Perth tales...a strange avocado

After many, many unsuccessful attempts over the years, an avocado pit, that I'd carefully suspended in a jar of water using three toothpicks, like so, sprouted a little root. According to popular opinion (i.e. I read it online) this should take three to six weeks to happen...mine took ten...and then, nothing...the big root continued to grow, slowly, with no sign of any leaves, just a big root dangling into the jar of water.


So finally, I planted it, and it sat in the plant pot, looking like a dead stone for another week or two.....

Then, the outer shell split and came off and three little shoots poked out

I debated plaiting the shoots together as they grew to see if that would affect the shape of the tree...but decided against it, it was so fragile and I was so excited that it was actually growing, I didn't want to do anything that might damage the plant

I looked after it carefully, moving it around the house to give it the best light - it didn't like direct sunlight and putting it in the garden resulted in the plant wilting literally within minutes - 40 degrees summer sun in Perth was way too harsh for my little avocado




On a side note - it may have been suggested during these months of moving the avocado around the house, trying to find the best light without too much of a cross breeze from the air con that I was "mollycoddling" the plant.... but I didn't care, I was growing my own avocado tree

Then, one sunny day, I transplanted the avocado from its smaller purple pot, into a larger ceramic one.....and it went limp over the space of a few days...and died.




















                                                                                 


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