Avocadocumentary--Part 1

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Okay, I decided to give this a whirl, see how it goes.



The avocado is definitely going gangbusters at this point--it's only been a couple days since it started really growing, but I guess after having taken a million and one years to actually sprout, it's trying to make up for lost time.



As you can tell by the way this thing is bending, it definitely likes its sun--this is *after* I rotated it once. It decided it didn't like that though, so it went "Bitch, PLEASE", and over the course of the day, twisted itself around so that it was heading towards the window I keep it on again. Avocados are woody, but at this point, it's definitely showing some contortionist aspirations. The woodiness'll come later, I suspect. It looks like there's some leaf buds developing too, so hopefully we'll be seeing some green soon.

Comments

[liich.livejournal.com]

ooh, i'm impressed. i've yet to get an avocado seed to even try to grow...and i even had one that had started to sprout inside of the avocado. O_o lucky you.

[peppermintberry.livejournal.com]

Aw. <3 Well, I've been seeing a lot of avocados in grocery stores lately, so I think it might be the season for them, if you want to try again. I'm not sure if this is what helped or not, but I've read that removing the seed coat can help coax them to sprout, which is something I did on this one (as well as moving it to a sunnier window).

[liich.livejournal.com]

i'll try that. we have 3 avocados we just bought, so....i'll use one of those. i'll probably need to make my place warmer, tho. :D

OOH

[liich.livejournal.com]

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