I've tried planting them in dirt, toothpicking them like everyone does on Youtube, and I have yet to ever get one avocado to ever sprout. Not one. Ever. Is there a critical step that I am missing? Is it all a magic trick or some cruel joke the world is playing on me? Who's got an answer or a detailed step by step process I could follow?
Avocados hate me
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I have read from 2 weeks to 4 months. The biggest part is most do not bare fruit for about 10 years. So, what is your purpose for growing them you have to ask yourself?
Because any 7 year old can do it as a science experiment and Youtube says I can, that's why!
This reminds me of the currently running commercial, the French model and anything on Internet is true.Because any 7 year old can do it as a science experiment and Youtube says I can, that's why!
Best of luck. I have only grown one ever and all I did was throw it in my compost bin.
Because any 7 year old can do it as a science experiment and Youtube says I can, that's why!
Yep, very true. I think every kids at school has grown an avocado (at least in my country). Probably because you don't need soil and teachers don't want the classroom to become a mess.
Maybe he doesn't grow it to have fruits. You wont grow many things if you want to see a result in your life time. I'm graceful to the guy who planted that oak in my garden 250 years ago : as a kid I climbed in it and my grandchildren will probably do so as well. It's also very strange to me to think that this oak has "seen" the French Revolution, WWI and WWII. I know that a guy was shot by a Nazi platoon squad in front of that oak. Why am I talking about my oak again ?
If you want to grow avocados to eat, don't do it from seed. The are like most all other fruit trees and you need to graft a variety to a root stock. Avocados grown from seed almost never produce an edible fruit. You can grow a tree from seed rather easy but unless you want to keep it in a pot just to look at it's kind of a wast.
Okay, why all this questioning of my reason for growing something. What difference does it make?
I'm doing it because I want to.
I got 2 growing in my back yard at the house in St. Lucia. It is a lie that they take 10 years to fruit. They will fruit on the second year. My trees are about 12 years old now and of a different variety than what is available here in the US supermarkets. A young tree will only take 2-3 flowers to fruit. The plant simply doesnt have the size and energy to make any more than that. After about 5 years though your tree will start breaking branches with the heavy fruit load. They only fruit once a year also. Very seasonal tree just like the mangoes in the back yard. They lay dormant for the rest of the year and will always show growth and have leaves. Best way I have found to germinate the seeds is to buy a fruit and let it rot. Let it go past the point of eating and then some more. Then take the seed out of it and plant it shallow in soil. Like let 1/3 of the seed be exposed at the surface and water it about once a week and keep shaded so the soil never dries out completely. We have two seasons in St. Lucia. Wet and Dry and during the dry season we will see rain every 3-4 weeks and that is when the seeds seem to germinate. During the wet season when we have rain almost daily is when the trees go to fruit so try planting the seed in some good quality soil with no drainage aids such as perlite. Just dense soil and water weekly with part of the seed exposed. That seems to work well as the seeds never get buried in the wild. The fruit rots or gets eaten and the seed sprouts from the surface just like a mango or coconut does.
Good luck getting one to germinate and survive to fruit!
Good luck getting one to germinate and survive to fruit!
St. Lucia???? Your location says Omaha, Nebraska!!! Guess you must have moved.
Or is that your winter home? Kind of hard to get the Husker Football gamed there isn't it?? LOL!
Thanks for the post on growing the plant though... know someone who wants to do so.. and I will tell them what you suggested.
Or is that your winter home? Kind of hard to get the Husker Football gamed there isn't it?? LOL!
Thanks for the post on growing the plant though... know someone who wants to do so.. and I will tell them what you suggested.
Hey... avocados can take weekkkkkks. But if you want to see something grow quicker try one of these.. science experiments:
Grow romaine lettuce from the bottom core you usually toss in the trash.. no joke, you just set it in a cup of about 1/4 cup of water and within DAYS it is growing a new head of romaine... from the garbage!!!
Green onions will do the same and grow new chives
The top of a pineapple with grow a pineapple plant and it will produce fruit.
We have a romaine scrap growing a new head right now in the kitchen and in a week it is over 6 inches of new edible romaine form the end piece tossed for trash!!
Grow romaine lettuce from the bottom core you usually toss in the trash.. no joke, you just set it in a cup of about 1/4 cup of water and within DAYS it is growing a new head of romaine... from the garbage!!!
Green onions will do the same and grow new chives
The top of a pineapple with grow a pineapple plant and it will produce fruit.
We have a romaine scrap growing a new head right now in the kitchen and in a week it is over 6 inches of new edible romaine form the end piece tossed for trash!!
I've successfully grown 2 avocados from seed. I went with the traditional method of leaving it tooth-picked and sitting on a sunlit ledge inside my kitchen so that I could always keep an eye on maintaining a consistent water level. It does take a HUGE amount of time for it to sprout roots. I'm talking bare minimum of a month. Even once I had them transplanted in pots, they were so temperamental to the weather in California that one died due to frost in the winter and the other due to being fried by the sun in summer.
Since living here in Australia, it's one of those things that's on my list to plant.
Since living here in Australia, it's one of those things that's on my list to plant.
Will my avocado tree produce avocados?
“Ungrafted” trees (like those grown inside from seeds) rarely produce fruit. In order to have an avocado tree that produces fruit, one must graft the seedling. Since the process of grafting involves mixing the tissues of the seedling with those of a producing tree, it is often just easier to simply buy a grafted tree from a reputable nursery.
http://www.willsavocados.com/index.php/grow-avocado-tree
“Ungrafted” trees (like those grown inside from seeds) rarely produce fruit. In order to have an avocado tree that produces fruit, one must graft the seedling. Since the process of grafting involves mixing the tissues of the seedling with those of a producing tree, it is often just easier to simply buy a grafted tree from a reputable nursery.
http://www.willsavocados.com/index.php/grow-avocado-tree
I cant say for sure about avocados, (I can't remember if mine was put in the fridge or not) but I do know for a fact that that's a lie with peppers..
And my seed took for ever to sprout, first one in 10 years...
I've had great luck with avocado seeds using the toothpick method. I like to take a razor and shave about 1/8" off the bottom of the pit to help get some moisture in there. Peeling away the brown "skin" on the seed will also help speed up the process.
If you do those two things, I guarantee you will see something in 3 weeks or less.
If you do those two things, I guarantee you will see something in 3 weeks or less.