"Once you start, you cannot stop." I have fifteen avocado seeds and there's already five avocado plants in pots. 🥑🥑🥑 "You will never be able to throw another avocado pit ever again" THAT'S SO TRUE I LITERALLY WAIT EVERY TIME WE EAT AVOCADOES JUST TO SAVE THE PIT! The addiction is real. Be warned y'all!
If you want to get the tree to produce, you have to shock the tree. We in South Africa plant the pips and after 3-4 years in the ground, you nail 3-4 inch nails into the thickest part of the trunk and then the tree will go into shock and produce fruits. This is the nature way of survival of the trees to make more fruits for the pips/seeds so the trees don't die out. Tru and let me know.
@@Nonx47 lol thanks! I never really used them to begin with and then you have a bunch just sitting around, I have some now, just an update, but it's rude to assume anyone can go out and buy toothpicks or has access to get to a store, don't assume to know everyone's situation.
My coworker found out she could sell them in her local area for about $100 per mature avocado plant. So she went to the nearest Qdoba and asked them for all their pits. They gave her a box of about 500 pits and she was successfully able to grow a bit over 450 in her greenhouse on her rented property. A few died but she sold the remaining avocado plants in 2 months. She made enough to buy a house. So here I am, trying to figure out how to grow an avocado successfully 😂 🥑
Yup plants are booming as more people are getting green thumb since pandemic. I started this journey other day trying save Orchid plant, then decide to grow green onions from store brought roots, and then now Avocado seeds. 😂
@: P not true you know what you doing with any plant tree or flower you can make tremendous things happen and grow and taste delicious weirdo why would someone sell a product that I'd going to grow shifty avacados it's all about how you feed nutrients for it.
Thank you Brad! in my experiment I tried: - 1 seed with skin, above water glass (slightly deeped), north window positioned without drape, slight fresh air, aprox 23-24 C - 1 seed without skin above water glass (slightly deeped), north window positioned without drape, slight fresh air, aprox 23-24 C - 2 seeds without skin, in wet paper towel, in zip bag, on desk, near powered laptop (constant temperature, lower lighting). The seeds in zip bag (your method) show strong root after 1 week only, leaving them in bag for another week and check. no bad odor, no mold. the other seeds have very shy attempts to show roots after 2 weeks.
I'mma leave this here and it was the best realisation ever. The lids to the Mcdonalds sundaes and the Starbucks cups (cold ones) works perfectly as the above water vessel. Just flip it upside down and yo gooodddd! Stop that plastic ending up in the fill. Reuse reuse reuse!
This channel is the only way I've ever been successful with growing an avocado pit into a tree! I'm so happy with my first one and now I'm on numbers 2-5... definitely an addiction like he says! Thanks from sunny California! ☀️🥑♥️
Tried this during quarantine and it's been such a fun project for me and my kiddos ever since. We've become super obsessed and are growing 4 more at the moment. We got the same West Elm vase as well! Thanks for sharing this vid!
Funny story - I did the first stage: I put it in a wet paper towel, in a tied bag in a cabinet and then... I forgot about it for many weeks. no idea how many... weeks and weeks... I finally remembered having putting it away, took it out today, and... there was a nice root and stem that had started growing. Plus- it wasn't moldy :) So now it's in a glass bottle, in the manner which you suggested, and I'm exited to see what happens with it! Thank you for this tutorial! This is the first time I succeeded growing a root out of an avocado pit!
Can't thank you enough for posting this easy method for rooting pits. Wonderful to find this after so many failed toothpick attempts. The wet paper towel and zip lock bag also worked great for mango pits and lemon pits--they both sprouted roots within one week. Avocados have been slower for me-one has rooted so far (2 weeks). I've transferred 3 mangoes and one avocado to propagation cups set atop 4 different, interesting, tall crystal water glasses of different shapes. I'm fascinated by the day to day root growth. I planted the rooted lemon seeds in soil one morning and by nightfall I had sprouts peeking up---that kinda blew me away. My SO is from the Caribbean and eats a mango and an avocado every day so I have a bagful of wrapped pits perking away. I think that a rooted, sprouted pit in a beautiful tall faceted glass is a great gift idea.
I just adopted a baby avocado tree and your video is a blessing to a newbie like me! 😊 What I meant by adopted is this cafe I dined in had a brilliant nature campaign that when you purchase their avocado smoothie, youll get to take one seedling. And suddenly today Im an avocado’s parent haha
It's a "rescue". Awwww. LOL I like that idea, though, of getting a seedling with the smoothie. Now when I eat at one of those Mexican restaurants that make guacamole at the table, I'll be thinking about where those pits go.
This video was incredibly helpful! I've been trying for ages to grow an avocado by just plopping the pit in water and hoping for the best. I have been enlightened!!! Thank you so much. You are really fun to watch!
I just plant my seeds in a solo cup half sticking out of the soil, had some growing in cups for a full year, now transferred to tree pots I have 27 avocado trees from last years seeds. Youre right I cant throw one away!
Growing my first Avocado tree with this method. After 6 weeks got a great root and just half submerged in water. Did two at the same time. One took, the other didn't. Brillz method. Can't wait to see wee leaves!
I have a tiny improvement that worked very well for me: Instead of a paper towel use wrapped up cling film, it holds moisture too but since it's not organic it's less likely to develop mold. Worked better for me :)
I actually replaced the sandwich bag with cling wrap and kept the paper towel. Is it better for keeping mold at bay? Certainly not! What was interesting though is that it grew twice as fast as my other 2 seeds which were both using the paper towel and sandwich bag method. Could just be a coincidence that I got a "good seed". Further testing is required! 🥸
The buds are mycorrhizae which are symbiotic organisms that help the plant to grow! I’m so excited. I saved some avocado pits because I just knew I could repurpose it
Finally an easy tutorial that didn't put me to sleep, in fact you could show me how to grow air and I will still watch your fun presentation!! No toothpicks poking out of everywhere, which has stopped me trying even though I have been really excited to try this because I don't want my hand to look like the avocado seed
This is the best idea ever. I cave across this video by accident and now have 4 plants growing, totally addicted and have saved this video for reference. Thank you so much for creating this and sharing with us
my mother did this a lot and i had forgotten ,, i LOVE this video ! Thank you so much , just put my first seed in the baggie ! i can't wait ! Thank you again !
Hi Brad. I had a ziplock bag down in my basement aquarium room. I had forgotten about them for months. I was afraid to open the bag as I thought they might be rotten. Amazingly, they were still damp in the paper towels and were sprouting. I also had two new seeds. I cut donuts from pool noodles and made the center hole bigger with a razor knife. The noodle hole was now big enough to allow me to push the seed into it and yet fit snuggly around the seed like a life jacket. They are all floating on top of my aquariums in the basement under bright lights. My only worry is that once they begin to grow they may become top-heavy and want to fall over in the water. I think I will use super glue gel to glue the noodles to each other to create a floating island-like platform that will be more stable. I'll let you know how things progress with it. As for now they are floating nicely on the surface of my aquariums.
Oh! Thanks Brad! I have about 50 seeds and don't know how to start them growing. This is helpful! Can't wait to try your tips. Cheers from Philippines! 😁
Great presentation and I love your vases and yes let’s grow because it is fun and enjoyment that is the reward..not a 50 pence fruit. As a beginner I have 6 on the go and am just starting to see roots. Loved the ziplock idea and will try that with my next. The addiction begins…🤩👍
Omg. DEAD… well my 5 done well up until they should have been sprouting leaves… but hey… 7 out of 9 ficas cuttings are now beautiful tiny plants. Long live indoor house planting
Sooo I’m just gonna leave this here: The avocado has what is called a ‘complete flower’ because of an unusual behavior known as ‘protogynous dichogamy’. The avocado flower has both functional female and male organs, however they open and close twice over a 2day period...the first day as functionally female and the next as functionally male. So it’s extremely hard to get fruit froze just one tree but it’s possible
wow you lucky my first avocado cracked after 3 months I had two of them planted the same day one was growing nice and another one grow like 2 inches and died idk why. I was devastated because it took 6 months for him to grow 2 inches tall and he didn't make it they were both in perfect same spot growing next to each other 😢
@@Voltomess don’t feel bad. Lol mine didn’t last either. I actually never gotten a stem , just roots. Maybe it’s our water? 🤷🏽♀️. I will try it again though because it’s fun to see things develop over time and seeing your completed work. I will try to use fish emulsion mixed with the water next time. Best of luck to you if you try it again! 🤝
Just came back to say, I finally got 3 of my avocados to sprout thanks to your video. My old pops tried to always grow them but couldn’t so I did it for him. He was very happy and excited to see it grow🥹✨
I know you asked this 10 month ago but I can answer you anyway, in my case I always use faucet water and they are happy and grow like crazy and I live close to NYC so water is not perfect here lol.
I watched this video about a year and a half ago and I now have 6 avocado plants, i planted one I soil and the main shoot shot up right along the side of the pot 5 inches away from the pip. It just made me think of when you said “mother nature, doing it’s thing, being picky”
I've legit checked your tiktok twice for the last parts of info bcz its so different to other peoples explanations. Glad i found this video! Mine sprouted 3 legs after 1.5 weeks 😍😍
I work in a cafe as a cook and we use a bunch of avocados everyday. I took 6 pits home today but all the pits have knife slices. I hope that doesn’t stunt the growth :(
@@pedroclaro7822 no it doesn’t, the plant itself grows upward, it doesn’t reduce anything, I’m growing an avocado with knife slices and it’s literally growing 💜 You do know when an avocado grows the seed starts to crack open right?! Knife slices or not it’s still gonna grow, just make sure the seed itself Isn’t bad
@@ruthlessog9098 how do you know which is good which is not? I had two of them planted the same day one was growing very fast and cracked after 1 month and another one cracked after 3 months and grow very slow and when it had like 2 inches he just died idk why. I was devastated because it took 6 months for him to grow 2 inches tall and he didn't make it they were both in perfect same spot growing next to each other 😢
@@Voltomess you tell by the color! Was it brown? Did it have spots? Also I noticed it doesnt matter wheater they're the same🤔 same soil, same sunlight, same water (doesn't matter) not everything will survive in the same environment! Despite you doing Everything right and taking care of the avocados well, there's always that one or few avocado that needs different treatment.. perhaps the one that stunted on growth needed to be grown in the ground?! (Thats usually the case)
thank you for the video! you are right, i did 1 seed and it's my baby, its not super big but ive had it for a few months now. NOW I have 6 more xD!! 1 is in soil growing faster than the 1st that in water and the other 5 are in water still baby sprouts. I looooooooove them all!
I already have an avocado plant going strong but I wanted to see if there was a better method than what I used and this is the best video I’ve found that actually got me excited to grow every single pit I get and now I have another method to try with my next one! 😅
Your video from a few years ago was what got me into growing the seeds. Your method and tips have always been the most true and successful for me. Thanks for all the info!!
6:26... So true... I have like 4 pits right now, they're looking really good and at just this early stage, I'm already addicted to planting them. Everytime I see an avocado the first thing that comes to my mind is the immense urge to germinate it... Its irresistible. Its like avocados have this anomalous property of manipulating intelligent organisms into helping it reproduce. They grow in such a fun way and leave you with that proud sensation that you've accomplished greatness. Like you just created the perfect offspring for your life.
Ever since I saw your first video on growing an avocado a few weeks ago, I have been saving all my avocado pits 😬 goodbye windowsill space 😅. Thanks again for the tutorial and in-depth information 🌱
Avocados don't actually grow "true to seed" so if it does fruit it won't taste like a normal avocado. Just letting u know! I'm growing an avocado bc i think its just such a cute plant hehe
This was supper helpful I’m starting my indoor plant family and I grew my first avocado root a few weeks ago but did not know what to do next thank you so much
I’m excited to give this a try! We may try to pot them later, I know some other people in the neighborhood have avocado trees, so we might just get what they need. Although I do remember someone saying you have to graft a male branch to the rooted tree. Still, very exciting to try! 🤗🌻🤓
Obsessed ! I eat 1 to 2 Avo’s daily ! Needless to say i have way too many humidity bags of seeds in pantry!! But finally my first babe is growing!! Wanna send you a pic ... don;t know how 😆
3 months(or so ago) I started this lovely journey and have her in a plastic jar and on my window sill and it just started sprouting a little stem. I feel so proud!
But for those who want a tree and more avocados, just go have it graphed and they will tell you what to do from there, basically plant it in the ground!
this is something i am giving a go to today...........i have 2 seeds, so lets get going!..thanks for all your help..............nature is so wonderful and amazing!
@@peterjackson2980 i planted it 5 years ago. i am not kidding :) doubt it will fruit unless we have crazy summers which could happen since spain is snowing
hi i'm from the rain forest,and it's good to see that there are many people who love nature!i love you all,wish everyone a good life and together we can keep the world beautiful and clean🌎❤☀️
I'm so glad I saw this video! I was wondering why my avocado pit didn't grow up since a month. I was wondering what kind of soil should I use to plant them, like a tropical one?
I saw a Swedish RU-vidr sprout an avocado and her method has always worked for me. I wash the stone and then dry it for a day or so. I then cut a cross in the fat end and peel off the skin from halfway down - or all of it. I then sit it over water and watch it sprout. This method seems just as quick as the paper towel method but with no effort. I'm in the UK and we don't have great light for half the year but every single one I've ever tried to grow has worked with this method.
When I was a kid my older brother grew an avocado and it grew into a tree. So I figured if he could do it I should be able to. Well, I haven't been successful, but after seeing your video, I am going to try again and follow your instructions. Thank you for your video!
most plants have nodes. when placed in water, roots grow out of the nodes. the white clumps on the roots help absorb nutrients. avocados can live in water forever. you have the option to plant in soil but they can live in water.
Brad, you're so right, i've been growing avocado seeds 4 year and have many plants to attest to that! however, i learned about peeling skin which i've never done,, wrapping them in humid towel for awhile! i just stick a tooth pick in each side and put them in a small cup of water till the root and sometimes even sprout their 1st branch and try plant then in sole in a pot!! now i understand why so many take so long to do anything! so, shall go back, peel them. OR maybe chuck them and start from scratch?? i have about 10-15 now just sitting in my kitchen doing nothing!! appreciate your sharing all that knowledge:): thx, kelli
Thanks for the advice, worked a treat! My avocado is still in water, just wondering, have you ever added plant feed or other nutrients directly to the water?
I've started mines middle of May'22 and I've forgotten to check for roots... Now they've rooted inside the zip lock, roots are flat-ish & even have those lumpy dotty roots‼️The stem had sprouted as well‼️😍 I've just placed them on the water vase. *so excited for them to grow leaves😊‼️Thanks so much for this vdo & your tips‼️👍🏻🥑
I have to agree with you, it's highly addictive! I have seven beautiful trees cultivated in the last 15 months, am overjoyed. Six in ICU and another two waiting to ripen. Awesome pleasure 🌺🌺🌺
5:26 Hahaha Hilarious!! Don't You wish People would Learn to keep Their Negative Energy to Themselves? 🤣 Great Presentation I Concur. Plants: Gorgeous with or without Fruit. 🌱 🏆
Thank you for explaining that this won't produce avocados lol i would've been waiting forever. But anyways, now I found a way to have cute indoor plants without killing them lol
either way, they wouldnt have tasted like actual avocadoes from the store. They don't grow "true to seed" so that means they don't taste good. About 1 in 10,000 avocado trees actually produce edible (read- tasty) fruit! Avocado facts!
They grow better in soil. They need soil and fertiliser etc to grow stronger and faster. Water alone won’t give them everything they need unless the water has nutrients in it.
I saw this video at the beginning of December 2020. I placed 6 seeds in a plastic container wrapped in a paper towel on a shelf.It’s the 3rd week of January. Today I opened up the container to find that 6/6 seeds are growing! The only thing I didn’t do is peel off the outer coating. Mine were fine with it on.
OMFG WHEN I TRIED DOING IT THE AVOCADO WOULDNT GROW SO I TRIED 2 MORE TIMES AND GAVE UP ALL HOPE UNTIL I JUST OPENED IT AND THERES ROOTS IN BOTH OF THEM!🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
