As promised, here's my post about avocado bonsai:D
Step 1 - Clean the avocado seed and submerge it under room temperature water, leave it there overnight. This is optional but makes peeling much easier.
Step 2 - Peel it. Avocado seeds have a brownish shell and once peeled it looks yellowish.
Step 3 - Stick 2 or 3 toothpicks in the seed. Be sure not to hit the scar that loops around the seed because this is where it will begin to crack and open.
Step 4 - Submerge seed 50-75% under water in a cup. Toothpicks help seed stay in place and let room for the root to grow downward.
Step 3 & 4
Change and/or add water when needed. And that's it, if it's a good seed it should crack in half in a couple of weeks and begin to grow its root as you can see above.
If you want to make it a bonsai, 3 inches of root length should be enough to pot it. However, if you want to grow a normal sized avocado tree then you might wait until the root system is larger than 5 inches.
Here's my first avocado bonsai I was able to grow. As mentioned in a previous post, its name is "Cate". Currently the leaves fell of during winter and I hope it continues to grow when spring arrives.
