How To Grow Pineapples

Today, I'm going to show you how to grow pineapples. Pineapples are tropical perennial plants, and they're best grown in temperatures of 18 to 30 degrees centigrade. Pineapples need a humidity of about 70 to 80 percent for them to grow properly.

They need a site in full sun, with shelter from strong winds. If you want to grow pineapple plants, they prefer a sandy, loamy soil that's also acidic. Pineapples can be propagated by the crown shoot from the top of the fruit.

So what we do to propagate a pineapple is you cut off the top of the shoot, leaving just a bit of fruit, about a centimeter or two, like this. You then cut away the excess fruit from around the edge like this. You then leave this shoot to dry out for a couple of weeks.

You then dip the shoot in some fungicide and then prepare the pot that you're going to grow the shoot in. So, here, I'm just adding some cuttings compost, and make a little dip in the middle, and plant it in like that. You can then, after a few weeks, this shoot will have rooted.

And then you can either plant out the new plant, because that's what it will be, into the garden if you live in a country where you have suitable growing conditions, or you can try growing it in a large greenhouse in a much bigger pot. You need to feed it every two months and water in very dry weather. Also, mulch to conserve water around the roots.

So, water the new shoot regularly, you could also put a liquid feed in there, and feed that every couple of weeks. And you also need to grow the shoot that's growing in the compost at about 18 degrees centigrade. So, when they're rooted, when the cutting is rooted in the pot, you can plant it out in the soil in the garden if you live in a climate where it's suitable for growing pineapples.

You can then mulch it with plenty of well-rotted manure. That conserves the moisture. And also, water it in very dry spells.

And you can also, every couple of months, add a liquid feed. And that's how you grow pineapples from cuttings. .