For the adult plant to produce fruit. I then forgot about it. I had this ground cover that took over, and buried my little plant. One morning I was pruning the ground cover and accidentally chopped off the pineapple plant at the base. I thought I had killed it, until the other day while watering I noticed it came back and had some babies.
A few days later Ghost came up with this challenge and I noticed the word I used for the cover. Ratoon. I had to look it up and that is when I realized I might have helped my little plant instead of killing it. This year it should produce fruit, I will keep you updated.
I did not know anything about growing pineapples
I had to google how to do it. It is super easy.