I had my first taste of the creamy avocado at a dinner party in Tony Roma's, a simple crispy bread with avocado dipping. Appetizer has never looked the same since :) So i fell in love with this fruit, and its freakin' expensive that i had to limit when buying. Love 'em so much that i wanted to grow the tree myself.
Before things got too excited, i found that avocado trees that grew from the pit may take long time to yield. I'm talking about 5 to 13 years! and often with unsure quality. So I might have to try grafting once these babies grow, but for now i'll just enjoy this little adventure documenting growing avocados from seeds.
Grafting: taking a branch from a good variety, joining it to your avocado rootstock. It should results in fruit identical to the tree which branch was taken, and does so within only two or three years
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| From smoothie pack to sprouting |
So today i have three avocado seeds. I came across many useful and entertaining videos in YouTube about growing the avocado seeds :) but the steps following were adopted from Mr EastCoastMan: https://youtu.be/CTR1oZimeAM
- Get a few ripe avocados. I have three.
- Peel the avocados, while peeling recognize which side is top and bottom. I've only seen top pointed end and broad bottom so far.
To easily get to the seed, i would cut the avocado in half around the seed carefully as not to damage the seed. Sometimes i cut them to quarter size. Then twist the sections like arubic cube to split the sides. Notice the natural fault-line on the seed, this is where the seed cracks and split during germination.
- You may now bite, chew, devour, feed on the creamy avocados.
- Once you get the seed, wash until it's clean to avoid mold from growing.
- Peel the seed coat off. I sensed that doing this while the seed still wet is easier than while having it dry. Although i did found another writer which says the opposite so i guess its a matter of preference.
- Then insert several toothpicks at the sides, avoiding the fault line. Since i didn't have toothpicks, i just used clean satay bamboo sticks to prick on the sides enough to support and balance the seeds in water.
- Fill in water enough to submerge bottom half of the seed.
I am not sure if the direct sunlight would bake the seeds so i left the containers just outside the kitchen instead where it is warm and bright.
