Can you grow avacado from the seeds of the fruit you buy at super market?
Question:If so how can do you germintate the seeds? I live in a tropical region.
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Yes, you can. See links below. However, the resultant seedling will probably not show the exact characteristics of its hybrid parents.
Stores do nothing to prevent germination.
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"an avocado is a fruit and it's already been germinated"
The avocado is, indeed, a fruit. It bears a seed which, like any other seed, must germinate to form a new plant.
germinate: To sprout from a seed. (http://science.education.nih.gov/supplem...
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"There are also male and female plants- so if you were looking to 'grow' them for actual avocados, you should try to harvest 3-4."
Neither assertion is not correct.
"The avocado flower is called a “perfect” flower because it has both a female part (the pistil, containing the ovary) and a male part (the stamens, bearing the pollen). Although self-pollination occasionally occurs, an avocado flower is not likely to self-pollinate because the different parts (male and female) function at different times. When the female part of a flower is ready to receive pollen, the male part of that flower is not ready to shed pollen, so the pollen available at the time the female part is receptive is likely from a different tree, of the contrasting flowering type, carried by an insect."
http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/...
"Persea americana Mill. exhibits a unique flowering mechanism, synchronous dichogamy, in which the male and female parts of the perfect flower are functional at different times. Cultivars are classified based upon their flowering type. Type A cultivars open in the morning as functionally female flowers, close, then reopen in the afternoon the following day as functionally male flowers. The reverse occurs with Type B cultivars. This mechanism is believed to promote outcrossing, thus many commercial growers plant Type A and B cultivars in close proximity to maximize cross-pollination events. A hypothesis, based upon direct observation of floral pollination events, suggests that self-fertilization occurs in 95% of the flowers in Florida avocados."
http://www.2007.botanyconference.org/eng...
"The flowering habit of avocados is unique in that the flowers are perfect, having both male and female organs, but the parts do not function together. Flowers of type A varieties open in the morning as receptive females, then close in the afternoon until the following afternoon when they reopen for pollen shed. On the other hand, flowers of type B avocados open in the afternoon as receptive females, close overnight and reopen the following morning to shed pollen. In important avocado-producing areas, orchards are interplanted with varieties of both types to assure good pollination. However, under South Texas conditions, there is sufficient overlap between the phases of a flower type that pollination and fruit set are rarely a problem."
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/exten...
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"will take at least 5 - 7 yrs for your baby to bear fruit."
At least, is right. According to Texas Cooperative Extension, The Texas A&M University System, "seedlings may take up to 10 to 15 years to fruit."
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/exten...
no they modify the seeds in the grocery store so that people can't grow the seeds. sorry
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Edit: I'm not sure supermarkets do what you say they do, but certainly at least, some types of purchased avocados can eaten, planted, and grown (rinse, repeat). My grandparents have some they planted in such a manner.
yes you can grow them! Just stick 4 toothpicks in the sides of the seed and put it halfway in a glass of water until it starts to grow...then replant. Remember that an avocado is a fruit and it's already been germinated. At least that's the way my grandmother used to do it.
Yes, but teh fruit is usually inferior. Most of the commercial trees, are clones. The most popular is the Haas in California. Avacado is a tropical fruit, so I see know problem there. It takes a long time to get it to the stage it would give you any fruit. I have three that's just taking up space.
Yes you can and they don't always work but here is how you do it. From the two ends the larger is the root, take four tooth picks poked in the seed to support the seed on top of a small glass of water, hopefully in a couple weeks you will see the root end starting to grow. It makes a tremendous plant if it takes off, go from there.
I had posted this answer before :-)
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Peel the outside off and wash off. Turn it so the fat part is on the bottom and insert 3-4 toothpicks about a third up from the bottom set in a glass of water so the toothpicks hold the top part about the water and the bottom is IN the water. you may have to add or change the water occasionally. I've always set mine in the kitchen window. but an avocado seed takes a LONG time to sprout. Like up to 3 months or longer to see a sprout of a root. if you want it to be bushy with a better root, then once your avocado starts sprouting from the top, pinch back the new sprouts from the main sprout . also there a 2 types of avocados and one grows better than the other- sorry i don't remember which one. and if you grow 2 at a time and 'twine' them together as they grow you have a nicer house plant :-) There are also male and female plants- so if you were looking to 'grow' them for actual avocados, you should try to harvest 3-4. But the twine look is nice and gives them more stablity as they grow. Also... you should plan on not actually putting it in pot for almost a year!
Yes, but I'm sure they don't fruit... they're infertile unless they're crossed with another avocado. They make lovely indoor plants though.
You sure can! *I* have!
This is what I did: I bought a whole net-bag of avocados at Sam's. I saved four seeds. I washed them but kept the brown, thin peel on them. Leaving them moist, I placed them in a ziploc bag, in a warm spot of my room, not under direct sunlight. Weeks later, they all sprouted.
Some people attach four toothpicks to the sides of the seed, in a cross pattern. They they hang if from the edges of a cup, leaving only the bottom of the seed soaking in water. That is where the root eventually will sprout from. I was never lucky with that method, though.
I have one plant still growing, it is about 2' tall now. I am in zone 6, so I do not expect to be able to transplant it out to my yard to bear fruit. But if you do, it will take at least 5 - 7 yrs for your baby to bear fruit. Good luck!
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