Hi again. So far 6 pineapple seeds have tiny white roots on them out of 25 seeds I started out last month on the 25th so maybe the rest will start too

Hi again i wanted to update you i now have two new Verity s of pineapple plants one is called Maui Gold MD-1 its from Hawaii so far thats the only place i know of where to find it from cant seem to find it in any other states. And the 2nd one is called Natal Queen its grown in Africa but it goes by many different names but i found at an online store thats in Los Angeles CA. and they sent me 6 of them there tiny too

Well let's see some pics of the new ones:) my plants are all fairly boring tho my banana plant is getting big, I love it's fresh leaves every week.

Okay here is a photo of the African pineapple it's self with outs it's top and a photo of its tops potted can't see it but the tops have sharp spines running down the leaves

And here is the Maui gold MD-1 tops potted with new growth I for got to take a picture of the pineapple them self before I ate them. the 2nd photo posted isn't mine but i wanted you to see how the full Maui Gold MD-1 pineapple looks

Here are a few pineapple seeds that sprouted for me in potting soil took them 2.5 months only 3 so far out of 8 seeds maybe more will sprout in time

update on the pineapple plants started from seeds i re-potted them into 2 inch pots till there around 6 to 12 inches than i will put them in bigger pots

Good News my red Spanish pineapple plant has flowered the bad news is i found a few MealyBugs on the red spanish pineapple plant they can be bad if they get out of hand but good thing i caught them in time so i started to treatment to get rid of them...

Baby pineapple plants are so cute! I'm excited to see your red Spanish flower more, I wonder how much difference there will be between the two flowering plants you've had. Do the Spanish reds flower red or purple like the others?

Hi again. The red Spanish flower will be all red like it is in the photo above i will keep you updated with photos the bigger it gets and the leaves close to the pineapple as it grows will get darker red too once i get some offsets do you want one to try and grow yourself ? not sure how to send one with it being so cold where your at.... someone sent me some pups from over seas from a type of pineapple plant but they died on the trip getting here they rotted would have like to try'ed to grow them.... i got some dole pineapples from the store the other day and the tops were good this time around so I'M rooting them now so far i see tiny little white roots growing so thats a good thing :)

New photo of the red Spanish pineapple getting bigger

Update i picked one of the del monte gold extra sweet pineapples today that i was growing it turned out really good and its bigger than the ones i got from the store that i started them from here is a photo of the pineapple i already potted the crown and the offsets that came off the mother plant

How's the Spanish red flower doing now? Your pineapple looks delicious!

Hi again. The red Spanish pineapple is doing really good getting so big so fast i guess it does have purple flowers but the rest of it has a red tint to it let me know what ya think

Very pretty. The red leaves with the purple is cool! I wish another of mine would flower. how are you bananas? Mine got huge but I keep beating up its leaves.

The Banana plants are doing pretty good. the mother plant its self got big fast but the pups i took off the mother plant seem to be growing at a much slower rate than the mother plant did

Well now that i got pineapple seeds to Germinate. Now the next goal is to see if i can split the crown into 4 and get it to grow it wont grow any fruit but it will send up alot of offsets alot sooner than it would having to wait for the plant to fruit i was doing research about it being done so only time will tell

http://www.academicjournals.org/article/article1380096403_Agogbua%20and%20Osuji.pdf

the flower stage is almost done has more of a red tint now can't wait to see how it turns out. and a few slips have started to grow on the stem under the pineapple i havent seen any suckers start close to the ground or leaves yet maybe it will soon only time will tell

The red does look very nice against the green. The leaves on the red Spanish are a lot more serrated then the dole ones I've grown, looks like a dangerous plant:)

Have you split and planted crown pieces yet? Make sure you take some pics it will be neat to see how they grow. Maybe I'd better try too, I left my friend in charge of my plants for 2 weeks and she thought it would be great for them to be outside where they burnt badly and and my largest from seed rotted in the rain. She forgot she had put them out:( hope some of my seeds start soon!

yeah i split the crown and potted them if it turns out good i will take a photo but at the time they don't seem to be doing that great

update on the Maui gold MD-1 tops i potted a few months ago here is a few of them there getting so big fast cant wait to see how they turn out

here is a photo of the baby African Pineapples they have new growth they are the ones with the liter green leaves the ones with the darker green leaves are dole pineapple tops

and here are my newest 5 there called Kona Sugarloaf i just potted them not to long ago so there on there way to being rooted cant wait to see how they turn out

Oh yeah i for got to add these two they are new too there called Sweet stripes they have sharp spines running down there leaves but you mite not be able to see them right now with them being so small

How are all your pineapple plants now? I'm down to 3, my largest & oldest (4.5yrs) just started to send out the flower. I'm excited to grow another pineapple! Did you ever get seeds to germinate?

Hi my pineapple plants are doing pretty good around 20 of them have flowered they started a few weeks into winter started.... the ones i started from seeds were doing okay for a few months but they ended up not making it so they died.... other than that i haven't really been keeping track of them besides watering them and feeding them... maybe around summer time i will take some photos again

Here is a Photo of the Florida Special Pineapple plant of mine that flowered

Wow that is very cool in red!

Hm, my Florida special is spiny and purplish.

Florida Special is a Smooth leave plant it shouldn't have spines. Where did you get yours from

Sorry, went to check the tag. I got two different plants from a nursery and thought the spiny one was a Florida Special but it's a Sugar Loaf. The FS has smooth leaves, you're right. ) I got too many pineapple plants and they are messing with my head. :-D

No biggie. So what other variety of pineapple plants do you grow

Mostly store bought pineapples, Spanish Red, Sweet stripes, another Variegated, Sugarloaf and Kona Sugarloaf, Hawaiian Gold and Red, another Red from Hawaii (don't know the name) White Jade, Smooth Cayenne, Elite Gold... that's about it. ))

Can you post some pictures of the Spanish red plants you have? I wanna see if they look like the ones I have I know there are different variety of them

It looks like in your picture above but smaller. Haven't fruited yet.

Thanks for Posting a photo of it looks good but should put it in a bigger pot :)

That's what I am going to do. )) I have a question about the Maui Gold. Is it the same as the Hawaiian Gold?

Yes its part of the same family of pineapples but it doesn't taste the same

Although all the Gold pineapples on the market are some variation of 73-50 and 73-114, they don't all taste the same.

Well, then I want the Maui Gold in my collection. :-D

you can only get them from Hawaii unless you know someone who has them or you can order them from their website posted below

Maui Gold Pineapples

and not sure if you heard of this one or not its called. Queen Victoria Pineapple (AKA) Baby pineapple its a good one to add to your collection you can find them here at this website below

African Baby Pineapple

evildeadguy81 Thanks for the links. I'll check them out.

My Maui Gold Pineapple plants have flowered. When you look at them in
real life they look bright pink... not sure you can tell or not from the
photo i taken of it but still looks awesome

Wow, it's beautiful. Thanks for the picture. I'm going to place an order for this pineapple.

One of my Queen Victoria African Pineapple plants getting bigger cant wait to see how it turns out over time

Update here is a photo of my 6 Red Spanish pineapple plants getting huge

Wow they look amazing. Do you have any flowering? I’ve only got 1 small pineapple plant growing now. A top from a pineapple I grew. Attempting to sprout seeds again, even tho I have too many houseplants for the amount of natural light I get in my new place. I need winter to be over.

At the time none of my Plants have Flowered i would say in a month or so they should flower