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From: beth@gymble.UUCP (Beth Katz)
Newsgroups: net.cooks,net.garden
Subject: Re: Growing Avacados from Pits
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Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 12:45:14 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  5 12:45:14 1985
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Summary: 

>> I'd be interested in knowing if anyone out there has had 
>>any luck in germinating avocado pits.
>> 
>>Helen Anne
>> 
I started an avocado pit last year about this time.  It took a long time,
but my plant is now about 20 inches tall with two major branches.  It was
pretty dormant for a while, but now it's growing like crazy.  To sprout:
1) Wash pit to remove leftover slippery stuff.
2) Stick 3 toothpicks into pit so that it will sit round-side down in water.
3) Keep in warm place with water covering about half the pit.
4) Wait.  Wait.  Wait.  Replace water.  Wait.  Wait a long time (months?).
5) When the pit finally splits open and sends out a shoot and some roots,
	transplant it into a container of potting soil.  Mine is in a six-inch
	pot and doing well just sitting in the window.  Water every so often.
6) When it gets to be 8-12 inches tall, pinch the budding leaf at the top to
	get the plant to branch.
7) You have a new friend.
					Beth Katz
					{seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!beth