I inadvertently grew an Avocado tree... well sapling at the moment. Youngest son River asked me if we could grow one so I dried out the stone, threw it in a tub with my Yukka Plant and forgot about it until it was 6 inches tall!
it's now 2 foot tall and looking healthy!
My questions are:
Will it survive being re-potted into a tub of it's own?
Is it ok in our cold conservatory? It gets warm in there during the day if the sun is shining but gets quite cold at night....
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Re: Avocado
Sorry, dont know anything about keeping the plant alive but just to warn you that avocado's are poisonous to chickens, so keep them away from it! Not sure if it's the whole plant or just the fruit but better to be safe than sorry. 
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Re: Avocado
It's a tropical tree so 1) it doesn't like to be cold 2) if you let it, it will outgrow your house! They are fun and easy to grow but you won't get an avocado from it.
Re: Avocado
So can I transplant it into it's own tub for now? I'll chuck it on the field once it's taller than me! lol
I couldn't kill it..... I've named it!!!
I couldn't kill it..... I've named it!!!
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Re: Avocado
And it's name is....?
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"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts" - Nikki Giovanni
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"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." - George Washington
"A nation can survive its fools, but it cannot survive treason from within." - Cicero
"If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world" - Nikola Tesla
"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts" - Nikki Giovanni
''The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.'' - Albert Schweitzer
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." - George Washington
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Re: Avocado
You need to pot it on into a larger pot now and then do not repot again. Unlikely to flower or fruit here, but if you are brave enough to scar the bark when it is older that stimulates the production of a flower. Highly susceptible to red spider mite of the greenhouse variety. They make handsome greenery plants and will only grow as big as the pot you put it in allows it to. I have a friend in San Diego who grows them in her garden and I gorge myself when I go visit. Yum.
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Star and Flopsy (the latter of the floppy comb) both members of the White Star Faction.
Fedora and Florence the Cream Legbars
Emily (see Emily lay) and Erica the Light Sussex babes
1 current husband aka the structural engineer
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The Lady Isabella Pickford-Fiennes, a feline of distinction and excellent mouser
Re: Avocado
Cardo died :-( he had a fight with a bench and lost....
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Happy in Hampshire!
"If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world" - Nikola Tesla
"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts" - Nikki Giovanni
''The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.'' - Albert Schweitzer
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." - George Washington
"A nation can survive its fools, but it cannot survive treason from within." - Cicero
"If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world" - Nikola Tesla
"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts" - Nikki Giovanni
''The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.'' - Albert Schweitzer
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." - George Washington
"A nation can survive its fools, but it cannot survive treason from within." - Cicero