Pineapple Growing

How To Plant, Care For And Multiply Your Pineapples

Most beginners start pineapple growing by planting the tops of shop bought pineapples.

That's a good way to play around and doesn't cost anything. If you eat pineapples you have the tops left over anyway.

However, it's a slow way to grow pineapples. Tops take at least 24 months to flower, and then it takes another six months for the fruit to mature.

Suckers and slips grow up and fruit a lot quicker, and if you live in a pineapple growing area you should be able to get hold of some. Beg or steal them of one of the growers. Heck, buy some if you have to...