Avocado Seed - Finally Sprouted!

[Peaspeculiars]

http://oi59.tinypic.com/2qm2bs8.jpg

I'm hoping an expert could advise if this is ready to put into compost yet?
Never have I ever had an avocado seed sprout to date, so excited!

[ummmm]

Wow...what did you do to start with? Stick it in water?

[237SJ]

http://inhabitat.com/how-to-grow-an-avocado-tree-from-an-avocado-pit/

It says to do it when it`s 6" tall.

[Peaspeculiars]

Hi Ummm, I've always done the 3 cocktail stick method before with no success, so this time I literally just bunged it into a a dish with water and it seems to have worked :-)

[Peaspeculiars]

Cheers 237SJ, great link, looks like I'll have to wait a few more weeks yet :-)

[237SJ]

Good luck. I wouldn`t mind trying that myself.

[pastafreak]

I used to do that a lot...years ago. I should again...I eat so many avocados,I would have a jungle!

[DaisyNonna]

Glad I'm not the only one pasta

[Peaspeculiars]

Love avocados, wonder if it will ever fruit? hmm....

[Mosaic]

it won't get the right conditions to fruit if you're in the chilly UK, Peas. Avocados like mediterranean climates. However your one will love a nice windowsill and will simply keep growing to fill up the compost available. I've had them 3 or 4 feet tall in the past.

[Peaspeculiars]

I s'pose it will make for just a nice house plant then mosiac.
If I talk nicely to it, and feed it lots of jammy toast it still wouldn't give me an avocado? Ah well :-)

[Brinjal]

They take about 7years to fruit.

[Peaspeculiars]

Oh blimey!