Did you know that a pineapple plant at a garden store costs $8.99? Do you wanna know how to get a free pineapple plant? Of course you do! Well, each and every pineapple purchased in it's whole form comes with a free pineapple plant. You heard that right, the pineapple you're looking at has both a delicious yellow edible center and the beginnings of a beautiful pineapple plant. All you do is pull the top off like this:
Now, go ahead and eat that yummy bottom part, I like mine in a blender with some rum, but you do what feels right for you :) So, on to the free plant! We're talking about the spiky green topper laying there.This guy:
You take hold of it any which way you can and start pulling off the very bottom leaves. You'll see that they overlap so just start pulling off row and after row, and you get:
ROOTS! Isn't that fantastic! I still can't believe it, I had no idea that hidden under a few rows of leaves are honest to goodness roots, roots, roots! Now that you have the roots exposed you plunk the topper into a pot of soil (or the ground) and water it in well. It's not necessary, but if you're not going to plant it right away, you can park it in a glass of water like so:
Go ahead and try it. It's so cool to see that first row of roots appear. Now I'm itching to get my hands on another pineapple.....
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