Avocados are enjoying the heat

Both Keith and Charlie are growing away, clearly this crazy heat isn't a problem. Keith's leaves are growing, and whilst Charlie doesn't seem to be growing as vigourously tall as Keith did, he is already sprouting leaves in advance of me needing to prune the first stalk....

This is Keith. Obviously I am not growing him on the ceiling, it's just that the photo upload on this website continues to take the mick. Take the mick... maybe this is Mick's revenge for me having to throw him out???

And this is Charlie....

For some reason Charlie is allowed to stand up correctly.

The latest news

On the avocado front, Charlie has sprouted his first stalk out of the top. It's only an inch an a half tall at the moment, so I will still have to wait a while before the first pruning. His roots were starting to coil around in the jam jar, so I have planted him into soil today.

Keith is growing leaves of a few centimetres in length (I love mixing up measuring systems).

As for Ronnie... well, he was the avocado nut I stuck straight into soil. No sign of anything at all as of yet. Might be a dud?!

Charlie is taking root - textbook style

And on more exciting news on the avocado, Charlie is growing just as Keith Mossman said they would grow in the water jar method - two roots!!!

The continuing tale of the stones

It's now April. I am still having no success with the avocados. Keith is still at status quo, and Charlie and Ronnie haven't done a thing! I put 3 more stones in for a soak 2 or 3 weeks ago (I forget exactly) and I have gone straight to planting on these three to see if I have any better success this way.Surely one of these will turn into a plant!

A continuation of not a lot

Due to a mixture of forgetfulness, trying out a new strategy and pure bone idleness, the 48 hour warm water soak to start off an avocado stone lasted a bit longer. I took Charlie and Ronnie out of the water today and suspended them with hair pins over the tops of jam jars full of water. Charlie has taken over Keith's old jam jar, and Ronnie is over a new little jam jar. There's no change in either Mick or Keith. I know plants take a long time to grow, but oh this is infuriating.

The clementine is growing... well, the leaves are probably a bit bigger but that's about all. Which is about all that can be said for the lemon babies as well.

I "pruned" my goji berry plants this morning. Goji berries didn't seem to be around when Keith Mossman was writing his book, so I have no advice on how to care for them. I am just muddling along.

More?!

Well, there's not a lot of action at the moment - nothing that was growing last week has died; but likewise nothing much of any description seems to have happened. I have grown tired of constantly topping up the water in Keith and Mick's jars with nothing happening (Mick has still not sprouted!), so I've left Mick where he is, and with Keith I've gone over to the soil and planting method of getting your avocado to grow - half the stone in, half the stone out. We'll see if this has much effect at all.

We ate avocados for dinner last night, so I thought I'd have a go with two new stones, so now there is Charlie and Ronnie. They are both in Keith's old jar soaking at the moment. Charlie is quite round and looks like Mick and Keith did when I first got them. Ronnie is much more egg shaped, and possibly the runt of the litter I fear. He may come to nothing. Time will tell.