Growing An Avocado Plant From Seed Plus Some Nutrition Notes

How tall will a tree grow?

HOW TALL WILL A TREE GROW? AS TALL AS IT CAN!

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Growing a plant from seed ourselves gives such a satisfying feeling. Growing a more exotic or unusual plant, like an avocado, is even more satisfying. When watching something so tiny develop into something so much larger in comparison, I still ponder at how...

Growing an avocado plant from seed is obviously more involved than just burying a seed in a pot and leaving the rest to Ma Nature. or is it? The current status of my avocado plant is just that, a seed buried in a pot, only the seed was germinated and nurtured for a year in an adapted plastic bottle, to get it 'started off' before being potted up. It was left for a year to enable a casual study of the root structure and development. The root system is the part of a plant that absorbs water and nutrients from the soil to feed the plant.

 Pictured below is the basic technique used to germinate the avocado seed.

SOAKING AVOCADO SEEDS

SCRAPING WAY THE SKIN FROM THE HAIRLINE CRACK

After soaking the cleaned seeds for a few days in water, some develop a hairline crack in the outer shell indicating that something inside is expanding. Hopefully, it's the tiny seedling germinating in the centre of the great nut. To relieve a bit of tension from the constriction by the hunky shell, the brown skin of the nut is scraped off along the split line before being sat in water and placed in a warm area.

SEED GERMINATING

SEED IN WATER POT

AVOCADO SEED GERMINATION TRIAL IN A PLASTIC EGG BOX. 15th February 2018

 
The avocado shown in the images below from 15th February 2018, was germinated and has been growing in this pot since 14th February 2017. Twelve months is long enough. Time for potting up.

AVOCADO SEED AFTER TWELVE MONTHS ON THE WINDOWSILL. 15th February 2018

ROOT STRUCTURE OF AVOCADO AFTER ONE YEAR IN WATER. 15th February 2018

The roots appear to have a deep penetrating tap root with a strong developing root structure. Happy Days.

After potting on, the plant appeared non the wiser come the following day. No death!

AVOCADO PLANT POTTED ON 15th FEBRUARY 2018. Image taken 16th February 2018

The video below demonstrates how I potted on the rooted avocado seed and its' current state.

The two images above, taken on 25th February 2018, show how the avocado plant has adapted to potted life after ten days. The pair of top leaves, the newest growth, have flourished and increasing their size quite noticeably. It currently sits on a sunny windowsill indoors as avocados love the sun. Young plants should be protected from the cold during winter although the more established plant can survive outdoors.

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MY GENERAL NOTES on AVOCADO GOODNESS

Avocados are generally accepted as a 'wonder', 'super' or 'marvelous' food based on their highly positive nutritional and dietary values and health benefits, obviously. The benefits of eating avocados are numerous, too many for me to mention and non of which are the results of my own deduction. I will urge people to research more thoroughly and with more interest and concern about what they eat, particularly as 'reliable' information is readily and freely available to many. With the agenda complicit corporates dominating the global food chain and showing signs of skullduggery between the ever developing cracks in the rind, knowing where food comes from should also be of suspicion raising interest.

Are We What We Eat?

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The information detailed below has been compiled from a number of different sources from both online and hard copy publications and gives average values based on variations found in the different varieties and sources analysed. Whilst the information is, to my understanding and acceptance, accurate at the time of publishing, it is intended for my own personal use only and should not be totally relied upon to be accurate for your own personal acceptance or use. This is obviously a disclaimer of responsibility, written in to protect myself from negative retribution. The information should only be used as a general, non binding guide for furthering interest .
NOTE: I am not a nutritionist, a herbalist or a medical practitioner, so please do your own research.

The two website links printed in the above nutrition chart are informative portals for food nutrition and personal health advice and links to these sites have been included below. I am in no way affiliated with either website or company and am merely sharing their sites to enable a reader to access the information I frequently browse.

The George Mateljan Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation with no commercial interests or advertising. Their mission is to help us eat and cook the healthiest way for optimal health.

~ What's  New & Beneficial About Avocados? ~

~ whfoods.com ~

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Self Nutrition Data use the motto "Know What You Eat" and is a mine source
of interesting and valuable information regarding food nutrition and personal health.

 ~ Avocados, Raw, All Commercial Varities, Nutrition Facts and Calories ~
~ nutritiondata.self.com ~

"Have A CaCado"

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