Remember that I stuck an avocado seed in water several weeks ago? I'm calling it Number One...since I have a second bulb started, and bought a new avocado this week. They are soooo good.
Mon. May 15: There are new roots!! No sprout yet. But I am thrilled. So I have another one started. These are the huge Florida avocados (that's what my grocery store calls them.) I get several salads out of each one. So in gratitude, I'm wanting some little trees. Not expecting myself to live long enough to have avocados though!! Perhaps one of my neighbors or frriends will keep them going.
But wait. You've been waiting since last Monday anyway...look what they looked like by Thursday (last week May 18)
By Tues. May 16. they had been transplanted into a sterilized pot and new soil. I took a photo of them when I did that, but am still having trouble getting photos to download. It's as if my computer refuses to recognize iCloud at all now.
This is what they looked like on Thurs. May 18. I moved them away from where they'd get heavy rain. I don't want them to rot.
Today's quote:
Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
-Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, poet (1636-1711)
...I remember starting avocados years ago.
ReplyDeleteI am happy for the orchid, and thou.
ReplyDeleteYou really do have quite a green thumb, Barbara. I've never had much luck getting an avocado seed to send out roots. And our orchid is still languishing. I won't give up until it does.
ReplyDeleteAll that growth.. lovely! Avocados get big though...
ReplyDeleteYou are tempting me to start a sweet potato vine . . . I had a giant one when I was a freshman in college and then my hamster ate it.
ReplyDeleteI may have grown one once. All the sweet potatoes in stores seem to not have eyes, like lots of white ones. How do you find a start? Well, I'll guess, go for organic ones.
DeleteI grew a big avocado tree once from a seed! It was a project I tried with my children when thye were young and thye were amazed to see it grow
ReplyDeleteThat's so neat to have done it with your children! If only I had stayed in on place in Florida, we might have been eating our own avocados by now. But this green thumbed lady also is an adventurer, so lots of miles since then to this hope for sprouts.
DeleteThat is resilient.
ReplyDeleteI love everything about this post. My mother used to grow avocado trees too. I can't recall what she did with them but I remember those seeds in water, on the windowsill with her African violets.
ReplyDeleteOur avocado has shown its roots, it has been about five weeks.
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