This is my pineapple plant that I started myself.     

The story behind it though is a sad one.  It was stolen from me   Who steals a pineapple plant??   Here in Hawaii if you steal a pineapple out of the fields the fine is like $1,000 or more!!!  They take it seriously too.     Anyway, we were moving from one house to another, about 4 miles apart.   The plant was the last thing to move so my husband put it behind the house and said we'd go back the next morning to get it.   It was large and honestly we couldn't fit it in with the last little bit of stuff in the truck.   Well, when we came back it was gone!   Which means more than likely a neighbor took it so what's more sad - a missing pineapple or realizing a neighbor would steal. 

It takes apprx. 17-24 months to grow a pineapple to maturity.  I did not know that until we moved here.   No wonder pineapples are expensive!    The best pineapples to eat here are not from the grocery store.   I buy mine at the local swap meet on the weekends or at a local farmers market type of thing that comes though my town on Friday mornings.   I pay about $2.50 for a pineapple.  They are much more than that in the stores (or in the tourist areas).

To start a pineapple plant all you have to do is take the top that you sliced off a mature pineapple and stick in some dirt.   It will grow from that!  It's so easy.   We plan on starting another one but my large pot I have now is growing a Plumeria tree.  So, I need another big flower pot and some dirt which I've just not gotten around to.  

So here it is ~ A couple of shots.    The red/green plant growing it it is different.  I'm not sure where it came from, it just started to grow with the pineapple LOL