Hello sweethearts! Today I will tell you and explain step by step how to successfully germinate an avocado seed; and not only! Also how to maintain your new, future, sapling.

I will never forget when I tried it for the first time and a few weeks later I was amazed to see the seed open up and show me its first roots! It was an indescribable and priceless joy!

First thing: buy an avocado 🥑 (always better if organic and local, so as to have fewer treatments); nice ripe to be able to eat maybe on the same day.

Open it in a half ✂️
Once opened: extract the seed, clean it from the pulp and leave it in water (always at room temperature) for 24 hours. This procedure will serve to soften the brown outer skin (which we will later cut) and to speed up the rooting process.

After 24 hours we take our seed, free it from the skin, as we have anticipated before, and wrap it in a cloth napkin. Removing the skin is used to make it open faster with less effort.

We moisten the napkin well and place it in a transparent container with an airtight seal in a well-lit place, perhaps near a window.

We check daily that the seed 🥑 is in good condition and that no mold has developed.

It may take weeks, but sometimes even months 📅, before you see a well-developed root. This will depend on the period in which you will do the experiment and on the seed, therefore: do not despair! Nature can always surprise us and in a thousand ways.

When the root is long enough (about 2 centimeters) you can move your seed from the container to a cruet with water.

You can pierce the seed with toothpicks, or use a bottle 🍶 with a narrow opening; the important thing is that the root is totally immersed.

Change the water 💧 whenever it goes numb or add it when it goes down.

If later you see white balls on the roots: don’t worry! They are mushrooms 🍄 that nourish the roots.

Repeat the process of changing or adding water until you see the first (beautiful) fully developed leaves.

At this point, it’s time to transfer it into soil!

Use a well-draining soil, it will be enough for you to do just that: 50% soil, 50% leca. Leave the seed out of the ground, leaning. The seed will be the fertilizer of your new seedling. Until it wears out: you don’t need to fertilize it.

Do not wet it, let it settle for about ten days, then water generously.

My beloved avocado thrives happily outside all year round (I live in a mild climate), but if you are growing your avocado in the winter, I recommend taking it outside in the spring. I placed it under a tree, protected from direct sunlight.

Do not be afraid and: prune your sapling! Prune it!!
This will be extremely beneficial for proper root development and to make it stronger and healthier! He will not suffer or be shocked in any way.
I prune it with well-disinfected scissors: I make a decisive oblique cut leaving three buds.
I prune it every time it fully develops its leaves; all year round, if it does not go into vegetative rest in winter.

Let me know if my method helped you, or as you did and contact me for anything; I’m here for you!

Love you, bye! 💗