I feel like pineapple quality should be the term used to describe ultra high quality pics now like the opposite of potato quality because they are such an impressive thing. I’m going to start describing really nice high quality photos as pineapple quality from now on haha

The best advice I can give without being present to demonstrate is to let the knife do the work and essentially just slide the edge of the blade across what you’re trying to cut while only allowing the weight of the blade itself to apply the downward force until the edge catches. You should never really apply much downward force to cut in general so that the knife can actually slice instead of essentially wedging what you’re cutting apart. The hardest part is getting the blade to catch at first so it might take some finesse to start a cut but other than that there isn’t much else to it. Obviously there is a point that a blade is essentially unusable if it is completely blunt but in most cases a dull knife can get the job done. One last trick, for tomatoes and other soft things with a tough skin, using the point of the knife to slightly puncture the skin first will give you a place for the dull edge to catch to start a slice.

It’s all about the slice. One of the best lessons I ever learned in the culinary field is being able to cut with a dull knife

So far doesn’t smell like anything really or at least I haven’t noticed.

This is the first pic that I have of the plant that I took presumably because it was when it was actually showing growth. I’m guessing that this was a few months after I originally jammed it in this weird rectangle pot. This was from September 2020 so I probably bought the original pineapple sometime around the original covid lockdown. I guess it is closer to 4 years and a couple months old actually. I have only repotted it once since then and it has only ever been in that window.

So from what I have read the minimum time to flower is about two years and temperatures play a big role in that. You can force the flowering stage with the gasses that apples produce (see comment thread from one of my older posts) but in my case it took about 4.5+ years for mine to start to flower. After the process begins it supposedly takes about 6 months to have a fruit mature enough to harvest. I only stuck mine in succulent dirt and sort of bound it in a plastic pot that was slightly too small and also watered it like the rest of my succulents. I essentially stressed it a bit with drying it out between watering and then soaking it when I did water it to get it to reach deep for the water. Liquid succulent plant food occasionally. I am a dick to my plants but they seem to do decently and I have no idea if any of that is really a good way at all.