When I lived in New York I would eat a lot of Avocado in the summer and a few times I tried to grow from one of the seeds. It was not hard to get it to germinate and they seedling would grow quite well, but by winter time it was never that strong and would somehow get some sort of die back disease and eventually die all together. One year I did get one to recover for a short time but then it also succumbed. When I moved to Slovenia someone gave me an avocado in November and I decided to put the seed in soil in the middle of December just before I went to England for 3 weeks. Well when I got back it was just sending a shoot. Often when you see an avocado plant that someone has grown at home it is tall and thin with just a few leaves on the tips. Well I learned that to get a strong healthy plant you need to pinch out the growing tip after 6 leaves have formed and subsequently do the same to the branches that follow. I had to go away for the summer so I left the plant with a friend and she potted it up when it got bigger. By the winter I had a strong healthy avocado tree and this winter it is 2 years old. It is a fun project to try and though it is February I don't think it is too late to start if you can find and avocado seed somewhere. Good luck!
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