Pineapple Suckers
Description
Pineapple Sucker
A sucker is a plant growth that develops from the rootstock of a plant that has undergone grafting.
A sucker grows from the base of the root of the plant at a certain distance away from the plant.
This undesirable part of the plant should be removed to prevent it from sucking away the plant’s energy.
Rooted suckers can be dug up and planted elsewhere.
Pineapple suckers
A pineapple plant flowers only once and produces one pineapple. Then it dies. But before it dies it also produces offspring.
Suckers or pups are little plantlets that grow between the leaves of the mature pineapple.
Some varieties will produce more suckers than others, some will start earlier and others later.
But they all produce at least a few suckers or pups before they die.
If you leave the suckers in place you get what is called a “ratoon crop”.
How to take off suckers from pineapple plants: Grab them as close to the base as possible, and twist and pull at the same time. They usually come off easily.
And then plant them like you plant pineapple tops. Just stick them in the ground and they’ll grow.
Variety name: Smooth Cayenne.
The maturity period is 18 months.
