Yeah, all the center growth is completely new. Either way, the plant is growing so I'm sure it will be fine. I also ordered tissue cultured plants as a back up because I'm paranoid like that, lol. Growing Pineapples is addictive! Talk about delayed gratification, it's been three and a half years and I have one flowering pineapple. The good thing is that I have lots of medium to large plants now and they should grow much faster and fruit sooner now that they have done age on them.
Simon