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Re[2]: Avocados...


     Agree with Rebekah except cover seed with glass or plastic 
     drinking glass. Do not cover all of pot. The seed will send 
     down a large tap root before you see anything up top. When 
     the root is quite large the seed will split and send up the 
     shoot. Be patient! With bright light after a few years 
     cathedral ceilings are good!!!!
     
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        Good luck
        Art Hounslow

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Subject: Re: Avocados... 
Author:  <seeds-list@eskimo.com > at SMTP
Date:    10/15/97 2:57 PM


Nan,
     
I, too, did the toothpick thing when I was little.  A few years ago, I 
decided to grow a tree from a pit.  I just put it in a pot of soil, left 
the upper - more pointed part-- sticking out of the soil, and kept the soil 
moist.   I didn't see any growth for a long time (my husband thought I was
crazy) and then it sprouted.  As long as you keep the soil moist, it'll grow.
     
Also, if you forget to water it for a period of time (I was very sick -no 
not in the head ;}, and then we went out of state), all of the leaves will 
dry up.  They didn't turn brown, they just dried up and fell off.  Anyway, 
I started watering/feeding it again when I got home, and it's leaves have 
grown back nicely.
     
Rebekah
reaves@qualcomm.com
San Diego CA
     
At 02:27 PM 10/15/97 -0700, Nan Sterman wrote:
>This may sound silly (certainly feels silly) but  I need to know -- as a 
>kid we often started avocados from split pits by putting toothpicks in them 
>and suspending them in water.  Now I ahve a pit I want to start and I want 
>to know if I can just bury it in potting soil rather than putting it in 
>water until it has roots and shoots.  If so, what are the recommended 
>conditions?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Nan
>
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>Nan Sterman, "gardening addict"
>Olivenhain, California
>Sunset Zone 24, USDA Zone 10b or 11 
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>So goes an old chinese proverb:
>         If you want to be happy for a few hours, get drunk; 
>         If you want to be happy for a week-end get married; 
>         If you want to be happy for a week, barbeque a pig;
>         If you want to be happy all your life long become a gardener 
>
>
>
>
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