Tropicals & Tender Perennials: should I give this pineapple a chance?, 1 by fredrump

fredrump wrote:
Personally I don't like pineapples or any parts thereof like juice but they do look nice in the garden. :-)

The nursery man said that once a pieapple is picked it stops ripening and therefore sugar production. He also said that the fruit sold in the supermarkets tastes nothing like their fruit grown on the plant til ripe.

They are not in business to grow fruit but to get new suckers they have to. The cut the top of the fruit into at least 8 pieces to grow new plants. Any sliver of the crown can be grown into a new plant. They gave me a ripe pineapple but it's still sitting here. Maybe my wife will eat it. :-)

Fred