What is the best way to start an avocado plant from a fresh avocado pit?
What you need to do is wash the seed with water (water only) remove all of the avacado and dry with paper towel. Taking tooth pickes and three or four push them into the fat end of the seed about 1/4th of an inch + or -. Now fill a container with water and place the seed so the tooth picks hold the seed half in and half out of the water. Always check the water level to ensure it stays covered. Place in a sunny window, it will take about 4-6 weeks to crack open and begin growing also the roots. After about 4 weeks of growth cut the leaves off in 3 weeks or so new leaves will form and the roots are doubled. All you have to do now is plant in a large pot using rich potting soil, half in half out, carefully press to firm seed in place, keep it moist. At this point ensure you don’t over water if the leaves start to look yellow back off the watering! This really calls for lots of patients and care for them to grow!
Avocado seeds may be started in a glass of water or in a moist, porous soil mixture. Either will work, but the soil method will provide faster results. If the seed is started in water, insert three or four toothpicks in the seed about half way down the sides. Next, fill a small glass with water to the brim and place the seed in the glass, flat end down, so the toothpicks rest firmly on the brim. The toothpicks should be supporting the seed so that the pointed half is out of the water and the bottom half is in the water. The sprouting tip will come out of the pointed end, so be sure the flat end is immersed in water. Place the glass on a sunny window sill or some other well lighted spot. Add water as needed to keep the bottom half of the seed wet at all times. After a few weeks a small root should appear from the flat end, and there should be signs of a small shoot at the pointed end. Tiny leaves will develop and grow on this shoot. Later, when the main stem emerges, plant the seed in a
I’ve managed to get two avocado pits to sprout and grow for a while, but since the trees grow so slowly, my family ended up buying a partially grown tree to plant in the yard, rather than wait the many years it takes for a tree to get large enough to produce a lot of avocados. Still, getting the pit to sprout is pretty easy. The way I did it both times is to poke 3 toothpicks into the avocado pit at equal distance, so they are like spokes of a wheel. Then get a clean jam jar or glass and fill it with water almost to the top. Place the pit on the rim of the glass, so that the toothpicks hold it on the top. It should be suspended with the bottom half in the water, and the top half above the rim of the glass or jar. Now just put it in a dark place, under the sink or in a cupboard is great. Leave it alone, and check every few days. Within a week or two, you should have some sprouts and roots growing. Now just plant it in a flowerpot with some good soil and some mulch with the pit completel
