Pineapple Update ~ Plant a Top -> Have fruit again!

Hullo there everyone! Those of you who have been around this blog since Feb. 2013 have seen the Pineapple saga..  Here it is from woe to go!  
Note - picture heavy post.    Pineapple plant with flower, you will notice likeness to Brommeliad flowers?

Plant shot this flower about eighteen months after planting the top of very tasty pineapple and left to itself in the backyard. They dont need much water like Broms.The first two photos were taken 6th Feb. 2013 when flower first showed. It was planted near back fence, which meant it was part sun/ part shade but warm position as the fence gave good radiated heat.

6th February, 2013, after good lot of rain.

Taken three weeks later, about 15cm.

Taken in late April - 3 months later -  30cm

Just before being picked, 25.6.13. Measured on ground over 45cm, about 18 inches

 

Left to continue to ripen after picking, for 10 days before cutting. Weight = 1,421gms or nearly 1.5kg.

Cut on 8.7.13, five months after flower shot. Saved new top for planting.

 

Fruit weight is 788grams - over 3/4 kilo. Cut out the eyes too, dont worry! :D juicy, huh?

Use the top of picked fruit to plant ready for more fruit, as first one was done too. Now have small plantation :D

 

Sucker plant inside the mother plant. Main plant will die off and new one will take over, but I must not remove mother plant too soon. It is same as with Brommeliads.

For more info on care of them and their relationship to Brommeliads ~ look here.
Now you can see the full cycle in this second last picture as the top is what I planted in first place. It was very tasty pineapple of the rough skinned variety here in Oz - they seem to be the sweetest and took I would estimate almost two years to get fruit from top in our temperate climate. It was approx 18 months to shoot, and five months once it shot the flower from whence fruit came.
For previous posts on Pineapple growing see this link here.

My Pineapple Jam recipe - is here, and will make about half of this into jam I think. 

Will see, it may not make it! It tastes soooo sweet and good! God's creation is simply amazing really, isn't it?

Thanks so much everyone for popping over for peek and chat, and may the LORD bless your day wherever it may be.
Shaz in Oz.x