Growing avocados from pits
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Growing avocados from pits
Anybody have any success?
This was a cinch at home, 3 matches, pit, and glass of water, sprouted after a few days.
Not a single one i tried here has split, let alone sprouted.
Any treemongers out there?
This was a cinch at home, 3 matches, pit, and glass of water, sprouted after a few days.
Not a single one i tried here has split, let alone sprouted.
Any treemongers out there?
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Re: Growing avocados from pits
Are you sure you have the seed right side up?
Put it in a warm spot, not direct sunlight.
If nothing happens after about 6 weeks, ditch it and try again.
Put it in a warm spot, not direct sunlight.
If nothing happens after about 6 weeks, ditch it and try again.
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Re: Growing avocados from pits
I was wondering if perhaps the locals spray them with formalin, or if keeping them in thr fridge damages them
Have you had any success?
Have you had any success?
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Re: Growing avocados from pits
I haven't tried. I don't particularly like avocado unless it's with Mexican food.
Are you buying from the market or supermarket? I would go for locally grown rather than imported.
Are you buying from the market or supermarket? I would go for locally grown rather than imported.
Re: Growing avocados from pits
I've done it successfully with about a dozen pits from local avocados , was surprised how quickly they grew.
Transplanted them after about 8 months into one of our plots of land, no idea whether they'll actually do any good and produce fruit, but worth a try, didn't cost me anything.
Transplanted them after about 8 months into one of our plots of land, no idea whether they'll actually do any good and produce fruit, but worth a try, didn't cost me anything.
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Re: Growing avocados from pits
We throw them in the ground and they grow. Easy.
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Re: Growing avocados from pits
I remember doing that thing with the 3 matches way back, and often getting results. I haven't tried it here, but I have a feeling that avocados don't grow too well in the lowlands anyway, most are grown at higher elevations like in Mondulkiri/ Ratanakiri?
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Re: Growing avocados from pits
The above is quite correct withe the exception of the California coast where Hass avocados grow quite well due to cool California breezes. They don't really have a chill factor requirement like apples but they need a cool breeze. Also the.trees are dioecious(sp) requiring both male and female plants whose identity is not identifiable in the seed. Most likely you will get flowers and no fruit.John Bingham wrote: ↑Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:09 pm I remember doing that thing with the 3 matches way back, and often getting results. I haven't tried it here, but I have a feeling that avocados don't grow too well in the lowlands anyway, most are grown at higher elevations like in Mondulkiri/ Ratanakiri?
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Re: Growing avocados from pits
true about elevation
however, they fruit in kampong cham and kep
however, they fruit in kampong cham and kep
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Re: Growing avocados from pits
550m or so here.
Seem to grow easy.
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