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From: ems@amdahl.UUCP (ems)
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Subject: Re: Growing Avacados from Pits
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Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 17:57:37 EST
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> >> 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?).

... more of the traditional way ...

I tried this several times with poor success.  Nothing wrong with the
method, I would just forget to keep the water level right or knock it
over or something...

I now have three avocado trees all grown from pits.  How did I do it?
Easy.  I took the most rotten avocado I could find (where the seed had
already split and a root was starting to eat the avacado mush );
removed the seed (with baby root in two cases) and put it in the ground
with the point up just at the dirt surface.  Water.  Wait.  Wait. Wait...

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