How to grow an Avocado from seeds at home - (part 8)

:: Growing and also another method of shaping a rooted Avocado seedling ::
Avocado is a fast-growing tree, reaching a height of 20 m. The trunk is usually straight, strongly branched. Leaves are elliptical, up to 35 cm long. They fall all year round.
The flowers are inconspicuous, small, greenish, bisexual, located in the leaf axils. The fruit is a single-seeded pear-shaped, ellipsoidal or spherical berry. The length of a mature fruit is from 5 to 20 cm, weight is from 50 g to 1.8 kg. The skin of the fruit is tough, in unripe fruits it is dark green, after a while after ripening it turns black. The pulp of a ripe fruit is green or yellow-green in color, oily, contains a lot of fat. There is a large seed in the center of the fruit. Mexico is the leader in the production and export of avocados. Avocados are grown in many tropical and subtropical regions (USA, Brazil, Africa, Israel). Harvest: 150-200 kg of fruit per tree. There are over 400 varieties of avocado.
In this part you will see:
- How a young Avocado plant grows and forms, which rooted from the cut off top of the mother plant.
- As an adult plant with frequent pruning, it refused to form at all in my intended way. (I want to remind you once again that the shape of the first plant should have looked spherical on a straight stem, no more than 50 cm high.) The whole plant itself should not have increased 1.2 meters in height along with the container.
- Constant pruning of the main stem, in anticipation of the simultaneous appearance of (3 - 4) new shoots, which will form simultaneously into full-fledged and not elongated branches. (This did not happen even in well-lit times of the year.)
For my idea, it was necessary to organize the backlight for full-scale lighting, like a street light at an angle of 360 degrees. Well, on the windowsill after pruning, a couple of elongated twigs will always grow from which you cannot form a neat spherical cap. As a result, the root system of an adult plant began to rot from frequent pruning. After rehabilitation, I wanted to cut an adult plant in a coordinated manner, leaving several dormant buds on it to create an "Avocado bonsai". Despite the fact that the trunk was thoroughly covered with garden varnish and the trim was in a humid microclimate, it could not wake up the buds and release new young branches. The experiment failed, the adult Avocado plant withered and disappeared. My idea could be embodied somewhere in a greenhouse or in a greenhouse, winter garden, not to mention open ground, at least somewhere in the country of the subtropical zone.
Well, in short, at the expense of a young Avocado seedling:
At a time when the mother plant was experiencing all the severity of my bullying, and the rooted baby was growing and developing. At the time of active growth, I had to shape it differently. Initially, he cut off the main branches, and then only plucked the tops of new young shoots. I did it gradually, letting the previous ones heal the points of juicing.
The new avocado plant was exposed on the balcony during the warm season, for better uniform lighting. The plant practically did not move, only with the necessary shooting. In the fall, at (+10 degrees in the afternoon), I took him back to the room. Also closer to autumn, I didn't really flood the soil with water. From autumn to late winter, the plant is best kept in a tight container.
I want to remind my viewers that the container with Avocado was on the balcony with protected windows with not very dense white spoundbond, from the direct rays of the active sun during the hot period of summer. There was just a bright diffused light, thus it did not burn the green mass of the plant and did not dry out the air on the balcony so much, not to mention heating the container with soil.
Young Avocado care was routine:
- Watering only after thoroughly drying out the substrate inside the container by approximately 70-80%.
- Spraying almost every day, preferably in the evening. And also 2 times a week (autumn - spring).
- Fertilized once every two weeks with dry mineral fertilizer for decorative leafy houseplants, for example (planeta-agro.c.... Fertilizer is mainly nitrogen - potassium. For active growth of leaf mass and root system.
- I did not dare to transplant in the spring of 2019. I decided to do it in the spring of 2020. The Avocado will be transplanted into a 5L container. At the moment, the plant is in a 3.5 liter pot, and the root has grown over almost the entire container.
- During the period of development of a young plant, more than one pest did not endanger it.
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