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January 17, 2006 at 08:22 am

Amazing Avocados...

If you’ve never saved an avocado seed in order to try to grow an avocado tree, then you are missing out. It’s not that you will ever get any avocados from a self-grown avocado tree. That can’t happen unless you are able to successfully plant and cross-pollinate (or graft) the tree. What’s fun is the growing process.

The tree you see growing here was started a few months ago. My mom sent us some seeds from California for the express purpose of growing a tree. (My mom has grown many, many trees in the past — she may have even gotten one into the ground at some point). Anyway, we had tried to grow a tree from some seeds we got from avocados we bought here in Missouri. They didn’t turn out at all. As you can see, the seed from California is a winner. (One of the seeds my mom sent us didn’t turn out, so don’t take this as any sort of scientific study.)

If you would like to grow your own avocado tree, click here (those are the best instructions I could find online).

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Comments (6)

Man I miss good avocados. The ones here in the Philly area suck. When I was on vaca in Cali I had avocado added to everything I ate. =)

» Comment by Jean () , on January 18, 2006 at 07:46 am

You should grow a tree, Jean… That way, even with bad avocados, you could see the beauty of what might have been.

» Comment by timsamoff () (URL), on January 18, 2006 at 08:40 am

Nice Avo tree…we just had a sandwich with avocado, tomato, spinich, onion, on sourdough wheat…all fresh, too. I’ll bring some avocadoes out when I come in April, if you remind me.Love Mom

» Comment by mom , on March 11, 2006 at 5:42 pm

Googled for avocado tree pics and yours was right on top. I wonder how it turned out. Just stuck some toothpicks into the best avocado I’ve had in ages. Cheers.

» Comment by Faith () , on February 27, 2008 at 10:33 pm

I meant the seed, toothpicks in the seed. bah.

» Comment by Faith , on February 27, 2008 at 10:37 pm

Faith ~ Good luck with your avocado tree! Here are a couple of my avocado updates:

http://sense-datum.org/tim/archive/2006/..
http://sense-datum.org/tim/archive/2007/..

The tree is still doing very well. It’s getting tall again — after my first pruning — and it’s as healthy as ever. ;-)

» Comment by timsamoff () (URL), on March 05, 2008 at 08:01 am

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January 17, 2006 at 08:22 am

Amazing Avocados...

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