Experiment 7 - Avocados
Introduction/Background:
This experiment is a classic. We always seem to have an abundance of avocados around the house, so I decided to use a couple of the leftover pits and place them in water to see if they would grow into trees.
Experiment Goal:
● Grow a tree from the recovered pit of an avocado.
Experiment Conditions:
1. The pits used in the experiment must be reclaimed from ordinary, store-bought avocados.
2. Any means of caring for the plants is acceptable.
3. There is no timeline for this experiment; it will be concluded only when it is believed subjectively that enough data has been collected.
Data Collection:
These posts follow the progress of experiment 7:
- Post 1 - Avocadabra - PART ONE
- Post 2 - Avocadabra - PART TWO
- Post 3 - Untitled photo post
- Post 4 - Untitled photo post
- Post 5 - April Update
- Post 6 - The third plant
- Post 7 - Untitled photo set
- Post 8 - Roots and beer
- Post 9 - Super Roots
- Post 10 - I can barely be-leaf it
- Post 11 - Untitled photo post
- Post 12 - The other avocados
- Post 13 - Untitled photo post
- Post 14 - Untitled photo post
- Post 15 - Avocado leaf detail
- Post 16 - Graduation Day
- Post 17 - Post-graduation
- Post 18 - August 2012 Update
- Post 19 - Weeks of progress
- Post 20 - Squirrels like avocados
Conclusions:
- It is possible for an avocado pit placed in water to take root.
- It is possible for an avocado pit placed in water to grow greenery.
- It is possible for an avocado pit growing greenery to be transplanted from water to soil successfully.
