Pineapple Sucker

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.