Avocado pits – sprouting them for growing into trees

It’s a type of laurel tree, Laurocea family

Method 1: Lay it by itself in a warm dry place for a day, so that the brown skin dries & cracks. Plant the pit 2/3 under soil, 1/3 above soil, in a small pot, and moisten the soil.

Method 2: It will sprout quickly if one cuts several deep incisions in the top and bottom of the pit with a sharp knife.
Hint: The large end is the top!!

Method 3: Invert a glass over pit. Or put the pot in a bag with some holes. You want air going into the soil.
Spray soil surface with warm H2O daily.
Sprouts in 3—15 weeks. Hint: note the pit’s start date on the container and don’t give up on it/them!
After it sprouts you cover the pit.
Put in light & sunny place. Because the root dries out you should use an outer pot. Spray leaves daily with warm water.

Top it early--- at 10 inches--- cut off 3 inches from the top. Trim new shoots a little.
Keep soil humid all year; fertilize in warm months. Blooms in several years.

Method 4: You can also sprout shoots & roots like you would a sweet potato, i.e. make holes for the 4 or 5 toothpicks and suspend the pit so that half of it is submerged in H2O in a clear glass jar. When the first shoot appears, plant the pit.