Look what I grew.
In the flowers and plants area just inside the doors of Save-On-Foods, we found a live pineapple plant in a pot.
We just had to have it, so we took it home and admired it for a couple of weeks. When it seemed that it was as mature as it was going to get, we harvested it and ate it.
I’d read that you could just plant the top and leaves and you could grow another plant. (OK, let’s do that.) Then I read on the UBC Botanical Garden forum that it was possible to grow yet another pineapple if you just leave the original plant in the ground. Pineapple farmers don’t bother doing this because the resulting fruit is too small to be marketed.
Sure enough, that worked and now we’ve got another interesting houseplant.
Then I discovered that it had also produced a sport/sucker/offshoot, whatever the proper botanical term is, and I cut it off and planted it.
What you see in the photo on the left is the original plant with the second generation pineapple. In the middle is the offshoot doing rather well, and on the right is what happens when you plant the top of the pineapple you just ate.
How cool is that?
