Hawaiian Pineapple Tomato Review & Photos

Tall, large-fruited, the color is orange-yellow. Outdoors, the fruit set is much better than in the greenhouse. Inside the greenhouse, the plant itself is nice, sturdy, and medium height, but it only throws a couple of fruits and that’s it. Outdoors, there are significantly more of them.

Yellow-orange with a red tint, very meaty, not a lot of seeds, sweet, tasty, mostly a slicer/salad tomato. Rating is a solid 5, will definitely grow again.

Edited November 22, 2015 by Drosera

I’d like to clarify, did this tomato grow from a “royal” flower (megabloom), or is this shape a standard trait for the variety? It would be interesting to see a cross-section of the tomato. I feel like cross-sections give way more info.

We never pull off megablooms, so it’s entirely possible this specific tomato came from a fused flower, I can’t say for sure now.

I don’t have a cross-section shot. Only took this one photo.

What a beauty!

I wonder, are Hawaiian Pineapple and just regular Pineapple… 😳 different varieties?

@tomatinka wrote:
I wonder, are Hawaiian Pineapple and just regular Pineapple… 😳 different varieties?

Vera, from what I understand, they are supposed to be different. To know for sure, someone probably needs to plant them side by side and observe.

Marina, your pineapple is just gorgeous 🙌 🙌 🙌 I have Black Pineapple seeds from Popenko, gonna plant them. Will be interesting to compare 😉

They are definitely completely different from the Black one… 😉

My Hawaiian Pineapple from Popenko was a slightly different color… dark yellow or light orange maybe, but quite large, tasty, and meaty. It didn’t turn red as it sat, it just stayed that orange-yellow color.

@vikysia wrote:
My Hawaiian Pineapple from Popenko was a slightly different color… dark yellow or light orange maybe, but quite large, tasty, and meaty. It didn’t turn red as it sat, it just stayed that orange-yellow color.

Same exact thing for me.

P.S. I really need to get my act together and post my photos here.

Come on, post the photos!

Mine is also from Popenko.

Unfortunately, I don’t have photos from last season, but I will definitely take some this year—I’m planning to grow it again.

@Marishka wrote:
Come on, post the photos!

Here you go, posting them.

Grown in the greenhouse. Very few blossoms on the trusses. Consequently, very few fruits.

I pinched off the first megabloom, and the second flower produced a completely seedless tomato (and I swear I didn’t spray it with any weird chemicals).

The fruits were all roughly the same size, incredibly delicious, and even though there were barely any of them, I will absolutely grow it again.

Totally agree with Drosera. Mine grew outdoors, handled the heat wave well, and didn’t get sick. The yield really wasn’t huge (the heat caused a lot of dropped blossoms), but they were delicious, fairly large, uniform, and had very few seeds.

It’s decided. I’m going to plant all three of my Pineapple varieties side-by-side and see what the distinguishing features are 😊

Marina, these are from your seeds. Solid orange, had absolutely no intention of turning red, even though it hung on the vine for a really long time. I liked it.

The cross-section looks almost exactly like a real pineapple, even if it is Hawaiian 🙂

I am just crazy about this variety!!! When it ripened in the greenhouse, I couldn’t take my eyes off it! 👍 👍 👍

The fruits have a delicate peach color with incredibly sweet, aromatic flesh 😋 😋 It seriously has the flavor profile of some exotic fruit 👍

Basically—nothing but exclamations of joy!!! The plant is tall, I pruned it to 3 stems. The fruits were large on all trusses, and the flesh is so dense it slices “like butter” 😋

And I never got to see this beauty this year. It was the very first plant to catch late blight (on July 7th). I couldn’t save it. 😢

What a stunner!!! 👍 👍 👍 👍 🙌 🙌

@Olesenka wrote:
It’s decided. I’m going to plant all three of my Pineapple varieties side-by-side and see what the distinguishing features are 😊

So, how did the experiment go? Do the different pineapples look similar or are they truly different?

@Yaroslavna wrote:
I am just crazy about this variety!!! When it ripened in the greenhouse, I couldn’t take my eyes off it! 👍 👍 👍… The fruits have a delicate peach color with incredibly sweet, aromatic flesh 😋 😋

A true beauty, no words.

Yaroslavna, your Pineapple is so beautiful. It doesn’t even look like a tomato, it looks like an exotic fruit.

Girls, has anyone grown the Pineapple from Petrov?

I have both Hawaiian and Golden Pineapple. Both from Popenko. Both have an amazing flavor, sweet, meaty, with a fruity taste… And they are so beautiful! The Golden one also has a red cap on it. The bushes are good, indeterminate, I pruned to 2-3 stems. As for diseases, they didn’t show any issues… Overall, highly recommend.

I didn’t get to taste Hawaiian Pineapple straight from the vine. In the greenhouse, probably due to the heat, only the upper trusses actually set fruit. We picked them green. Small yield, they ripened indoors. Nice and firm, meaty. The taste was normal, with a little tartness. But it stored really well! It took third place for shelf-life in my grow out.

@Garmoniya wrote:
I have both Hawaiian and Golden Pineapple. Both from Popenko. Both have an amazing flavor, sweet, meaty, with a fruity taste…

Irina, did the tastes of your pineapples differ or were they similar? I grew Golden last year and loved it. I’m wondering whether to plant it this year—if they are too similar, maybe I’ll just plant Hawaiian?

Nadya, Golden (the one with the red cap) is actually even tastier and meatier than Hawaiian. It is very sweet, yields better, you should definitely plant it. A real beauty!

The tomato is just gorgeous 👍 👍 👍 I certainly wouldn’t turn that down. Plant it, Nadya, and then share some seeds 😉

This was the only variety last year that didn’t give me a single fruit. I ripped out two massive Hawaiian Pineapple bushes from the greenhouse in mid-August, not a single fruit set, only dropped blossoms 😞 But, after reading your reviews, I’ll try planting it one more time this year. The seeds were from Popenko.

Productive, and earlier compared to other bi-colors, these photos of the bush are from July 9th. Tasty, sweet. I kept trying to figure out last year if it was similar to Golden Pineapple… no, the taste is different, and the color is different too. Hawaiian is yellow, getting darker as it overripens. Golden Pineapple has a bit of tang/acidity, Hawaiian has zero acidity.

And I didn’t get a single little tomato on my Hawaiian Pineapple (seeds from Natalia Dryzhakova) 😢, maybe the weather played a role, or it just didn’t like my old greenhouse 😝.

@Svetlyachok-plyus wrote:
And I didn’t get a single little tomato on my Hawaiian Pineapple…

I did, and what beauties they were! 👍 👍 👍 About three massive fruits and about 6 medium ones. Beautiful, dense, and delicious. The flesh is firm, just like a real pineapple 🙂 Natasha, thanks for the seeds!!!

I’m very happy with Hawaiian Pineapple. Even during a difficult weather summer, it was highly productive for me, and for my neighbor who I gave seedlings to. She also loved this variety. There were plenty of fruits, no misshapen ones on the bush, all beautiful, uniform, very tasty, didn’t crack. The only thing was they couldn’t reach that super intense orange color, probably because there wasn’t enough heat. The bushes are tall and strong. Ripens fairly early. I will definitely grow it again.

I grew just “Pineapple” last year, and I was not impressed, didn’t even take photos of it. It had low yield, wasn’t large, and the taste didn’t hook me. This photo shows Hawaiian Pineapple sliced up, but without the seeds. I wasn’t planning on taking photos, so I scooped the seeds out for the future right before slicing 🙂

Are Hawaiian Pineapple and Pineapple the exact same variety?? 😉

@Anela wrote:
Are Hawaiian Pineapple and Pineapple the exact same variety?? 😉

No, they are different, they even differ in color.

Hawaiian – Hawaiian Pineapple – orange

Pineapple – Pineapple – bi-color

I had both varieties, seeds from Popenko, except in his catalog photo under the variety “Pineapple” there is a pink spot on top of the tomato, while mine didn’t have it, or it was barely noticeable. The fruits had a fruity, non-tomato flavor, closer to just juicy. But the yield was low, the fruits weren’t large. Compared to the Hawaiian, it loses. But maybe that’s just in my growing conditions.

@Ladoga wrote:
I had both varieties, seeds from Popenko, except in his catalog photo under the variety “Pineapple” there is a pink spot on top of the tomato…

Popenko has Hawaiian Pineapple and Golden Pineapple……. they are different, but.. both are sweet, sugary, and quite productive!

First year planting Hawaiian Pineapple. It is somewhat short in the greenhouse, much smaller than the other varieties, although the stem is thick. Is it supposed to be like this? Or maybe it’s lacking something?

@kae-2 wrote:
It is somewhat short in the greenhouse… Is it supposed to be like this?

Mine developed slowly, but it is a sturdy indet… In my climate zone, it was a mid-late to late variety, so the yield was low… If the leaves are healthy and the bush is sturdy, it’s unlikely it needs anything.

@Alisa wrote:
Mine developed slowly, but it is a sturdy indet…

Alisa, it’s probably going to be a late season one for me too. The others are flowering, and this one is just barely setting buds. Last year, Neves Azorean Red grew just as slowly.

@kae-2 wrote:
Alisa, it’s probably going to be a late season one for me too…

In Tatiana’s TOMATObase, it’s listed as mid-late to late, 85 days from transplant…
https://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Hawaiian_Pineapple

So it’s just living by its own normal schedule )))

Let it live then 👍 Maybe it’ll eventually turn out delicious 😋

It absolutely will! I ripened part of mine indoors, outside it was just dreary weather and rain, and we were eating pure candy indoors )))

I have just “Pineapple” from Popenko. Growing it for the 3rd year. Last year it was in the greenhouse, very productive, sweet, with a pink cap. I didn’t think to save seeds, figured I’d do it this year. But this year it gave me a total of 2 fruits in the greenhouse and 2 outdoors. It’s still green (planted late). I’m terrified I’ll be left without seeds 😢

@DenIra wrote:
…It’s still green (planted late). I’m terrified I’ll be left without seeds 😢

The green ones will ripen and you’ll have seeds. As for me, my Pineapples are from various sources and they all behave differently, and not at all how I expected based on the descriptions. Hawaiian Pineapple – both plants are short, but have a “super-truss”, where the first fruit cluster is as thick as the main stem, and there’s a sea of fruit set on it, plus the fruits are large, near 10.5 oz (300 g), the second and third trusses are almost normal –

My H. Pineapple started off slow, but now it’s a beauty. Keeping it to 3 stems. 3-4 fruits per cluster, already at 14-18 oz (400-500 g) and still growing. 2 plants – both pumped out 5 trusses and are still flowering and setting. Should start ripening any day now.

@kae-2 wrote:
My H. Pineapple started off slow, but now it’s a beauty…

My first fruits ripened, but they are very light colored, with a barely noticeable pinkish tint on the “tip” which it doesn’t even really have 🙂 Meaning, for a lot of people the orange color pushes through, but my fruits look almost white-fruited, pale yellow, with a faintly caught pink spot, looks most like this one (I took my own photo, but the kids stole the cables, can’t transfer from the phone) –

@DenIra wrote:
I have just “Pineapple” from Popenko. Growing it for the 3rd year.

“Just Pineapple” is a different variety, Pineapple, bi-color.

This thread is about Hawaiian Pineapple, it’s orange colored.

And mine are exactly the same shape, maybe let them hang on the vine longer (for color)? 😉

Here, a photo of the fruit, 12 oz (340 g) for a fruit in such a heavy truss is not bad at all – I like the variety, productive, mid-season, the truss is simply mind-blowing.

@kae-2 wrote:
maybe let them hang on the vine longer (for color)? 😉

You can’t really leave it, it ripened incredibly fast, and gets very soft. Slicing it for seeds today, I’ll take a photo of the inside.

Transitioned from a lurker to a poster. Registered on the forum. Planted Hawaiian Pineapple for the first time this year. It’s a miracle, such a beauty. I want to call the color “creamy”, but it’s more accurate to say, like people here write—peach. In our crazy heatwave, it set fruit on all 4 trusses. The color is extraordinary. The largest one I brought home today was 15.5 oz (440 g).

The only thing is, I picked them all intact, but when I got home I found 3 of them were split open 😲. The crack goes diagonally all the way across the tomato. Probably due to the rain that passed through 2 days ago. But why did they crack on the way home, and not on the vine? I’ll have to put them in the fridge, even though I hate tomatoes out of the fridge, the flavor changes. I pulled 5 off one bush at once today. Already saved seeds for next year.

Natasha Dryzhakova shared seeds of Hawaiian Pineapple with me (thanks 🌺). Planted 2 in the greenhouse, then (after someone commented that you only get 2 fruits per plant) I moved one plant outdoors. Ultimately, outdoors the Hawaiian Pineapple turned out super productive and large, while in the greenhouse it was just so-so, though after picking the first truss it started pushing fruits on the upper ones. The greenhouse ones were much smaller.

This is the outdoor Hawaiian Pineapple. Left is Giant of Cuba, right is Hawaiian Pineapple. The flavor is good, not mealy, not mushy, quite juicy, firm tomato, but for my taste, it could use just a tiny bit more sweetness.

Wow, it got HUGE outdoors 🙌 Olya, was it under row cover or completely exposed to the elements?

Completely exposed outdoors. My tomatoes always do better outdoors than in the greenhouse for some reason. Still haven’t figured out the answer to that riddle.

I consider Hawaiian Pineapple very tasty, it turns out both large and productive for me.

I had the variety just called “Pineapple” (I don’t know if that’s the same as Hawaiian Pineapple or not 🤷‍♀️). But it was the most delicious yellow-fruited tomato I’ve ever tasted! The flesh is like marmalade-honey 😋 fruits are yellow. I’m thrilled! So what if it was a low yielder, I’m absolutely planting it again next year! 👍

@tomik wrote:
I had the variety just called “Pineapple” (I don’t know if that’s the same as Hawaiian Pineapple or not 🤷‍♀️)…

Toma, on the previous page of the thread they mention that these are different varieties (Hawaiian Pineapple vs. Pineapple).

Yeah, I read that 🙂 But mine was yellow – not bi-color and not orange. It’s possible the second word in the name got lost, the seeds were passed down to me.

Maybe you had Golden Pineapple? Compare it with the catalogs.

Planting it for the second year — I just love it! 👍 🙌 Whether it’s the taste or the size 🙌 (from 1 to 2.2 lbs / 500g-1kg). They don’t crack, and they actually store decently for a while…

Originally got it from V. Popenko, repeated it the next year with my own saved seeds. Both times it turned out beautiful and productive, but lacked sweetness and seemed a bit bland. I didn’t plant it for two years, but this year I refreshed my seeds. The bush is outdoors, got heavily battered by hail, but it’s still trying. The other day I tasted a tomato—very tasty, sweet. I am convinced time and time again that to truly evaluate a variety, you need to grow it multiple times.

I loved the taste immediately! Grew 1 plant pruned to 1 stem in the greenhouse. Grew 8 large and beautiful fruits, 14-18 oz (400-500 g) each. The ripening time for me was mid-season. Taste is a 5 +++ What can I say – you can see it for yourself – ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS!

Grew Hawaiian Pineapple for my first season. Really loved the taste and size. The fruits were extremely meaty.

A total beauty and so yummy, just like last year. 👍 😋 If only it yielded a bit more… But for the flavor – all is forgiven)) I’ll keep trying to “tame” it. Look what an interesting color it gets if you forget about it and it sits on the counter for a few days. Maybe we were always eating it slightly underripe before? 😂

Turned out to be a low-yielder for me too. The flavor didn’t really stand out compared to the 30 other yellow varieties I grew, so I won’t be repeating it.

Wait, is Hawaiian Pineapple a bi-color?

Planted Hawaiian Pineapple from Popenko for the first time this year. Grew it in a polycarbonate greenhouse, topped the plant when it reached the roof. I planted things way too densely, so the yield was average. The tomatoes on the upper trusses were larger than the lower ones, but a little lumpy in shape. And the year was awful weather-wise, non-stop rain and cold.

Despite all that, the taste and size of the fruits were mind-blowing!!! 👍 Next year I’ll space them out more so it gets more sun… I picked these tomatoes dead last out of everything in the greenhouse (in October), shelf life is excellent, ripened up inside with good flavor, juicy, not mealy at all. Tomato gets an A+

My Hawaiian Pineapple from Svetikk. Thanks for the seeds, Sveta! In my opinion, this variety has absolutely zero flaws, only advantages – tasty, quite productive, beautiful, meaty, etc.

Excellent variety! Large fruits, wonderful taste! The best out of the orange ones.

Received the seeds in May. The seedling burned up in a south-facing window, leaving 1 barely alive 2-centimeter (1 inch) stem. I was going to throw it away, but took pity on it.

And this is the miracle that grew out of it 😁

Edited January 30, 2020 by IrinaVinn

My absolute favorite 😘 variety among the orange beefsteaks, I’ve repeated it 5 years in a row. Productive, incredibly tasty, weight can hit 1.7 lbs (800 g) 🙌

Edited January 30, 2020 by Svetikk

Grew it this season. Beautiful, low-yielding (9 fruits total), had some tartness/acidity, juicy. I could repeat it from my saved seeds, but I wasn’t overly impressed, I’ll plant other things next season.

Edited November 10, 2020 by Kapitoska

A wonderful variety, I grow it almost every year. The king of the orange beefsteaks; flavor, yield—everything is top notch 👍