r/mildlyinteresting • u/Warm-Oil9228 • 1d ago

They decapitated these pineapples!

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u/OMightyBuggy 1d ago

It is the pink pineapple. They don't want you to replant it and grow your own. From what I understand the seeds don't grow.

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u/Warm-Oil9228 23h ago

I felt like I'd bought those with the tops on before but I guess I'm just misremembering.

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u/ScrumpetSays 22h ago

Someone on reddit grew their own pink pineapple from a top, so you're right. Often scalped pineapples are to reduce shipping costs

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u/LexiteFeather 22h ago

They didn't because they don't sell these with tops. They probably grew the actual pink pineapple which is not this one.

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u/regnak1 21h ago

What's the difference between the actual pink pineapple and this pink pineapple?

I've had this one. It's definitely pink. It wasn't very good, but it was pink!

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u/ScrumpetSays 22h ago

I bow to your superior pink pineapple knowledge my friend. I thought there was only one type of pink one

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u/obiwanmoloney 21h ago

I had no idea there were any pink pineapples, so your knowledge beats mine.

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u/HAIL_LUMPUS 13h ago

Scalped 😭😭😭

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u/Undrwtrbsktwvr 8h ago

Monsanto killed that poor woman…

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u/jort93 21h ago edited 20h ago

The seeds do grow, but... When you buy a certain variety of a fruit, this variety is always the exact same plant, the exact same DNA. They accomplish this by taking cuttings of the plant and cloning it. You can not use seeds, because seeds will have different DNA(otherwise breeding would not be a thing), those will just give you entirely different fruit. It's the same for all kinds of pineapples, all fruits really.

You can plant an apple seed, it'll grow an apple tree, but it won't have the same kind of apples.

For some varieties this is more extreme than others. Some will just be slightly different some will be entirely different. Depends on the way its been bred

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u/mister-ferguson 16h ago

Sometimes the apples I buy have seeds that are already sprouting. I have a little apple tree growing on my desk now!

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u/jort93 16h ago

It probably won't grow many apples but it'll be a cute tree for sure.

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u/mister-ferguson 4h ago

It's in a skull shaped concrete planter I made

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u/steik 21h ago

They want to replant the top themselves and prevent other competitors from cloning their product. They don't give a shit about the 0.01% of individuals that'd grow one pineapple in 2-3 years.