One thing everybody gets wrong when talking about seedling trees is saying, "The fruit will be unedible." This is very rarely the case. The fruit is edible. you're just more likely not to enjoy the flavor or texture. I know it sounds like a small nit pick, but I'm so tired of people freaking out over wild or homegrown apples, paires, and avocados thinking they're poisonous. There's a difference between low quality fruit and inedible fruit. Also, avocados need a pollination partner.
True! This is why apple butter and cider got popular. Directly edible apples were a later innovation. The apples Johnny appleseed planted were most likely inedible.
True but many people don't even know that they won't get the same quality of the fruit as the one the seed came from. This can spare a lot of work and frustration.
I think inedible isn't the same as poisonous. It means what you described, that the things is hard to eat or doesn't taste good, not that you're gonna get sick if you do manage to eat it. At least that's my understanding of the terms, coming from the foraging side of things more than gardening.
You can absolutely grow citrus fruit from seed and they will definitely produce fruit, but the fruit will always be genetically different to the parent plant. What you end up with can vary widely depending on what the parent plants were.
@@lolcatz88 this dude doesn't have a clue what his talking about. the reason they are grafted is because in some cases the type of tree that produces fruit that is better to eat isn't as hardy as other types. so they graft it onto stronger root stock
@@lolcatz88 Sometimes they're close to the parent, sometimes the fruit sucks. Taste, size or amount could be all wrong and so on. I have seen plenty of youtubers plant avocados from seeds and claim that the fruit is really good. It's a risk but it can also work out just fine if you're doing it more for the decoration and getting a 90% (or whatever) chance on top of that of getting tens of kilograms of edible avocados is all a bonus. My parents have an apricot tree that sustained weather damage and the grafted part died. The rootstock pushed up a new stem and now ~5 years later there are apricots on the tree. They're sorta tiny and a little bit on the not-so-sweet and slightly-astringent side but they're perfectly fine for making jam. Even the hardier rootstock produced quite passable apricots. I'm sure the "noble" graft would have produced better apricots but meh, whatever if it's a single tree in a backyard.
@@lolcatz88 Not always. True Mandarin oranges (the species Citrus reticulata, but not hybrids sold as tangerines, Clementines, Sweeties, etc) produce ONLY genetically maternal fruits - the seed of any fruit on the tree produces only seedlings that are exactly like the mother tree (It's a characteristic of the reticulata species). The pollen of C. reticulata varieties (luckily) will pollinate other citrus species; produce hybrids. But I don't think it is possible (outside of a lab) to cross two C. reticulata varieties ( there are about three or four I know of).
Basically, Avocados and some other fruits are heterogeneous, so you never know what traits from the parent plants will be in the seed. You may get nasty icky fruit, something that's just sorta meh, or something really tasty. It's basically the luck of the draw.
I've grown dragon fruit, guava, grapefruit, mango etc. from seed. Sometimes you get good fruiting trees and sometimes you don't. No matter what the outcome, it's always enjoyable. If I ended up with a good fruiting tree, then it's a bonus.
If nobody started fruiting trees from seed, they would no longer discover the GOOD different varieties varieties that can improve the gene pool of a species and make it more resistant. Remember the banana disease that has sent growers scrambling to find resistent varieties that are also tasty. This could happen with any fruit varieties because there are millions of clones and grafts of only a few individual plants. I have started trees from seed and my only regret is that I may not live long enough to try all their fruits. I realize that space may be an issue when devoting a big chunk of a small garden to a tree that might never feed you but it is possible to get lucky too and the satisfaction and gratitude one feels is worth having had a few misses.
he's completely wrong about avocado too. They aren't true to seed, but 95% of them taste good when grown. Apples on the other hand have much worse chance because they have crab apples.
I agree. If you want to know what bananas used to taste like before they were completely wiped out then get artificial banana flavor. That's what they used to taste
@@arloalps6215 you can still buy those variety. They aren't completely gone. The fungus killing bananas is still all over we just need to mass produce more resistant varieties. We lost about 80% of Orange production in the last 10 years as well, so expect those to be gone in next 10 years.
@@gg-gn3re Apples grown from seed are still fine if you don't intend to eat them fresh (IE: if you're making cider, dehydrated fruit, or a conserve). I have 2 apple trees grown from seed.
@@Samu2010lolcats heck, a lot of them are perfectly acceptable fresh, as long as you're not expecting a Fuji or Gala or whatnot. But I've never met an apple that wasn't good for sauce, jelly, or apple butter.
My grampa planted avocado from seed years ago and we still enjoy avocados from that same seed. Its edible, its just it takes years for it to fruit. Just start planting and youll enjoy the fruit of your labor❤
I got one beautiful avocado tree from seed. Then I found out that flowers male and female blooms at the different time of the day, so I polinated them manually. Then fruits came, very small though. But unfortunately this year it was very hot and the tree couldn't survive.
Always gets me about these naysayers who claim you won’t get edible fruit from a seed you start. Given you don’t know how close the fruit be to the parent tree but you might get a good surprise.
he's completely wrong about avocado too. They aren't true to seed, but 95% of them taste good when grown. Apples on the other hand have much worse chance because they have crab apples.
@@nowannabeonthis8522 yes they're edible. he's full of it. The worst trees "from seed" are apples, which almost always produce "crab apples" which people consider "inedible" however you can still eat them even though they taste terrible and might give you a stomach ache lol
I also didn't understand the avocado one. When my family bought a house, we planted 2 avocado trees. It took a couple of years to grow, but now every year we get a lot of avocados. Not the best avocado you will eat, but definetely edible.
My sister in CA planted an avocado seed in-ground more than 10 years ago and the tree has been a proliferous producer of good-tasting avocados for so many yrs now. It must have been luck. I have two little avocado trees growing fr my old compost corner now and it's just fun to see them grow. I guess I will have to kill them soon bc I don't want to invest in anything with no guarantee of reward. PS. lol, I changed my mind. I am in the Sonoran Desert and it is a challenge to grow avocados here. I think I will let the little trees grow to see if they will make it to maturity. They are growing under the protection of a mesquite tree so I want to see how they can get acclimated and develop into mature trees.
@@Samu2010lolcats Thanks! :) I have easily grown plenty of avocado trees in Northern and Southern CA but it's a challenge here in the desert. You're right about the water bc they are tropical trees but it's also important to build a microclimate for it to flourish in the desert.
I'm glad you changed your mind. Obviously if you need that spot for something else. It makes sense to move them or take them out. But if you don't, why not just leave them and let them do their thing? You may just have a pleasant surprise someday. Live & let live, and all that...
If those avocados your sister have actually tastes good then they it can be a valuable plant to graft from. One problem with a single good strain is that in the event a disease occurs then not only that strain but the whole existence of that fruit can be lost forever. Don't be afraid to try, just be prepared that it can take a long time and it can result in a lot of failures, but when you have luck you bring the world forward a bit.
There's 2 types when faced with the same issue. "That will take years to make anything and you'll never know if it's good" A. " It's not worth it" B. " Then I've got no time to waste"
Im type b. I used to be type a. I have changed. I feel like the time is gonna pass either way. I can either still be wondering about the avocados and mango trees that could have been or I can plant them now and in 5-8 years when the time inevitably passes I'll either have good fruit or I won't. Either way I enjoy gardening and I have grafted trees that will produce good stuff. Either way the time is gonna pass. Will they or will they not they produce? Well, that is what it is.
Actually a few of the popular varieties of Avocado were taken from trees started in peoples back yards in San Diego County. When the Panama Canal opened people taking cruises through the canal ate guacamole, fell in love with it and brought seeds home to plant out. Not only did that bring in a lot of genetic diversity for flavor, it also produced some trees that had more cold tolerance. Some crossed with seedlings of the Mexican types bringing in even more cold tolerance into the gene pool. Don’t be a Debbie Downer. There is nothing wrong with people enjoying the process of growing trees from seeds. If the fruit doesn’t turn out to be a winner you can always top work them with whatever varieties you want. I have a very productive Pinkerton Avocado that originated as a seedling in a Hass grove in Oxnard Ca. If your point is only that a Hass seed will give a tree with different genetics than its mother tree than yes you are correct.
he's completely wrong about avocado too. They aren't true to seed, but 95% of them taste good when grown. Apples on the other hand have much worse chance because they have crab apples.
@@gg-gn3re You make preserves (jam, jelly, applesauce) with the crabapples. warning: may require a lot of sugar, in which case take that too-sugary applesauce and use it as a substitute for water in making normal bread, you'll get a wonderful dessert out of it. source: neighbor's crabapple tree overhangs onto my lawn, permission from neighbors to eat what I want from "my side's branches", made applebread because I couldn't find a way to use up a whole big mason jar of applesauce before it went past recommended unsealed period, so applebread it was. Turned out to be one of the tastiest desserts I made.
Speaking of strawberries 🍓 I found some growing up the back of my yard about 2-3 months ago, in winter, in the shade of a building, in a place where no one had ever grown anything and I've never grown strawberries on this property. I was raking the dead leaves off the ground and I saw something green and I thought to myself, 'that looks like strawberry leaves, but how are strawberries growing here?' I think a bird must have delivered them in it's poop! All ready to go with fertiliser! Thanks bird! 🐦 I transplanted them into a couple of pots, put some mulch around them and now they are flowering and I'm waiting to see what the fruit 🍓 does/tastes like. I have four plants in all and they are sending out runners. I love it when plants show up in my garden at random like this! ☺
This is one of those really fun and awesome mysteries that gardeners love. And even newbies can get into. I hope you come back and, if possible, share how it turned out. You may have discovered a new cultivar with more shade and cold tolerance than usual. Be sure to call some horticulturalists or master gardeners if it matures to let them know. They may want to take samples.
@@BlueJadeU Oh wow, I wish I'd seen your comment sooner. About two weeks ago I tried a couple of the fruits and they were so bland and small, the size of a small blueberry, that I pulled them out thinking they were no good 😟 I had no idea they could be something new. I just thought they were wild strawberries, not potentially something special. I feel sad now. I won't make this mistake again. Thank you for your advice anyway.
@@mel8008 you're good... I think what you found is a common lawn weed often referred to as wild strawberry that looks a lot like a strawberry, but actually isn't edible at all. The fruit are about the right color, but very small and round, with seeds that kind of stick off the fruit.
@@rickgale There are a couple very similar wild strawberries. The Virginia wild strawberry is apparently very sweet and tasty and was one of the plants used to create the hybrid garden strawberry (the other is a white berry called a sandberry that's native to California), but the other one that looks very similar is bland and almost flavorless.
I knew a lady who grew quite a few avocados from seed and seemed happy with the harvest. The result weren't Haas(sp?) but I think it is a safe assumption that people liked avocados for thousands of years before anyone ever heard of that brand. (Perhaps Mayans(??) did graft their favorite trees, I don't know.) She also grew from supermarket hybrid tomatoes. They also weren't true to type but in a few generations she had tomato plants that did grow true to type, her type, meaning she liked the taste and they were well suited to the local environment. I'll admit they were a little different as you almost had to crack them like eggs the skin was so thick and tough, but that is because she successfully selected for insect resistance in an area with severe insect problems. I don't have a major issue with hybrids or clones, but as far as I can tell "not true to type" doesn't mean a citrus tree that grows potatoes, they just won't have exactly the same taste and other characteristics as the mother plant. If you have time and room for a few duds, it is fun to see what you get. Just think how boring it would be if all your children were the same. Some are better slow roasted and others grilled on the barbie so family mealtime doesn't get repetitive. j/k.
I totally understand the thing with time but it is so fun to see the little tiny bits of leaves coming out of the seeds!!! They are just like babies!!! They are sooooo cute!!! 😍
i did. thumbnail lied about seeds not producing trees, he also lied about them not producing edible fruits most of the time. whats up with defending misinformation?
Growing an avocado from seed is an adventure, an experiment in growing for so many and delightful when you have your own little tree in a pot. I have a 9 year old avocado seedling 15 ft tall , planted in the ground and is a beautiful shade tree that I really treasure. Fruit isn't the only goal for a tree.
I started two Avocado trees from seed. Both produced good fruit, but only one produces fruit reliably. That one is enough to take care of the avocado needs for not only my family, but also a family of (we think) opossums for for about 5 months out of every year. It took nearly ten years for the trees to produce fruit.
My first asparagus is 15 years from seed just time and effort no money spent and now I have a free supply ❤❤❤ I've also bought seedlings from nursery all died except only just managed to get one to survive to 3 years as it's a purple variety I have learnt so much knowledge over years so I keep my asparagus from nursery potted up first few years then plant in garden once strong so it can be protected in summer and winter while smaller 😊 it's the satisfying feeling when you grow from seed so if you have patience you can definitely do asparagus from seeds
My mom accidentally planted asparaguses in the flowerbed next to the house, and I recognized what they were starting to look like at the top of the stalks and got her to keep them. They made a fantastic backing "hedge" and looked very pretty with the flower bushes at their feet, like some poor man's mini-bamboo. (some of the flowers were climbing and used them as a makeshift trellis, too, which was cute) And I got to have all the raw asparagus I wanted, I liked that they were like potato sticks. Between them and carrots I was all set for most of summer in snacking.
You can grow a lime tree from lime seeds. It just takes 10years+ before the tree bears fruit. I found this out the hard way. 😅. Took 12 years but now my lime tree produces about 300 limes each year.
for strawberries, get a variety of everberrying plant (just one) and throw it in a large pot. it'll throw out runners that you can either individually pot or just firmly push into the soil in the pot and you'll end up with 10+ plants at the end of the season. its how i started a large strawberry patch.
He is lying that most avocado trees produced inedible fruit. I am from Jamaica, and 90% of avocado trees on the island are grown from seeds. All the avocados that i have eaten in Jamaica, are way more tastier than hass. So they may take a lot longer to give fruit, and you may not get hass from planting hass seeds, but you could plant other avocado seeds and get very good avocados.
Yes, it is almost certain that a tree will produce fruit that is different from the one that surrounded the seed. But there is a good chance that difference isn't worse. There is way to many people who are only interested in mass propagating a single variety, which is an oxymoron btw.
@@patrickkeller2193 Exactly. If you plant these random seeds, you can get random results. However a lime will still most likely be a lime for example and most likely it won't be all that different from the parent trees if the parent trees were both similar. And yes, sometimes you can hit the jackpot and get really good odd-ball varieties with new slightly unusual but pleasant flavor combinations. The avocados grown from a seed might no longer be optimized for commercial orchards or transport to the other side of the planet but they might be very good and tasty in your home kitchen!
@@iloveprivacy8167 Hass avacados are a hybrid, a cross between two true cultivars. It may be better tasting than either of its parents, but its offspring will have a huge, chaotic variety of traits, many of which will not be desirable. The people who made the hybrid simply clone it when they want more plants. The same is generally true for all modern hybrids, from citrus and apple trees, to tomatoes and pumpkins. If you want to reliably grow something from seed, make sure the seed is from a true line of cultivars.
All solid advice, I'd like to add my 2c tho. Having grown up on a subsistence farm and still actively garden now. Almost 2/3rds of my crops are heritage seeds. As in, passed down from my Gparents, thru my parents, and now onto me. Some of the crops we have have drifted from original source, both good and bad ways. The key is to have many sources of seed banks, in our case our whole family. If i have a bad tasting garlic harvest, i send out notice and my brother sends seeds. We mix the blood so to say, to keep the genetics strong. Every year I eat my crops i love the idea that this exact same plant (tho grandchild of x amount of times) kept my gparents alive during the first great depression, my parents during the Regan years, and myself now. I intend to pass this down to my kids and hope to see these seeds feed my grandkids one day. Ofc each house seed bank has some changes in it too. I got alot of cool newer style tomato's and stuff that my brothers dont and vice versa. The original bank my gparents had was some odd 25 different plants. I got over 75 in my vault at this time.. i may or may not be a homesteading nut :p
@@christopherrenn8137 First, congratulations on saving heirloom seeds from your family. People like you are responsible for food and genetic resilience for the planets future. The trick with heirloom seeds is that they also evolve from domestication. Your ancestors had different conditions and tastes so they picked and chose what they thought was best. It is your choice now and what is important is that when you choose your next crops seeds you have to choose as many as you can to keep the seeds from inbreeding. Choose as many qualities from as many plants you can and this will broaden your gene bank even if they all came from the same original parents. Through micro organisms and by climate you will get mutations. Mutations are very important because they are the reason we can get new genes in a closed planet. Without them we would be inbreeding ourselves. If a plant shows signs of mutation and the mutation is positive add it to the pool. Don’t be afraid of new traits just continue growing and choosing what is best and make sure to choose from as many plants as possible to minimize inbreeding.
@@Ckawauchi35 The earth was a mess before and after Industriation (spelling?) of crop growing. It's we the people that need to take small steps to change the over all picture of how we live as a whole. :D Personally i would like to see libraries be charged with also indexing public access of seeds. That would be cool.
@@christopherrenn8137 That is a great idea! I think the functions of libraries should be expanded would do a lot of good for the communities around the libraries (not that they aren't already a great boon to their local communities).
While hass avocado trees grown from seed won't produce avocados that are identical to hass, they will be very similar and will be edible. I grew a hass avocado tree from seed and it is very similar to hass, but the fruit has a little bigger pits, and it is not quite as good as a hass, but definitely edible, and if making guacamole can't even tell the difference between it and a hass.
I started an avocado seed I removed from an avocado 20 something years ago. I've been eating the avocados for many years. The tree produces well and the fruit is good. Not sure why my experience is different from what you describe.
I for the first time got a "Potato Tomato" (aka berry) and intend to plant the seeds. The most astonishing thing I learned while researching how to grow potatoes from seed is that they will not be the same as the plant they came from, which is a bit of a let down because it came from a fancy purple variety of waxy potato. But I am looking forward to seeing what grows from these seeds, if anything.
Do you mean a pomato? Because those can only be made via splicing. Seeds from the tomato will only make tomatoes (and if hybridized, may not grow true to its parent plant)
@@Drosenv so I just googled what a Pomato is. I'm absolutely not talking about one of those. I'm talking about an actual potato berry. Do not eat, it will delete you in a very unpleasant way. Not every plant will produce one so it's a bit of an occasion for the grower when one does appear. Out of my 40 potato plants I got only one berry. That should put into context the level of excitement for one.
potatoes actually do produce fruits. it's not some hybrid or anything, that's just how they grow. MANY plants make some sort of fruits to spread their seeds.
@@curlygurly2112 not to worry, I did my homework and am in the process of separating the seeds from the little berry. I'm just excited because this is the first time I have gotten a berry. Out of 40 plants I got 1 berry. Another thing that adds to my excitement over it is that this is the first garden bed that I had complete control over and the growth of a berry in my mind says that I have done it right. I've also gotten a decent crop so far. A few plants aren't done growing yet but they are close. I wish I could show you the garden I put together because it's something to see. Although you would need to have seen it before I got at it to appreciate the difference and understand why I'm so excited. It was a lot of work to restore the soil but it has paid off. Tomato plants that are larger than the label said they would grow, raspberries that stand nearly 10 feet tall, Acorn squash, Pumpkin, beans and peas, and all surrounded by Apple mint at the edges which apparently control some insects. Anyway, in my eyes it's a thing of beauty and I'm quite proud of myself because the hard work has paid off.
I have green onions growing in my yard. The first couple years they didn’t do much. Now they are spreading like ground cover. I love it. They took over a part of the yard where we couldn’t get anything to grow and we don’t need to do anything. Thy just take care of themselves and we have fresh green onions all summer. We decided that when we move, we will dig up some of them and take them with us to the new house.
My dog planted an avocado seed (it's a long story) and it grew into a massive tree that produces tons of fruit that feeds us and the neighbors and our friends for several months each year. They taste fantastic. It is a crapshoot but if you want guaranteed success, just graft it. It's easy and a fun skill to learn.
Well I wonder what I have been feeding the family the last few years from my avocado ,haha ( trees sprouted from where I put household compost ) .The largest tree gave me ( and the neighbours ) about 200 last season .Currently I have about 5 trees happily producing from my old compost heaps .
Came to say this about avocado seedlings. I have personally grown many to fruit and have never had a bad tasting fruit. Usually they have a larger seed but are sometimes tastier than comerical verities
Berry bushes can be propagated by covering a low hanging branch in soil, or pressing it towards the soil for a while. Then it'll shoot roots in the soil and can be cut off the mother bush; transferred to where you want it. I did it with red and black currant, and it never failed.
As an argument for growing thyme from seed, which might only apply to the few people who really enjoy "getting what they want" out of their garden: Even while I completely agree that you'll probably only end up with one plant, growing from seed initially will first give you the most viable plant out of the pack, and then second as you watch each grow over the next few weeks, you'll be able to see which are the strongest, fastest growers, see their growing pattern, whether more outward or more upright, etc. And then taking a small clipping from the best growers to smell, will help you choose the ones that might have the best aroma you're looking for. Now, if all you care about is just "having a product" and not "having the best of the best of products", then buy one already established. But I really like the aspect of picking out the best of a bunch when I'm growing from seed.
I planted 24 Hass avocado stones in 2014 and planted the three best ones in the garden in 2016. The first bore fruit in 2018 and last year had 80 good fruit. The one next to it has over 200 very large fruit on it this year. Large stones too, but as good as any commercial avocado. The third is biggest and has probably 50 fruit - the best tasting of the three. Each shows characteristics that reveal their likely parentage - Hass-Zutano, Hass-Fuerte and Hass-Bacon. It's a lottery, but we got lucky.
I started an avocado seed knowing full well I'll harvest nothing from it, due to the climate I live in (as well as the fact I live in an apartment - really no space to grow a tree in :)). I'm just keeping it as a potted house plant. Also, I bought some cut rosemary sprigs for cooking some time ago. There were more than I needed so I put some of them in a glass of water, to see if some will take root. And one did, so I planted it in a pot and it seems to be doing well. Although it's gonna be a while before I feel comfortable harvesting any of it, it feels nice that I could do that.
On my patio, I have very large pots of coriander and basil that’ll come up from their seeds. I also have some potted mint. This year I found out that basil and mint can cross pollinate because some of my basil tasted horribly minty. Yes, I know they’re in the same family but didn’t expect they’d cross. Like I wouldn’t expect potatoes and tomatoes to cross pollinate. Although my mom has always said not to plant cucumbers next to melons cause it’ll make them cucumber flavored.
Very true about the citrus trees. I have several, but they come inside in the winter because it’s so cold here. But they often fruit in the wintertime too
I'm with you on starting fruit trees from seed. It's obviously possible and more power to you if you've done it or you want to do it, but people should be aware the fruit won't be true to type, which store selling growing kits might not tell them. And for me, I've got a really busy job & gardening is a hobby and de-stressor, so saving some time/ increasing success rate are really important to me.
Thx for this. I accidentally started growing an avocado seed from some compost in my greenhouse. That was 2 years ago and it's continued to grow. I appreciate the info you shared here so now I know not to get my expectations on the resulting fruit too high (unless I win that avocado lottery!)
Avocados and Mangos are both fun houseplant projects to start from seed. They'll likely never produce edible fruit but they're really pretty houseplants with nice big green leaves.
i have an avocado tree that gives lots of avocados 2 times a year. It was planted from seed by my father. In the beginning the avocados were small, few and with bad taste. Couple of years latter the avocados are just the same to the ones you see in markets. They are so many we end up sharing them in the neighborhood every year. But keep one thing in mind, avocado trees consume a lot of water and can dry the soil for other trees if you don't keep them well watered.
I’ve grown avocados from pits multiple times. It takes a crazy amount of patience (sometimes 3 months before you even know if it’s going to grow or if it’s dead). I can’t say it produces anything, but it makes an interesting houseplant.
Apparently you can use the leaves as seasoning, go check out mexican recipes involving it. Caveat: you gotta like anise flavors, that's apparently what they taste like.
We had a 12 meters avocado tree in my old house garden producing hundreds of avocados yearly. I can't tell what variety was the seed my dad planted, but avocados are the soft green skin variety, their taste is not good for salads, tostadas or anything sliced, but is completely fine for guacamole, mixing with chopped tomato, onion, green chili, salt and pepper, great with beefsteak and tacos.
About the onion - first year you have seed (from old onion), the second year you get arpajíc how it is called in Bulgarian and Romanian (pickling onion, in English)and on the third year you have new onion. You just have to learn the cycle of life of the particular vegetable sort. Also, depends on the year you can get onion from a seed.
One day I found some asparagus growing next to a tree across the street from my home. It was the first time I got to see the grown spears in person as they grew and branched out.
we got a small pot of strawberry kit, which ended up to be wild strawberry and no issue to grow it in the same pot. Within half a year we had a couple of berris on it, but pot were really small, so you can grow them from seeds and harvest in the same year in small quantities.
As someone with a lot of avocados on their own roots, only one produces fruits as disappointing as Haas, so I'm having to disagree on point 1; even if your tree doesn't produce good fruits (and the first couple of years of fruiting are not always indicative), you can always bud a better variety onto your established tree once you've found that out. But if you are short of space or time, and very committed to a particular variety (e.g. you like to cook your avo, so Haas is the most reliable), then I would agree that buying a grafted sapling is a quicker way to get a reliable product. Just not always so interesting. Rough lemon (Citrus x jambhiri) are a stable form and usually true to seed; you will also usually get a mandarin-type fruit from a mandarin seed, a cumquat from a cumquat, a lime from a lime, calamondin from calamondin, a pomelo-type from a pomelo, and so on. They will not usually be the exact cultivar (e.g. - you would probably get a navel orange, but not a caracara, from a caracara seed), but the last time someone got a truly inedible citrus cultivar from planting a seed, the grapefruit was invented (hybrid between Pomelo and sweet orange). Edit to add - additionally, mexican lime, citron and pomelo are at least occasionally grown from rooted cuttings; trifoliate orange and rough lemon are usually grown from seed, not grafted. Grafted trees will usually fruit sooner, though.
My parents have an avocado tree grown from a seed. It has been giving avocado's the last 2 years. The thing people don't know is, if it's grown from seed, it's not self pollinating, that's why often you don't see fruit, if there isn't another avocado tree nearby.
I'm liking this without having watched it yet for the title alone. Props for doing a video on this, so many ppl grow avocado seeds thinking they'll have a tree that some day they can harvest avocados from.
I have a large lemon tree right beside my window, and it is sweet like orange, I use some of the fruits to make syrup! I've also grown two avocado trees from the seeds that sprouted beautifully and gave nice fruits. They might not be that beautiful on the outside, have that sweet aftertaste, silky, buttery texture, big and plump size like the store-bought ones, but they in fact where tasty enough and helped a lot in saving, since almost any store-bought fruits are very expensive. There is also guava fruit, that is absolutely inedible when you buy on the store, but are quite sweet if harvested wild! Store guava are made so flies don't get to them, since flies do love guava a lot and wild guava are almost always infested with it. You need to know when to harvest them and leave them secure from flies to get ripe and sweet.
Yes, citrus and avocado seeds do produce trees that will bear the appropriate fruits, but only in appropriate growing zones. As for garlic, it's very interesting to experiment with garlic "seeds". The resulting bulbs will be very small in the first year, but they will keep getting bigger and bigger over the next years.
I have grown avocado trees from seed and I whish I could show you how HUGE they are and delicious. In Puerto Rico we grow giant avocados, just last year I grew one that was bigger than a 2 litter of a coca-cola bottle. I have pictures to prove it but unfortunately I can't post them here.
One of the houses that I lived had a matured Avocado tree right on the curb of the street in the wild. It put out plenty of good size avocados every years I remembered.
I planted 3 avocado trees back in 2008 from seed. The first 4 seasons they produced fruit it was inedible which they didnt start producing avocados until they were 5,7 and 8 years old. Then for some reason the 5th season each one produced really good fruit and a lot of them. They are in my brother's front yard today.
I grew my first lemon tree from seed and I was so excited! It already grew four sets of leaves and all I am honestly thinking…. How do I fail at carrots but can grew a freaking tree?
Very interesting detail about avocado seeds, although I don’t agree with your blanket statement about lemons. I came across a bush lemon tree happily growing in the bush. I picked a bag of lumpy lemons from within the thorny branches and the lemons were great. I planted some seeds and kept two of the trees. They are now 12 years old, thorny as hell but grow great lemons. No grafting required although these would probably make great root stock for the non thorny variety. I thought the thorns would deter the cockatoos eating the lemons but they can get through them. In a strange twist they only eat the seeds 🤠
My Auntie planted an Avocado seed after making a 7 layer dip on the 90s, when we got the tree removed 2 years ago because it became so massive, it had produced buckets and buckets over the years. My Moms friend would come take buckets to the Farmers market.
I'm from South América and the species of palta (avocado) which used to be the only one when I was a child, grown from the riped fruits which felt to the ground like it also happened with walnut trees (I believe that's the correct species) Since each tree is a different individual, the quality of the fruit is not guaranteed but the biggest problem is that it takes 10 years for a tree to start producing anything, if it ever does
I grew an avocado tree from seed but it did take years before producing fruit. Then again, it wasn't a HASS but a Florida avocado. I also produced a KEY LIME tree from seed. That produced limes every year for 30 years ( until we sold the property). From that original tree, I again grew a tree that produced for 25 years until a hurricane killed it. I am now waiting on the "3rd" generation. We have not planted it into the ground as we are waiting to build a new home for its "final resting place".
Very interesting! I remember a comedienne talking about her mother putting toothpicks into avocado seeds trying to grow them. ["It's like some kind of voodoo thing!"] I saw that in my family, but we didn't get the benefits due to moving every few years. Avocado trees are quite an investment in time!
I have a 5 year old seed-grown avocado tree. I started it from a pit that came from fruits of an aquaintence's tree out of sheer curiosity, and kept it because "why not?" My neighbors have three fruiting avocado trees though, so I've considered asking them for a couple small scions to make a self-pollinating grafted tree using my seed-grown one as a rootstock since it's obviously happy with conditions at my house and is established. I never actually figured on getting avocado fruits when I started that pit, but at this point, I'm rather attached to the little project.
In regards to the avocado, I always wanted to grow one from seed even if it doesn't grow true to seed. It would be more for just helping to get some great nutritional value into my compost pile or to feed to our local wildlife
Another one is apples one of my projects in horticulture as a kid was to graft 4 different apples onto one root stock. If you plant an apple seed you get crab apples bitter tiny apples still edible but gorse. Down the back of the family farm we also have many wild cherry trees the cheers taste good but are almost the same size as the seed its self.
My grandmother and myself have both grown full on avocado trees that have all become real trees with real full blown super tasty avocados better than from the store. You just have to start it with decent water, not chemical filled tap water.
the reson they graft is because other type of citrus or avo are hardier. if you grow it from seed you will get the avocado. it just may not produce as many fruit. so from a industrial farm point of view its best to graft.
Hey, if I can get a plant that can get a graft in the future, I don’t mind that my tree’s direct fruit isn’t too tasty. I’m not buying the seeds I propagate, I’m not trying to feed my community, I’m just practicing germination skills and seeing what plants do well in my local conditions. That’s why this video is helpful for the people who do have the above mentioned goals, I just have different goals.
Artichoke, assume you mean globe, not root (Jerusalem) artichokes? I'm at 45°N, allow plants to seed after 3rd year, usually get 1-5 plants pop up as "weeds", choosing a couple to keep. Not reliable, no new seedlings this year, as far as I can see in the mini-jungle of my backyard.
@@davinasquirrel7672 Thanks! Since I saw your message I nipped outside, removed the remaining head. About 1/2 of the original 100s of seeds still left, plant itself is clearly dying. I'll try planting some seeds rather than hoping some land in a good place.
We get avocado trees from seeds producing beautiful avocados all the time, but those are not Hass avocados, those are natural species. Some have a lighter delightful taste and creamy texture and are 4 to 5 times the size of the Hass avocado. Some are more fibrous and more “watery” (lighter and refreshing taste), but certainly good to eat. If you want to plant an avocado tree from seed you need the seed of a naturally occurring avocado plant. Hass avocados are industrialized clones. There are also many varieties of banana trees, but those are not the one that you get at the grocery store. Wonderful and insightful video. Thanks for all the useful information. 🙂
I used to have problems starting strawberries. What I do is soak the soil, have a heat mat and grow light. Sprinkle the seeds on the surface of the soil and then cover with an opaque plastic until they start sprouting. Make sure they don't dry out
I don't eat asparagus, but I didn't realize you need to be SUPER patient with it for best result. Also, I just planted strawberry seeds a few days ago, it's nice to know they're going to take over my garden slowly 😂
I'll point that garlic planted having let bulbils mature offers a significant multiplication factor that the extra year does not compromise compared to planting cloves. If you want to have a huge crop and have some patience, the reward will be worth it.
In many climates an Avocado tree won't last the winter and it won't grow fruit for many years. BUT the leaves are very beneficial. Avocado leaves just so happen to be high in quercetin. These incredible leaves are full of minerals like immune-boosting zinc, bone-strengthening calcium, and magnesium and potassium. This helps promote a healthy heart by enhancing blood circulation, lowering blood pressure, and reducing hypertension. So now I grow it for the leaves alone as I have not seen Avocado Tea in the shops.
@@jevans1805 I think you just make a Tea from them. I must admit, I have a 1 meter tree growing but have not tried it yet. Not sure if you use the young leaves or old leaves or if it even matters.
@@Spyhook You'll figure it out when you try your tea, but from the general pattern older leaves have more of the flavor and young ones will have a milder flavor. But avocado *leaves apparently is a whole SEASONING! So even if your tea isn't to your taste (heh!) you can apparently make a whole subset of cuisine with it if cooking's your thing. Source: "Avocado Leaves: A Secret Mexican Ingredient", blogspot site "Flavors of the Sun".
I love growing avocados, they are very easy to grow. What I hate growing is sequoia trees from seed as i never have luck with them growing beyond a inch.
I have to say that I knew that apples and wine need these technique with the twigs, but didn't know that avocado and even lemons need them, too. A veggie I recently struggeled on many times is chicory. Maybe you can make something about this plant. I will watch it for sure.
Where I live there are several varieties of Avocado trees, and they do spread from seed. The Avocados are bigger with smooth thinner skin than a Has, and the seed has a thin film around it that sticks to the inside of the pulp, so you have to carefully peel it or remove it with a bit of flesh using a spoon, and the thinner skin makes them bad for long transport. But they have more flesh and taste really good, but not exactly the same, they have a stronger taste. Avocado Associations do visit homes and farms with them twice a year to apply pesticides, because they are the ones used to graft the Has trees, and them getting a disease would mean doom for the billions of Has clones.
You can grow onion from seed in one season, in fact, you want harvest it because next year it will just flower. You've never grown an onion and are giving bad advice about it. Don't do that.
The video has massive errors all through it and is very pedantic. Granted I am not the gardener of the family my wife is. I just do the heavy lifting. But even I can point out things he’s wrong about. We planted some apple seeds about 14 years ago. It was something for the kids to watch grow. They got to see those tiny seeds grow into trees that we now pick apple from. To sit there and say any seed from the grocery store can’t be planted is just wrong. We have done so with everything we eat. Even potatoes.
I started an avocado seed in my small apartment because I was curious. I only started one seed. It is the first time I successfully grew something on my own and even though there will be no avocados, I am still happy with the plant itself. (I usually manage to kill cacti 🙃)
For fruit trees, commercial fruit is generally grown from grafts. The root stock that it is grafted to is selected for hardiness rather than the fruit. So if you plant the seeds you don’t know what the fruit will be like. It may be small, or tough, or have strange flavors. But it may be edible it might even be good, just not up to commercial standards for some reason.
Contrary to what you allege, I have a field of Florida avocado trees, all from seeds. I dont like non-native Haas avocados. You do NOT have to graft, but if you do, you will get fruit within a year, as opposed to up to 4 years.
I planted an avocado seed which grew into a fruit bearing tree in three years. The fruit was huge and delicious. A Hass avocado has been genetically modified.
2:42 I am currently staying on a property North of Brisbane. There are 4 Avocado trees amongst other fruit trees here. Anyway, two were plantstock according to the original owner. The other two grew from random, missed dropped fruit. The oldest seed tree produces abundant fruit. However, the younger one has just put on its first flush of blooms. It'll be interesting to see what it produces. Oh, we also have a serious guava issue here, so I've been selectively cutting them and use the timber for walking/hiking sticks and other woodworking stuff. Subbed. Cheers mate.
i actually have a wild strawberry plant that i grew from seeds from berries i found near the woods. i planted like 50 and 2 of them grew. that was like 9 years ago and its off shoot clones are all over my back yard now!
So I was missing the suburbs life, and there's a lawn nearby with (presumably decorative) strawberries, and some runners extend into the pavement. Small trampled leaves, rootless, looking horrible. But they were free. So I tore away a bunch of those and soaked in water and planted them and like a third of them survived. Going to plant them on the bare lawn outside my apartment complex.
One thing everybody gets wrong when talking about seedling trees is saying, "The fruit will be unedible." This is very rarely the case. The fruit is edible. you're just more likely not to enjoy the flavor or texture. I know it sounds like a small nit pick, but I'm so tired of people freaking out over wild or homegrown apples, paires, and avocados thinking they're poisonous. There's a difference between low quality fruit and inedible fruit.
Also, avocados need a pollination partner.
True! This is why apple butter and cider got popular. Directly edible apples were a later innovation. The apples Johnny appleseed planted were most likely inedible.
True but many people don't even know that they won't get the same quality of the fruit as the one the seed came from. This can spare a lot of work and frustration.
you could say it's the difference between a natural and selectively bred fruits
Avocados need a week or two off the tree to soften prior to being edible.
I think inedible isn't the same as poisonous. It means what you described, that the things is hard to eat or doesn't taste good, not that you're gonna get sick if you do manage to eat it. At least that's my understanding of the terms, coming from the foraging side of things more than gardening.
I started lemon seeds during Covid and 4 years later I am harvesting large juicy lemons A LOT OF THEM!
You can absolutely grow citrus fruit from seed and they will definitely produce fruit, but the fruit will always be genetically different to the parent plant. What you end up with can vary widely depending on what the parent plants were.
@@lolcatz88 this dude doesn't have a clue what his talking about. the reason they are grafted is because in some cases the type of tree that produces fruit that is better to eat isn't as hardy as other types. so they graft it onto stronger root stock
@@lolcatz88 Sometimes they're close to the parent, sometimes the fruit sucks. Taste, size or amount could be all wrong and so on. I have seen plenty of youtubers plant avocados from seeds and claim that the fruit is really good. It's a risk but it can also work out just fine if you're doing it more for the decoration and getting a 90% (or whatever) chance on top of that of getting tens of kilograms of edible avocados is all a bonus. My parents have an apricot tree that sustained weather damage and the grafted part died. The rootstock pushed up a new stem and now ~5 years later there are apricots on the tree. They're sorta tiny and a little bit on the not-so-sweet and slightly-astringent side but they're perfectly fine for making jam. Even the hardier rootstock produced quite passable apricots. I'm sure the "noble" graft would have produced better apricots but meh, whatever if it's a single tree in a backyard.
@@lolcatz88
Not always. True Mandarin oranges (the species Citrus reticulata, but not hybrids sold as tangerines, Clementines, Sweeties, etc) produce ONLY genetically maternal fruits - the seed of any fruit on the tree produces only seedlings that are exactly like the mother tree (It's a characteristic of the reticulata species). The pollen of C. reticulata varieties (luckily) will pollinate other citrus species; produce hybrids. But I don't think it is possible (outside of a lab) to cross two C. reticulata varieties ( there are about three or four I know of).
I had a seed lemon tree and unlike the parent fruit, the lemons were inedible, so YMMV.
My mother has grown an avocado from seed at nearly every place she has lived and they always produce delicious avocados. Mango trees, as well.
Me too, with an avocado tree - maybe we are lucky.
Basically, Avocados and some other fruits are heterogeneous, so you never know what traits from the parent plants will be in the seed. You may get nasty icky fruit, something that's just sorta meh, or something really tasty. It's basically the luck of the draw.
Maybe she had from the first tree on an avocado that came not from an hybrid-Tree for supermarket-Avocados.
Good to hear. Just got my first mango going and it’s about 6 months old and a foot tall.
False, no avocado are tasty
I've grown dragon fruit, guava, grapefruit, mango etc. from seed. Sometimes you get good fruiting trees and sometimes you don't. No matter what the outcome, it's always enjoyable. If I ended up with a good fruiting tree, then it's a bonus.
And either way you still get a tree!
@@kinzieconrad105 I think that's the way to look at it, k.
the non yummy tree can/will be a pollination partner, so not a complete loss :D
A rough general... trees must be propogated if you want edible fruit.
@@mikep490 no, its not a must. you can grow edible fruit, its just guranteed like it is with grafting.
If nobody started fruiting trees from seed, they would no longer discover the GOOD different varieties varieties that can improve the gene pool of a species and make it more resistant. Remember the banana disease that has sent growers scrambling to find resistent varieties that are also tasty. This could happen with any fruit varieties because there are millions of clones and grafts of only a few individual plants. I have started trees from seed and my only regret is that I may not live long enough to try all their fruits. I realize that space may be an issue when devoting a big chunk of a small garden to a tree that might never feed you but it is possible to get lucky too and the satisfaction and gratitude one feels is worth having had a few misses.
he's completely wrong about avocado too. They aren't true to seed, but
95% of them taste good when grown. Apples on the other hand have much
worse chance because they have crab apples.
I agree. If you want to know what bananas used to taste like before they were completely wiped out then get artificial banana flavor. That's what they used to taste
@@arloalps6215 you can still buy those variety. They aren't completely gone. The fungus killing bananas is still all over we just need to mass produce more resistant varieties.
We lost about 80% of Orange production in the last 10 years as well, so expect those to be gone in next 10 years.
@@gg-gn3re Apples grown from seed are still fine if you don't intend to eat them fresh (IE: if you're making cider, dehydrated fruit, or a conserve). I have 2 apple trees grown from seed.
@@Samu2010lolcats heck, a lot of them are perfectly acceptable fresh, as long as you're not expecting a Fuji or Gala or whatnot.
But I've never met an apple that wasn't good for sauce, jelly, or apple butter.
My grampa planted avocado from seed years ago and we still enjoy avocados from that same seed. Its edible, its just it takes years for it to fruit.
Just start planting and youll enjoy the fruit of your labor❤
Same story with my sister's avocado tree fr seed.
I got one beautiful avocado tree from seed. Then I found out that flowers male and female blooms at the different time of the day, so I polinated them manually. Then fruits came, very small though. But unfortunately this year it was very hot and the tree couldn't survive.
Always gets me about these naysayers who claim you won’t get edible fruit from a seed you start. Given you don’t know how close the fruit be to the parent tree but you might get a good surprise.
Yeah this 1 in 10 thousand are edible is a total myth
Agreed, i’ve seen many people grow avocados from seed and every single one of them made delicious, totally normal avocados
I have grown avocado from seed and it fruit like crazy, I have grown orange and lime from seed and the fruit perfectly.
he's completely wrong about avocado too. They aren't true to seed, but 95% of them taste good when grown. Apples on the other hand have much worse chance because they have crab apples.
It is edible? Cause he is saying it's inedible. Which I find hard to believe.
@@nowannabeonthis8522 yes they're edible. he's full of it.
The worst trees "from seed" are apples, which almost always produce "crab apples" which people consider "inedible" however you can still eat them even though they taste terrible and might give you a stomach ache lol
@@gg-gn3reyou can make a lovely jelly from crab apples that goes very well with pork or cheese.
I also didn't understand the avocado one. When my family bought a house, we planted 2 avocado trees. It took a couple of years to grow, but now every year we get a lot of avocados. Not the best avocado you will eat, but definetely edible.
My sister in CA planted an avocado seed in-ground more than 10 years ago and the tree has been a proliferous producer of good-tasting avocados for so many yrs now. It must have been luck. I have two little avocado trees growing fr my old compost corner now and it's just fun to see them grow. I guess I will have to kill them soon bc I don't want to invest in anything with no guarantee of reward.
PS. lol, I changed my mind. I am in the Sonoran Desert and it is a challenge to grow avocados here. I think I will let the little trees grow to see if they will make it to maturity. They are growing under the protection of a mesquite tree so I want to see how they can get acclimated and develop into mature trees.
Avocado trees need a lot of water, that might be why yours struggle where you live.
@@Samu2010lolcats Thanks! :) I have easily grown plenty of avocado trees in Northern and Southern CA but it's a challenge here in the desert. You're right about the water bc they are tropical trees but it's also important to build a microclimate for it to flourish in the desert.
I'm glad you changed your mind. Obviously if you need that spot for something else. It makes sense to move them or take them out. But if you don't, why not just leave them and let them do their thing? You may just have a pleasant surprise someday.
Live & let live, and all that...
Save the trees bro
If those avocados your sister have actually tastes good then they it can be a valuable plant to graft from.
One problem with a single good strain is that in the event a disease occurs then not only that strain but the whole existence of that fruit can be lost forever.
Don't be afraid to try, just be prepared that it can take a long time and it can result in a lot of failures, but when you have luck you bring the world forward a bit.
There's 2 types when faced with the same issue.
"That will take years to make anything and you'll never know if it's good"
A. " It's not worth it"
B. " Then I've got no time to waste"
Also planting many seeds just to be safe
Yeah, I've got enough property that I can be safe playing around for a few years. Eventually I'll get a few good ones!
Chaos gardening is pretty fun.
Im type b. I used to be type a. I have changed. I feel like the time is gonna pass either way. I can either still be wondering about the avocados and mango trees that could have been or I can plant them now and in 5-8 years when the time inevitably passes I'll either have good fruit or I won't. Either way I enjoy gardening and I have grafted trees that will produce good stuff. Either way the time is gonna pass. Will they or will they not they produce? Well, that is what it is.
type C: "good thing my lease bans anything more than a flower pot because that saved me the stress"
Actually a few of the popular varieties of Avocado were taken from trees started in peoples back yards in San Diego County. When the Panama Canal opened people taking cruises through the canal ate guacamole, fell in love with it and brought seeds home to plant out. Not only did that bring in a lot of genetic diversity for flavor, it also produced some trees that had more cold tolerance. Some crossed with seedlings of the Mexican types bringing in even more cold tolerance into the gene pool. Don’t be a Debbie Downer. There is nothing wrong with people enjoying the process of growing trees from seeds. If the fruit doesn’t turn out to be a winner you can always top work them with whatever varieties you want. I have a very productive Pinkerton Avocado that originated as a seedling in a Hass grove in Oxnard Ca. If your point is only that a Hass seed will give a tree with different genetics than its mother tree than yes you are correct.
Our neighbor gives us 5 kilograms of avocado every year. They are the avocados thathave perfect flesh, no veins inside and stays green even when ripe.
he's completely wrong about avocado too. They aren't true to seed, but
95% of them taste good when grown. Apples on the other hand have much
worse chance because they have crab apples.
@@gg-gn3re You make preserves (jam, jelly, applesauce) with the crabapples.
warning: may require a lot of sugar, in which case take that too-sugary applesauce and use it as a substitute for water in making normal bread, you'll get a wonderful dessert out of it.
source: neighbor's crabapple tree overhangs onto my lawn, permission from neighbors to eat what I want from "my side's branches", made applebread because I couldn't find a way to use up a whole big mason jar of applesauce before it went past recommended unsealed period, so applebread it was. Turned out to be one of the tastiest desserts I made.
@@neoqwerty this is common knowledge, don't need a source
I grew my avocado from seed and it was quite delish.
Speaking of strawberries 🍓 I found some growing up the back of my yard about 2-3 months ago, in winter, in the shade of a building, in a place where no one had ever grown anything and I've never grown strawberries on this property. I was raking the dead leaves off the ground and I saw something green and I thought to myself, 'that looks like strawberry leaves, but how are strawberries growing here?'
I think a bird must have delivered them in it's poop! All ready to go with fertiliser! Thanks bird! 🐦
I transplanted them into a couple of pots, put some mulch around them and now they are flowering and I'm waiting to see what the fruit 🍓 does/tastes like. I have four plants in all and they are sending out runners.
I love it when plants show up in my garden at random like this! ☺
This is one of those really fun and awesome mysteries that gardeners love. And even newbies can get into. I hope you come back and, if possible, share how it turned out.
You may have discovered a new cultivar with more shade and cold tolerance than usual. Be sure to call some horticulturalists or master gardeners if it matures to let them know. They may want to take samples.
@@BlueJadeU Oh wow, I wish I'd seen your comment sooner. About two weeks ago I tried a couple of the fruits and they were so bland and small, the size of a small blueberry, that I pulled them out thinking they were no good 😟 I had no idea they could be something new. I just thought they were wild strawberries, not potentially something special. I feel sad now. I won't make this mistake again.
Thank you for your advice anyway.
@@mel8008 you're good... I think what you found is a common lawn weed often referred to as wild strawberry that looks a lot like a strawberry, but actually isn't edible at all. The fruit are about the right color, but very small and round, with seeds that kind of stick off the fruit.
@@rickgale Ok, great! I'm so relieved!
Thank You.
@@rickgale There are a couple very similar wild strawberries. The Virginia wild strawberry is apparently very sweet and tasty and was one of the plants used to create the hybrid garden strawberry (the other is a white berry called a sandberry that's native to California), but the other one that looks very similar is bland and almost flavorless.
I live in the Caribbean and we have grown our avocado from seed. Also citrus can grow true to type from seed you just have to know what to look for
True, the lime tree in my yard is from a seed I got from the lime of a previous tree I had. The kinep and pomegranate I have also came from seeds.
@@JerusalemUzziahIndeed.
the vast majority of people aren't going to know what to look for.
I believe we just got to grow it and see what comes. It may not have good fruit but you can graft to it or if bees love the flowers just leave it
I knew a lady who grew quite a few avocados from seed and seemed happy with the harvest. The result weren't Haas(sp?) but I think it is a safe assumption that people liked avocados for thousands of years before anyone ever heard of that brand. (Perhaps Mayans(??) did graft their favorite trees, I don't know.) She also grew from supermarket hybrid tomatoes. They also weren't true to type but in a few generations she had tomato plants that did grow true to type, her type, meaning she liked the taste and they were well suited to the local environment. I'll admit they were a little different as you almost had to crack them like eggs the skin was so thick and tough, but that is because she successfully selected for insect resistance in an area with severe insect problems. I don't have a major issue with hybrids or clones, but as far as I can tell "not true to type" doesn't mean a citrus tree that grows potatoes, they just won't have exactly the same taste and other characteristics as the mother plant. If you have time and room for a few duds, it is fun to see what you get. Just think how boring it would be if all your children were the same. Some are better slow roasted and others grilled on the barbie so family mealtime doesn't get repetitive. j/k.
I totally understand the thing with time but it is so fun to see the little tiny bits of leaves coming out of the seeds!!! They are just like babies!!! They are sooooo cute!!! 😍
@@iara_pimenta Oh I start nearly every other Mediterranean Herb from seed 🌱
@@CulinaryGarden1 avacado seeds do produce trees. whats up with the misinformation
@nofrbls3640 what's up with commenting and not watching the video? 😅
i did. thumbnail lied about seeds not producing trees, he also lied about them not producing edible fruits most of the time. whats up with defending misinformation?
It's true my father grew an avocado tree from a seed..it took about 6 years to give avocado s but it did...@CulinaryGarden1
Growing an avocado from seed is an adventure, an experiment in growing for so many and delightful when you have your own little tree in a pot.
I have a 9 year old avocado seedling 15 ft tall , planted in the ground and is a beautiful shade tree that I really treasure. Fruit isn't the only goal for a tree.
Same. Had one or 2 fruits from mine but I think possums got them. I planted for shade mainly.
I started two Avocado trees from seed. Both produced good fruit, but only one produces fruit reliably. That one is enough to take care of the avocado needs for not only my family, but also a family of (we think) opossums for for about 5 months out of every year. It took nearly ten years for the trees to produce fruit.
My first asparagus is 15 years from seed just time and effort no money spent and now I have a free supply ❤❤❤ I've also bought seedlings from nursery all died except only just managed to get one to survive to 3 years as it's a purple variety I have learnt so much knowledge over years so I keep my asparagus from nursery potted up first few years then plant in garden once strong so it can be protected in summer and winter while smaller 😊 it's the satisfying feeling when you grow from seed so if you have patience you can definitely do asparagus from seeds
My mom accidentally planted asparaguses in the flowerbed next to the house, and I recognized what they were starting to look like at the top of the stalks and got her to keep them. They made a fantastic backing "hedge" and looked very pretty with the flower bushes at their feet, like some poor man's mini-bamboo. (some of the flowers were climbing and used them as a makeshift trellis, too, which was cute)
And I got to have all the raw asparagus I wanted, I liked that they were like potato sticks. Between them and carrots I was all set for most of summer in snacking.
You can grow a lime tree from lime seeds. It just takes 10years+ before the tree bears fruit. I found this out the hard way. 😅. Took 12 years but now my lime tree produces about 300 limes each year.
for strawberries, get a variety of everberrying plant (just one) and throw it in a large pot. it'll throw out runners that you can either individually pot or just firmly push into the soil in the pot and you'll end up with 10+ plants at the end of the season. its how i started a large strawberry patch.
I generally transplant out the self-sown seedlings around the main strawberry plant, and nurture it. Seems to work.
My Dad planted a seed, and it provides so many 🥑 every year. The most delicious avocados you'll ever taste. The tree is like 10m high 😅
He is lying that most avocado trees produced inedible fruit.
I am from Jamaica, and 90% of avocado trees on the island are grown from seeds. All the avocados that i have eaten in Jamaica, are way more tastier than hass.
So they may take a lot longer to give fruit, and you may not get hass from planting hass seeds, but you could plant other avocado seeds and get very good avocados.
Yes, it is almost certain that a tree will produce fruit that is different from the one that surrounded the seed. But there is a good chance that difference isn't worse.
There is way to many people who are only interested in mass propagating a single variety, which is an oxymoron btw.
Lots of videos here on UA-cam reviewing the fruit from avocado trees grown from seed. Now *that's* dedication to killing a myth!
Any chance Hass seeds are particularly un-suited to grow from seed?
@@patrickkeller2193 Exactly. If you plant these random seeds, you can get random results. However a lime will still most likely be a lime for example and most likely it won't be all that different from the parent trees if the parent trees were both similar. And yes, sometimes you can hit the jackpot and get really good odd-ball varieties with new slightly unusual but pleasant flavor combinations. The avocados grown from a seed might no longer be optimized for commercial orchards or transport to the other side of the planet but they might be very good and tasty in your home kitchen!
@@iloveprivacy8167 Hass avacados are a hybrid, a cross between two true cultivars. It may be better tasting than either of its parents, but its offspring will have a huge, chaotic variety of traits, many of which will not be desirable. The people who made the hybrid simply clone it when they want more plants.
The same is generally true for all modern hybrids, from citrus and apple trees, to tomatoes and pumpkins.
If you want to reliably grow something from seed, make sure the seed is from a true line of cultivars.
All solid advice, I'd like to add my 2c tho. Having grown up on a subsistence farm and still actively garden now. Almost 2/3rds of my crops are heritage seeds. As in, passed down from my Gparents, thru my parents, and now onto me. Some of the crops we have have drifted from original source, both good and bad ways. The key is to have many sources of seed banks, in our case our whole family. If i have a bad tasting garlic harvest, i send out notice and my brother sends seeds. We mix the blood so to say, to keep the genetics strong. Every year I eat my crops i love the idea that this exact same plant (tho grandchild of x amount of times) kept my gparents alive during the first great depression, my parents during the Regan years, and myself now. I intend to pass this down to my kids and hope to see these seeds feed my grandkids one day. Ofc each house seed bank has some changes in it too. I got alot of cool newer style tomato's and stuff that my brothers dont and vice versa. The original bank my gparents had was some odd 25 different plants. I got over 75 in my vault at this time.. i may or may not be a homesteading nut :p
@@christopherrenn8137 that’s nice!!
@@christopherrenn8137 First, congratulations on saving heirloom seeds from your family. People like you are responsible for food and genetic resilience for the planets future. The trick with heirloom seeds is that they also evolve from domestication. Your ancestors had different conditions and tastes so they picked and chose what they thought was best. It is your choice now and what is important is that when you choose your next crops seeds you have to choose as many as you can to keep the seeds from inbreeding. Choose as many qualities from as many plants you can and this will broaden your gene bank even if they all came from the same original parents. Through micro organisms and by climate you will get mutations. Mutations are very important because they are the reason we can get new genes in a closed planet. Without them we would be inbreeding ourselves. If a plant shows signs of mutation and the mutation is positive add it to the pool. Don’t be afraid of new traits just continue growing and choosing what is best and make sure to choose from as many plants as possible to minimize inbreeding.
Good story. If only more people would plant their ownorganic food again, the Earth wouldn't be in such a mess right now.
@@Ckawauchi35 The earth was a mess before and after Industriation (spelling?) of crop growing. It's we the people that need to take small steps to change the over all picture of how we live as a whole. :D Personally i would like to see libraries be charged with also indexing public access of seeds. That would be cool.
@@christopherrenn8137 That is a great idea! I think the functions of libraries should be expanded would do a lot of good for the communities around the libraries (not that they aren't already a great boon to their local communities).
While hass avocado trees grown from seed won't produce avocados that are identical to hass, they will be very similar and will be edible. I grew a hass avocado tree from seed and it is very similar to hass, but the fruit has a little bigger pits, and it is not quite as good as a hass, but definitely edible, and if making guacamole can't even tell the difference between it and a hass.
I started an avocado seed I removed from an avocado 20 something years ago. I've been eating the avocados for many years. The tree produces well and the fruit is good. Not sure why my experience is different from what you describe.
I for the first time got a "Potato Tomato" (aka berry) and intend to plant the seeds. The most astonishing thing I learned while researching how to grow potatoes from seed is that they will not be the same as the plant they came from, which is a bit of a let down because it came from a fancy purple variety of waxy potato. But I am looking forward to seeing what grows from these seeds, if anything.
Do you mean a pomato? Because those can only be made via splicing. Seeds from the tomato will only make tomatoes (and if hybridized, may not grow true to its parent plant)
@@Drosenv yeah I'm talking about potatoes not tomatoes. I must not have been clear. It happens.
@@Drosenv so I just googled what a Pomato is. I'm absolutely not talking about one of those. I'm talking about an actual potato berry. Do not eat, it will delete you in a very unpleasant way. Not every plant will produce one so it's a bit of an occasion for the grower when one does appear. Out of my 40 potato plants I got only one berry. That should put into context the level of excitement for one.
potatoes actually do produce fruits. it's not some hybrid or anything, that's just how they grow. MANY plants make some sort of fruits to spread their seeds.
@@curlygurly2112 not to worry, I did my homework and am in the process of separating the seeds from the little berry. I'm just excited because this is the first time I have gotten a berry. Out of 40 plants I got 1 berry. Another thing that adds to my excitement over it is that this is the first garden bed that I had complete control over and the growth of a berry in my mind says that I have done it right. I've also gotten a decent crop so far. A few plants aren't done growing yet but they are close. I wish I could show you the garden I put together because it's something to see. Although you would need to have seen it before I got at it to appreciate the difference and understand why I'm so excited.
It was a lot of work to restore the soil but it has paid off. Tomato plants that are larger than the label said they would grow, raspberries that stand nearly 10 feet tall, Acorn squash, Pumpkin, beans and peas, and all surrounded by Apple mint at the edges which apparently control some insects.
Anyway, in my eyes it's a thing of beauty and I'm quite proud of myself because the hard work has paid off.
I have green onions growing in my yard. The first couple years they didn’t do much. Now they are spreading like ground cover. I love it. They took over a part of the yard where we couldn’t get anything to grow and we don’t need to do anything. Thy just take care of themselves and we have fresh green onions all summer. We decided that when we move, we will dig up some of them and take them with us to the new house.
My dog planted an avocado seed (it's a long story) and it grew into a massive tree that produces tons of fruit that feeds us and the neighbors and our friends for several months each year. They taste fantastic. It is a crapshoot but if you want guaranteed success, just graft it. It's easy and a fun skill to learn.
Well I wonder what I have been feeding the family the last few years from my avocado ,haha ( trees sprouted from where I put household compost ) .The largest tree gave me ( and the neighbours ) about 200 last season .Currently I have about 5 trees happily producing from my old compost heaps .
Came to say this about avocado seedlings. I have personally grown many to fruit and have never had a bad tasting fruit. Usually they have a larger seed but are sometimes tastier than comerical verities
I grew garlic from corms in Rockhampton years ago. I harvested them the first year and got the onion-like bulbs. I really enjoyed them.
Berry bushes can be propagated by covering a low hanging branch in soil, or pressing it towards the soil for a while.
Then it'll shoot roots in the soil and can be cut off the mother bush; transferred to where you want it.
I did it with red and black currant, and it never failed.
As an argument for growing thyme from seed, which might only apply to the few people who really enjoy "getting what they want" out of their garden: Even while I completely agree that you'll probably only end up with one plant, growing from seed initially will first give you the most viable plant out of the pack, and then second as you watch each grow over the next few weeks, you'll be able to see which are the strongest, fastest growers, see their growing pattern, whether more outward or more upright, etc. And then taking a small clipping from the best growers to smell, will help you choose the ones that might have the best aroma you're looking for. Now, if all you care about is just "having a product" and not "having the best of the best of products", then buy one already established. But I really like the aspect of picking out the best of a bunch when I'm growing from seed.
I planted 24 Hass avocado stones in 2014 and planted the three best ones in the garden in 2016. The first bore fruit in 2018 and last year had 80 good fruit. The one next to it has over 200 very large fruit on it this year. Large stones too, but as good as any commercial avocado. The third is biggest and has probably 50 fruit - the best tasting of the three. Each shows characteristics that reveal their likely parentage - Hass-Zutano, Hass-Fuerte and Hass-Bacon. It's a lottery, but we got lucky.
I started an avocado seed knowing full well I'll harvest nothing from it, due to the climate I live in (as well as the fact I live in an apartment - really no space to grow a tree in :)). I'm just keeping it as a potted house plant. Also, I bought some cut rosemary sprigs for cooking some time ago. There were more than I needed so I put some of them in a glass of water, to see if some will take root. And one did, so I planted it in a pot and it seems to be doing well. Although it's gonna be a while before I feel comfortable harvesting any of it, it feels nice that I could do that.
My avocado tree is amazing, grown from an avocado seed.
In the UK it needs to be taken indoors to over winter
On my patio, I have very large pots of coriander and basil that’ll come up from their seeds. I also have some potted mint. This year I found out that basil and mint can cross pollinate because some of my basil tasted horribly minty. Yes, I know they’re in the same family but didn’t expect they’d cross. Like I wouldn’t expect potatoes and tomatoes to cross pollinate. Although my mom has always said not to plant cucumbers next to melons cause it’ll make them cucumber flavored.
Very true about the citrus trees. I have several, but they come inside in the winter because it’s so cold here. But they often fruit in the wintertime too
I'm with you on starting fruit trees from seed. It's obviously possible and more power to you if you've done it or you want to do it, but people should be aware the fruit won't be true to type, which store selling growing kits might not tell them. And for me, I've got a really busy job & gardening is a hobby and de-stressor, so saving some time/ increasing success rate are really important to me.
Thx for this. I accidentally started growing an avocado seed from some compost in my greenhouse. That was 2 years ago and it's continued to grow. I appreciate the info you shared here so now I know not to get my expectations on the resulting fruit too high (unless I win that avocado lottery!)
Avocados and Mangos are both fun houseplant projects to start from seed. They'll likely never produce edible fruit but they're really pretty houseplants with nice big green leaves.
i have an avocado tree that gives lots of avocados 2 times a year. It was planted from seed by my father. In the beginning the avocados were small, few and with bad taste. Couple of years latter the avocados are just the same to the ones you see in markets. They are so many we end up sharing them in the neighborhood every year.
But keep one thing in mind, avocado trees consume a lot of water and can dry the soil for other trees if you don't keep them well watered.
I’ve grown avocados from pits multiple times. It takes a crazy amount of patience (sometimes 3 months before you even know if it’s going to grow or if it’s dead). I can’t say it produces anything, but it makes an interesting houseplant.
Apparently you can use the leaves as seasoning, go check out mexican recipes involving it. Caveat: you gotta like anise flavors, that's apparently what they taste like.
We had a 12 meters avocado tree in my old house garden producing hundreds of avocados yearly. I can't tell what variety was the seed my dad planted, but avocados are the soft green skin variety, their taste is not good for salads, tostadas or anything sliced, but is completely fine for guacamole, mixing with chopped tomato, onion, green chili, salt and pepper, great with beefsteak and tacos.
About the onion - first year you have seed (from old onion), the second year you get arpajíc how it is called in Bulgarian and Romanian (pickling onion, in English)and on the third year you have new onion. You just have to learn the cycle of life of the particular vegetable sort. Also, depends on the year you can get onion from a seed.
One day I found some asparagus growing next to a tree across the street from my home. It was the first time I got to see the grown spears in person as they grew and branched out.
we got a small pot of strawberry kit, which ended up to be wild strawberry and no issue to grow it in the same pot. Within half a year we had a couple of berris on it, but pot were really small, so you can grow them from seeds and harvest in the same year in small quantities.
As someone with a lot of avocados on their own roots, only one produces fruits as disappointing as Haas, so I'm having to disagree on point 1; even if your tree doesn't produce good fruits (and the first couple of years of fruiting are not always indicative), you can always bud a better variety onto your established tree once you've found that out.
But if you are short of space or time, and very committed to a particular variety (e.g. you like to cook your avo, so Haas is the most reliable), then I would agree that buying a grafted sapling is a quicker way to get a reliable product. Just not always so interesting.
Rough lemon (Citrus x jambhiri) are a stable form and usually true to seed; you will also usually get a mandarin-type fruit from a mandarin seed, a cumquat from a cumquat, a lime from a lime, calamondin from calamondin, a pomelo-type from a pomelo, and so on. They will not usually be the exact cultivar (e.g. - you would probably get a navel orange, but not a caracara, from a caracara seed), but the last time someone got a truly inedible citrus cultivar from planting a seed, the grapefruit was invented (hybrid between Pomelo and sweet orange).
Edit to add - additionally, mexican lime, citron and pomelo are at least occasionally grown from rooted cuttings; trifoliate orange and rough lemon are usually grown from seed, not grafted. Grafted trees will usually fruit sooner, though.
I have two avocados trees in my yard grown from seeds (not haas variants). And both produce every single year really tasty avocados.
My parents have an avocado tree grown from a seed. It has been giving avocado's the last 2 years.
The thing people don't know is, if it's grown from seed, it's not self pollinating, that's why often you don't see fruit, if there isn't another avocado tree nearby.
so avocado trees are like cats, better to get two so they don't get lonely, got it
My avocado makes a nice house plant. I bring it in over the winter and place it outside during the summer.
One of the many avocado seeds I've planted I kept for me as a house plant and I do exactly what you described.
I'm liking this without having watched it yet for the title alone. Props for doing a video on this, so many ppl grow avocado seeds thinking they'll have a tree that some day they can harvest avocados from.
you need another avocado tree close by. why not just grow two if you already have one? this is not a good video at all.
I have a large lemon tree right beside my window, and it is sweet like orange, I use some of the fruits to make syrup! I've also grown two avocado trees from the seeds that sprouted beautifully and gave nice fruits. They might not be that beautiful on the outside, have that sweet aftertaste, silky, buttery texture, big and plump size like the store-bought ones, but they in fact where tasty enough and helped a lot in saving, since almost any store-bought fruits are very expensive.
There is also guava fruit, that is absolutely inedible when you buy on the store, but are quite sweet if harvested wild! Store guava are made so flies don't get to them, since flies do love guava a lot and wild guava are almost always infested with it. You need to know when to harvest them and leave them secure from flies to get ripe and sweet.
Yes, citrus and avocado seeds do produce trees that will bear the appropriate fruits, but only in appropriate growing zones. As for garlic, it's very interesting to experiment with garlic "seeds". The resulting bulbs will be very small in the first year, but they will keep getting bigger and bigger over the next years.
I have grown avocado trees from seed and I whish I could show you how HUGE they are and delicious. In Puerto Rico we grow giant avocados, just last year I grew one that was bigger than a 2 litter of a coca-cola bottle. I have pictures to prove it but unfortunately I can't post them here.
One of the houses that I lived had a matured Avocado tree right on the curb of the street in the wild. It put out plenty of good size avocados every years I remembered.
I planted 3 avocado trees back in 2008 from seed. The first 4 seasons they produced fruit it was inedible which they didnt start producing avocados until they were 5,7 and 8 years old. Then for some reason the 5th season each one produced really good fruit and a lot of them. They are in my brother's front yard today.
I grew my first lemon tree from seed and I was so excited! It already grew four sets of leaves and all I am honestly thinking…. How do I fail at carrots but can grew a freaking tree?
Very interesting detail about avocado seeds, although I don’t agree with your blanket statement about lemons.
I came across a bush lemon tree happily growing in the bush. I picked a bag of lumpy lemons from within the thorny branches and the lemons were great. I planted some seeds and kept two of the trees. They are now 12 years old, thorny as hell but grow great lemons.
No grafting required although these would probably make great root stock for the non thorny variety.
I thought the thorns would deter the cockatoos eating the lemons but they can get through them. In a strange twist they only eat the seeds 🤠
My Auntie planted an Avocado seed after making a 7 layer dip on the 90s, when we got the tree removed 2 years ago because it became so massive, it had produced buckets and buckets over the years. My Moms friend would come take buckets to the Farmers market.
It produced buckets? That's amazing. (Now wondering what will sprout if I plant a bucket.)
@@whiteknightcat A buckethead zombie of course.
@@neoqwerty 🤣
I'm from South América and the species of palta (avocado) which used to be the only one when I was a child, grown from the riped fruits which felt to the ground like it also happened with walnut trees (I believe that's the correct species)
Since each tree is a different individual, the quality of the fruit is not guaranteed but the biggest problem is that it takes 10 years for a tree to start producing anything, if it ever does
I grew an avocado tree from seed but it did take years before producing fruit. Then again, it wasn't a HASS but a Florida avocado. I also produced a KEY LIME tree from seed. That produced limes every year for 30 years ( until we sold the property). From that original tree, I again grew a tree that produced for 25 years until a hurricane killed it. I am now waiting on the "3rd" generation. We have not planted it into the ground as we are waiting to build a new home for its "final resting place".
Very interesting! I remember a comedienne talking about her mother putting toothpicks into avocado seeds trying to grow them. ["It's like some kind of voodoo thing!"]
I saw that in my family, but we didn't get the benefits due to moving every few years. Avocado trees are quite an investment in time!
I have a 5 year old seed-grown avocado tree. I started it from a pit that came from fruits of an aquaintence's tree out of sheer curiosity, and kept it because "why not?" My neighbors have three fruiting avocado trees though, so I've considered asking them for a couple small scions to make a self-pollinating grafted tree using my seed-grown one as a rootstock since it's obviously happy with conditions at my house and is established. I never actually figured on getting avocado fruits when I started that pit, but at this point, I'm rather attached to the little project.
In regards to the avocado, I always wanted to grow one from seed even if it doesn't grow true to seed. It would be more for just helping to get some great nutritional value into my compost pile or to feed to our local wildlife
Another one is apples one of my projects in horticulture as a kid was to graft 4 different apples onto one root stock. If you plant an apple seed you get crab apples bitter tiny apples still edible but gorse. Down the back of the family farm we also have many wild cherry trees the cheers taste good but are almost the same size as the seed its self.
My grandmother and myself have both grown full on avocado trees that have all become real trees with real full blown super tasty avocados better than from the store. You just have to start it with decent water, not chemical filled tap water.
Those things grow from avocado seeds sure do taste like avocados.
the reson they graft is because other type of citrus or avo are hardier. if you grow it from seed you will get the avocado. it just may not produce as many fruit. so from a industrial farm point of view its best to graft.
Hey, if I can get a plant that can get a graft in the future, I don’t mind that my tree’s direct fruit isn’t too tasty. I’m not buying the seeds I propagate, I’m not trying to feed my community, I’m just practicing germination skills and seeing what plants do well in my local conditions.
That’s why this video is helpful for the people who do have the above mentioned goals, I just have different goals.
Thank you for this. I am especially grateful for information about perennial veggies, and I did not know anything about asparagus.
I've grown onion from seed and had full (massive) onions the first summer, just a few month later. I've also had artichoke produce the first year
Onions will. They flower their second year.
I have had a couple of artichokes produce in their first year (from seedlings).
Artichoke, assume you mean globe, not root (Jerusalem) artichokes? I'm at 45°N, allow plants to seed after 3rd year, usually get 1-5 plants pop up as "weeds", choosing a couple to keep. Not reliable, no new seedlings this year, as far as I can see in the mini-jungle of my backyard.
@@pynn1000 yes mine were globes
@@davinasquirrel7672 Thanks! Since I saw your message I nipped outside, removed the remaining head. About 1/2 of the original 100s of seeds still left, plant itself is clearly dying. I'll try planting some seeds rather than hoping some land in a good place.
We get avocado trees from seeds producing beautiful avocados all the time, but those are not Hass avocados, those are natural species. Some have a lighter delightful taste and creamy texture and are 4 to 5 times the size of the Hass avocado. Some are more fibrous and more “watery” (lighter and refreshing taste), but certainly good to eat. If you want to plant an avocado tree from seed you need the seed of a naturally occurring avocado plant. Hass avocados are industrialized clones. There are also many varieties of banana trees, but those are not the one that you get at the grocery store. Wonderful and insightful video. Thanks for all the useful information. 🙂
I used to have problems starting strawberries. What I do is soak the soil, have a heat mat and grow light. Sprinkle the seeds on the surface of the soil and then cover with an opaque plastic until they start sprouting. Make sure they don't dry out
Thanks heaps! Obviously you know your stuff.. I'm having problems with my asparagus.
I have studied but you are in my climate.
I don't eat asparagus, but I didn't realize you need to be SUPER patient with it for best result. Also, I just planted strawberry seeds a few days ago, it's nice to know they're going to take over my garden slowly 😂
No need to hate on seed grown avocados. Hass was a seedling itself once.
I'll point that garlic planted having let bulbils mature offers a significant multiplication factor that the extra year does not compromise compared to planting cloves. If you want to have a huge crop and have some patience, the reward will be worth it.
In many climates an Avocado tree won't last the winter and it won't grow fruit for many years. BUT the leaves are very beneficial. Avocado leaves just so happen to be high in quercetin. These incredible leaves are full of minerals like immune-boosting zinc, bone-strengthening calcium, and magnesium and potassium. This helps promote a healthy heart by enhancing blood circulation, lowering blood pressure, and reducing hypertension. So now I grow it for the leaves alone as I have not seen Avocado Tea in the shops.
Be aware of the persin in leaves that in some varieties is more concentrated and toxic to some people more than others.
how do you prepare the leaves for eating?
@@jevans1805 I think you just make a Tea from them. I must admit, I have a 1 meter tree growing but have not tried it yet. Not sure if you use the young leaves or old leaves or if it even matters.
@@Spyhook You'll figure it out when you try your tea, but from the general pattern older leaves have more of the flavor and young ones will have a milder flavor.
But avocado *leaves apparently is a whole SEASONING! So even if your tea isn't to your taste (heh!) you can apparently make a whole subset of cuisine with it if cooking's your thing.
Source: "Avocado Leaves: A Secret Mexican Ingredient", blogspot site "Flavors of the Sun".
I love growing avocados, they are very easy to grow. What I hate growing is sequoia trees from seed as i never have luck with them growing beyond a inch.
I have to say that I knew that apples and wine need these technique with the twigs, but didn't know that avocado and even lemons need them, too. A veggie I recently struggeled on many times is chicory. Maybe you can make something about this plant. I will watch it for sure.
Where I live there are several varieties of Avocado trees, and they do spread from seed.
The Avocados are bigger with smooth thinner skin than a Has, and the seed has a thin film around it that sticks to the inside of the pulp, so you have to carefully peel it or remove it with a bit of flesh using a spoon, and the thinner skin makes them bad for long transport.
But they have more flesh and taste really good, but not exactly the same, they have a stronger taste.
Avocado Associations do visit homes and farms with them twice a year to apply pesticides, because they are the ones used to graft the Has trees, and them getting a disease would mean doom for the billions of Has clones.
I used to an Asparagus grower! At the time Dayton, Wa. used to be the worlds biggest manufacture of Asparagus!
You can grow onion from seed in one season, in fact, you want harvest it because next year it will just flower. You've never grown an onion and are giving bad advice about it. Don't do that.
The video has massive errors all through it and is very pedantic. Granted I am not the gardener of the family my wife is. I just do the heavy lifting. But even I can point out things he’s wrong about. We planted some apple seeds about 14 years ago. It was something for the kids to watch grow. They got to see those tiny seeds grow into trees that we now pick apple from. To sit there and say any seed from the grocery store can’t be planted is just wrong. We have done so with everything we eat. Even potatoes.
I grew 2 trees from seeds. They both produced fruit, which were very nice.
You are right about the strawberry plants, bravo!
I started an avocado seed in my small apartment because I was curious. I only started one seed. It is the first time I successfully grew something on my own and even though there will be no avocados, I am still happy with the plant itself. (I usually manage to kill cacti 🙃)
Thank You for the great gardening information. To this day I still can’t grow an avocado tree from the seed.😢
Just stumbled across your video, so good. Really enjoy not just the content but also the way you deliver it ❤
For fruit trees, commercial fruit is generally grown from grafts. The root stock that it is grafted to is selected for hardiness rather than the fruit. So if you plant the seeds you don’t know what the fruit will be like. It may be small, or tough, or have strange flavors. But it may be edible it might even be good, just not up to commercial standards for some reason.
Contrary to what you allege, I have a field of Florida avocado trees, all from seeds. I dont like non-native Haas avocados. You do NOT have to graft, but if you do, you will get fruit within a year, as opposed to up to 4 years.
I started Asparagus from seeds, really took some years till I got something useful out of it. ^^
I lived in a house in Phoenix with a tree that grew lemons oranges and grapefruit
I've tried avocado, citrus, and garlic from seed. 😂😂😂. But it was fun. Gardening should be fun.
I planted an avocado seed which grew into a fruit bearing tree in three years.
The fruit was huge and delicious. A Hass avocado has been genetically modified.
Wow. The fact that the video looks so professional scares me a little. People might believe him.
2:42 I am currently staying on a property North of Brisbane. There are 4 Avocado trees amongst other fruit trees here. Anyway, two were plantstock according to the original owner. The other two grew from random, missed dropped fruit. The oldest seed tree produces abundant fruit. However, the younger one has just put on its first flush of blooms.
It'll be interesting to see what it produces. Oh, we also have a serious guava issue here, so I've been selectively cutting them and use the timber for walking/hiking sticks and other woodworking stuff. Subbed. Cheers mate.
I never had an issue getting strawberry seeds to sprout. Caught me off guard when you mentioned them.
i actually have a wild strawberry plant that i grew from seeds from berries i found near the woods.
i planted like 50 and 2 of them grew.
that was like 9 years ago and its off shoot clones are all over my back yard now!
garlic and onions can be started with seeds because you can even harvest the leaves and they do deliver delicious flavour to any green salad
So I was missing the suburbs life, and there's a lawn nearby with (presumably decorative) strawberries, and some runners extend into the pavement. Small trampled leaves, rootless, looking horrible. But they were free. So I tore away a bunch of those and soaked in water and planted them and like a third of them survived. Going to plant them on the bare lawn outside my apartment complex.