Why a Hass Avocado Seed Does Not Give Us a Hass Avocado Tree

Avocados do not grow true to seed. That means if you plant the seed from an avocado you ate the resulting tree will not produce the same type of avocado. We use candy to demonstrate how pollination and DNA create a unique tree from every avocado seed. Also, we show how growers use grafting to make sure their tree produces the type of avocado they want.

[remmydowd]

This guy: Why avocado seeds don't grow true to seed

Me at 3 am: Well well well, lets find out

[aussie]

I live in Australia and back in 1983 I planted 12 Hass avocado seeds that I had bought from the supermarket. 7 years later they fruited and the first crop tasted earthy. But the every year after that they were as delicious as the original as the ones that I bought from the supermarket. No problem.

[rodels.]

My father didn't know anything about the science of avocado. There were no YouTube videos in his time. He didn't go to agri school. He was just an ordinary farmer. He just planted avocado seeds. When we were little we enjoyed the best tasting creamy and compact avocados that were oversized compared to modern avocados. And these came from those seeds he planted. I truly miss those avocados, especially when I see those teeny weeny varieties sold in supermarkets, nowadays. Our Avocados then we're twice the size of a Hass avocado today. (I am 56 yrs old). Also, I have a neighbor who planted a seed from an avocado she bought. It was bearing fruit after only 5 years. In fact I bought 2 seedlings from her, from that tree, a few days ago. So I don't really buy that stuff, that out of 10k avocado seeds you plant, you only get 1 good tasting avocado.

[fuckgoogle]

This man is crushing people's dreams with a smile, sales pitch, and the lure of candy. Well done.

[wilberbravo]

I’m an engineer who works for the avocado industry in Mexico, this mans knowledge of avocados is best thing I’ve accidentally come across! Cheers sleepylizard !

[Mystrishv]

My grandpa grew avocado trees from seeds (I watched them grow) and they all had avocados that tasted like the initial one he got the first seed from. Us grandkids took care of the trees after he passed so we could continue enjoying the avocados. Must be a miracle that he successfully grew 3 trees with really good fruit lol

[rico]

Geez, I'm glad my avocado seed didn't watch this. I planted a seed from the example you showed I believe was called Hall. In 4 years it was huge and produced bigger and better tasting fruit than the original one I planted. This is near Sarasota Florida. It's now about 11 years, and the tree is about 30' high, and is now a CASH producer. However most of what you said is true, and I appreciate this video.

[noapoleon_]

This guy is the best salesman I've ever seen. He managed to keep me hooked on a 12 minutes ad

[gurbaga]

This explains why I get M&M's when I plant Jelly Belly.

[talonflame_brawlstars.]

The way you explained this was so easy to pick up on. You are such a brilliant man.

[vhsopa]

This is my best description that I have ever seen on the Internet about grafting or planting tree seeds. Thanks.

[PhilosoraptorXJ]

I am about ready to ruin my wife's day by sharing this video with her.

She planted an avocado seed about a year ago. Lol.

[mayo]

Wow 15 years later I finally learned why half the fruit trees around my childhood home were always disgusting. Never realised how much I needed this.

[chancellorpalpatineakathes]

In kindergarten we planted an Avocado seed from Oaxaca in the school garden. Some kids aunt smuggled seeds from Mexico. That was 26 years ago, this is a local variety that has buttery skin and meat. The tree is now huge and have tried a few fruits over the years as I help in providing pepper and vegetable seedlings to my old school. The fruit actually taste great. Not the same but definitely better than any supermarket variety.

[db]

Yes he is correct. Basically seeds from self-pollinating trees like citrus trees, will bear the same or similar tasting fruit as the fruit you ate. But fruits from trees like avocados that need a "male" and a "female" tree to cross-pollinate, in order to bear fruit, will not taste anything like the original fruit. This also explains why you need two avocado trees to get any fruit - Pollen from a flower on an avocado tree cannot fertilize onto another flower on that same avocado tree. You see? This is why high school biology class was so important, when you thought why learn it.

[twalrus]

Many decades ago a friend of my mother's from back in Mexico went around to restaurants and street food vendors and made a deal to buy their avocado seeds for a couple of cents each. She would go around and pick them up weekly. She and her family planted the seeds on some land they had that was sitting around doing nothing. She made a deal with a local Agricultural School to get the students to graft the HAAS avocado branches (the school had them from some trees they had) onto the seedlings she had already planted. The students got in the field practice and the lady got graftings for the price of materials (hand tools, wrappings, wax, etc). When the trees were giving fruit, she struck a deal with Safeway in America and they bought everything she could produce. So she built an avocado empire on the cheap.

[ProphetChumbles]

explains how 90% of the mango trees in my neighborhood tasted like stringy garbage but one neighbor had 7 of the most delicious trees I have ever had.

[sandrab.]

Wow, great info! Now I understand why farmers used the grafting method. In school I learned about grafting but it didn’t sink in why. If this guy taught my science class, I think I would have remembered—“planting the seed from some delicious fruit you ate (such as avocado) will NOT produce a tree or plant that yields the same tasting fruit.”

Lesson learned.👍😁🥑

[ladyzjah]

What magical genius tomfoolery did I just stumble upon????!!! This is genius!! Life is good!!!! Thank you.

[supertoyssupertoys]

This guy is like those good teachers that once they teached us something it got stuck with us