How To Grow GIANT Pineapples at Home Anywhere in the World- Fast & Easy in Containers!

Pineapples 101, I show you everything you need to know to grow giant pineapples anywhere in the world in containers; step by step how to grow giant pineapples in containers, learn how to propagate pineapple crowns, slips and suckers, transplant, my soil recipe, fertilize and harvest! Its pretty easy to grow pineapple plants in the tropics/South Florida and it takes 12-24 months to harvest a fruit but I show you everything you need to know to grow pineapples at home and make them thrive to produce giant fruit! COMMENT, LIKE, SUBSCRIBE & SHARE with your friends.

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I’m going to teach you everything you need to know about growing pineapples at home and show you the exact supplies you need to grow giant healthy fruits just like these the best part using my method you can grow a pineapple plant anywhere in the world you don’t have to live in a warm tropical climate like I do my name is Darcy from daril offshore those of you who know me I have a successful fishing channel have my two boats right here but another big passion of mine is gardening and I have been growing pineapples in my garden now for close to a decade and I’m very excited to show you all the techniques that I’ve perfected over the years I live down here in zone UD USDA zone 10B which is really the optimal conditions for growing giant healthy plants and fruits you can see my pineapple Garden is exclusively a container garden I started my very first pineapple plant from a store bought pineapple so there’s four different methods of ways for you to grow pineapples on your own once you harvest your first pineapple plant once your plant actually starts fruiting as you can see this is a this is a ready too pineapple that we’re going to harvest here in just a second but the mother plant she will actually never fruit again so once we take this off she slowly dies back but she has a whole bunch of babies that grow which is what you want so right here I’ll pull this all down so you guys can see it a little better from the flower stock or the fruit stock right here these are slips these are two brand new plants growing off the Main’s flower stock and that is what you want to plant this is what commercial pineapple Growers use they are not using crowns because those take forever they’re using the slips and the suckers these are slips the suckers come from the leaf access right Leaf access right here down below and they come from all different sections of the leaves so this is another big sucker that will be replanted but these would be your next crop or your Raton crop the first crop is your crown and then also you have rat ton suckers which grow from the from the actual stem underground and there’s a little nub growing right here you can see that’s a Raton sucker and all of these little babies are feeding off the mother’s established root system so she slowly dies back and she feeds all of these so there’s we have four babies growing here you could leave them there I don’t recommend that they compete for light and comp and nutrients so I pop them off and I’ll just show you quickly with one of these slips it’s very easy it just pops right off and when it gets to about that size that’s a perfect size to grow and plant which we’re going to show you how to do in here in just a second as well as the crowns but this will be its own fruit its own plant and in about 18 months you will have a fruit growing from this pineapple plant so really what you want are the slips and suckers if you have any friends they can give you slips and suckers I recommend that you try to get those because a crown takes the longest let’s go ahead and harvest this juice fruit and really the main reason you can tell that it’s ready to be Harvest is because of this gorgeous yellow color golden color whatever you want to call it also if you put your nose next to it you can smell that delicious pineapple scent coming from it so it’s ready to be harvested literally just give it a Bend just pop clean right off that flower stock you can see there that is amazing usually you want to harvest it while you still have a little bit of green left on the top this is a perfect fix stage to be harvested we can eat this right now in the house it’s going to be amazing but once it gets fully golden then you run the risk of it starting to firm it okay so let me show you how we are going to prep our Crown to get replanted and then also show you how we replant these suckers or slips from the mother plant now I pretend I bought this at the store some people like to twist it off I don’t like to do that I’m just going to cut it I like to cut as close as possible look at that it’s going to be so tasty next now to prep this and get this ready first thing you want to remove all pieces of the fruit you don’t want any of that remaining here that will rot away your crown so clean up as much of that as you possibly can and then I’ll go in there with my knife and I’ll cut at a small angle and you’re going to take little slivers off and you see with that little sliver it exposed a root already so there are dormant Roots hidden underneath all of these pineapple crowns now if your store-bought one has brown leaves down here highly recommend you cut those brown leaves off as well because it’s slowly starting to die back is what’s happening to your pineapple Crown now that we cut into it just take off a bunch of leaves I would say take off at least three to four rows of leaves it doesn’t need these leaves they’re not going to grow any bigger they’re going to come from the middle of the access point so axle here the leaf axle so you don’t need to keep any of these bottom leaves and you’re just going to help promote it have quicker Ro root growth root growth faster and let’s take a couple more just to show you but pretend this is from the store this exactly what you’re going to do you can even go ahead and cut back just a little further but look at all those roots you can actually see all those little brown spots those are all dormant Roots ready to go ready to be planted now that is ready and all I’m going to do now this is the key that sucess with crowns you have to let it sit and dry for at least 3 to 5 days up to a week why because this needs to callous over you can not stick this in water to root out or even in the soil until this is dry I guarantee it will rot away you’ll have best success so this is a one a crown that I harvested about a week ago and you can see I did the same thing I prepped it I got it ready it’s all calloused over it’s all dry and this is ready to be planted now we also have a couple other examples of crowns that I harvested I’ve had a bunch of pineapples already this season but these are all dry and ready to be planted slip that we just pulled off the mother plant same exact thing you just start pulling them off and this is mostly calloused over already I would say you could go ahead and plant it same day I like to wait a day or two just in case because I don’t want them to rot away or get diseases but look at all these roots look at all these roots that are just ready to get in the soil and ready to be planted that is a healthy little baby pineapple plant that is amazing just goes to show you how healthy my plants are so same deal with this slip now let’s get right into my soil mixture we’re going to put these down to the side for right now which again this can be found on my Amazon store directly down below but we’ve got a big mixing container highly recommend you have that cuz that’s how crazy I am when it comes to my gardening but we have three different soils here that I mix and create my own special blend so starting with the first bag we use Miracle Grow Cactus potting soil this is the orange bag been buying this for a long time it’s very Sandy and has quite a few nutrients in it so my so mixture is going to be one part Cactus potting soil one part cocoa core and cocoa core is basically going to help with the um nice quick drainage in the fabric pots and then also the Coco core allows it to hold a bit of moisture because those grow bags dry out very quickly so one part cocoa core and then one part spum Pete Moss and this is the big bag I buy it’s a 3 cubic foot compressed bag but I recommend this brand it’s awesome I get all this at home Depot by the way or on Amazon if you can’t make your run to Home Depot um but that’s what it looks like on the side the bag is actually torn on the front so I can’t show you the exact thing but this is straight spagna Moss so one part one part one part let’s go ahead and fill our bin and mix our soil we’re doing one part coca core one part Cactus palm and citrus potty mix one part Canadian spum Peete Moss now we hand mix get down and dirty all right I think that is pretty well mixed up I know this looks a little labor intensive but I enjoy playing with dirt and U mixing it up but really believe that this three soil combination is just best for my pineapple plants and um let’s go ahead and show you the pots I use to plant them up all of my pineapple plants go through three transplanting stages and all the supplies we’re talking about that’s going to be found in my Amazon store linked directly below in the description so please check that out you can find everything there that you’re going to need so starting with the three pots here I start with small 6in pots to root them out initially these are great and very cheap on Amazon and I’m going to use these for the slips the crowns and the suckers then when I go it’s time to transplant it’s very easy to know because you can see the roots popping out the bottom bottom holes then it they go into their second container which is a 3G Nursery pot and I found this to be best to allow them to really root out and get deep in the pot so yes both of these are plastic that they start out with and then the final container and again I’ll transplant once they start to see the their Roots start to stick out the bottom of the holes I’ll transplant into the final container which is this 10 gallon fabric grow bag love them they’re very sturdy and I they last 3 4 years for me and they’re reusable so this is their 10 their final transplant container 10 gon is more than enough because again they have a very shallow root system so let’s show you how we we transplant or plant the pineapple Crown which we have here from one dried out from last week like we talked about earlier and then we have a slip and that was the leaves we pulled off a little earlier today we took a lunch break and came back out so we’re going to transplant both of these right now into their their first pot come over to my mixing station where we had mixed all this wonderful dirt and I’m not going to add any initial fertilizer to the first step here with the first 6in pot because really the cactus Dirt has enough nutrients to allow these guys to root out what you’re trying to do is trying to get them to root out you’re not really trying to grow them Giant in these little pots and now this is going to be best for you all that live in the Northern climates you’re going to have to bring in your plants in the winter that’s called over wintering maybe you can even put them in a greenhouse but pineapple plants are not not going to last out in 40° F and Below sustained temperatures they will suffer they’re going to get hurt and eventually they will die and perish in those temperatures so you’re going to have to bring them in in the winter but as soon as you can get them Outdoors get them Outdoors so you see how I packed that nice and tight we’re going to make a little hole in the middle I already even ripped off additional leaves just because they looked a little bit dry here no reason for them to be there and then you just want to be careful to not get any dirt in the leaves it’s important not to do that you don’t want to introduce any microbes to the inside of the plant’s Leaf axles but just pack it tightly around the center and then water that well and put it in a Sunny Spot and in about 2 to 3 weeks you’re going to have roots and it’ll be rooting out pretty well and you can tell that it’s rooting out by just gently lifting on the plant and you’ll feel it you’ll feel if it gives if it gives way it’ll pull right out but a lot of the times like these for instance here’s a good example these were planted just over 2 weeks ago I can pick the entire thing up so I know right there that it’s already rooted out in its in its uh container and again these little 6-in pots are perfect to just get them to root out and I like to even check like this just gently flip it upside down and gently lift the pot and you can tell there’s already Roots starting to go down and that was about two weeks ago it got transplanted so it’s doing just fine I’ll give it about another week before it gets transplanted into the the three-gallon nursery pot for the slips the suckers and the Raton sucker same exact deal you can see how it’s kind of at an awkward angle is because the way it grew on the fruit stock but that’s okay just cover that stem real well just like that sometimes they like to topple over so what I like to use is very small bamboo steaks just to keep it upright while we let it do its root out process in the next 2 to 3 weeks and we’re all set those are going to go to the side get watered well and I’ll check on them and water them about once a week and here here’s just an example of a sucker that I recently planted about a week ago into its 3 gallon Nursery pot this is actually a Sugarloaf variety and you can see it’s a Sugarloaf because of the per the red and purplish that’s in the color of the leaves it’s a very gorgeous plant but these can be found in Hawaii and I’m very excited to try my first sugar loaf of the year so this was in a six 6in pot and now it’s in a three-gallon pot and it’ll sit here for a while until I see those roots coming out those bottom holes final step of the transplanting process let’s show you exactly how I transplant a 3 gallon pineapple this is a crown from out last year believe it or not and we’re going to put her into her final home the 10-gallon fabric pot so let’s go ahead and start filling it with my premixture of soil here and then we’re going to talk about fertilizer and amendments I have pre-filled my 10-gon fabric pot with about a third of the soil I would say now let’s quickly talk about the the fertilizer and the soil amendments I like to use for pineapple plants now they like an acidic soil so that’s where the Pete Moss spum Pete Moss comes in but also another key to my success I firmly believe is spent coffee grinds from my coffee machine um I believe you can get them at Starbucks for free if you don’t drink coffee but this is what I use this is about almost a week supply of coffee grinds so I would say like once I have it about a third full I would say there’s about three cups in here so I’m using between four and five cups of spent coffee grounds per 10g fat pot and again I’m not using any of these amendments in my 6in pots or my 3 gallons we’re just doing it in the final container because it’s a CH mature healthy plant and we want to make sure we give her the opportunity to bloom and give us the biggest fruits possible so I’m going to mix in this into the soil put that to the side the next thing I like to use are eggshells and you can see I have eggshells here that’s from our breakfast is in the morning believe it or not and I just spend the time to clean them under the sink with running water and I take that little liner um off from the inside so it’s just the shell and then they dry out over time and then I literally will just come out here and crush them with my feet crush them with my hands whatever I need to do to get them to nice small pieces like this but that is calcium and then it also provides potassium and phosphorus to the soil which is going to allow for bigger fruit development and you’re going to get a larger healthier plant overall so really these are my two keys to success I would say there’s about 12 to 16 eggs here there’s no real I don’t have a good measurement for you guys I would just say i’ take about a handful of crushed eggshells and throw them in there and that’s just with a third of the first layer of soil finally my last soil amendment is going to be epson salt and epson salt is magnesium sulfate and it’s going to provide additional magnesium to the soil and that’s going to promot promote better fruit development so that’s where I get giant fruits from too so Epson Sal is great and it adds that magnes magnes to the soil too so really these three amendments mixed in and again I’m just using a handful I would say maybe two tablespoons so I would say about 6 tablespoons of eps and salt per 10 gallon fabric grow bag and then five about five cups of spent coffee grinds per 10 gallon grow bag and then the eggshells I’m using about 12 to 16 eggs per 10 gallon growbags let’s go ahead and mix this up when it comes to gardening I am big into organic gardening and you can see everything we’ve used so far is organic as well as our fertilizer and this is going to be mixed straight into the transplant too so this is Dr Earth exotic blend been using this for years doesn’t say specifically for pineapples but I love it pineapples love it follow the directions on the bag but what I’m doing is the directions on the bag we’re using a cup of fertilizer per 10 gallon grow bag so we’re going to scoop out a cup and I’m going to add about a third right now put that to the side mix it up quickly forgot to mention if you feel like you need to add more Iration to your soil you can use perlite but perlite is actually bad for the environment so I started buying pumis which is literally lava rock Pumas and I’ll just put a handful it in there if you feel like you need to add extra air ration the more the merrier for pineapple plants because again they do like to get wet but at the same time they like to dry out quickly so you could just throw in that too if you feel like you need to have a more Sandy mixture Airy Airy mixture of soil not required though here’s a good gardening tip when it goes to transplanting I basically level it up to where I think it’s going to be good and you can add or remove soil depending on how it lines up but just take your whole pot stick it in there and I think that’s a pretty good level you can see where the uh top of the base of the uh pineapple plant is and I think it’s a pretty good level here and that should work just fine so we’re going to leave it right there in the middle and let’s go ahead and add add soil around it and we’re also going to add our rest of our amendments to our soil mixture now before it gets into the [Music] pot now that my soil is premixed everything is ready to go I’ve got a dent in the pot exactly where I just put that three gallon container in there and I’m now using a soil fungi and this is again in my Amazon store it’s called MOS and it basically introduces micro Riz which is a beneficial soil fungi that attaches to the roots of all plants so it goes right into the planting hole and I really believe it helps the plant take off right away and the plant won’t suffer from transplant shock I use it on everything from roses to everything I plant um I love that stuff and so now what you do to transplant just slowly start turning it on its side giving it a squeeze on the pot because we’re going to try kindy to loosen the soil compaction and hopefully it just slide right out and usually I like to keep them on their side see if I can do this right slowly hold the bottom of the the base of the neck of the plant like so and just support it really well and then slowly start lifting off and you can see how healthy The Roots have gone all the way down to the bottom and the roots are going to directly come in contact with this fungi and that’s what’s going to help it just start to take off in its brand new pot right in the middle then we’re going to take our little steaks we just had but I’m going to go and use those big 4ft staks I showed you earlier to lock it into place there we go and then I just like to fix it up around there where we just put that fungi in there and now let’s go ahead and fill it up to the top and as you do this just be extra careful try not to get it in the rosette of the leaves you can also spray it out with the hose later but it’s just is really important to make sure no dirt ends up in your plant because when we have wet Seasons down here in South Florida sometimes the soil stays too wet for too long and you don’t want your plant to suffer from Heart Rot or root rot and I’ve had that happen to both my plants over the years it’s just part of gardening it’s part of the game but doing preventative steps like this and taking your time is going to just allow you to have your plant for longer and hopefully it will not not ever get Heart Rot or rud rot but it’s very devastating when that happens and sometimes there’s nothing you can do about it with the weather and I know a lot of you guys are like oh you know it takes over 2 years for it to fruit well gardening is just not about how long does it take if you don’t have the patience to wait two years for a fruit I don’t recommend you grow them that’s not what gardening is about it’s about patience and persistence and you learn as you go I’m always learning to this very day so and really gardening is kind of like a therapy therapy to me it’s just you and your plants all right this pineapple Crown is in its final home I’m going to take out these small bamboo steaks and you can see how their root system is pretty shallow and it’s already starting to topple so in order to keep it upright and make it aesthetically pleasing to look at as well I like to put these stakes in immediately and uh you can adjust them as the plant grows and the key now you water it really well you want to water it to the point where water is coming out the bottom of the grow bag the whole point of using those grow bags is that you can do it anywhere in the world you can bring these in your house if you have space for them in a place that’s going to keep them warm in the winter bring them indoors it might take yours in cooler climates a little longer to fruit than it does down here in a tropical climate I would just maybe get a grow light or get it in front of a window somewhere where it can get between six and 8 hours of sunlight per day depending on the time of the year that’s how much sunlight mine get last but not least all of my fabric go back bag sit on plant risers and the water’s going to drain freely that way they’re also not sitting on the direct ground and it’s going to create more mold and fungi and allow ants and critters to climb up your pots so it will sit on top of this Riser and then that’s when you’ll see the water drain out of it and again they’re bromad so they don’t need a ton of water they really don’t they’re drought tolerant too but if you start to see the leaves start to get brown on the edges that means it needs water because it’s starting to pull nutrients from the outside leaves in and you can also feel like about 2 in down with your finger go 2 in down if the feels dry it needs water and I would say during our drought season I water my pineapple plants about every 10 to 14 days but a deep watering and then during rainy season I don’t even mess with them I just let let nature take its course all right guys so this one is ready to go back to her final home um on this West Wall here by my house I put my very best specimens biggest specimens the West Wall creates a microc climent actually and uh it’s just a perfect environment for growing giant giant pineapple plants here this girl is going right back into the back but hopefully fruit M of mine naturally fruit come January February of every year but I hope you guys learned a thing or two if you have any other questions please feel free to comment that down below um maybe I’ll do a top dressing video any other gardening videos you’d like to see please go ahead and comment down below thanks for watching until my next adventure follow your dream and keep on get catching my next gardening video follow your dream and keep on catching