Pineapple Plants
Elite Gold Pineapple
Ananas comosus 'Elite Gold'
$5.50each
No Tax
Sold in multiples of 6 —
6, 12, 18 and so on.
$33.00 for 6, no tax.
Mix and match different varieties freely.
Pre-order — not currently available, next crop is 3–4 months out
Pre-order — this holds your place in line.
Neither we nor our grower has this variety right now, and the wait is on the
availability line above. Order today and you are at the front of the queue when
the next crop lands: we ship as soon as it does and keep you posted meanwhile.
Payment is taken now. If you would rather not wait, everything else in
Pineapple Plants is ready to go.
🌱True-to-name guarantee — replaced or refunded if it is not what the label says
📦Insulated packaging, heat pack included in cold months
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Elite Gold is the golden-fleshed type that made supermarket pineapple worth eating. The skin ripens to a clear gold instead of the dull bronze of the older varieties, and the flesh underneath is that same colour the whole way through: sweet, juicy, and mild enough that it never burns the roof of your mouth the way a really acidic pineapple can.
It is the pineapple commercial growers plant, which means decades of selection went into even ripening and dependable fruit rather than novelty. At home it makes a tidy silver-green rosette one to three feet tall and about as wide, and it is perfectly happy spending its entire life in a large pot on a patio.
Give it full sun, a free-draining mix and very little else. Expect roughly 18–24 months from planting to your first fruit, then a second, smaller one from the sucker that follows.
What actually arrives. All our plants are under six months old and stand 4–8 inches tall at the time of shipping or pickup. These are young plants at the start of their life, not finished
specimens — that is why they cost what they do.
Plant specs
- Ships as
- Rooted starter plant
- Height on arrival
- 4–8 in. tall, under 6 months old
- Mature height
- 1–3 ft tall and about as wide
- Light
- Full sun to partial sun
- Water
- Let the top inch dry — never soggy
- Hardiness zones
- 9–11
- Time to fruit
- 18–24 months
- SKU
- TP-ANAELGO
Care notes
Light — full sun grows the sweetest fruit. They will take partial sun and still fruit, just slower.
Soil — anything sharp and free draining. A cactus or citrus mix with extra perlite is ideal in a pot. They like it slightly acid, around pH 5.8–6.2.
Water — let the top inch dry out before watering again. A pineapple stores water in its own leaves, so the quickest way to kill one is kindness with a watering can. In cool weather water the soil rather than pouring down the centre of the plant.
Feeding — a balanced liquid feed at half strength every four to six weeks through the warm months. They are light feeders and sulk if overfed.
Cold — hardy in zones 9–11. Below freezing the foliage burns, so bring pots under cover or throw a frost cloth over bed-grown plants on a cold night.
Fruiting — figure on 18–24 months from planting. Once the plant carries about thirty mature leaves it is big enough to flower. After it fruits the mother plant slowly winds down and the suckers around its base take over, so leave one or two and the plant keeps going on its own.
