Kristineyu, yours are very different to mine - mine just grew one long stiff root that kept getting longer and longer, eventually coiling round the jar. The shoot seems to have changed colour on yours...I'm not sure what that means...
I wish I could show you photos of all 3 of mine in the growth stage but I only took one photo. This is the one whose water I kept changing. Prior to my putting it in the glass vase with fresh water, it was in a jam jar - it was growing really fast and really well but full of algae so I changed it. I also thought the root needed more space but it didn't as I saw with the other 2 whose roots just coiled round the jars more as the stalks pushed out.
I then moved it again but into a plastic bottle (third one in photo), and it slowed the growth down -the other 2, now potted up, overtook the first in terms of growth rate and have 4 and 7 leaves respectively. With the first 2 I left them in the jam jars and kept topping the water level up.
I didn't pinch them out because I didn't read this anywhere and didn't know what it means - thanks Buttercupdays for explaining that so well! I am probably going to chuck away no 3! It has been in that bottle too long and isn't growing very well. It was only after I changed no 3's water that I saw a youtube video of this guy who did an experiment and discovered that changing the water seems to negatively affects their growth! I will try and find the video link and send it to you.
I think you should try again in any case. Just try germinating another one. I don't think you should have tried to pinch anything out. I am not going to pinch any of mine. Also was it in a plastic cup? If so put it in a sturdier container like a jam jar. And yes do as many as you can in case something goes wrong, which of course it won't
Oh okay I see that now! True but fruits are more of a challenge, you can do it indoors, and they make nice houseplants. It's very negative and discouraging of you to suggest that everyone is going to throw them away. I'm thinking of trying a tamarind seed, the leaflets are so pretty. And I currently have growing lemon and orange seedlings too. Each to their own.
I tried twice to germinate avocado seeds suspended over water but failed. I did however manage to germinate two by planting the seeds directly in pots of moist compost. Here in the south of Portugal frost is rare so you can leave your avocado plant outside all here. What you have to do is provide shade for young avocado plants during the extremely hot summer months. At Viverplanta, Olhão we stock the 'Hass', 'Bacon' and 'Fuerta' varieties.
Here is a pic of one I grew from seed a year and a half ago.
i've done one, i started it in a glass of water, it cracked after about three weeks then took an age for anything to grow but it did after a couple of months and when the single thick root was around 5inches long i planted it and it is now about a foot tall and in a north facing window sill, i read somewhere that when it flowers it produces male and female flowers and the period of time between male and female flowers being open is so small that unless you pollinate them yourself or have some bees to hand this is where the problem with getting them to fruit is, i'm not sure (i can't remember how you tell the sex of the flowers but if i get any i will have to try using a paintbrush and look it up again on google, feel free to correct me if any of you know more about it than me but it was along those lines.
my cousin actually had bananas on her banana tree grown outside a few years ago in her garden here in the south east, anything is possible,
Ladybird i saw either on GW or beechgrove someone a week or two grwoing ginger in the uk outside
This is my one which is around a year old. I allowed it to get to around 6 inch tall and then nipped off the growing tip. Since then it's kept sprouting leaves but not gained height. I read you are meant to chop it down to 3 inchs or something but I didn't trust the Internet im growing another one in water at the moment l, will be ready for soil soon.
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Aym mentioned fruit. Everyone who does it will end up with compost fodder.
Sprout some beans instead!
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Kristineyu, yours are very different to mine - mine just grew one long stiff root that kept getting longer and longer, eventually coiling round the jar. The shoot seems to have changed colour on yours...I'm not sure what that means...
I wish I could show you photos of all 3 of mine in the growth stage but I only took one photo. This is the one whose water I kept changing. Prior to my putting it in the glass vase with fresh water, it was in a jam jar - it was growing really fast and really well but full of algae so I changed it. I also thought the root needed more space but it didn't as I saw with the other 2 whose roots just coiled round the jars more as the stalks pushed out.
I then moved it again but into a plastic bottle (third one in photo), and it slowed the growth down -the other 2, now potted up, overtook the first in terms of growth rate and have 4 and 7 leaves respectively. With the first 2 I left them in the jam jars and kept topping the water level up.
I didn't pinch them out because I didn't read this anywhere and didn't know what it means - thanks Buttercupdays for explaining that so well! I am probably going to chuck away no 3! It has been in that bottle too long and isn't growing very well. It was only after I changed no 3's water that I saw a youtube video of this guy who did an experiment and discovered that changing the water seems to negatively affects their growth! I will try and find the video link and send it to you.
I think you should try again in any case. Just try germinating another one. I don't think you should have tried to pinch anything out. I am not going to pinch any of mine. Also was it in a plastic cup? If so put it in a sturdier container like a jam jar. And yes do as many as you can in case something goes wrong, which of course it won't
Oh okay I see that now! True but fruits are more of a challenge, you can do it indoors, and they make nice houseplants. It's very negative and discouraging of you to suggest that everyone is going to throw them away. I'm thinking of trying a tamarind seed, the leaflets are so pretty. And I currently have growing lemon and orange seedlings too. Each to their own.
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Retired engineer Mr Simpson, 84, set about growing the plant eight years ago by putting the leafy top slice of a pineapple in a saucer of water.
Later, it was put into a plant pot and fed compost and tomato feed - and left on the windowsill on the south-facing side of the house.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3774939/Yorkshireman-finally-enjoys-fruits-labour-growing-pineapple-windowsill-EIGHT-years-planted-it.html#ixzz4K7u0mymK
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Thanks Zenjeff, that's great! I think Kristine and I can both take encouragement from that fab story
Well done LadyBird4,
I tried twice to germinate avocado seeds suspended over water but failed. I did however manage to germinate two by planting the seeds directly in pots of moist compost. Here in the south of Portugal frost is rare so you can leave your avocado plant outside all here. What you have to do is provide shade for young avocado plants during the extremely hot summer months. At Viverplanta, Olhão we stock the 'Hass', 'Bacon' and 'Fuerta' varieties.
Here is a pic of one I grew from seed a year and a half ago.
i've done one, i started it in a glass of water, it cracked after about three weeks then took an age for anything to grow but it did after a couple of months and when the single thick root was around 5inches long i planted it and it is now about a foot tall and in a north facing window sill, i read somewhere that when it flowers it produces male and female flowers and the period of time between male and female flowers being open is so small that unless you pollinate them yourself or have some bees to hand this is where the problem with getting them to fruit is, i'm not sure (i can't remember how you tell the sex of the flowers but if i get any i will have to try using a paintbrush and look it up again on google, feel free to correct me if any of you know more about it than me but it was along those lines.
my cousin actually had bananas on her banana tree grown outside a few years ago in her garden here in the south east, anything is possible,
Ladybird i saw either on GW or beechgrove someone a week or two grwoing ginger in the uk outside
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I have this problem as well, and when I tried putting them outside, they almost fried!!!
Does anyone see anything I can do to get my babies growing?
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They need filtered sunlight when they're small.
You may get some ideas from here http://www.growingontheedge.net/viewtopic.php?p=46690
if you have the right conditions it is possible to grow one to maturity outside in some parts of the UK ... beware how big they can be!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
This is my one which is around a year old. I allowed it to get to around 6 inch tall and then nipped off the growing tip. Since then it's kept sprouting leaves but not gained height. I read you are meant to chop it down to 3 inchs or something but I didn't trust the Internet
im growing another one in water at the moment l, will be ready for soil soon.