We just moved back to Western WA state and when we arrived, a family member gave us one of those Costa Rican pineapples. It sat on the kitchen counter for days while we were unpacking(and we're still unpacking, lol) until I could smell it across the room. I told DH we were having it NOW. Man, was it sweet! I brought in a large planter from the mudroom in which a houseplant had died(from neglect, not disease)and stuck the top in the soil. It's sitting on a table near a window. Too soon to tell if it will grow...hope it does. Even if it never sets another fruit, at least I'll have a nice houseplant. The houseplants plants I brought with me froze to death when we broke down in Montana(they were stuck in a U-Haul trailer for a week). I grew a pineapple out once before in this area but I don't remember what happened to it. I may have left it to someone during another move. I do remember being stabbed by it several times.
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