How to grow avocados at home

1. buy avocado

Choose dark green fruit is quite soft to the touch.

If a ripe avocado was not, no big deal. Take the unripe fruit. For a couple of days, put it together with bananas or apples. Ethylene, which they secrete, help fruit ripen faster.

2. Separate the seeds from the pulp

Carefully cut the fruit into two halves.

Remove the seeds from the pulp by hand or with a spoon. Rinse it under warm water.

3. germinate seed

Avocado plant can be at any time of the year. If the bone without damage, the probability is quite high germination.

Option 1

Knife, an awl or a thick needle into the bone, do three or four small holes having a depth of 2-3 mm. Insert a toothpick or a sharpened match them.

In a small container, pour filtered or, for example, to defend watering flowers water.

Place the bone so that the blunt end was in the water. Toothpicks, based on the edge capacity, will not let her drown.

Maintain the water at one level and changed every several days. But make sure that the puncture site is not wet.

Instead of water, you can use a hydrogel, which is sold in the shops with indoor plants. Its level should be below the puncture.

Place the container with avocado on a window sill or other well-lighted place.

Proklyunetsya root and a half or two weeks, although its appearance may be delayed for a month. When it reaches 3-4 cm in length, remove the toothpicks and transplant into the ground.

option 2

Clean the outer shell of the bone, taking care not to damage it.

Place in a small narrow vessel so that she was in the water for about half and collapses on its side.

When a couple of weeks after germination the root reaches 2-3 cm, transplant seeds in a pot.

option 3

Simply place the bone into the pot with the ground so that at ⅔ she was on the surface. If bury deeper, it can simply rot. The pot should be as described in paragraph № 4 and ground - as described in paragraph 5 №.

Watering every 2-3 days. This method is the easiest, but before the first shoots will have to wait a few months.

4. Select the appropriate pot

Take a plastic or ceramic pot with drainage holes at the bottom. Its depth should be no more than 10-15 cm. For the first time it will be enough.

5. Fill the pot proper ground

Mix the universal primer for indoor plants with coarse sand and peat in the proportion 1: 1: 1. So the earth will become loose.

When selecting note that primer for avocado should be neutral (pH = 7) is not acidic.

As the use of drainage gravel or expanded clay.

6. Plant a seed, if you are germinated in water or hydrogel

On the bottom of the pot place the drain layer is not less than a couple of centimeters. Fill the earth and carefully loosen. Make a small indentation on the surface.

Will land the bone so that it was in the ground about a half, no more. Be careful not to damage the roots when planting.

Pour your seedling. Make sure the soil is moist but not boggy. From an excess of moisture can be covered with bone mold.

7. Put into a bright and warm place

Place the pot so that it lacked light. It is perfect, for example, the window sill. The temperature should be room.

8. properly care

Do not remove the pot in the shade, otherwise the plant will not develop normally. Pour avocado every 3-4 days during the warm season and a little less in the cold. Do not allow complete drying of the land.

When will the shoots, regularly spray them. If in a room with very dry air avocado next to it, you can put a small container with water to increase humidity.

During the first months of avocado is rapidly pulled upward and can reach 50 cm. Then the growth rate will slow. When escape is more than eight leaves, prischipnite it. Carefully remove the very top with a knife or scissors. After not forget to rinse the instrument.

As soon as you notice that the avocado begins to stretch, pinch it. So you get a tree with a neat crown.

If possible, keep the avocado summer outdoors. With the onset of autumn coolness return the plant to a warm room. Do not leave on the street, if the temperature drops below +10 ° C.

9. Fertilize avocado and transplant

During warmer months, once or twice a month fertilize means to houseplants.

The first five years Repot young avocados annually. Then the interval between transfers can be increased to three years. Each time, choose a pot slightly usedaboutng bigger diameter.

When transplanting try not to damage the root system. Just waddle earthen room in the new container and add the right amount of land.

10. Help give avocado fruit

With proper care can begin to blossom tree. Usually it is not earlier than in 5-6 years.

Once on the plant will flower, try to pollinate them. To do this, take a soft brush or cotton swab and run by color. Repeat this procedure several times or clean the tool after each procedure. The chances of success increase if you have a few flowering trees.

Do not worry if pollination experiment fails. Even naturally in avocados tied a relatively small amount of fruit. So just be patient and try again at the next bloom.