Here it is four days later. I guess that is not enough time for it to change colors.

I wonder where it could be getting potassium.

Have you added any fertiliser at all? Extra iron makes nutrients more available to plants. Either way it looks happy. It will probably fade out abit with more time. I've seen Jacaranda's in bloom and some have a much deeper purple than other ones on the opposite side of the bay. Water and available nutrients appear to be the cause of this. In some cases it's a better strain of plant but if yours is from the same plant, I can only put it down to available nutrients. I'm in Sydney so we don't really have the best climate for Pineapples. Maybe one day when I get my dream house up north more

Let's us know how it goes. I'm very interested.

Take care

Tim

Its in bloom.

I guess Hotdiggety is correct - I found this photo of another pineapple flower that is also very red.

Hi everyone.

Hi HDD - You beat me to it again as usual.

Lars - If you look closely at the first and third pictures (especially the third one) you will see the individual flowers. In your second picture the flowers have finished and the fruit is forming.

Just out of interest, have a close look at the flowers as the Ananas has some of the most beautifully coloured flowers in the whole of the bromeliad world.

All the best, Nev.

I think now that the second photo was from a different plant, as I have three pots of pineapple plants. Here's how the first one looks now (or on Oct 17):

And here is how I think the same plant looked two years ago
I have not found either of the plants to make pineapples that are particularly sweet when they are ripe, and so that is a bit of a disappointment for me, but I do think the one that is making fruit now is better than the one that is more yellow. I got the first one at the San Gabriel Nursery and the second one at Trader Joe's - mostly as a novelty. I think I like the flowers better than the fruit.

Maybe the fruit is not fully ripe yet.