Did you know that you can plant the avocado seed and grow your own avocado? All you need is water, toothpicks and some potting soil – and of course the stone from which you want to pull the avocado.
The guacamole is ready and you still have an avocado seed left? The avocado stone is also the seed for an avocado tree – so you can easily grow a tree for your home from a leftover avocado seed by planting it. However, you cannot harvest an avocado from such a tree, since the male and female flowers are not open at the same time, which means that self-pollination and thus ripening into an avocado are ruled out.
Plant avocado seeds and grow avocados
To get fruit, you would need two different types of avocado trees, each with their flowers opening in opposite directions. Nevertheless, the evergreen tree from the planted avocado seed is a pretty sight, for example in the conservatory, as a houseplant or in a greenhouse. Also read: Grow your own vegetables: 8 foods that keep growing back.
Grow avocado as a houseplant – that’s how it works!
Use the following trick to grow avocados:
Remove the avocado pit from the avocado, wash it well and let it dry.
Before you can plant it, the avocado seed needs to form roots. To do this, poke three toothpicks about halfway down the side of the avocado stone.
Then hang the avocado stone with the pointed side up in a glass container with water so that the lower end of the avocado is in the water.
The toothpicks serve as a holder and lie on the edge of the glass jar.
Off into the ground: plant avocado seeds
After about three to ten weeks, several roots will have formed and you can plant the avocado seeds in normal potting soil. It is important that the pointed part that was above the toothpick is not covered with soil. The pot with the planted avocado seed is then covered with a clear plastic bag or glass bell jar to create enough humidity.
Watered regularly and placed in a bright place at over 20 degrees, the avocado seed will soon begin to sprout. As soon as the plant has a few green leaves, you can remove the cover and place the avocado tree in its final location. It’s that easy to grow your own avocado!
