From the core to the avocado plant


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Hardly any food has experienced such a boom in recent years as the avocado. As a trend fruit in the kitchen and cosmetics, it is eaten, drunk, laid on and massaged. Whether as oil, spread, baking ingredient, tea, skin cream or facial mask - the green fruit is more popular than ever. This is due to their valuable ingredients - including various unsaturated fatty acids and vitamins - their good processing properties and their velvety-nutty taste. As a medicinal plant, the avocado is used for cough, diarrhea, obesity and acne. By the way, even the avocado kernel can be processed into smoothies and teas.

Avocado - a tropical tree for the windowsill

In its tropical homeland, the pear-shaped avocado (Persea americana) grows to a 20-meter-high tree. In the leaf axils, small bright green flowers form, which produce some time after their fertilization, the popular dark green berry fruits with wrinkled skin. Their original multiplication by seeds is no longer interesting for the breeders, as the offspring grow wild and thus lose their typical varietal characteristics. In room culture, however, you can still easily pull a small tree for a window sill from an avocado core. Although these trailing avocados do not bear fruit, it is a wonderful experiment for children and all plant lovers.

Using avocado pots in water

It's easy to get rid of an avocado core. The water method is particularly suitable to observe the development of an avocado plant from seed to tree. In order to drive an avocado core in water, you first need only three toothpicks and a vessel with water - for example, a mason jar. The core is carefully removed from the fruit, washed well and dried. Then drill a toothpick approximately five millimeters deep in three places at approximately the same distance around the center of the core and place the dull eggshaped avocado core with the tip pointing upwards onto the glass. The lower third of the core should be suspended in the water.

Driving avocado pots in water

To grow one sticks three toothpicks in the avocado core and sets this with the blunt side down on a glass of water. Thus, the growth of the young seedling can be observed very nicely

After about six weeks, the top opens and a germ emerges. He is growing very fast. At the bottom, long, straight roots form. If, after a few months, sufficient vigorous roots have grown from the bottom and a strong healthy shoot from the top of the avocado core, the core can be transformed into a pot of soil. Carefully remove the toothpicks and plant the core in moist soil - without damaging the roots. The avocado core remains on the surface, only the roots are potted.

Avocado kernels with roots and seedling

When the first roots have formed, the young avocado tree should move from the water glass to a plant pot with soil

Plant avocado pots in soil

You can also plant the avocado kernel directly in soil. Simply fill a flower pot with soil - ideally a potting soil with clay content - and put the clean, dry core into it. Again, two-thirds of the avocado core should remain above the earth. A mini-greenhouse for the room keeps temperature and humidity steady, but is not essential. Lightly water the soil and keep the core moist by spraying regularly. The soil in the plant pot must not dry out, otherwise all efforts were in vain.

Grooming avocado pearling

In the care of the young trees finger tip is needed. The avocado plant needs as a tropical plant high humidity, heat and a uniformly moist substrate. But if she gets wet feet, she is easily attacked by mold! The core then softens and rots. The small avocado tree is best placed in a warm room (22 to 25 degrees Celsius) to a bright window and regularly check the water supply. Evaporated water in the glass is also refilled in time, so that the driven avocado core does not suddenly sit on dry land.

Avocado seedlings

Avocado plants can be cultivated well on a bright south window. However, the optimal location is a conservatory, where the plants also get enough light from above

An avocado tree for the windowsill

Even after a few years, an avocado tree will not grow larger than 1.50 meters, making it ideal for the windowsill or conservatory. A well-rooted avocado tree should be fertilized every 14 days in the summer months, in the winter months, however, he needs a rest. Overwinter your avocado tree at a maximum of 15 degrees Celsius in as bright a place as possible and pour less. In spring, the young avocado can be transplanted into a larger pot.Usually the avocado tree grows as a long, straight shoot. If the avocado branch, this shoot can be cut in a well-rooted plant in about 30 centimeters high, to stimulate the budding of the lateral buds.

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From the core to the avocado plant

FAQ - 💬

❓ What are the stages of the avocado plant?

👉 The seed splits along the fault line, allowing a root to grow down and a sprout to grow up. As the sprout grows leaves, it becomes a seedling, and then continues to grow into an avocado plant. Eventually, the avocado plant produces flowers, and finally fruit after 4-5 years.

❓ How do you propagate an avocado core?

👉 To sprout an avocado seed, insert three toothpicks into the seed and suspend it with the end down over a glass of water. Cover about an inch of the seed with water. Keep it in a warm place, but not in direct sunlight. The seed should sprout in two to six weeks.

❓ What is the core of the avocado?

👉 A big ball sack at the center of the avocado is its seed. It is the seed that makes the avocado a fruit as opposed to a vegetable and it can vary in size from small to large. The variations in seed size are dependent on the type of avocado. The Pinkerton, which is a winter variety avocado, has a small seed at its core.

❓ What's the middle of an avocado called?

👉 The middle layer is mesocarp which, generally,makes up the bulk of the pericarp. The inner layer is endocarp which, in some fruits is tough, leathery or hard, in other fruits is soft or fleshy.

❓ Does avocado sprout from top or bottom?

👉 The slightly pointier end is the top, and the flat end is the bottom. In order to get your pit to sprout, you will need to place the bottom root end in water, so it's very important to figure out which end is the 'top' and which is the 'bottom' before you go piercing it with toothpicks.

❓ What is the lifespan of an avocado tree?

👉 200-400 yearsAll About Hass Avocado Trees

FeatureDescription
Type of treeEvergreen
Sunlight requirementsMinimum of 6 full hours of sunlight a day
Soil compositionLoose, sandy, or loamy, well-draining with a pH of 6.5 or lower
Lifespan200-400 years

❓ How to grow an avocado?

👉 That’s it, let’s start growing! Take a good knife, an avocado, a paper towel and a plastic bag. Open your avocado, eat the flesh and wash the pit well. First, soak the pit for 24 to 48 hours in clean water. With your knife, peel off the thin brown skin of the pit. This step speeds up the germination process and the result is more attractive.

❓ Are avocado trees ornamental?

👉 Though many people like to grow avocado trees specifically for the fruit, the trees also have ornamental value because of their thick, bright green foliage. Outdoors, the trees need warmth and space to fruit. Indoors, you will need the right type of tree if you want it to fruit. Either way, it may take years for fruiting to occur.

❓ How do you Pierce avocado seed?

👉 1. Stick toothpicks into the avocado seed. Poke a toothpick in the center of the seed, about where the equator would be on a globe, piercing just about ¼ to ½ inch into the seed. Then poke two to three more toothpicks into the seed so the toothpicks are equally distributed. 2. Place the seed over water.

❓ Why do avocado seeds need a pit?

👉 A pit, like all seeds, is a little reserve of energy designed to create a new plant. To awaken this enormous potential, you need to create the ideal conditions for your seed to grow. The avocado likes a tropical environment: it needs warm temperatures and constantly high humidity to germinate.

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