My pineapple plant is flowering!

[Seziah]

Just wanted to share really because I’m chuffed!
It was received as a gift almost two years ago with a tiny pineapple on. After the mini pineapple went over, I thought the plant would just be leaves forever but the heatwave has stimulated it 😊
The flowers are starting to open, I wonder what will happen next!

And this is why I love mumsnet 😀 no useful advice or experience but following with anticipation.

It’s lovely! ☺️

Very exciting! Any advice?

I have a 2 year old pineapple plant which has produced lots of new pups but no new flowers. Maybe I should cut off most pups and only have 1?

Ohh interesting because mine doesn’t have any pups! Have you repotted yours to give it more room? Mine is in the original pot so perhaps no room for babies 🙈. I’ve recently started using fish mix/fish emulsion as fertiliser and it seems much happier with that compared to sporadic watering with Baby Bio

I think I gave a slightly bigger pot, not by much though. It already started growing pups when it still had a little pineapple. However, good tip re fertiliser, I'm not sure whether I've given it any at all. Thanks!

It still blows my mind that pineapples don't grow on trees 😂😂

Me too! I assumed they grew in bunches like coconuts 🙈

You mean like spaghetti ?

More flowers around the edge and some green leaves appearing on top today 😄

oh that’s cool!!

I’m very envious of your green fingers, @Seziah !

Bananas don't grow on trees either. 😁

Very beautiful - I bought mine with a yellow pineapple on, I had no idea they had this beautiful red with purple flowers stage.

That's amazing. I can imagine how thrilled you are. Thank you for the lovely pics.

Are you 100% positive that there wasn't a tiny pup that snuck up and eclipsed the original plant and is now flowering? I ask because I have a number of bromeliads (mostly airplants) and my understanding is that each individual 'shoot' (not the right word) in a cluster will only flower once.

My airplants are big clusters now and sometimes break into flower. But they seem to do it just when they feel like it . I haven't really pinned down a routine to encourage flowering. None of my other bromeliads have flowered, but I haven't had them long.

This is interesting, thank you for the info! I’ve basically watered it and ignored it, like I do with orchids when they’re not flowering 🙈 so it may well have grown another shoot when I wasn’t looking.
Do you have any photos of your air plants flowering? I had one once but didn’t get on very well with it so I didn’t even know they could flower!

Here you go ...

Very interested in your fish emulsion. Perhaps more feeding is the way to go for predictable blooms.
(Edited to remove superseded moan about 'images under review')

Oh wow, they are beautiful! They look so tropical! I’m looking into air plants now. I’ve seen them at my local garden centre but those ones always seem very crispy

A good old soak should revive, them, so long as they aren't exceptionally far gone. You can get better cared for ones online though, from specialist growers, with more choice of species.

I can't believe how long I turned my nose up at them, because of retailers' tacky habit of selling them glued to seashells or whatever tat. Thankfully it is getting easier to buy them without all that. They are quite rewarding. Even if they don't flower, they can clump up nicely (depending on variety)

Helloo everybody! Not much growth at the top but the flowers are growing row by row 😄

Beautiful!

Oh wow! ❤️ This thread makes me happy!

I’m so sick of the doom and gloom everywhere else!

i too am enjoying this thread with plants ive not seen flower before. thanks for the continued updates!

Hello everyone 😊. The flowers have all finished, the pineapple is getting bigger and now the top leaves are growing more. It’s looking a bit weird, I wonder when the flowers will fall off. It’s been 20° here this week but now dropping down to 15° and below - probably not normal pineapple temperatures

Oh, I’m late to the thread but how exciting!
May I ask, what sort of conditions does the plant need? Shade/sun, draft/not, indoors/out?