My wife is trying to start an Avacado from seeds for a indoor Bonsai tree without any luck with the toothpicks method watched on YouTube. Any other methods?
Tony
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I’ve thrown them right into the ground and they grow. I had one grow over the summer and by fall it had grown a lot. The frost/freeze melted it and that was that. Same thing with mango seeds.
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You can chop off the top, bottom, and sides of the seed and it will sprout quicker.
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We just throw them in the compost bin. There are about 30 avocado seedlings popping up.
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Tony, I use the toothpick method as well and it works fine. I also peel off the brown skin but doubt it would do much difference.
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that’s too much work for me. I have two dozen avocado plants every summer just from my compost pile. But even those that I kept as houseplants for a few years, I just planted them in a houseplant vase indoors and they grew, along with mangoes. Then I cut most of the plants and kept the best one, but they don’t do all that well indoors and are generally gone in 5 years. Most of my other houseplants are 15+ years old.
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Did you get any to fruit in that time?
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no. not even close. Neither did the mangoes or the grapefruits started from seed. For that matter i have 2 20 years old date palms started from seed (now those are rugged plants), no fruits there either.
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Date palms are either male or female. If you have two males, they will never fruit. Have they ever flowered?
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they have not flowered. TBH I have 6, 3 per pot, and these are not large pots (4 gallons I think) and I have root pruned all of them a couple of times. There is a good chance that i have both. But they spend 8 months indoors, and 4 months outdoors in shade (my back patio is like that) and they are not doing it.
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