Avocados 🥑
Hey y’all! Basically, one the 1st of November, I got an avocado stone and am trying to grow it since. My method, in the long run is this: 1) put in pot of water for an hour then remove skin of the stone. 2) wet some kitchen towel with water and wrap up the skinless stone. Put in empty container and cover the top with cling film. 3) Remove 20 days later. There should be a sprout. 4) stick three or four cocktail sticks in the sides, so that the ‘crack’ where the root is is going horizontally and the root is in the water. Fill with water about halfway the height of the avocado stone. 5) it should start growing from there. In three months time, it should reach like 15cm tall, and you should chop it down (I think that’s optional because I’ve seen people do it and some people don’t - I’d love your opinion on that). Anyways, so, I’d love to hear some other methods as to how to do this right, and if the method I’m using is effective or not. 🤔😉😝😊🤩😌🙃😂🤣😀😃🥹☺️😊🙂😆
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@Sunshine_1303 oh no i know what you meant. What i'm saying is that stone or pit is the wrong word for an avocado seed.
A pit or stone is a seed covered in a hard endosperm. They belong to drupe fruits such as peaches, cherries, nectarines etc.
An avocado, on the other hand, is not a drupe but a hard-skinned, large, singularly seeded berry. It's endosperm is a layer of its flesh. Lots of fruits are berries actually. Grapes, tomatoes, avocados, blueberries, bananas, elder, cranberries etc. are your 'conventional' berries. Citruses are hesperidium berries, segmented berries. Melons and pumpkins are pepos, or a watery berry with firm rind.
However, several culinary 'berries' aren't botanically berries. They include strawberries [actually dry achene fruit in an aggregate format], raspberries and blackberries [both are aggregates, multiple fruitlets from one flower].
A pit or stone is a seed covered in a hard endosperm. They belong to drupe fruits such as peaches, cherries, nectarines etc.
An avocado, on the other hand, is not a drupe but a hard-skinned, large, singularly seeded berry. It's endosperm is a layer of its flesh. Lots of fruits are berries actually. Grapes, tomatoes, avocados, blueberries, bananas, elder, cranberries etc. are your 'conventional' berries. Citruses are hesperidium berries, segmented berries. Melons and pumpkins are pepos, or a watery berry with firm rind.
However, several culinary 'berries' aren't botanically berries. They include strawberries [actually dry achene fruit in an aggregate format], raspberries and blackberries [both are aggregates, multiple fruitlets from one flower].
@Araceae wow that’s great knowledge! I know so many people here that call it a stone so I’ll make sure to let them know the correct word. Thank you so much for letting me know the science behind it because when I googled the proper word it said “avocado seed, or rather known as a pit or stone…” so I assumed it was ok, but your explanation has made much more sense. Quick question though, is it still ok to call it a peach stone? Like, do peaches have stones or seeds? I’d love to find out more!
@Sunshine_1303 a peach is a drupe, so it's fine to call it a pit or stone. Same applies for cherries, nectarines and apricots