Re: [ot_caving] Avocado Pit Germination

[Don Cooper]

Yeah - thanks to all and now I'm waiting.
I did the toothpick thing and I figure the best thing is to keep the lowest
quarter of the thing wet in the water.
One of them is a little less than a quarter in the water.  I'm concerned a
little that my mode of avocado consumption leaves shallow cuts along the
pit.  I usually slice off segments of avocado a little at a time and in the
process the skin of the pit gets shallow lacerations.  I guess I could forgo
this 'bit by bit' way of eating them.
Incidentally, the ones I'm working on now are the cheaper, smaller Hass
variety.  Maybe I'll get one of those big $1.50 ones and be a little more
careful with the pit.
Ounce for ounce avocados have much less fat than peanut butter!  I'd rather
nosh on 'cados than pb... but they both obviously have their place.
-WaV

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:42 PM, CaverArch  wrote:

>  Timely question (for me): there's an as-yet-un-sprouted one in my kitchen
> right now, by the old toothpicks suspending-in-a-water-glass technique.  I
> was able to get one going this way when I was a kid in the Florida
> panhandle, but that was in the cold 1960s decade (low temp for Panama City
> hit 10 degrees during one cold snap) and it froze when about 3-ft high.  I
> figured I'd try again and let global warming help for a change.
>
> Roger Moore
> Houston
>
> In a message dated 07/31/08 15:41:06 Central Daylight Time,
> wavyca...@gmail.com writes:
>
>  Anyone with a knack for growing things?
> I've gotten a few started over the years, but most of them died before
> getting roots going
> and only one out of ten got started at all.
> Horticulturists, please enlighten me.
> -WaV
>
>
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Re: [ot_caving] Avocado Pit Germination

[CaverArch]

Timely question (for me): there's an as-yet-un-sprouted one in my kitchen right 
now, by the old toothpicks suspending-in-a-water-glass technique.  I was able 
to get one going this way when I was a kid in the Florida panhandle, but that 
was in the cold 1960s decade (low temp for Panama City hit 10 degrees during 
one cold snap) and it froze when about 3-ft high.  I figured I'd try again and 
let global warming help for a change.  

Roger Moore
Houston

In a message dated 07/31/08 15:41:06 Central Daylight Time, wavyca...@gmail.com 
writes:
Anyone with a knack for growing things?
I've gotten a few started over the years, but most of them died before getting 
roots going
and only one out of ten got started at all.
Horticulturists, please enlighten me.
-WaV

[ot_caving] Avocado Pit Germination

[Don Cooper]

Anyone with a knack for growing things?
I've gotten a few started over the years, but most of them died before
getting roots going
and only one out of ten got started at all.
Horticulturists, please enlighten me.
-WaV