Mr. Pit (growing an avocado tree part 1)

Meet Mr. Pit. He came from an avocado. He’s been all wrapped up in his mother for a while now. Most recently they’ve lived in the bowl we keep on our kitchen table. They’ve had friends. The Banana Crew of course, then there’s the Lemon family, Mr. Orange, and Miss Honeydew.

But now he’s one his own. (Shhh don’t tell him but his mom will be very instrumental in tonight dinner...)

Look how pretty he is!!

This week I came across how to grow an avocado tree! Now obviously living in Kentucky is not the best atmosphere for harvesting avocados but you can grow a tree indoors. Kinda fun huh? The hubs has been wanting a larger indoor plant for the apartment so I’m gonna give it a whirl! 

First you gotta get an avocado. Then once you eat it (or if you just let it sit and get ripe and don’t eat it. You’re loss.) take the pit out. I would scoop it out and not whack it with the chefs knife and take it out so you don’t mess it up. 

Then you give it a bath. Just wash all the slimy goodness off and dry it.

Then you figure out the top and bottom. The bottom is a little flatter and the top comes to a small point. If you remember to pay attention when taking it out you can’t get it wrong cause it’s the same as the top of the avocado itself. The top of the pit will be on top with the top of the fruit (aka where you can see where it was connected to it’s tree). Mine looked like the roots already want to come out the bottom so it was super easy. 

See!!

Ok then you stick a few toothpicks in it! It’s actually really easy to stick them in. You do this because the bottom of the pit has to stay in water 24/7 while the top needs to say out of water 24/7. This way you can place it in a cup suspended over water. After I did mine I realized I should have put the toothpick in at an angle and not straight on that way they would rest it a little lower in the cup and I wouldn’t have to have it filled to the brim all the time. Oh well. 

Then in about 2-4 (I think, relying on memory) it should have roots come out the bottom and a little plant pop out the top! 

Here’s hoping first times a charm!! I will keep you updated on Mr. Pit’s progress and (hopefully) when he makes it to the second part (potting) I will share how to do it!