Congrats! It’s rare to find seeds in pineapples (you might get one or two in a fruit, but most are seedless), I’ve always wanted to try growing one but never had time.
Kat-but-SFW
Here’s a cool video I found about growing pineapples! It was a Dole pineapple from Costa Rica, so who knows, maybe that’s even the farm where it came from!
>For this seed production to happen, a pineapple plant’s flowers must be pollinated by a hummingbird with pollen from a different variety of pineapple flowering at the same time. Without this pollination, pineapples make seedless fruits, which is what happens about 99.9% of the time. When people plant out a bed of pineapples, they usually plant out the whole bed with all the same variety, so even though a bunch of the plants might flower at the same time, genetically they’re all a single clone. But if you plant out different varieties in close proximity, and if those varieties bloom at the same time, and if a hummingbird visits and transfers pollen between varieties, you’ll get pineapples with tiny seeds scattered through the flesh. The seeds are so small you would barely notice them in your mouth when eating the fruit, but they do make the fruits look less appealing (to some eyes at least). For this reason, the US state of Hawaii bans the importation of hummingbirds into the state, so the commercial crops of pineapples there don’t ever end up full of seeds.
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Congrats! It’s rare to find seeds in pineapples (you might get one or two in a fruit, but most are seedless), I’ve always wanted to try growing one but never had time.
Here’s a cool video I found about growing pineapples! It was a Dole pineapple from Costa Rica, so who knows, maybe that’s even the farm where it came from!
[https://youtu.be/vpJHgXaPzFA](https://youtu.be/vpJHgXaPzFA)
Here’s an informative page about pineapples, and why it’s so rare to find viable seeds in pineapples:
[https://floridafruitgeek.com/2020/08/31/how-pineapple-plants-grow/](https://floridafruitgeek.com/2020/08/31/how-pineapple-plants-grow/)
>For this seed production to happen, a pineapple plant’s flowers must be pollinated by a hummingbird with pollen from a different variety of pineapple flowering at the same time. Without this pollination, pineapples make seedless fruits, which is what happens about 99.9% of the time. When people plant out a bed of pineapples, they usually plant out the whole bed with all the same variety, so even though a bunch of the plants might flower at the same time, genetically they’re all a single clone. But if you plant out different varieties in close proximity, and if those varieties bloom at the same time, and if a hummingbird visits and transfers pollen between varieties, you’ll get pineapples with tiny seeds scattered through the flesh. The seeds are so small you would barely notice them in your mouth when eating the fruit, but they do make the fruits look less appealing (to some eyes at least). For this reason, the US state of Hawaii bans the importation of hummingbirds into the state, so the commercial crops of pineapples there don’t ever end up full of seeds.