![store-bought pineapple and my pineapple](https://photos.smugmug.com/Flowers/My-Garden-Number-5-is-Alive/i-XrxzXwh/0/c12e9f2f/M/IMG_8836-M.jpg)
I grew an altitude-stunted pineapple! Perhaps I should rephrase that... I grew a tiny piney at nearly 6,000 feet in elevation!
![my pineapple](https://photos.smugmug.com/Flowers/My-Garden-The-Sequel/i-JrvbL2n/0/730b91d5/M/DLA106853-M.jpg)
In 2015, one of my bosses brought back pineapples from her family trip to Hawaii and shared them with our work group. Man, were they delicious!!! I asked if I could have one of the crowns to try to grow my own pineapple.
![my pineapple plant next to a store-bought pineapple](https://photos.smugmug.com/Flowers/My-Garden-The-Sequel/i-znwSg4v/0/a02839ee/M/DLA109194-M.jpg)
It took eight years!!! When I took photos of my final fruit to work to show my boss, she didn't even remember giving me the crown!
![My Pineapple Plant in 2018](https://photos.smugmug.com/Flowers/My-Garden-Threepeat/i-LnKwDff/0/743ce39a/M/IMG_9092-M.jpg)
I don't know that I would ever repeat this little experiment at altitude. It was fun, the flowers - though tiny - were beautiful, and we had just enough pineapple to decorate one cheese pizza. It was sensational. There was a palpable sense of achievement.
![I think my pineapple plant is finally making a pineapple!!!](https://photos.smugmug.com/Flowers/My-Garden-Number-5-is-Alive/i-HT3DKFJ/0/944a7996/M/IMG_7549-M.jpg)
I just don't know if it was worth eight years!!!
![a week later](https://photos.smugmug.com/Flowers/My-Garden-Number-5-is-Alive/i-8jGThB6/0/5da883c4/M/IMG_7795-M.jpg)
That is amazing. What an adorable little pineapple.
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