RE: TIL: How to Properly Sprout Avocado Pits to Grow Into Trees!
The easiest way I have found for germinating avocado seeds is:
- Leave avocado on the counter for too long
- Pick up way over ripe avocado and put it in the compost pile
- Wait.
From my understanding, avocado trees are not self pollinating. However, where you are there are probably plenty of avocado trees around.
You never know what kind of avocado tree you will get from a seed. The seed is a hybrid of the mother and father trees. Each seed from the same tree will make different trees.
All Hass avocado trees are grafted. So, if you really like Hass avocados, you have to buy one (or if you got a friend, graft one yourself on a root you have already grown)
The most important thing about planting an avocado tree is that you cannot bury it deeper. An avocado tree has a ring around the base of its trunk that it uses to breath. So, if you transplant your tree deeper than it was, you will suffocate it.
And I have a friend with a 50 foot tall avocado tree.
There are also dwarf varieties. But you have to buy those, or hope that your seed makes a tree close to what you picked it from.
Thanks for this. There's a lot here that i didn't find on my internet searches on the matter.
My sources did tell me that they are self pollinating, i just checked again to confirm.
I didn't know they weren't true to type but i expected it. Should be interesting to see what i get.
Had no idea about the breathing ring thing, that's pretty fascinating.
As the height thing, that was just averages probably coming from orchards... not sure if they're still called orchards with avocados.
I found it to be true the most part when observing trees when we passed orchards(still not sure if correct term). I know orchards keep things a standard smaller size for ease of picking though