I worked as an intern for Dole many, many, many years ago. I got to experience this first hand as well as the Banana farms. Make no mistake about it. It is work. We each had a manageable quota to meet each day. Your day started with sunrise and ended with sunset. The farmers I worked with constantly made jokes about the boss and tractor operators weight all day long. That was hilarious. As a kid who grew up on a West Texas ranch, farming was an experience I will never forget and made quite a few life long friends while I was down there. Really enjoyed it. Its really a pitty programs like that don't exist anymore, really makes you appreciate where your food comes from before it is in a shiny lit up grocery store display.
I was directed here from a meme I saw on facebook that said pineapples are grown from the ground and not from trees. I just learned something new, me and my kids!! Knowledge is power!! lol
+Luke Hartung - Yea me too, and I have seen a Video that is growing from START (SEED), it takes 3+ years to produce the FIRST Fruit. In this Video, they are actually CHEAT... The Sucker from the Mother Plant helps the new Fruit to come out faster (In this case 14-16 Months). But if you ever start a Brand New Pineapple or from Seeds, it takes like 3+ years to get the FIRST Fruit :////
We learned that the leaves collect water. We were eating pineapples and my son asked if they grow from a seed. Thank you for this excellent video that showed the process. Those workers must have very strong backs to be working bending over for so many hours a day. Thank you for your hard work!
They can be grown from seed too !! Tiny little seeds inside the 🍍 hard to germinate tho easier to take the top off a🍍 and put it in water it will sprout roots then plant !!
I didn't know commercial pineapple plants only produce one pineapple each. This is a lot of work! Also pineapples cannot be too sweet 😄. Thanks for making this informative video :-).
Thanks Dole (Department Of Labor And Employment) I started to plant 4 pineapples beacuse of you now they are 6 months old I wish my parents ordered more pineapples to plant lol
Thank you for posting. Very helpful. I just grew my first pineapples. Picked the third one tonight. Very excited! It's interesting to see how the professionals do it.
I am growing a 3 year old pineapple plant which has a pineapple coming out of the center (of the plant) I live in Alberta, Canada and am growing the plant in my sunroom.
Part of the sour inflection mixed with the sweet is what makes it so good! I couldn't eat a pineapple if it didn't have some kind of tartness and that's why I stay away from the canned versions.
I'm so fascinated by this kinda stuff. I've just been slicing and dicing my ass off. I done ate two pineapples this weekend along w/ a medley of other fruits.
Hola - My name is Alvino from Bakersfield Cali and saw you for the first time. I was looking how too plant a Mango. Thanks, Very much. I learned a lot from your site. Thanks a lot!!! And your Cute More videos????????
I’m grateful for these videos. I wanted to know if precut, Dole pineapples in plastic containers, are they pasteurized or processed? I don’t think it is natural for them to last that long.
As a lady from an African, Ugandan village I have learned something new today. No one knows everything, I am really surprised that there are people who thought that pineapples grow from trees. I am not belittling anyone because I know that most people here know so much than I do but this caught me off guard.
I grew 3 one time in panama just for kicks and they only cost $1 at the local market nearly 365 days a year. They were ok sweet not the best just ok, I think it was about 18 months. I bought pineapples regularly and laughed at myself regularly about it.
I visited the Dole Finca in Daytonia, CR. Wanted to see about using organic seaweed fertilizers. Seems many planes spraying? Yet better to have directly applied in the ground, with seaweed formula :) Back in Canada now. Can't want to get back to Costa Rica/Panama :)
Dole and all the other large companies pay the workers hardly anything, it's pure slavery but they won't tell you that ofcourse. Here in the Netherlands just last month on a well known tv program they showed the insight of the banana industry which Dole, Chiquita etc are famous for as well and they found out why bananas (the most favourite fruit of all in the west) are so cheap in the large supermarkets. 99 eurocent a kilo or even less! It's unreal, so my guess is that the same stuff can be said for pineapples.
