Firstly when I hear "it won't grow true to seed! 😭" - yeah but chances are that you will get an avocado tree from an 🥑. You probably won't get a mango or peach 🍑, pear 🍐, apple, etc... 😇 I am growing what you could call a failure mango grown from seed because the branches are weak and it wants to grow like a weeping willow. Might be good for fruiting one day but I don't expect it to ever fruit (I'm in Melbourne Australia and it sulks every winter 🙄😅) As for 🥑, 10 years ago I was able to grow a tree from seed and it got to be 1.5m tall but then a rat decided to eat all the bark off the trunk killing it 🥺. I'm only now reattemting, already 1.5m tall, it would be taller but a possum decided to give it a trim... 😢😅

Doesn't that mean that your avocado tree is a unique brand?

lovely video again. especially because you've filmed for a year to gather the material to tell a full story about it. 🤗

You were lucky. We had a fully mature seed grown avocado out the back of our house, it always had hundreds of fruit but unfortunately the fruit tasted awful. Bland and watery. We eventually cut it down after a branch snapped off in a storm and damaged our roof

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I suspect the homegrown avocado's imroved taste and larger seed is possibly due to being picked ripe instead of being underdeveloped. Or it could be crossed with the wild avocado, which is almost all seed.

"theyll take too long to make fruits". buddy, if you planted a tree today instead of complaining maybe youd have an avocado or two somewhere down the line. lol

"LIGHTWEIGHT BABY!!!"

Sunflower sprouts are extremely nutritious. Like super spinach

Fantastic results from growing Avocado from seed 🤩 Here in London uk we have several large seedling trees, and one of them produces probably the best avocados I’ve ever tasted 🤩 I love the name you gave your tree, after your beloved cat Sparky 😀

Nice video! I assume you don't get much frost, do you? But I will try anyway because due to climate change I may be able to grow them outdoors in a couple of years...

Be careful trying to snap it. My 7yo was helping clean the garden bed this spring and pulled one out without his gloves on, and it splintered and spices his finger open pretty bad. Watch out!

I did like seeing you eat the avocado au natural with just salt and pepper, I like mine with just black pepper. I don't understand guacamole. What's the point of adding ingredients to a perfect avocado when the end result is a paste that doesn't even taste like avocado any more? Maybe it's just an American thing.

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Are they frost hardy?

murderer!! all those little babies😂

Thanks for sharing. Just planted my avo pip that sprouted in a pot, and bought grafted tree because I have no patience. Really excited to go on the journey of both.

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Really liked this video ❤️

I know of a couple of large 20+ year old seedling trees that have never fruited, but I also know of small seedlings that have fruited around about the same age as this. Another thing to be mindful of is some seedling trees don’t fruit very prolifically.

Except for apples (which _are_ rarely good from seed), I suspect the myth that fruit grown from seed is almost always inferior is mostly propagated by professional orchardists and horticulturists with a product to sell. It's _also_ a falsehood of horticultural folklore that all citrus will "revert" to lemons if grown from seed (although hybrid citrus won't grow true to type).

That clipper was just specifically built for those sunflower stalks

You are eating baby plants. Poor things. Never got to grow up.

Looks like a whole lot more work than just taking of the shells and eating the seeds.

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I’m only subscribed because I know it’s GIRTHY

Sunflower pimp-cane

As a kid I used to stay hungry when mum cooked these. Now they’re my favourite. Here’s my mum’s recepie. Try it and you’ll love it absolutely. 1. Cut into thin pieces (exactly as you did) 2. Sprinkle salt and then rinse 3. Slightly fry them, take them out from oil like french fries 4. Cut onion, fry that in fresh oil until the turn golden brown. I repeat don’t use the same oil from step 3. 5. Now add the half friend gourd to the onions. Sprinkle salt to taste. Add chicken if you’re not a vegetarian. (Slightly fry chicken before with little salt) 6. Add 2 green chillies don’t cut them. 7. Let them cook and then serve with roti 🫓 Amazing taste, after ladyfinger this is my second fav dish ❤

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Where in nz are you finding those monsteras in the wild?

Kia ora! Thank you so much for sharing your amazing knowledge! It is me and my husband’s dream to move to NZ and start our own food forest & I have taken SO much inspiration from your channel. It’s so important for us coming from the USA to stay away from capitalism and what that does (and has done) to our soil and beautiful Mother Earth. I hope one day when we make it there that we can meet to sponge up some of your knowledge to start our own food forest! 😊

can you spare any seeds cuttings or planmts for our food forest in auckland

Nice long term content :-)

How did you prune the tree? I have one that is a couple years old and it has not branched yet. I really hope mine survives in N.A. winter when I plant it outside. 🤞

I live in Costa Rica, I am interesting to find this kind of corn. ¿Can you sale me some seeds?

It’s silly but I’m just as excited that you leveled up your avocado seed like a real life Stardew Valley!! 🙌🏾😂

I hear you can turn them into flour.

We had a seed grown avocado when I was younger. Think it also took about six years to fruit. Massive avocados that tasted nice enough although a little bit stringy.

My cousin was a great grower of seedling avocado grower and at times had over 6 all fruiting and all yummy😊

You can always graft mature wood onto the young tree. Very easy to graft😊

Still better then a store or clone tree fruit. Also more genetics when grown from seed. I have jackfruit breadfruit apples and lots more all grown from seed. I dont chop or top my trees so there big boys lol 😂

Great video! Very informative. And how cool the type of avocado is "Sparky"? Thanks for your hard work in growing things and sharing the results. It's inspiring as I look at my blank canvas and think what I could do.

Beautiful tree! congrats

You will find that though the 1/10000 statistic is likely an exaggeration, it comes from native regions where there are a lot of "bush" avocados that don't taste good and cross pollination with these trees is relatively high. We don't have the genetic diversity in NZ of all those "bush" avocado trees as we only have favorable trees that you could say have "good genetics". Therefore we are far less likely here to get bad fruit from seed. Of course, I don't have any evidence to back that up, but it makes sense.

It seems like the fruit of an avocado grown from seed should have the same flavor profile as the one you got the seed from. I know if they are hybridized or spliced, you'll get a different root system and maybe some other health characteristics for the plant from the plant it came from, but apart from variations in growing conditions, that shouldn't affect the flavor too much. Also, I've had a few different varieties of avocados (I think) and they all seem to taste about the same anyway.

It looks like Kendo swords

The message I'd always got is that the huge majority won't fruit at ALL. I feel like everything I ever thought I knew about avocado seeds is a lie! 😅

No avocado tastes any good.

That negative narrative was probably created by Big Avocado

I have two very healthy avacado trees. I live in Canada so they are in huge pots in the house year round. They are about 5 feet tall. Will they ever grow fruit in the house?