I think I'll still try it, even if it doesn't work up at 53 degrees latitude, I'll have at-least given it a shot and I might get a neat house plant out of it.

Perhaps they just won't produce fruit if they don't have eough water.

If it's pofitable to grow pineapple in Hawaii with a minimum wage of $7.25/hour and they don't require a lot of water, then we have to ask why aren't there endless pineapple fields in Mexico where the minimum wage is at most $3.50/day?

I haven't seen too many pineapple plantations on the leeward sides of any of the Hawaiian islands I've been to.

According to Rick's post, pineapples are 'miserly' when it comes to water. An indoor pineapple plant only needs to be watered once a week. As far as light, it sounds like a good southern exposure would do fine.

Don't pineapples require an incredible amount of sun and water to grow? Wouldn't that mean the only place where you could grow your own pineapple is somewhere were you can probably already get pineapple really cheap, or free? Short of say, living in Arizona and dumping thousands of gallons a year of expensive water on your plant, this doesn't seem like it would work very well, and even then the ROI would be awful. Although it would make a neet indoor plant, a bonsainapple if you will.