Pineapple babies!

Almost immediately after moving back to Hawaii, I started an experiment I had been wanting to try for a while: I planted a pineapple. You simply take the green shoots off the top of a ripe fruit from the grocery store, and plant it into the earth. Based on the research I had done, I expected that it would take a full three years, or until August 2014, for my pineapple plant to fruit.

 

The leaves were growing huge rather quickly, so I was not too surprised when just a few weeks ago I went to check on the plants, and I saw a pineapple baby emerging! It has been so exciting to watch the fruit grow and mature. It really is so pretty.

 

The most recent development has been the growth of small purple flowers on the plant. The baby pineapple is a little larger than a human fist at the moment, and growing and changing every day. We cannot wait for it to mature completely so we can eat it and complete the cycle!