Started my journey growing avocado plant from seed in Singapore
ixus
8 years ago
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Comments (9)peat pots aren't a great idea... they work ok for small seedlings, but i've found them 1) expensive 2) they tend to wick the moisture away from the plant. you'd be better off with shallow pots, buckets... i use window boxes to house my seedlings. the long, narrow, and shallow nature of the boxes is perfect, tho you need to be sure to water frequently and, every once and a while, drench the soil heavily to remove salts. use a really loose mix--half perlite, half potting soil or the like. lettuce thrives in those conditions if fertilized regularly and in small amounts. you can transplant it out into the garden, tho you might find (like me) that a couple window boxes with cut and come again lettuce produces enough salad to keep everyone happy. try these lettuces (from seeds) when things cool down: red sails, jericho, appollo arugula. all of them are very heat tolerant and prolific....See MoreMy Avocado plant
Comments (8)I have a nice little Avocado tree started. the toothpick and water idea got old, every few days of changing the water got tiring. I decided to experiment with other methods, and found a variety of things to work as long as your using a medium like perlite. this is the best method ive ever used... fill a small pot with perlite, wetten it under running water til its fairly wet, and then shake to run excess water out. burrow your avocado seed bottom-side down into the perlite until its above halfway submerged. use a spray bottle to mist the top of the seed so that the beads of water roll down around the avocado and get absorbed by surrounding perlite. every two or three weeks u should check the bottom of the seed and the contacting perlite to make sure its staying constantly moist. eventually it will crack and grow a huge tap root, and should be instantly planted in a deep container (more deep than wide) to accompany the growth of their mighty tap roots. the process between establishing a solid root system, and sprouting a shoot with leafs, takes about a month depending on the weather. if its cold outside, and both the soil its in and the air around it is cold, then it wont grow very fast. avocados grow ideally at around 90deg weather. it took a month of being in the soil before it sprouted a shoot, and another month and a half before the leafs unfolded from the shoot. i hope this information is of use to someone....See MoreAvocado from Seed basic info
Comments (9)When I was a kid, we planted avocado pits indoors. They will grow with the most minimal sunlight and in pots that look too small for the tree. All we ever did was stick the pit, point up, under 3-4 inches of ordinary potting soil, and they *never* failed to grow into whopping big plants, usually 4-6 feet tall by age two years. They didn't mind being pinched back into whatever shape and size was desired, either. One year I tried planting one outdoors, in October.. in Montana! It came up the following spring and was 3 feet tall by midsummer, but completely died at the first hard frost. Well, we had lemons from seed that grew outside (never got more than 6 inches tall, but they survived Montana winters) so I thought I'd try it.. heck, I was 12 or so :)...See More5 yr old avocado tree grown from seed
Comments (54)I have had fruit from 4/11 of my avocado varieties. They will all flower in the season as mine are grafted. Not all hold fruit if they are to young and drop them. But that is not true for everyone. There are many factors that play into a tree holding fruit set including weather, temperature, pollination etc....... I've known people who have had 2-3 year old trees that were grafted produce fruit and hold on the tree. I'm one of them who did so in containers with a Mexicola and Wurtz. You can see them in the Avocado forum under container trees. My Wurtz ( Little Cado ) has 30 plus fruit on it this year and is in a 24inch box and my Mexicola is in a raised bed now and I'm expecting it to fruit this year and several other trees that are now in the ground. I will update the group this summer. I'm expecting fruit from my Fuerte, Pinkerton, Stewart, Bacon, Mexicola and Wurtz. My other trees are still to young....See Moreixus
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