist it off by carefully grasping the lowest part of the leaves and twisting until it pops off.

Step 2. Remove some of the leaves from the bottom, this is so leaves at the base will not be sitting in water.

Step 3. Fill your jar with water and place the pineapple top in the jar of water so that the base -- but not any leaves -- are submerged. Let the leaves balance the pineapple in the jar. The leaves will rot if they are touching the water. Keep the plant away from hot areas, such as sunny windows. Let the roots grow for about three weeks.

Step 4. After substantial roots have appeared, fill a pot 3/4 full with potting soil. Bury the roots and bottom part of the plant in the soil.

Step 5. Keep the soil moist, but not wet, placing the pot in a sunny warm spot.

It can take a couple of years before it fruits but the plant itself has wonderful long green leaves. They usually only produce one good fruit, I have heard of the plants producing a second fruit but it’s rarely as good as the first.

Happy Growing!

Comments (9)

Pineapple fruiting time
It may take up to 7 years to produce a pineapple this way, BUT, once it has produced a pineapple the plant will bud off with a new pup. From this plant it will only take around 12-18 months to produce a new pineapple. I had numerous plants in the ground for around 6-7 years. Last year I got 3 lovely pineapples and this year I have 4 and 3 of those are off the new 'pups' I live in Port Macquarie.
Ron, 3 February 2015

Pineapples in pots
We have been growing pineapples this way for about 8yrs quite successfully nice size fruit & a good flavour we feed them with a bit of dynamic lifter
Marilyn Gauci, 3 February 2015

Pineapples
I have also had success by putting the top of the pineapple straight into the soil. I live in Brisbane where it can be really hot and very humid. If yours is not producing I suggest that you might be under watering it. They do take a long time to fruit. When they start you'll notice some spectacular colours in the middle of the plant. Good luck because they are the best pineapple you will ever eat.
Mary, 3 February 2015

Pineapple growing
I tried this and the plant is now in a very large pot for the third year. It's grown to a decent size now but still no fruit. I live in temperate zone. Will it ever produce fruit?
Monique, 31 January 2015

Hoselink Response
Interesting, I have never heard of one not fruiting but they do fruit when they are ready and happy. Too cold or too wet are two reasons why it wouldn't fruit all that quickly.