Growing Pineapple
When To Harvest Pineapple Fruit
One of the biggest dilemmas when growing pineapple is knowing when to harvest the fruit. You can pick it before it's fully ripe and still get all the juicy sweetness.
 
Buy a Cheap Pineapple Plant Here It takes a pineapple many months to develop. How many depends on how much heat and sun the plant gets. Shade and cool weather slow them to a crawl. As the fruit ripens, it colors from the bottom to the top and from side to side. You can harvest it as soon as one side has turned yellow. Many people think that a pineapple will not continue to ripen once it is removed from the plant. This is untrue. You will need a lopper to cut through the thick stem. I like to keep a few inches of stem attached so that the fruit can draw energy from it as it ripens. This could be an old wives tale, but it has been working for me for years, so I'm sticking with it. I have a vase that I set the fruit in until it is ready to eat.
Each day the fruit will turn more golden. You'll know when to eat it because the sweet fragrance of ripe pineapple will permeate the room.
Beautiful, fragrant, and delicious. No wonder the pineapple is the national symbol of hospitality. After you eat the pineapple, don't forget to plant the top. The top from a home grown pineapple has much more life in it than the top from a store bought fruit. It can be difficult to get tops from store bought pineapples to root. The top of your home grown fruit will root with ease. If you are really interested in raising pineapple plants, you won't want to waste a good top.
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