So I just read a couple months ago that you can reuse a pineapple top to grow a pineapple plant. I’m attempting to do this myself at home and I started rooting it in water on May 9th. It’s looking ready to be transferred to soil in a pot. I’ve got the clay pot, I have soil, I bought a pH tester for water and soil to make sure the pH levels are on point. How often should I be watering starting out and also when should I be fertilizing? I’m growing indoors with a grow light in a controlled temperature climate.
Any steps I can take or missed that I should do, tell me what’s up.
Update 6/17/2026:
I potted the rooted pineapple crown in soil. I’ll keep posting more updates here as I patiently wait for my plant to grow me a fruit.
I found pineapples to be much more in need of sun than water. Yes, they do need water, but it’s not going to develop or ripen a fruit without lots of sun. That said, a fruit can literally go a year or more developing without harm to it. Never particularly fertilized it, though I’m trying that now to see if it makes a difference. In theory the same plant can fruit multiple times, but I find that after a few years they start looking really scraggly so I’ve decided that when they do, I’ll plant them outside in the spring and hope I get a fruit before the first frost in the fall. Pineapple plants are deer resistant!