Have been reading more and watching different folks procedure on the internet and I realized I did not let the cutting callus since I have stuck it in water immediately. So I made some slight changes on my method, instead of just water, I decided to add more water gel beads and some spare hydroton rocks. Hopefully giving it some avenue to get air around the root level, I may imitate trying to let it callus and at the same time give it some moisture thru the water gel beads. I have used the water gel beads quite well with Dracaena sanderiana, pothos, paperwhites and amaryllis and they root happily there, so I am hoping the pineapple will react the same way down the road..keeping fingers crossed!
I like using the gel beads because the medium does not get to smell stinky and I do not need to do water changes so less bother to the rooting plant.
