Avocado Tree Album

Avacado are easy to grow from seed. Simply take any store bought Avacado and remove the skin surrounding the seed, put three tooth picks in the seed and place in a container of water. Make sure the pointy side is up. If you make a mistake, you can flip it around later. I wait until the stem has leaves and is about 8-10 inches tall before I transplant it to soil, but the roots are very sensitive and I generally loose about 50% of my plants after transplanting.

Avacado can take between 8 and 15 years to produce fruit if grown from a seed. And, because Avacado will cross pollinate you never know what you will get. If you want to get a particular fruit it is best to purchase one from a nursery that has been grafted. A grafted tree will generally produce fruit faster since the root stock used has generally matured.

Avocado trees are pretty and add a nice touch to any room.

I set this Avocado in my yard waiting for it to mature before transplanting it into the ground, but it rooting.

This is the plant from the above picture a year later. The top was broken off during a typhoon, but it is doing well. This tree is roughly 4 years old. Most of it's growth occurred in the past two years after it rooted in the ground.