I planted a pineapple top last summer.

It took off with lots of new leaves, in a 7-gal container. It got through the winter in my garage, seemed a big shaky, but after I put in out in March, it stiffened up and rooted better, is putting out new leaves now. I don't really care about fruiting, but I wouldn't be surprised that it would take 2+ years from planting a top to get fruit.

When your plant is about 18" tall, you can trick it into blooming by putting it into a large plastic bag with 2 ripe apples. The gas given off by the ripe apples will stimulate the plant to grow a flower stalk, instead of more leaves. It will be several more months until you see any results, but it should work. And since this a bromeliad, I'm sure you know to mist the leaves frequently.

Can i butt in?
How long should i keep it in the pastic bag?
And how much water, sun during that time?
I have three plant, not that tall right now, but i would
like to know what to do when they get there.

Christine

Took mines about 2 1/2 years to bloom. I finally tried the whole apple thing this year on one of the plant, it was the first to bloom. The others bloomed about 1 1/2 month later without the aid of an apple. But the one with the apple has a much larger bloom. Kind of interesting. I left the apple in the bag for about 2 weeks. It got watered and I'm not sure if how much sun will matter that much in this case. But I hear naturally in nature the length of daylight is what triggers pineapples to bloom.