Pink pineapple is one of the types pineapples available. It is also known as the ananas lucida. It has a tough fibrous leaf that looks like evergreen sword. The leaves are surrounding the short stem. Unlike the most of the other types of pineapples, the leaves are thornless. The color of the foliage is the color od deep brick red. The pink pineapple fruit is so much smaller if compared to the other pineapples. However, nobody can really tell for sure about the taste of this pink pineapple as the fruit is commonly used for the cut flower trade instead of consumption.
The pink pineapple is best grown in the warm climates. After the plant matures, there will be a small pineapple that looks so much alike the regular pineapple, but is pink in color. Not only that the fruit itself is small, but the plant is called dwarf pineapple also because the grown one will only mature to the height of 28 inches.
This size can be only half the size of the edible pineapples. Moreover, although the harvest time is not really known, but the fruits are also not formed with pollination. The stem of the short flower can elongate and increase in size. According to the records, the plant will bear only one flower stalk at one time, just like the regular pineapple but it may have not only one, but two or three heads.
It is possible for you to grow your own pink pineapple, after all it does not need an expert to grow it. The first step to grow your own pink pineapple would be to prepare its growing medium. The medium must be loose and well drained in order to ensure that your pink pineapple can grow. Afterwards, just plant the dwarf pineapple in the medium that you have prepared earlier. You can buy the young pink pineapple at the nearest shop or you can also grow it by cutting off the young pups from a grown pink pineapple. Remember that as the pink pineapples love the warm temperature, put its pot in the position where it can receive the sunlight for at least 3 – 4 hours a day. Another note is to have the perfect amount of water in it, not too much and not too little. You only need to water it once a week. It also needs fertilizers, but you can do it once in every 6 – 8 weeks.
