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Avocado plant problem
Hello and thank you for reading this message. Can anyone help with this?
I've grown an avocado plant from the stone of a supermarket avocado. The plant is about a metre high now and two years old. I'm a no ice and to start with I mixed garden soil with compost. Not the best, I know!
A few months ago I reported the plant with the existing soil tightly bound by roots and then potting compost in the majority of the pot. Problem is that for about a year the leaves have been gradually turning brown starting at the tips then going crispy and dropping off. Since re-potting the plant there has been rapid leaf growth at the top but some of these leaves are already going brown and the tips.
Any ideas on this will be of help, thank you.
I've grown an avocado plant from the stone of a supermarket avocado. The plant is about a metre high now and two years old. I'm a no ice and to start with I mixed garden soil with compost. Not the best, I know!
A few months ago I reported the plant with the existing soil tightly bound by roots and then potting compost in the majority of the pot. Problem is that for about a year the leaves have been gradually turning brown starting at the tips then going crispy and dropping off. Since re-potting the plant there has been rapid leaf growth at the top but some of these leaves are already going brown and the tips.
Any ideas on this will be of help, thank you.
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I suspect yours is too cold, in too dry an atmosphere, poor light conditions and possibly over or under watering. Have a look at this info and see if it helps you improve your growing conditions - https://www.californiaavocado.com/avocado101/your-own-avocado-tree
Thank you for your replies. Hopefully it will keep going a while. It makes a nice tall green indoor plant. How big should the pot be then? At the moment it's 27cm diameter and 25cm height.
I also found they made better plants plants by reducing the height of the plant by up to two thirds to stimulate the growth of side shoots so that it formed a ‘bush’ rather than a ‘tree’
Good luck with yours.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.