The BEST Way To Grow Avocado From Seed | 0 - 5 Months of Growth

Today I'll be testing out several methods of growing avocados, to find out the best way to grow them from seed. I'll be direct sowing some in soil and also using the toothpick and water method of propagating them. I'll show you how to grow avocado from seed from start to finish using several methods to find out what the most effective way to plant the seeds. I include many updates within the video right up until 5 months of growth. I also show how to transplant avocados from water to soil and the experiment finishes with showing some clear results of the best way to germinate avos from the pit of a store bought fruit.

Here's a great book if you'd like to learn how to graft your avocado tree
Grafting and Budding: A Practical Guide for Fruit and Nut Plants and Ornamentals

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0:00 Intro
0:55 Removing the seeds
1:10 Toothpick & Water Method
1:57 Soil sowing method
2:40 8 Weeks Later
3:20 14 weeks - Octopus roots
4:44 Turn of the tables
5:39 Transplanting from water to soil
6:06 Final results
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[TheKiwiGrower]

Please read :). If you’d like to grow an avocado tree and have it bear fruit in a shorter time, then there is another step to this process. You can use the seedling that you’ve grown as a rootstock and graft onto that. I plan to make a video about this topic at some stage as its something that anyone can have a go with and a great skill to learn more about.

If you don’t graft your tree, they can take longer to fruit, and the fruit quality can vary from the original fruit.
However that can also be cool to see how the fruit will turn out :).

Otherwise if you just want to grow your avocado as a houseplant or for a fun experiment then that’s awesome too as they do make a beautiful plant or tree 😁 🌱

Good luck with your growing!

[aviannamejia]

I have 5 avocado trees, mom does not want be to grow anymore... :( But I grow them in secret!! It’s so therapeutic!

[deanpereza]

It looks so much easier than growing a relationship.

[mrs.monicautt]

I grew my tree from seed. Took 6 or 7 years to produce fruit. They are huge, easy to peal, and taste fantastic! They are exactly like the parent fruit. The hurricane just picked SIXTY avocadoes off the tree and there are still another 50 on the tree! It is amazing!!!!

[xbmvqlg]

3 years later, do you still have these plants? Can you give an update of the difference in the avocado size and insides?

[tushanshu]

AND the most important is that you are so patient with waiting and recording how these plants are growing. It really takes time and I appreciate your work soooo much!

[savitham.s.]

I grew an avocado tree from a seed and it bore fruits within 5 years. I did not expect it to fruit so early as avocado is not native to Bangalore (India). I was very happy and excited.

[DramaticallyMiddleAged]

OMG😱 first off… you deserve a medal 🥇 for taking the patience to film this over so long! Second… you have just cleared my entire kitchen window of little glasses of avos in toothpicks! They’re all going into soil today. I live in the uk and it’s about to be winter so I will mulch and hope for the best. THANK YOU 🙏

[arthurledezma]

Finally decided to look into this and I am quite surprised. I grew up watching my dad do the toothpick method, but direct soil method is clearly better! Thank you so much for posting!

[svampebob]

as a avocado grower I really appreciate this video.
Sprouting early is not always a good sign, it can be a sign that it's so stressed that it tries to sprout as fast as possible to get help from the sun to grow, or simply bad genetics.
on our 30 hectar farm we grew all of our trees from seed, it takes up more work but the end result is always better, you don't need to worry about adapting to the new soil or any shock, you just leave it there and it blooms up.


In between our trees we also just grow coffee, and it makes picking up the berries so much better when you can just enjoy a fresh avocado while picking.

[helencummings]

I planted seven very ripe avocados straight into pots, they sprouted, I got seven trees, kept two, gave the rest away, the avocados are huge, much bigger than the actual fruit that was planted, now have two huge trees. Live in Zimbabwe.

[markhendricks]

appreciate the commitment to create a video with updates over such a long interval

[kball_]

I've had my avocado tree for two years now, and it's doing amazing. Avocado trees are awesome.

[kosmos]

Will I grow avocados? No. Do I even like avocados? No. Did I still watch this whole video? Yes!

Great video!

[kassandragmzful]

How can I identify the kind of avocado I have ? My dogs planted it trying to hide it 😂 and Suddenly i have an avocado plant 🌱

[WonderfullyMade_Lex]

I wondered about the fruit. This is the first video I've come across, after years of searching, where people say they've had success. I'm going to save my avocado pits and add them to my seed library. Thank you for your videos. 🥰

[Sara.Rose.]

We have got two avocado trees and today we plucked many 🥑. I will be definitely trying all these different methods. Thank you x
PS: My grandparents had planted the trees 20 years ago

[Blue_Azure]

I’m so glad I saved at least 30 of them. It just felt wrong to throw something so big when I paid for the whole thing....😂

[JessicaJLandi]

I never had success growing avocados in water held with toothpicks. I threw out my avocados seeds into the compost pile and weeks later found two avocados plants growing! I brought them in for the winter, and now have them out for the summer. I'd LOVE to get avocados from these plants!

[marnikennedy]

I found placing the pit in a damp paper towel, in a baggy and kept in the house in the dark they sprout really easy. : )