How to Avoid the Three Most Common Mistakes While Growing a Pineapple Tree?

Pineapple is a well known and widely used fruit, which you should be familiar with already. It is used in cocktails, cakes, non-alcoholic beverages and as part of fruit salads, but many people are unaware of the fact that the tree is actually so easy to grow they will have success with it even if they don't try hard.

Growing a pineapple tree is somewhat of a stretch, as pineapples don't grow on trees. I used to think they do, and people climb to 30-40ft using some sort of climbing belt to harvest them with a machete, I guess it's a common mistake, because when I asked my girlfriend she said she thought the same. Pineapples grow on bushes. This bush is about 3-5 feet tall and about the same in diameter. It looks like as if the leaves in the top of a pineapple grown 3 feet long. Which is actually a rather precise assumption as these leaves are exactly that.

Growing a "tree" like that is really easy once you know how to avoid the common mistakes associated with it.

1. First and most important is to know how these plants grow, and how you should get around to growing them. There are no seeds or branches to graft. The common mistake here is to think you'll need the whole pineapple to grow a tree. You don't use just the leaves and about an inch of the fruit still one it.

2. Too much water. While pineapples grow on basically any climate, it's best kept away from too much water. If you live where it rains a lot you're probably better off trying an indoor garden pot, a big one, to grow it. When you first try to grow the plant. let the cut leaves and piece of fruit dry for a while to avoid fungal problems, which is the most often problem aspiring gardeners encounter. When you plant it water regularly, but not too often. Once a week is probably around right, think of it as some sort of a cactus.

3. Harvested too early. Unripe pineapple is poisonous and will cause a few side effects explosive diarrhea and mouth burning just to mention a few. Don't pick it when it's green because you will have serious problems. Wait until the outside of the fruit is brown or golden color and take it then. It will be in the second year of planting the pineapple "tree", because the specie is biannual. First it grows the leaves and second year it pops the flowers and the fruit, which is the compound of fertilized flowers by the way.

Once you get the hang of it, and if you avoid the most common mistakes you will be able to grow your own pineapple tree without a hitch. It looks pretty plain in the first year but in the second year your guests will have something to talk about for sure, the flowers are plenty and absolutely stunning in looks.