go for it ina! i have had this useful link u might want a look at...
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/803/
but go down and read Kameha's post. Now, i have pineapples....but they are not doing well... they have this withering disease thing - i blame the neem trees near it, they are vicious in the dry sdeason for water...i have grown mine from suckers though, but i have friends in takoradi who, everytime they have a pineapple, cut off the top, and plant it. they have a hill full of them! plus, they are cape coast pineapples....very nice...if u go to sainsbury's, and look for organic pineapple pieces, i don't know if they still do them , but they are from the cape coast...anyway, as long as top is all there.
sometimes, the man from Del Monte cuts the tops off his pineapples so u cannot plant them... it has to all be there. they are saying on this site to pick out fruit from around core and wait for a day to dy out and stuff. well, these guys i know live in such humid conditions, the pineapple would never dry out and it does fine. but rotting fruit is not good, so maybe you should...but they do like organic matter, free draining is very important. bromilades hate being water logged (pineapple plantations tend to be on hills even!). There is stuff about water the top only, everything but the top, but I would just do some overall misting, and maybe even keep a propagator over your pineapple. The Victorians used to grow them over heated bricks, though, so you may not even need that (they weren't in Kincardineshire though
) but just keep an eye on it all. u don't want it rotting. i would even put it in sand till it starts to root. but as a house plant, they will look like an overgrown agave or something like that. but you have nothing to lose right? the rest of it u get to eat! but there is some interesting stuff going on with pineapples....there is a new variety out called MD2...pineapples take a while to grow. it is a bit like setting up a mangofarm...you have to forsee the market in five years time - or just be lucky - to make the money. but the usual supply and demand chain has messed up the diversity of even the commercial pineapple. everyone is now growing MD2...so i think maybe two or three months from now the world is going to be full of the little suckers(sorry)....and no one really knows how they will do. they are meant to be better travellers and lookers. no one thought about taste? but anyway, someone tell me if they still do those sainsbury's pineapple organic pieces? they are worth the £2 or £3 you know...
- well, I don't know either; I suppose I'm just curious to see if it works 
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