Story of the White Pineapples

Bill tells the story of how 5 white pineapples turned into a farm. He shows how he is disposing of the extra produce and then samples the White Pineapple for the camera.

[@gardeningwithaloha5573]

By far my favorite!! The sweetest of all!🍍🍍🍍

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Pineapples just don't get any better. That reminds me, I almost sold out yesterday, I need to hit the field and pick some more.

[@gardeningwithaloha5573]

GreenGardenGuy1 👍🏼

[@fizzypop1858]

Dried pineapple is better than any candy I've ever eaten. It's amazing! Loved this video. I live in the Pacific Northwest, so no way to grow a pineapple here. But, it's fun to watch you do it and I'm so happy for you that you get to enjoy those pineapples so fresh and perfect. Maybe someday I'll get over to the Islands and I'll have a real pineapple, too. Aloha!

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Because the pineapple needs very little soil to grow I used to fruit them in California in a five gallon nursery pot. I used an unheated greenhouse to shelter them in the winter there. Sadly, even though they would fruit they would never taste like the ones that grow under the Hawaiian sun. Enjoy and if you ever hit the Big Island in August and September look for my sign, the first one is free!

[@chrispalombo6394]

What a joy it is to see you two people enjoy a pineapple! I am sold. Well done.

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Thank you, The white pineapples are the best of all. Enjoy, Bill

[@lyrehc77]

I tasted white pineapple on a boat trip while visiting the Big Island with my family about 10 years ago and could never eat a yellow pineapple or any pineapple at the mainland since then. And the crew wouldn't tell me where to get them from, they said they buy all the fruits for their trips. Thanks for the reminder!

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

The white pineapples re grown by small farmers locally across all the Islands. The Big Island was the first place they wee introduced and so have the greatest number of growers. The fruit is highly seasonal. We are pretty high up the mountain but at my place they fruit from August to September. You are right, they are the best damn pineapples I've ever eaten.

[@lovelytete6553]

This video is fantastic!!!

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Well now..Thank you.

[@shigeolincolntaco]

I had this version before and I was hooked got it from Frankie's Nursery

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Whether you call it Kapoho White, Hilo White or White Sugar Loaf it is one of the best pineapple I have ever eaten. The ones I have here are the 'Rough' version that make 7 offsets per fruiting. It appears the fruit is larger than the 'Smooth' version.

[@cetuspa]

Well I am going to try and grow pineapple (white if available) here in Victoria BC. I have a greenhouse and we are in zone 8 and even have a little micro Mediterranean climate here...the small Discovery Island group just south of Victoria even has cactus growing there. This species are the farthest Northern ranging cactus in the world. Got any tips for growing PA's here in the Canadian Galapagos??? Great video now off to buy 5 pineapples:))

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Five is the magic number, it may bring you fortune. We had cactus back in the Midwest USA too. Opuntia fragilis was the main type, a paddle or beaver tail type of prickly pear that can shrink down and hide beneath the snow cover in winter. I have seen it survive -40 c. Tips on pineapple pot culture. Use a very rapid draining medium and water only in the leaf funnel during the winter. Keep the soil as dry as possible when temperatures are cool. You can rot a pineapple off with wet soil if the growth stops. If they are growing actively they will drink huge amounts of water. The pineapple isn't too greedy for nutrients but a balance time release fertilizer is required in container culture. Just remember to bring them into the greenhouse before fall sets in and bring them out doors after danger of frost is over.

[@cetuspa]

Thanks a lot Bill This DUDE will abide.

[@LibertyGarden]

Love the produce stand.

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

You just have to love something that didn't cost a dime. I actually have plans for a new loop driveway here that will have an official produce stand and a nursery. In the mean time an old saw horse and a folding table in the carport will just have to do. I am a bit short on the eight to ten grand it will take to build the real thing with picnic tables, coffee and a TV to roll my videos on.

[@deakemarschall2992]

A few more rounds of harvesting those white beauties should get you close to the coin needed. good luck.

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

One thing leads to another. I was pulling weeds out of the peppers today when a guy showed up for pineapples. It turns out he is in charge of the USDA fruit tree genetic repository in Hilo, HI. We got talking and he invited me to take a tour and gather seeds and cuttings. Here we go again, wonder what will be the next "white pineapple" story?

[@TheRenpeg]

so jealous!! When I finally take a trip to Hawaii Im sooo gonna come visit you in September!! Thank you for all your great videos

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

You're welcome. September is peak season here so we should have plenty of pineapples for you.

[@corlissyamasaki3476]

I have an Excalibur Dehydrator too! My husband bought it for me to make pipikaula. I love this dehydrator, I think it's the best!! You're right about how hard it is to check if it's ripe. The one I grew I picked a little too early, should have waited a couple of days. Not sweet enough. I'll keep trying though.

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

I agree and pipikaula is dah bomb!

[@jamescarone9553]

I have an Excalibur too. Last week I did pineapple with mango puree. I had some mango puree in the freezer from last summer. It was amazing. I waited for the pineapple to dry a bit, then added a thick layer of mango puree with a squirt bottle. Delicious!!

[@joansmith3492]

Nice pineapple story, but - No hurricane stories? Did you folks do OK in the storm?

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Joan, The hurricanes passed us by, they usually do because of the deep ocean waters around the Island and the huge mountains. These beasts need warm water to thrive and the Big Island has deep ocean up welling near the shore. No Hurricane as ever made landfall here in recorded history. We did receive a huge amount of rain from the storm though. Hilo had the wettest August on record. Here is a folder of photos from the storm. www.flickr.com/photos/ellenseye/sets/72157673158867056/

[@joansmith3492]

I did not know the Big Island has never had a direct hit hurricane (in recorded history)! Kauai certainly has! But, Hilo has endured a tidal wave or two hasn't it?

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Yes, you are correct. Kauai is an old Island and has lots of shallow warm sea around it from the Island having eroded away to a fragment of it's original self. The warm water draws the hurricanes to it like a magnet. The Big Island is the tallest sea mount on earth. If you measure from the sea floor it is the largest mountain on earth, 33,000 feet. This kind of depth makes the waters almost impossible for heat loving hurricanes. If there is one natural disaster that can take you life on the Big Island it is the Tsunami. The Island has been hit hard several times. A few towns and settlements have been abandon because of it. The danger is only to locations on the shore lines. I am 1600 feet up Kilauea and in the location you would escape to if a Tsunami hit. We will be serving Poke', Mai Tai, and local coffee with malasadas during the next Tsunami, drop in!

[@rosstodd03]

Good show! I got some White Jade Pineapple that is from UH - you are supposed to be able to eat the core. I wonder if it is the same?

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Ross, The names placed on the Hawaiian white pineapple are many and confusing. I am pretty sure there are only two main varieties of it here in the Islands. The smooth and the rough forms. The smooth only make a limited number of off sets the rough make up to 7. I was just at the Hilo USDA Tropical Fruit repository discussing pineapples and found in their collection of many dozen types they only had one white and it was doing poorly. I offered them mine for the collection. Since the USDA didn't introduce these I believe the original beginning was informal and private party. Near as i can figure the fruit got here under the name White Sugar Loaf. It appears to have been first grown in Kapoho and was called Kapoho White. Later it came to Hilo and was called Hilo White. Eventually it made it's way to Kona and they call it Kona White. I just call it white to keep life simple. Whether the smooth and rough forms happened here as a sport or they were brought in that way i cant say. You are correct, the core is very low fiber, can be eaten and is often the sweetest part of the fruit. I will often eat them like a Popsicle. they can be frozen on a stick. White Jade is also a pineapple name I have heard used but not much in this area. White jade claims to be a Hawaiian introduction but so does white sugar loaf and all the other dozen names used. The name Jade appears more commonly on Kauai. It is seldom used on the Big Island. If we have a real expert out there that can help educate me on this mess of white pineapples I am open.

[@rosstodd03]

Thanks for the detailed information!

[@EvilDeadGuy666]

Great video about your pineapples you grow... can you tell me what you fertilize them with year round ?

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

When they are planted we use pelleted chicken manure in the soil. A couple times per year afterwards I apply liquid fish emulsion to the foliage. They do well when fed from above.

[@EvilDeadGuy666]

Hi thanks for that info. How offend would you say you give them liquid fish emulsion to the foliage in a months time ?

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Since I moved to Hawaii full time last May we have used the fish three times. All the pineapple in the video only got the chicken manure during planting because the grew while we lived in the mainland. We expect to have bigger and better pineapple now that we are with them everyday. My experience with this crop is it will grow on less fertility than most fruit. It is not a very hungry plant. It also takes drought pretty well.

[@thomasreto2997]

Neat culinary implements of creativity...Now I want to eat pinapple

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Pineapple is one of my favorite local crops. Easy to grow and very delicious. The only down side is the short season.

[@AnanasDoktor]

I have been growing pineapple plants in Germany for 30 years, have a tropical hot house to overwinter pineapples and I have bananas and papaya in the hot house all year round.

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

I do not have such a long history with pineapple. Planted the first ones back around 2007. They grow so well here we found ourselves in business less than ten years later. Selling nursery slips, fruit fresh and dried.

[@sillywilly8799]

The pineapple mafia is here to collect 💁‍♂️

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

$3 per pound in 2022. What 2023 will be is yet to be seen. Tell them Louie sent you.

[@Jahmastasunherbalist]

Miracle berry and pineapple! Great video!

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

The pineapples take about 2 years to fruit. Miracle fruit take more like 15 years. I have three miracle fruit bushes but it will be years before I can eat them with pineapple. My experience with the fruit is it makes lemons taste like syrup and super market strawberries become edible until the berry wears off.

[@Jahmastasunherbalist]

GreenGardenGuy1 I just started harvesting my first miracle berries and white pineapple this week! The miracle berry was bought at a few years of age I think they are around five years old now. 1/3 fruited, only about 5 berries. I think it's prolly better with the more acidic yellow pineapple.

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Wow, sounds fun. I remember the first time I ate Miracle fruit. Lemon juice was like drinking maple syrup. I had never considered why my hands get sticky cutting lemons until that day. They are loaded with sugar but they are so acid you can't taste it. Our white pineapples are low acid so they probably wouldn't be improved much by the berry. Might lose their edge. The culinary possibilities of the berry are huge. I just wish it grew faster. Hard to make a commercial venture out of it. Aloha, Bill

[@fryloc77]

Could I do this method with a yellow pineapple? I'm in so cal and was thinking in a 5 gallon tub? What do you think? Great video to!! I'm trying to grow my bananas to and love seeing yours in the background!

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

I had nice crops of bananas when I lived in Northern CA so you should have it easy in the Southern end. The yellow and the white pineapples grow the same so what goes for the one goes for the other. The only difference is most of the yellow are bred to be "smooth" (have few suckers), the whites are often "rough" (lots of suckers). Mine make 7 off sets for each fruit.

[@davidbaker87]

Aloha Bill.......I live Maui. Can I buy 5 White slips from you??? Mahalos Dave🤙🏽

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Cost more to mail them. Usually I sell them as a full USPS large carton. Use my email for info. [e-mail]

[@Enonymouse_]

the white pineapple if i recall is called white jade, it's a special variety. It can be purchased from select growers in the warmer parts of the US.

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

There is more than one white pineapple. It appears we have two or three different races of it here in Hawaii. Mine is the race that was supposed to have been introduced here as White Sugar loaf. It has been around Hawaii long enough that it now has at least 1/2 a dozen different names. It first got to Kapoho and was called Kapoho White, later it made it to Hilo and was called a Hilo White. Eventually it traveled to the west side where it was called a Kona White. It appears that the Kauai White is also the same fruit. In the mean time a couple other whites arrived here. One of them from Hakalau is larger, has a very tall top and colors to full yellow skin when ripe. Our white is fermented by the time the skin turns yellow. A friend in North Hilo has a white with red skin. Whether these are sports of the original or different types is hard to say. Plants in Hawaii tend to travel hand to hand so it is hard to find origin stories. I have 36 different pineapple varieties that I planted in an experimental patch. They are beginning to produce and I expect a few more white fleshed types will arise from these. I have a yellow fleshed sub acid type from Florida that fruits in 12 months. This plant is exciting and I am propagating it.

[@Enonymouse_]

My first pineapple is about 8 months along I estimate, it benefitted greatly from the scorching spring and summer. Is it true they only produce one fruit per a plant? I hope to buy a few more and experiment, they seem to be fairly low maintenance once they settle into their new pot homes.

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Other than delicious, profitable and productive the main reason we grow pineapples is the relatively low input compared to many other fruit crops. The mother plant only a single fruit like most bromeliads. The mother also produces basal and ratoon suckers as it fruits. These are used to replant and expand your planting.

[@whatthefunction9140]

I've got 5 ripening now. how do I know when to pick? Mine are purple on the outside.

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

The season here on the Big Island is August to Oct. depending on your elevation. On occasion we get a few outside that window. I judge by size, color and smell. If it looks full grown, is starting to turn from green to a tinge of yellow and smells like a pineapple it is ready to pick. Ripe fruit snap from the stem with a gentle bend also.

[@TV-er6xl]

Pineapple can be grown only in tropical/ sub tropical climate satisfactorily ! It requires warm climate but not too much hot.Sun! Regarding sweetness of the fruit it depends on.the.varieties i.e.some for table purpose and others for canning !

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Okay. We know this. Apples in temperate conditions and pineapples in the tropics. I am aware of of the different types. I have 24 different varieties in the collection but only this one is a head above the rest.

[@travisgeritz874]

Hey mate, can you send some slips to Australia?

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

I've never tried but I believe it would take an APHIS certification. That's where I shoe the AG dept the slips, they inspect them make me spray so not survives in the box. It get sealed and shipped after customs paper are drawn up. The certification cost $65 US. Then we have postage to AU. Then I figure I want something for the slips, the travel time to inspection and the other BS involved. These would get to be pretty expensive. It's up to you, if we can, I will do it. How are the fires? Looks awful. Aloha

[@zokowawa]

Hi Bill, great video. This plant seems to be perfectly adapted for your climate. Did you ever consider germinating some seeds, so that you would have a little more genetic variation instead of all clones on your property? Just in case a pest, disease, or root rot thing would come by? Apparently you can find the seeds in the skin of the fruit, or does that work differently for white pineapple?

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Pineapple requires a very specific Humming bird to pollinate it. Because of the history of pineapple farming in Hawaii the importation of humming birds to the Islands is illegal. Seed in pineapple is considered a real negative. Usually only fruit from the Caribbean will contain seed and is considered second rate. If I didn't have so many other things going on here I might be interested in figuring out how to artificially induce pollination in this fruit. I've been so busy planting, growing and selling them that I haven't given a lot of thought to breeding them. Guess I'm going to have to get myself a long beak and a pair of battery operated wings! Bill

[@zokowawa]

Aha, I see, I didn't know that. But that is perfect, it means you'll only get top quality fruit without the seeds now, and once you are settled you may try to pollinize one of them as a side experiment, once you get the birdsuit ;-) Great!

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Most of my hand pollination has been focused on crossing varieties of dragon fruit. Since bats are the major pollinator of this plant it is much easier to find a Batman suit as Halloween approaches.

[@jcm5343]

Hi Bill, is this something can be found in Bay Area? I really want to try it. Will the plant survive in the Bay Area condition?

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

I would say the first problem will be finding the plants in California. While I lived there I used to sell the plants but I moved to the Islands last May. To raise the fruit in the Bay Area you would need a greenhouse. The plants will grow out doors between May and September, the rest of the year they require shelter from cold. I did ripen pineapple in California while living there but the climate isn't right for producing quality fruit. Hawaiian fruit will always taste better because of the weather here.

[@jcm5343]

Got it. Thanks a lot! Any chance you could ship some white pineapple to California for consumption? I know you mentioned these don't last long in the video. But I am very curious to try. Didn't find any on my last trip Dec'15.

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

White Pineapple season on Hawaii's Big Island is August to September. There are usually none available in December. Even if it was legal for me to ship pineapple to the mainland the fruit would be fermented by the time it got to you. They have little acid and do not ship well that is why people on the mainland do not know them. It is legal for you as a tourist to buy local pineapple and have the AG guys at the airport inspect it for legal entry into the Mainland. My best suggestion is to take a trip here in September and carry the fruit home yourself. For me I have to make a 45 mile round trip just to let them look in the box before I mail it. It would be the most expensive pineapple you ever ate.

[@jcm5343]

This is going to be a Michelin 3 Star Pineapple. It is that good worth to take a trip for!~ My wife and I are going to Tahiti in August. I will see if I could spot any other exotic fruits. With that said, probably won't be able to go to big island/Hawaii this year. Keep dreaming about white pineapple and repeat this video. LOL Thanks a lot!

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Have fun in Tahiti. There seasons on fruit will be completely reversed from Hawaii because they are on the other side of the equator. August in Tahiti is March in Hawaii.

[@solomonbacon8893]

gahhhh you grow such beautiful fruit !!

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Looking at it is only half the story. The mouth gets even more excited than the eyes when it comes to these pineapples. Thanks for the feed back. Picking season is August to Oct. if you are ever on the Big Island.

[@TTran-xn8vc]

Are there any white pineapples on your produce stand this time of year? I see Costco carry (golden) pineapples. I thought you might have some white ones.

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

The Hawaiian White pineapple season is a short thing. The people down near the shore start picking in August and the season extends up the mountain until the first week of October. I am working with several dozen other varieties here to see if I can find a white with a longer season but nothing yet. At the moment my farm is in season for Banana, papaya, Rollinia and Valencia Oranges.

[@TTran-xn8vc]

Sweet purple potatoes seem missing on the list. Your past video showed you had a large patch of them. How are they doing? I'd like to bring some sweet purple potatoes home in US mainland now I totally miss the white pineapples.

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

There is always something missing from my list. When folks ask me what I have while I am at the computer I seldom recall everything that is out there. We are harvesting coffee, abiu, sweet potatoes, chilies, lettuce, cacao, custard apples, Jicama, lemons and limes at the moment too. We just finished digging peanuts and harvesting sweet corn. I am very close to a kohlrabi harvest. I never seldom mention the sweet potatoes because I do not raise them for sale. This is our food. Right at the moment I am spending more time planting fresh crops than harvesting. Kale and sweet corn got planted this past week with cocoa planting an ongoing project.

[@TTran-xn8vc]

Very interesting idea of sweet potatoes as (staple) food. They could make a healthy diet. I take them in place of rice myself.

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

They are an excellent crop here and packed with energy and nutrients. Learning different ways to use the food helps. I still eat plenty of rice here though. I get tired of eating the same foods all the time and the California rice is really cheaper here. Sometimes cheaper than in CA. To grow sweet potatoes you need to have land that has ash soil rather than lava here. The lava has too thin of a topsoil layer to support them.

[@Jahmastasunherbalist]

About how many pineapples do you sell in a season/ year?

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

About 500 this season. We put in a couple hundred more plants this year so the amount being sold will continue to climb over time. I didn't actually start out with the idea of going into the pineapple business. We just wanted to grow some. This variety produces a lot of off sets for propagation so we planted them all. Before long we ended up with so many pineapples we had to sell them. Selling pineapples was the solution to a problem rather than the goal of a plan. We have begun to take them seriously. They grow well here and the market for them is good. Bill

[@Jahmastasunherbalist]

GreenGardenGuy1 what is your annual rainfall and how months of dry season if you have one well defined?

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Eastern Hawaii doesn't have a dry season worth talking about. Mostly rain falls evenly through out the year. The Leeward side of the Islands get a dry period in the winter but the windward side gets rain almost everyday, year round. We get about 120 inches of rain per year here. That sounds like a lot but since most people catch their drinking water from rain and the soil drains extremely fast we consider 60" of rain to be a drought here. Most of our rain falls through the night.

[@rebblekrew7527]

wonderfull video, the only down side for me is that i’m unable to taste that beautiful pineapple, but dont worry ill chew while you swallow lol,,,, mout still watering, perfect depiction of taste

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Sorry about that. We have 36 different types of pineapples in the collection but you have to be on vacation here to experience them. The Hilo White I am sampling is too low in acid and too juicy for shipment. They don't travel well.

[@sidetrackbeatz5431]

That’s a beautiful pineapple 7:07

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

We bring in hundreds like that each year. The Hilo White is a wonderful crop.

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

They taste as good as they look

[@michellezevenaar]

Really want to try it! need to go some place tropical soon!

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

I am not sure how many tropical locations raise this particular pineapple. I never eat one until I came to the Big Island of Hawaii. Here it is grown in small batches by local farmers. Down by Pahoa they call it the Kapoho White, in Hilo it is called Hilo White and in Kona they call it Kona white even though it was in Kapoho for 50 years before it made it to Kona. It is a hand to hand crop.

[@michellezevenaar]

Well then Hawaii it is! Ive heard there's also great sushi, beautiful nature and wild chickens!

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Sushi here is some of the best because we have excellent fishers that bring in raw materials every day fresh from the sea. Our off shore water is about as good as it gets these days. Check out Poke' though. this is the traditional Hawaiian form of sashimi. It is spreading to the Mainland these days. I like to eat it for lunch at the local fish market. Yes, nature here is beautiful, we have active volcanoes, coral reefs, rain forests and two huge mountains with 9 out of the 11 climate zones found on earth. The wild chickens have taken over the local Post Office. They hang out in the parking lot. Some poor chick came to my car door the other day and pleaded with me to take it home because it was an orphan. The original birds were brought by the first Hawaiian's. They are descended from South East Asian Jungle Fowl and sort of resemble the Auracana of South America.

[@deakemarschall2992]

My mouth is watering...... Thanks for nothin'. :) I need to get one of those pineapple slinky makers. That was so cool.

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

I haven't found a better tool for the job yet. When I do I will be sure to include it in future videos. I suggest a towel over your key board when you watch me tasting fruit. Bill

[@user-on7yi4uf8t]

Tropical Fruit Connects your soul to the planet and God!

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

True enough but even the lowly cabbage is a work of art.

[@user-on7yi4uf8t]

@@GreenGardenGuy1 can’t forget about vegetables and all plants- yes - sorry! Just loving the way the fruit tastes lol :)

[@user-on7yi4uf8t]

@@GreenGardenGuy1 planted a miracle fruit tree yesterday- ate a lemon straight after consuming 1 red berry. Pretty fun!

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

@@user-on7yi4uf8t No need to apologize, a perfect white pineapple is very special among fruits. First time I ever ate miracle fruit with a lemon I had my mind blown. Lemon tastes like syrup and even a supermarket strawberry tastes sweet!

[@user-on7yi4uf8t]

@@GreenGardenGuy1 :) we are bonded by the Miracle! Great Show and I appreciate your love for the earth!

[@cindystrong9631]

yeh u gotta watch that pinapple mafia...ha ha

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

The crop is 80% sold out and they haven't found be yet but I keep my eyes peeled for Black Sedans and guys in dark glasses.

[@joosh1317]

Do you have any white Pineapple Suckers or tops For Sale that you can ship out? If been trying to get them but they don’t sell white pineapples or the suckers for sale in Canada. I couldn’t even find them online. If you don’t have them or can’t ship them to Canada it’s fine. Thanks a lot

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

I have the plants but the minimum mail order from my nursery is $100 US. I have never shipped to Canada so I am not sure about Canadian plant regulations. There is a small increase in postage.

[@joosh1317]

GreenGardenGuy1 Ok thanks

[@dennistmenace4207]

@@GreenGardenGuy1 how many for 100 us

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

@@dennistmenace4207 When it is season and i have extra slips I will sell them for $2 each plus the shipping. I only have extra slips from July to Oct. Right now I have potted slips and they are $10 each.

[@dennistmenace4207]

@@GreenGardenGuy1 cool thats a good price

[@eddytaylor3697]

Where can I purchase the coring machine , please ???????

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Ours came off the shelf at a local thrift shop. You can buy similar ones at Amazon.com. Search Pineapple Cutter.

[@akiko1085]

You have kind hearted price but it’s 7 yrs ago maybe up by now I live in Kona I like to go buy if you are same island

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Yes prices have gone up considerably over the years. White Pineapple fruit is available August to Oct. The slips are July to October. I live in Mountain View on the big island.

[@margoquintana2283]

White pineapple didn't sound good to me either as I always had yellow. But white sounds delicious!

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

The Hilo White is one of the finest pineapples on earth. Try one you will never go back. In Hawaii you can get the standard yellow for about $3 each. The local white is $3 per pound. They often scale up to 6 pounds. Three at least.

[@LibertyGarden]

A lot of pineapples, what a problem!

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

There is a solution to every problem. In our case the solution got us a fine dehydrator, some spending money and introductions to my neighbors. It was a good way to start the meet and greet, who doesn't like the pineapple guy?!

[@LibertyGarden]

In the words of Bill Mollison, "the problem is the solution."

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Spoken like a true student of permaculture.

[@harryrichards9824]

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[@rebblekrew7527]

Hello my friend,, u have a very good problem,, do u sell seeds or pineapple tops for sale,, I’ve been a long subscriber to ur channel and would be willing to pay a premium plus shipping for either seeds or tops. I kno it’s easier said than done when I let comes to shipping, I live in Florida and could never get my hands on white pineapples,, thank you for even entertaining my thoughts by reading my comments 👊🏿, 1love my brother

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Because the humming bird is illegal in Hawaii we do not produce seeded pineapple here. The bird is the only pollinator of the plant. A few of my best varieties are flowerless and would never seed anyway. I can sell the slips from the white pineapple in season. Usually August to Oct. is the time for slips. Due to the long drive for me to get legal inspections I require a minimum $100 order. Use my email for more information. greengardenservice.net

[@margoquintana2283]

Bring Ellen on for a video! It's just the two of you farming all this? Wow.

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Not everyone like to be in the camera. Yes, we did most of this all by ourselves. If you're working too hard you are probably doing it wrong.

[@CharlieFisterVen]

Kan You Sende de White pineapple😀

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

No legal way to export this pineapple without sending it to an irradiation facility. I do not own such equipment. The fruit is very low acid and does not ship well. 48 hour shelf life. Best to enjoy this fruit next time you visit the Big Island.

[@SHARONSHORTOrchidsandGarden]

😋😋😋

[@GreenGardenGuy1]

Yup, there is a story behind almost everything.