Avocados (also known as alligator pear) are one of the best super fruits available in the summer, it’s high in nutrition. Avocado tastes great on it’s owns or as a guacamole dip with tortilla chips or crackers. Try saving the avocado seed next time when you are slicing one and grow it into an avocado tree!
Avocados are native to Mexico and Central America but now you can also grown an avocado tree right at your home, read on to learn how.
Getting Started
Avocados requires rich and well composted soil. If you’ve ever grown a tree before, you’ll know that seed-grown trees takes up to seven years to produce any fruits, If you’re looking for a shorter time span to start producing fruits, it might be a better idea to purchase one from a nursery.
Remove and Clean the Avocado Seed Pit
- Remove the seed pit from a fresh, ripe avocado. Try to remove the avocado seed without using a knife to avoid damaging it.
- Soak the avocado seed in room temperature water for a few minutes and scrub away any remaining avocado fruit off of it. Try not to remove the seed cover, brown skin on the pit.
- Locate
- Using three toothpicks, stick them at a slight downward angle into the avocado seed.
- Watch your avocado seed sprout. This process can take anywhere between 6 to 8 weeks.
Time to Pot the Avocado Seed in Soil
Place it near a sunny windowsill. Avocados are natives to warmer climates, so they love the sun.
Winter Season
Small avocado trees in areas where there is a winter season will need to be brought back indoors. They will not be able to tolerate weather under degrees Celsius.
Bearing Avocado Fruits
While it is easy to grow an avocado tree, it is difficult to bear fruit. You usually will have better success if you have several avocado trees to help with pollination.