My pineapples, apart from one ornamental one, don't produce a lot of suckers like that. Only from the old stem after the fruit has ripened. A lot of growth like yours is likely to rob developing fruit of nutrients. If you remove those suckers now they should still develop into plants. But whilst doing so you wouldn't want to damage the stem that the fruit is on.

Thank you tropicbreezent. I'll go out tomorrow and see how easily they snap/twist off.

Do you think it would be okay to leave one sucker? The plant is a good five foot diameter so perhaps just one sucker wouldn't rob it too badly?

I think it's amazing how many plants I'm winding up with when I just bought one.

How many suckers you leave on shouldn't affect anything other than the final size of the fruit. Any of the suckers you take off now should still be able to grow into mature plants. But it's easy to be swamped with a lot of plants in a few years. I've got 30 to 40 plants now, and that's despite tossing a lot of the tops into the garden where they just get overgrown and disappear. Last season I had 11 fruits ripen. A few more years and I might have to start seriously thinking whether I want to become a commercial grower, LOL.

I went out and as a test, took hold of a sucker and bent it downward. It snapped off cleanly. I'll do more when I figure out where to put them. I'll probably leave one.

Thanks again.

Kept warm and humid the suckers should do well. Good luck with them.