This is my post for #freewriters 2569 prompt sticky but tasty hosted by @mariannewest
I love to grow pineapples. My mother-in-law gave me my first plant and it grew a tasty pineapple. Most of these plants came from her plant. Some came from the cheap store where you could get a box of pineapples for 99 cents. I know one of them I found on the ground next to the Sebastian River bridge and this year one day I went to the dump and saw a bag full of pineapple tops and asked the attendant if he would use his long hook and snag them for me, he did, so some are from them.
After my Mother-in-law passed, I was given some of her pineapple plants, she had several and every leaf was razor-sharp with thorns. They were sticky but tasty, and they were sweeter than all the others.
The picture is after Hurricane Milton, I had put them all in a bunch and tied them together and after the storm, I spread them back out but did not pay attention to which side was in the sun so in a few days they started looking like this, I guess they were sunburned. I have two pots with two pineapples in each and they all 4 look like this.
This one was from the other pot and it was not supposed to be ripe until January or February. My husband said he thinks when they get injured they ripen faster. Even though it looked ripe, it was not, it was very tart.
This was the other one and when it turned yellow I wanted to leave it as long as I could, but I started seeing gnats flying in it, I left it a few days but was scared it was rotting on the inside so I pulled it. I twisted the top off and put it in a plastic bag and sealed it, I turned it upside down and left it 3 days.
I put it in the bag because I did not want the gnats in the house and when my husband cut it up, I had him do it outside. I took a chance on leaving it with the gnats but it was the gooey kind of sticky but tasty.
photos are mine