If I plant an avocado seed....will it grow?

Answer 1

MASTER GARDENER TO THE RESCUE.

8 ANSWERS, 7 WRONG. If you follow 7 of the above 8 answers all you are going to end up with is a short, ugly bush and no eatable fruit. only "fulltime in" gets close, but no cigar.

I have 104 Mature, producing Avocado trees. Avocados come from grafted trees. The root stock is a fast growing crap of a tree. so the cut it off at the base and graft onto it a specially grown hybrid upper the produces the fruit you buy at the market. however, the pit or seed comes from the mutt plant in the ground.

So if you want a real, fruit producing avocado tree forget all of the above and go to a good nursery and buy one. Plant'n the pit you got is a total waste of your time.

the rest of you stop giving BAD ANSWERS. People believe you and follow your directions. its only later they discover you were full of s**t. Go search in questions above and you'll see this very question comes up every month and every month it gets answered by folks that mean well but have no idea what they are talking about. meanwhile some poor smuck who took your advise just wasted 2 years of their life for a stink'n ugly bush with no hope of good fruit.

So hang me for mouthing off! Maybe when you put in the time I have, you'll get tired of fixing others screwed up answers too?

Answer 2

you can't just plant an avocado seed. An avocado plant needs to sprout before you plant it. Put a toothpick into it on each side up at the top so that it V's into a cup. put water into the cup until the seed's bottom is immersed. Give it some sunlight through a window. Keep it watered. Sometimes they will sprout and other times they won't. If it sprouts some then you can plant it but I'd suggest keeping it indoors in a pot. Hope this helps and good luck.

Answer 3

I was raised believing that the avocado had to be rooted in water
first also, but right now I have 7 plants from seeds that I planted last month directly into potting soil. I just didn't have room for that many seeds in water at my kitchen window and I hated just throwing the seeds away so I just stuck them in a pot and lo and behold, they all came up. Be sure to let the seed dry a little (a few days to a week) before you plant it.
Good Luck
p.s. i don't root them to grow avocados, I only grow them because they make a pretty plant

Answer 4

If what u have is a seed, you can begin by germinating it. You can use any germinating media, such as compost, top soil or just a plain earth. The seed will germinate as long as there is enough moisture and slightly warm temperature. (It can even germinate in tupper ware, without any medium, provided that you give some moisture and keep it at a warm place, like under your TV set!!! However, the moment you see the seed swell, roots and shoot start to appear, you have to place the seed in planting medium to let the seed grow into seedling. ) For germination, the seed does not require any medium with nutrient, because the seeds are already contain nutrient in its cotyledon. Compost would be preferred so that after germination, the root will absorbed the nutrient from the compost and it will start growing. Put the medium in the black plastic bag (8'' X 10" or 12") and put the seed about 1 inch deep into the medium in the plastic bag, and put the bag in slightly warm place ( about 25-30C will do). The seeds may take 3-4 weeks to germinate. Let the plant grow for another 3-4 months, where it will grow to about 15-24", before you planted it permanently at the site where you want the plant to stay permanently. Prepare a hole (2' X2' X 2'), mixed the top soil (top 8"-10" of your hole) with organic matters, and put it back into the hole. Do not disturb the enrich soil (with organic matters) in the planting hole for the next 2-3 weeks so that microbial action will take place during that period. (If you plant the seedling immediate after you prepare the planting hole, the microorganism in the compost that you supplied to the top soil will rob away all the nitrogen source in the soil.) The hole will be ready to be planted with your 3-4 months old avocado seedling in 2-3 weeks. Just dig large enough hole for your seedlings, remove the plastic bag and put the seedling in the hole and cover the root system to about 2-3 inches deep into the planting hole. And don't forget to provide sufficient water to your 'just planted avocado plant'. Supplement of P at planting time will help the seedling to produce better root system. Every 3-4 months afterward, just supply about 30-50 gm of NPK 15:15:15 to your seedling. You will get your first avocado fruits about 3 years later.

Answer 5

the answer is yes if you tend to it properly. My suggestion is to put the seed in a glass of water, using 3 toothpicks on the bottom part of the seed to hold the top part above water. imagine the seed is a tabletop and the tooth picks are the table legs. one you have poked the tooth picks into the seed and the tooth picks hold it securely, place the seed in a clear glass or bottle(mayonnaise, or spaghetti sauce bottle) then fill the glass until a little more than 1/4 of the seed is submerged in water. set it in the window seal and wait for it to grow roots. during this month or two be sure that the water level is always at the same level as i described earlier. once it gets roots it will crack open at the top and a stem with leaves will also grow, once this has happened plant your tree in the soil making sure the seed is covered with soil, leaving the plant parts above the soil. research how to prepare the hole your planting your tree in first as well as what kind of sun ex poser it likes, along with watering instructions ect. Bear in mind that your Alvacado plant will not bear avocados for the first 5 to 6 years once you put it in soil.

Answer 6

Yes, it will grow. Thing is... it might not grow into the type of avacado you want. Find out if it was indeed the type of avacado it was advertised to be.... look name up in search engine w/ pix of fruit. Then,find out if htat type is a hybrid. If it is, then it's not genetically stable & the offspring will revert back to one of hte parents.
You're really better off to just buy started a tree from a nursery.
I have 4 avacados & get thousands of fruit every year (if the tree gets adiquate water). I give it away & every year at least a few people tell me that they were soooo good htat they want to grow one too. So, they show me thier sprouted seed. But, the trees that were in my yard when I moved in are hybrids & tey can't sprout the seed to get one, they have to go to a nursery.
Also, they can't get the same fruit that I have unless they are a strict organic gardener! There is such a difference in the taste, texture & overall quality between fruit grown w/ chems & fruit grown organically. & I mrean real organics. NO cheating! When you chamge from chems to organics, it's not easy on anyone. You'll have smalller plants that die. You'll loose crops off your trees. Chem raised plants are junkies & they have to go thru withdrawl before they can get healthy. Work on making your soilhelaty & then your plants can be healthy. Chem treated soil can't be healthy & you have to stop using chems before you can start working organically! the chems kill hte mirobes that are the key to organic gardening!

Answer 7

I have my growing now, all I did was put Avacado seeds in a glass full of warm water, with no tooth pick business,lol. and it germinated in a weeks time. wait for few more days.
Plant them in good dirt, I make my own dirt. And plant it with the opening upwards. watch it grow.
This is my first plant and its doing great. It is about 2 feet tall now . started a month and half ago.

Answer 8

Yes. I'ts one of the easiest "kitchen-scrap" plants to grow.

Lots of folks will put two or three toothpicks into the middle, coming out like spokes, so that you can suspend it in a jar, with the top aboe the jar, and the bottom sitting in water. Put it in a sunny window.

When it has leaves and roots, you can transplant it to a regular pot. It will not survive winter - so if you have it outside, make sure you bring it in for the winter.

Answer 9

A Yahoo search for "avocado seed" (include the quotation marks in the search box) yields 19,300 results. If you do the same search, and are willing to spend a little time exploring, I'm sure that you will quickly find the information you seek.

Good luck with your search.

Answer 10

Yep.

You can also germinate it by sticking 3 or 4 toothpicks in the top of the seed (perpendicular to the side of the seed) so that they will hold the seed suspended in the mouth of a jar. Fill the jar with water until it covers the bottom half of the seed and set it in a window.