Originally Posted by
YVR Cockroach
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.
I'd be curious to see if the flavour improves. A properly ripe fruit should be quite sweet as all the sugars should have developed. It should be easier to grow pineapples and other tropical fruits in YVR vs. YYZ. There have been times I've been tempted to try growing certain tropical fruits over here but most would not survive the first winter out. If I had a proper greenhouse, it might be possible, but in the city? not a chance. That said, maybe calamansi..... or as they call it in Malaysia, "Lime joo"