For a little light entertainment, I thought I would post a couple of pictures of my pineapple disaster...!

In my early days of collecting, I wanted to grow anything that was "Bromeliad". During this phase, I grew a few pineapples from the tops of the fruit we obtained at our local store. And they did well...too well in fact, as before long they were taking up valuable space in my little plastic house, and I got fed up with being spiked by the leaf tips every time I walked past them, so they were chucked out to fend for themselves.

I never really gave them much more thought, until just recently, while cleaning up a pile of rubbish, I foundÂa few (just) surviving pineapple plants. And this one is sort of trying to send out a fruitÂit just looks more like a pine cone, than a pineappleÂ! I would say this plant is about 5 years old, and has survived at least 3 winters outdoors.

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From now on, I will leave pineapple growing to the professionals...and I will just enjoy eating the lovely, juicy (imported) fruit.