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YES!!!
After 6 months, I see a new growth from the basel leaves.
It is now in the greenhouse, & I'm a happy bunny.

Now two new 'sprouts'.
Now a boring 'happy bunny'.

You will be an ecstatic bunny if you get a baby pineapple to grow!

I got a pineapple plant for Valentines day it already has a baby pineapple but forgot to leave room in the greenhouse for it. Leaves are dying at the ends a bit. Should I take the fruit off now? Its only small and still green.

E.J.,
I understand they grow somewhat.
What can I expect, if i look after it, t l c like?

Well mine produce fruit after growing for about 2 years.  Some grow HUGE with incredibly sharp spikes on the end of their leaves.  Some grow lots of baby plants, which you can split away and grow on, and then they all grow huge.  Once they get going, if happy, they grow reasonably quickly.  They like it as hot as you can keep them, or at least mine do, and I water in the top until the fruit form.  I do also water a little around the base when I am feeding them, and I use whatever houseplant or cacti or tomato feed I happen to be using. The idea of watering in the top is so the water runs through the plant slowely so the plant isn't sitting in wet cold compost which will rot it away.  To be honest, they are really quite boring, until the fruit develops.  The first thing you will notice is a different cluster of leaves developing in the middle.  After a few weeks this finally pops through the centre of the plant and you have a baby pineapple.  The tiny flowers are all over the developing fruit, curious thing really.  They are the hard little bits you find on a fruit when you cut it open.  Plenty of water now, you want a decent sized pineapple after all.  Keep the beast warm, as warm as you can, and patience.  They take for me about 4 months to really reach perfection, I cut mine when I open the conservatory door and I can smell sweet sweet pineapple.  You could stick a straw in and drink it, they are devine.  After tasting my own, slow ripened home grown fruits, shop bought are a waste, dull and flavourless.

Good luck! ;D

Thanks EJ,
Fascinating!! I'll give it TLC all the way - wherever that will be.
Your advice is appreciated.
;D