After the avocado party back in November, we saved all the avocado seeds and brought most of them with us to Puerto Rico where we planted them in a trench to see if they would sprout. We also saved a couple here in Colorado to see if we could get them to sprout and grow. One of the avocado pits was already splitting apart and sending up a shoot, so we figured that one would be fairly easy to grow. We planted it and it shot straight up.

Mexicola on the left and Zutano on right

We also put two of our little Mexicola avocado seeds in water to see if it would throw down any roots. Only one has so far, but it is already catching up with the big Zutano one.

How to get an avocado pit to sprout

It’s fun to see these grow so quickly. We’re not sure what we will do with them when they get too big for the house, but we think that’s a ways away. Hopefully we will be able to pack up some of our tropical house plants and bring them with us on an airplane trip back to Puerto Rico where we can plant them in their native environment.

Anyone know the regulations on plant transport? From Colorado to Puerto Rico there is no USDA check, but from Puerto Rico back there is…so I think transporting plants in this direction should work out. They didn’t say anything about our little bag of avocado pits! But for now our little avocado seedling plants join our tropical Colorado house along with orchids, a banana tree, a coffee plant, pomegranates, citrus trees and more. If we can’t be in Puerto Rico full time quite yet, we’ve done our best to recreate it here in Colorado.