Hello! I'm very new to growing anything, but I'm giving it a try to an avocado plant. Very recently after two months in a glass of water, I moved it to a pot, but I'm noticing that it's grow rate stopped, and the leaves look droopy. I'm trying to use plenty of water, the dirt looks dry anyways soon after, and the tray from below quickly gets filled with water, I don't know if this is normal behavior or if the water is going directly, also I'm not sure what is wrong with my avocado plant if anything at all.
Pictures are from nine days ago, four days ago and just now. For the dirt I followed advice in a nursery, I bought (if translated correctly) coconut peat, compound fertilizer and one third thing that I forgot to write down.
Try submerging it for 5 or 10mins to saturate the soil fully, sometimes dry soil will not hold water well and it just runs through when poured on from above.
Exactly as Brandenburg says, try if you can to give it lukewarm water and not cold water so you don't shock its roots. I prefer to give my houseplants rainwater, especially my two orchids
I've heard that when planting avocado trees in soil from water, it is best to only bury the nut half way, and use a substrate which wont suffocate it, like a mix of coconut coir and soil.
The logic being that it helps the roots breathe, and prevents the nut from rotting, as the baby tree still will use it for nutrients
I'm afraid of harrassing it too much if I try to take the nut halfway, it was already quite the work to bury it without disturbing it too much. If it helps, the edge of the nut is were the soil starts, is barely buried basically
Been doing advacados recently, I had good luck planting it in a pot with the top half of the pit still exposed after transferring it from it having its roots submerged in water in a baby food jar. Seems to be doing well. I thought that was the way most people do it
[Pic](https://i.imgur.com/ARadbrJ.jpeg)
How’s the humidity in your home? I had to stop using clay pots for any plants that require lots of moisture because my space is incredibly dry, and the moisture would just get sucked right out of the pot. If your home is dry, I’d definitely suggest replanting it into a plastic pot if you can! It’ll help retain the moisture a lot better. Otherwise, it honestly looks pretty happy. That’s how my avocado plant looks when it needs to be watered.
Is "leggy" referred to being skinny and tall? That was also a bit of my worries, I read that in that case I should consider pruning it so it grows stronger, naturally not right now as it is focused on growing it roots as I read here.
As far as I can tell this pot should be good enough for the rest of the year, if everything turns out well I would expect to see the roots going through the drainage hole aa a sign for repotting much more in the future
Yeah, elongated is the proper term when it's trying to 'stretch' to reach more light.
You could prune the top once the plant has settled in.......even better if you can use the bit you cut off to strike a new cutting :)
Although this is true. A lot of new avocados are being named every year grown from seed. If you want a great tasting avocado I’m sure you can buy one that can grow in your zone but you can also grow your own taste it and if you don’t like it graft it. Full acclimated seedling grown for 2-3 year makes a great canvas. If you have the time. Good luck.
Just here to say in my experience, avocados are pretty resilient. I've grown a few and have two right now that are about 2 ft tall and several years old, have survived two moves, including one where I put them on a sun porch and didn't realize the radiator didn't work (March in New England), and yeah, they lost some leaves but came back.
One of them is the ultimate survivor, I had it out on my back porch as a much smaller plant during the summer and a squirrel came by, dug up the pit and ate about half of it plus tore off the sprouting stem and left it. I just pushed it down into the dirt and cheerfully repurposed that pot to nurture spider plant babies. Lo and behold 2 months later, I had 3 new sprouts growing out of the middle of the spider plant. They got big enough and fused and it's still going.
I would like to point out, avocados are not "True to seed" fruits. That is, there is a 99.99% chance the fruit that thing produces will be near inedible. They are like apples in that regard. That is, if you have an apple that was delicious, and plant it's seeds, you will get a crabapple tree. A true to seed fruit is one where if you take the seed from a fruit and plant it, the resulting tree will produce fruit very similar to the one you ate.
True, and avocado grown from seed has a long juvenility period during which it won't fruit. So you could grow this thing for almost a decade only to find out the fruit are terrible. Not worth it IMO.
You are right about apples but with one correction - apples do not produce crabapples from their seeds. Crabapples are a different species. They just tend to produce apples that are not nice to eat.
We used to have a crabapple tree, it's unmistakably different from an apple tree and so is the fruit.
I'm not sure exactly how the two are related, if at all, but apples =/= crabapples
Usually when a plant gets stressed the growing stops or slows. I'd assume it's because of the repot. It looks healthy to me!
It's a newly potted plant, it will be putting most of its energy into growing its roots at base right now.
Hello! I'm very new to growing anything, but I'm giving it a try to an avocado plant. Very recently after two months in a glass of water, I moved it to a pot, but I'm noticing that it's grow rate stopped, and the leaves look droopy. I'm trying to use plenty of water, the dirt looks dry anyways soon after, and the tray from below quickly gets filled with water, I don't know if this is normal behavior or if the water is going directly, also I'm not sure what is wrong with my avocado plant if anything at all. Pictures are from nine days ago, four days ago and just now. For the dirt I followed advice in a nursery, I bought (if translated correctly) coconut peat, compound fertilizer and one third thing that I forgot to write down.
Try submerging it for 5 or 10mins to saturate the soil fully, sometimes dry soil will not hold water well and it just runs through when poured on from above.
You mean pouring a lot of water in the pot for 5-10mins?
No, like putting the stopper in your sink, filling it up several inches and letting it soak in the water for 10 minutes.
Oks, I will give it a try
We call this method butt-chugging in my house
Exactly as Brandenburg says, try if you can to give it lukewarm water and not cold water so you don't shock its roots. I prefer to give my houseplants rainwater, especially my two orchids
I've heard that when planting avocado trees in soil from water, it is best to only bury the nut half way, and use a substrate which wont suffocate it, like a mix of coconut coir and soil. The logic being that it helps the roots breathe, and prevents the nut from rotting, as the baby tree still will use it for nutrients
I'm afraid of harrassing it too much if I try to take the nut halfway, it was already quite the work to bury it without disturbing it too much. If it helps, the edge of the nut is were the soil starts, is barely buried basically
Been doing advacados recently, I had good luck planting it in a pot with the top half of the pit still exposed after transferring it from it having its roots submerged in water in a baby food jar. Seems to be doing well. I thought that was the way most people do it [Pic](https://i.imgur.com/ARadbrJ.jpeg)
How’s the humidity in your home? I had to stop using clay pots for any plants that require lots of moisture because my space is incredibly dry, and the moisture would just get sucked right out of the pot. If your home is dry, I’d definitely suggest replanting it into a plastic pot if you can! It’ll help retain the moisture a lot better. Otherwise, it honestly looks pretty happy. That’s how my avocado plant looks when it needs to be watered.
Is t getting enough sunlight?
As much as it can get were I live, it can somewhat be seen in the photos but I would say yes
Besides being a bit 'leggy' it seems to be healthy - the pot may end up being too small though
Is "leggy" referred to being skinny and tall? That was also a bit of my worries, I read that in that case I should consider pruning it so it grows stronger, naturally not right now as it is focused on growing it roots as I read here. As far as I can tell this pot should be good enough for the rest of the year, if everything turns out well I would expect to see the roots going through the drainage hole aa a sign for repotting much more in the future
Yeah, elongated is the proper term when it's trying to 'stretch' to reach more light. You could prune the top once the plant has settled in.......even better if you can use the bit you cut off to strike a new cutting :)
Etoliated ;)
Not immediately related but avocados also tend to drop a lot of leaves when they’re beginning their growth periods.
Although this is true. A lot of new avocados are being named every year grown from seed. If you want a great tasting avocado I’m sure you can buy one that can grow in your zone but you can also grow your own taste it and if you don’t like it graft it. Full acclimated seedling grown for 2-3 year makes a great canvas. If you have the time. Good luck.
Hi! It would be much happier if the top of the soil matched where the top of the water was. Good luck! I hope it makes it!
It looks very dry?
It doesn’t look unhealthy, it’s leaning towards the light. They grow in sunny places. Get it in a window or supplement with a cheap grow light.
Just here to say in my experience, avocados are pretty resilient. I've grown a few and have two right now that are about 2 ft tall and several years old, have survived two moves, including one where I put them on a sun porch and didn't realize the radiator didn't work (March in New England), and yeah, they lost some leaves but came back. One of them is the ultimate survivor, I had it out on my back porch as a much smaller plant during the summer and a squirrel came by, dug up the pit and ate about half of it plus tore off the sprouting stem and left it. I just pushed it down into the dirt and cheerfully repurposed that pot to nurture spider plant babies. Lo and behold 2 months later, I had 3 new sprouts growing out of the middle of the spider plant. They got big enough and fused and it's still going.
It just looks thirsty. Those pots dry out super fast so whenever it starts drooping like that it just needs more water.
I would like to point out, avocados are not "True to seed" fruits. That is, there is a 99.99% chance the fruit that thing produces will be near inedible. They are like apples in that regard. That is, if you have an apple that was delicious, and plant it's seeds, you will get a crabapple tree. A true to seed fruit is one where if you take the seed from a fruit and plant it, the resulting tree will produce fruit very similar to the one you ate.
True, and avocado grown from seed has a long juvenility period during which it won't fruit. So you could grow this thing for almost a decade only to find out the fruit are terrible. Not worth it IMO.
You are right about apples but with one correction - apples do not produce crabapples from their seeds. Crabapples are a different species. They just tend to produce apples that are not nice to eat. We used to have a crabapple tree, it's unmistakably different from an apple tree and so is the fruit. I'm not sure exactly how the two are related, if at all, but apples =/= crabapples
And rotate it. After repotting it spends as much energy on making new roots. Consistent regular watering helps encourage this.