How do I grow avocados from the seed pit?

Answer 1

After eating an avocado, it is hard to resist planting its seed. To get the seed sprouting quickly, it needs immediate planting. Indoor gardeners have developed their own "traditional" planting method. This is done by poking three toothpicks into the side of the seed so that it can perch, halfway immersed in water, on the rim of a drinking glass. The seed could also be planted in potting soil, but this misses some of the fun of watching the roots and the shoots grow.
Avocado roots, like those of most other plants, need oxygen, so the seedlings would actually grow better in soil than in water. When growing a seedling in water, the water should be changed at least every couple of weeks, before it gets dirty and depleted of oxygen. One way to speed germination in soil is to remove the parchment like seed coat and slice a thin layer from both the top and the bottom of the seed before planting. In water or in soil, set the seed with its base (the wider portion) down.

Indoors, avocado plants are often gangly and sparse with leaves. One reason for the plant's gawky appearance indoors is light. Lack of sufficient light causes stems to stretch for it. Another reason is that avocados shed many buds along their stems, buds that might have grown into side branches. The result is a plant stretching out for light, sending out new growth mostly from the tips of the branches and shedding old leaves.

There are several things indoor gardeners can do to keep their plants more attractive. Most obvious is to give an avocado tree bright light. Also, the stretch for light is exaggerated when warmth stimulates growth, so the ideal spot for the plant is at the brightest window in the coolest room. Beyond that pruning back a stem or pinching out its growing tip stimulates branching by awaking dormant buds (not all are shed) further down the stem. There is nothing that can be done about the shedding of older leaves.

Every indoor avocado grower holds out hope for fruit from his or her plant. This is always a possibility, but realistically it is not likely to happen. The time from seed to fruiting under good growing conditions is about a decade. Indoors, this time period is lengthened and plants may never experience good enough conditions to ever flower, let alone ripen fruit.

Lack of fruit on an indoor tree is no great loss, because seedling trees rarely produce fruits as tasty as those on commercial trees, which are grafted to good-tasting cultivars. Indoors, avocados are best looked upon as a houseplant that is inexpensive, fun to grow and somewhat attractive.

Answer 2

They can be difficult to strike (make roots)

You need to float the seed in water for a few weeks.
We use a tall drinking glass and stick the seed with a few nails to sit it on the glass rim, just enough, so the seed will sit at the top of the glass but 3/4 of the seed will sit in the water. You need to ensure that the seed is always in the water (And change the water often). Wait until the seed splits and you see the first root heading into the water. When the root is about 1 inch long plant it in some loose soil. Remember that avocado trees become quite large so, just under the kitchen window is not so good. It will take around five years to give fruit.

Answer 3

Start by putting the seed in a glass of water and set it in a window with ample sunlight. after the seed sprout you can place it into the ground. I love avocados, however it takes care and knowledge to successfully grow a tree. The trick is not just to get a tree started. That's the easy part. The hard part is to get that tree to grow healthy and bear fruit. For the best results, go to Goggle and look up "growing avocados". There you will find some valuable info on this subject.

Answer 4

Some people say that you can grow them by holding the pit upright, putting four toothpicks into it about a half-inch on each of four sides, and putting it over a glass of water, with the bottom part of the pit submerged in the water.
Then put the glass above your kitchen sink, in front of a kitchen window. Keep the water level up in the glass, they say, and after you get roots on the pit you can plant it in soil.

Of course this advice is very much like that of your expert in the pink hat, but the folks who explained it to me did not flip their avocado seeds.

Answer 5

All the above methods work.

Consider, however, that avocados are tropical (don't like cold). Also bear in mind that there are many varieties that do better in different climates: some do better in the lower humidity of California, and some do better in the higher humidity of Florida -and neither do well in the wrong setting.

Also bear in mind that many grown from seed do not produce well. For production purposes, consider purchasing a plant from a nursery -where you can guarantee the variety and the root stock.

Answer 6

get a cup and tooth picks put toothpicks in seed then fill cup with water to top flip pit daily, when it grows to a plant then u plant it in ground with seed near top of soil. it takes about 7-10 years to get an avacado though im also growing one!!

Answer 7

dig a hole about 6 inches deep in the ground and put the pit in the bottom, then cover it up and water it 3 times a day

Answer 8

If you grow an avacado from seed, it can take sevearla years to fruit. You would be better off to buy a grafted tree from a nursery if you want it for fruit.

Answer 9

they are actually really easy to grow till you try to bury then into the ground.i live in florida every time i kill them after they get about knee high.good luck. oh just tooth pick them over a small glass of water just bottom touching water.when it grows roots.put in pot.after that pray to the plant god!

Answer 10

plant them in the ground, give them plenty of water and sunlight