Growing My Personal Garden

August 29, 2013 -- Avocado in the Dirt

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Avocado plant is growing fast now. This plant has been on the balcony with no sunshine.

August 19, 2013 --Avocado in the dirt

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Here are pictures a week later.

August 11, 2013 -- Avocado in dirt

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We have our first sprout.

Avocado starter in water vs in dirt

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Here you will see the avocado planted in the dirt.

Below you will find the start of our avocado in water.

With both I will be making sure the bottoms keep moist at all time. We want to see the progress of both.

Now the one in the dirt has been planted a week earlier, so it should sprout before, but we want to see if it gets bigger faster or which is easier.

March 16, 2012- Avocado Tree

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March 16, 2012 progress. Very soon these will be moved outside for the summer months, once it gets warmer for longer periods.

These are getting very large and we are starting to see some brown to the trunk of the trees.

February 2012 - Avocado Tree

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Last Month (February 2012), I took pictures of the avocado trees and thought it would be great to monitor the progress going forward. So, here are the pictures taken then.

The top tree is the first seed and the bottom tree is the second seed started.

This is the second tree.

First tree started

Side view of the first tree started

July 24, 2011 - Avocado Tree

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Here is a photo I found of July 24th of one of the avocado trees. You can see here that we have two or three new leafs starting at th every top just sprouting out.

September 3, 2011 - Avocado Tree

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On or around September 3, 2011, both trees were put into their own pots. (Now, we were living in a one bedroom small apartment, therefore all our plants were crammed. But, with all this said you can still grow a small garden.)

This is the first seed that we started.

This is the second seed we started.

These just amazed us everyday with the growth and how much they prospered without much care after they had grown. Eventually we were only watering these plants once a week during the winter and twice a week during the summer. We did find out that they needed a ton of light and lots of heat.

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Growing an Avocado Tree.................

I did not take pictures of the whole process of growing two trees from the seed. I did a ton of research online and decided to take the challenge of growing an avocado tree without starting the seeds in water. We started growing one seed, I believe, at the end of the winter of 2011. Then the second seed was planted in the same pot a few months later.

Both of these pictures were taken in July of 2011. The first few months I over watered the plants as much as I could remember. It was amazing watching the plant come out of the seed and sprout up fast. It seemed to only take a short amount of time before the tree got tall.