A Glimmer of Hope

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Our beautiful Avocado Tree died this year. We are devastated. 3 years we have babied this plant. Bringing it inside during winter, making sure it did not get too much afternoon sun in the summer. It grew big, healthy and strong. Until we brought it in for the cold weather this year.

We refused to give up hope.. Until the top little limbs grew dry and snapped easily. Our little tree was lost. Refusing to be defeated, we decided to try again. Zoey began saving seeds from avocados. Our theory to the dead tree was that perhaps it had outgrown the container it was in. We were hoping the tree would only grow to the capacity of the planter, staying that size instead of growing into a large tree. Where we live is prone to very mild winters, however, it is not uncommon to have short bursts of freezing cold temps. It it got too big, we would not be able to bring it inside and protect it. The last ones that were in the ground died when we had icy weather.

We finally took our little, sad, dead tree back outside today. I figured it was gone, but did not have the heart or the time to pull it up out of the planter. While we were cleaning up some carrots from the garden, I looked over at the tree, sighing... but look!

Just when we thought all was lost with our little tree ... a little glimmer of hope came up through the ground! All is not lost!

We can apply this to life.

1. Things are not always as they seem.
2. Sometimes things do not go according to plan. Do not give up.
3. Try and try again!
4. Always have a back up plan.

Read how we got our avocado started by clicking the pic!

Maybe we will have avocados yet!

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Avocados Everywhere!

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     One thing my family agrees upon food wise, is avocados! LOVE LOVE LOVE avocados! When I lived in Cali, we had lots of friends that had trees in their back yards. Where I live now.. umm... no one! For years my daughter has taken pits from the avocados we have eaten and buried them in our yard and in the flower pots. Nothing has ever grown. I just figured it was a lost cause. A member of a homesteading/homeschool FB group I am in, posted pictures of her avocado plant she grew this year. What??
     In years past, my little avocado seed would sit in the bathroom window and we would wait a couple of weeks to see what would happen. In about a month, I would get tired of looking at it and throw it out. After asking a ton of questions to the lady that CAN get an avocado to grow, I realized we were giving up way too soon! So we tried again! In about 2 months we got this...

Horrible, horrible picture but you get the point!

     We were so delighted, we decided to try another! We also did some researching and discovered it is possible to grow an avocado tree from a seed. It may or may not produce fruit, and it could take up to 20 years to produce any, but my daughter and I figure it is worth a shot! I wish I had started one 10 years ago and stuck with it! Maybe we would have some fruit by now! 

     The plant on the left is the one we started 3 months ago. 

There are several roots but it has not developed a stem yet. 

Last week, we were looking at one of our container pots my daughter planted seeds in to grow flowers. She turned to me and said. 'Mom, this one does not look like the other flowers, it looks more like a tree!' 

Guess what that is? It is one of the pits she planted MONTHS ago! 

And, YES I am sure! We dug it up to see what it was!

Tonight, I went out to the garden and was looking at my poor heat stroked peas and I found this growing in our compost container bin we made to grow in! 

      At least we know we can make an avocado plant! If all goes well, we should have 4 plants on our mini homestead! Check back with me in 10 years to see if we have fruit! ;)

Here is some info on growing your own avocado tree! (I am in no way affiliated with any of these pages.)
http://homeguides.sfgate.com/make-avocado-tree-bear-fruit-44718.html

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/tropicalfruits/msg0722004618510.html

http://www.ehow.com/way_5569480_long-avocado-tree-produce.html

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