The pot has holes in the bottom such that it was possible for soil to trickle out. Should I wait a while without watering and see if it gets better?

No, this is my first pineapple that took root well in soil.

Now that I think about it I think I just threw the term “plastic” in because I thought it would give a rough area of inquiry because I read that “plastics” were base resistant.

Actually scratch that; what I was ultimately trying to find out was some examples of base resistant biological building materials, not necessarily plastics.

Apologies for being confused about terminology; I just finished my first year of chemistry