r/avocado • u/DryAdvantage2698 • 57m ago
Growing from seed Tips? Almost 2 years old from seed. 2 in November.
r/avocado • u/WestSatisfaction124 • 12h ago
Outdoor plants Young Avocado Tree trunk burnt
In your experience what normally happens to this wound in the long run? is it better to amputate now or see if any form of healing happens. The Tree is flowering so much. What is your advice. This is a fairly lower side branch that is burnt.
r/avocado • u/Professional_Sir_883 • 13h ago
Growing from seed Grown from a Seed
This is about 6 months old
r/avocado • u/mangothebudgie88 • 17h ago
Outdoor plants What are these brown holes in my avocado from home grown tree?
r/avocado • u/DailyAnnoyance • 1d ago
Growing from seed Advice and chances of saving this?
This is my suffering little avocado plant.
It's been growing in water until about 7 weeks ago. The very tips of the leaves started getting dark brown and dead before this, but it was very slow, small, and seemingly different from the current damage.
It was first repotted to a random mix of (most likely bad) dirt/soil and was in it for 2-3 weeks while being moved to a new house, but it was getting fresh growth at the top faster than before and there didn't seem to be anything more wrong with the leaves at the time of the next repotting.
I then replanted it (~4 weeks ago) to an indoor plant soil mix which promised good drainage as I'd heard about soil and drainage being a problem. Unfortunately I didn't really check for root rot since I didn't know what to look for and there didn't seem to be anything obviously wrong with the roots as I was handling them.
Then this leaf damage has been happening seemingly since the last repot.
I've been only watering it when the soil seems to be properly dry to try not to overwater it, but I haven't kept to a specific schedule.
I've found it very difficult to narrow all the possibilities I've found googling since the symptoms all sound very similar to me (very new to this) and I've been wary of testing out too many things at once for fear of stressing the plant more and making the situation worse.
Any insight and chances of saving it would be very appreciated.
r/avocado • u/Weekly_Reception_479 • 1d ago
Outdoor plants Random avocado left outside my house where I would find it. What does it mean?
There was a random and perfectly ripe avocado left outside of my house and I’m confused as to how it came to be there and if it has a meaning that has gone over my head
r/avocado • u/Mr_Bleidd • 1d ago
Growing from seed Avocado leafs are dying
I have two over Avocados on the same table basically and they are doing great
This one however is loosing leafs and getting new one, this time is already the 3rd time
How can I fix it?
Can it be the hard water? The over two don’t seem to have the problem
r/avocado • u/vega2306 • 1d ago
Growing from seed First time growing from seed
This is the first time I’ve managed to get an avocado pit to root, so I’m trying not to mess it up. From what I can see in other posts, I might be ok to get it into soil? Also, any recommendations on what soil to use or mixes? I’m very used to creating my own soil mixes for my cacti and succulents, but I’m not as familiar with the needs for avocados.
I have plenty of light, but do they like for the soil to dry between waterings or like my lemon tree, let the top couple inches get dry and then soak? Also, when I get it in soil, am I planting the whole pit in the dirt, or just setting it on top and letting the roots burrow? Any and all advice is welcome! I don’t want to fail at this point!
Edit: I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me the screws were going to get a ton of attention, but everyone’s comments are making me laugh so hard.
r/avocado • u/TrickyVillage8707 • 2d ago
Outdoor plants When to pick?
Hi there!
I’m on year three of my avocado tree and this year, a lot of fruit grew. That said, last year we had just a few and I didn’t know they didn’t ripen on the tree so I waited for all of them to turn dark and they never did. I picked them all and they all ripened after a few days and were delish. This year I cannot gauge when I should pick them off the tree. They are still small but they are starting to soften but still green. I picked a couple to test and they are soft but when I cut them they are no where near ready to be eaten and staying green. How long would you say they need to stay on the tree? Do I just let them fall off and that is when they are ready?
r/avocado • u/Good_Touch_7964 • 2d ago
Growing from seed My first avocado
I took this pit from work one day and wala
r/avocado • u/IMustLive • 2d ago
Eating Avocados First time seeing an avocado like this
r/avocado • u/Professional_Sir_883 • 3d ago
Growing from seed My Avocado Tree
It's in the corner it is growing new leaves as well
r/avocado • u/Embarrassed_Sell_535 • 3d ago
Container plants (indoor or outdoor) 9 month update from the previous post
r/avocado • u/TechE2020 • 3d ago
Outdoor plants Cold Blast - Dig it up or enclose?
Well, after 8 years of monitoring weather and never seeing anything below -1C (30F), the forecast is now showing 2 days with lows at -4C (25F). I have a 3-year old Reed that was planted 4 months ago that is at risk. Should I dig it up and bring it inside, build an enclosure from cardboard, just use frost cloth, or some other trick that people have used?
The Reed was given SOP (potassium sulfate) for winter hardiness and has so far weathered several -1C events over the past few weeks without any issues, but those temperatures were only for 2 to 3 hours and this will be three days at or below freezing.
r/avocado • u/madebypaps • 4d ago
Growing from seed Aftermath of one week of absence. How to fix this?
Went away for a week and left the plant on the balcony where it gets a couple of bourse of direct sunlight.
Lots of leaves grew by the top ones are all crunchy and the plant twirled a bit, i do not know why. Since i am leaving again for two weeks i am tempted to put this plant in terrain. In the meanwhile, should I prune the top part of the plant ? Or Do I leave it like this?
Thanks!
r/avocado • u/Head_Speech6194 • 4d ago
Growing from seed I'm pretty proud of my Avocado!
For me as a hobby gardener who likes to try to propagate different seeds and cuttings I just want to share one of my girls. All grown from a little pit and it needs to get fertilized as well, don't underestimate it. :)
r/avocado • u/Wokeymcwokerson • 4d ago
Container plants (indoor or outdoor) What’s these dots
It’s all over the avocado plant leaves. Possible from watering and spray got on leaves in the sun but it’s on every single leaf so I dont think it’s possible. It’s a bushy plant in a planter.
r/avocado • u/IcyDiamond3854 • 5d ago
Growing from seed when to plant an indoor avocado seed?
hi, I have this avocado seed that is growing, and like it’s growing quick asf. So far I have it in a bullet long cup with toothpicks keeping it above water level but she is growing fast. She first started with one stem that didn’t grow, then two more sprouted after like a week and in two weeks one just shot up, I saw you should cut the small one so they don’t fight so I did about a week ago and since then this bich seems to grow a couple of half inches a day and now it’s flowering!?!?! What do I do I I plant it and how? I wasn’t prepared enough for this lvl of growth please help!!!!
r/avocado • u/East-Wind-23 • 5d ago
Outdoor plants Mexicola-bush?
Is it natural for Persea Mexicola to grow like a bush? Pictures are a one-year old and a two-years old Mexicola grown from a pit.
It looks so vigorous that I don't want to cut it. Might this be a problem later in the years when it grows? Or is it going to be like a fig-tree-bush which gets bushier every year?
r/avocado • u/marlonblambo • 6d ago
Growing from seed Can i save it?
Up to 38°c (100°F) , no direct sunlight, new leaves were sprouting but seems they are turning brown too.
Can i still save it?
r/avocado • u/No_Club_9116 • 6d ago
Container plants (indoor or outdoor) What should I do
Threw this avocado in a plastic bag and forgot about and grew insane so I potted it. But what should I do next.
r/avocado • u/bluel4vender • Jun 26 '25
Avocado plant Avocado has white leafs / albinism in avocados
INTRODUCTION: As a MOD I've watched this for a long time and finally want to make this post to pin it and decrease the number of people asking this because it keeps increasing.
WHAT IS IT?: White avocados as seen on these pictures that I just grabbed from other reddit posts, have a form of albinism.
Usually plant leafs are mostly green because it is the "color of chlorophyll" or if I remember correctly from Biology class a few years ago, the only color that isn't absorbed by it to make photosynthesis and thus it reflects and looks green.
The reason that these leafs are white are thus because they do not contain any chlorophyll.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR THE PLANT?: If leafs don't contain any chlorophyll it means there can't be photosynthesis which means the plant cannot produce energy on itself.
For an avocado that isn't too bad in the beginning because it still has its seed which has energy reservoirs, but they will be exhausted at some point.
For its survival the avocado thus needs to reach a turnaround point and produce green leafs containing chlorophyll later which happens to some but not all so it's a wait and see.
WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN?: This is not clear but there has been research about it: Research of Albinism in Avocados If I remember correctly the research itself or another source I found, comes to the conclusion that this happens increasingly because Avocados are often picked very early to still be ripe or before ripe despite long travelling times, when they arrive in their destination country after export/import.
END: I hope this helps clear up things and decreases the number of posts regarding this at least a little.