Originally Posted by
StuckInYYZ
Depending on where you are located it might not be difficult, although wait time could be a while.... search Youtube for growing pineapple from grocery. Keep in mind that you need to use a pineapple sourced from within the US if you are in the US (they irradiate a good chunk of produce that they import so those would likely not be viable)
Came back from a 6 week trip and found that one of my myriad of pineapples has put out a bud. This currently-fruiting plant was the top from a pineapple that fruited in 2021 from a pineapple purchased from a supermarket in 2018. So this new plant is putting out a 2nd generation fruit in a very non-tropical country.
IME, takes 3 years from top rooting to fruiting. The 1st plant put out a fruit 3 years later and again 2 years after that. Another supermarket top also took 3 years to put out its first fruit.
As an aside, was in Malaysia and there's a whole bunch of cultivars, none of which are like the Dole/Del Monte sterile cultivars found in N. America. Taste different too.