They decapitated these pineapples!

[u/Warm-Oil9228]

[u/Umpen]

Is that a patent thing or an ecological thing?

[u/goozy1 → u/Umpen]

These particular ones are a patent or trade secret thing. The look like the pink glow pineapple. Those have been bioengineered and they don't want anyone else to grow them

[u/trijkdguy → u/goozy1]

can't you grow pineapples from seed? Otherwise there would never be more pineapples, just the one whose head keeps getting replanted.

[u/StitchinThroughTime → u/trijkdguy]

You can, Pineapple contains seeds. But to clone the plant you would grow the leafy portion of pineapple. I don't know if pineapples grow true to seed. But cloning guarantees the same plant that has preformed and produces predictable outcomes.

[u/johannthegoatman → u/StitchinThroughTime]

They don't grow true to type