Has it been growing? I heard that you have to wait 4-5 years for blooming... if you are able to provide it the tropical climate it needs... if not, then you can force it to fruit by enclosing a ripe red apple in a plastic bag around the plant.... the gasses will help trigger it to fruit... when it fruits, it should make an offset.

Pineapple is in the Bromeliad family and after they flower (fruit) they die, but new babies will shoot out from the base before it dies. You may even get 2 or three. I've done it a few times. To start a plant cut the top off the pineapple and remove all the fruit away from the stem and peel back a few of the leaves, many times you will already see small root starting, just stick it in a pot filled with (I use) half sand and peat moss. Put a clear plastic bag over it and put it in a warm brightly lit spot, without direct sun. In a few weeks it should start growing some roots and you will start to see some growth. In the right environment it will fruit in two years. When you see it start to grow, remove the bag but leave it where it is till for a week or two and then slowly start moving it into part sun and then into full sun, it the winter you can put it in a sunny window. Starting it this late in the year, it will probably take 3 years to fruit. I just bought a variegated pineapple, very cool, I can't wait till it gets some more size to it.

It has gotten bigger I've repotted twice. Now it's in a really big self water pot from walmart. I didn't know that they die after they set fruit. It was just a store bought pineapple that I cut the top off and started that way. Don't know if its in the right soil or environment but it seems to be doing fine. The more I ignore it the more it flourishes, just no fruit. Should I put a bag over the pineapple with the apple, or just next to it? I seem to recall someone saying to put a bag over it to start roots and to produce shoots, I think that's what you're saying, let me know before I do anything.

mine is starting to bloom right now. This one is from the store, neglected and in the same pot of soil, not fertilized on any regular schedule, and I'd just about given up on it. It just started blooming on it's own. So don't give up yet! I've had this one for two years, or three maybe. I didn't put any apple in a bag with it either. I think it was a "dole" pineapple.

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I have had pineapples in pots for 3 years. others only 2 and still have not had a pineapple flower. I live in upper michigan have them in the garden in the summer, last summer though we did not have a warm summer, so they didn't grow much. this summer is suppose to be warmer so I think the one that is 3 years old I will try the apple in the plastic bag. Sandy you live in zone 5 also, was yours in a pot or did you put it in your garden. I know this is an old posting, but if anyone knows anything I would appreciate it.

thanks

korry

I planted mine in the ground in Vero Beach, FL where we have hot, humid summers. The photo below shows the flower which appeared two years later. When the pineapple was ripe I harvested it before the racoons did and it was very tasty! I first noticed a "pup" at the base of the plant about two months later...