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(27-06-2023, 09:07 AM)Veggie Wrote: I'm being given an avocado plant today from a lady who has lots. This is her germination method:-
"I peel the brown skin off then wrap them in wet paper and put them in a plastic butter box in a cupboard and forget about them. They all eventually split and grow roots."
I like the "forget about them" advice.  I’m trying this method. They’ve been in there plastic tub since Monday. I forgot to say.
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I have a few in a tub too.
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(26-07-2023, 09:51 PM)Can the Man Wrote: A strange thing I found out about avocados today in the canteen at lunchtime. Apparently humans are the only living being that eat avocado, animals don’t. Has anybody found this out previously?
(26-07-2023, 10:09 PM)Veggie Wrote: Not so, according to Duck Duck, several links like https://faunafacts.com/animals/what-eats-avocados/ I found out today that oil is made from avocados. I didn’t know that.
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Did you know that the Aztec word for Avocado means "testicle tree". 
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(26-07-2023, 10:20 PM)Small chilli Wrote: (26-07-2023, 09:51 PM)Can the Man Wrote: A strange thing I found out about avocados today in the canteen at lunchtime. Apparently humans are the only living being that eat avocado, animals don’t. Has anybody found this out previously?
(26-07-2023, 10:09 PM)Veggie Wrote: Not so, according to Duck Duck, several links like https://faunafacts.com/animals/what-eats-avocados/ I found out today that oil is made from avocados. I didn’t know that.
I've got a small bottle in the cupboard it supposedly has a high smoke point. I must have got it cheap somewhere 
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(26-07-2023, 11:03 PM)Veggie Wrote: Did you know that the Aztec word for Avocado means "testicle tree".
I wonder what the Aztec word for Trombas is? Grow Trombas and Avocados together you'd have a full set think what the harvest festival pictures would be like.
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27-07-2023, 10:49 AM
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It's very tempting to put such a picture in for harvest festival but I'd be at risk of the pointy stick and being banned
(Plus I haven't grown any avocados)
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You're very Norty, JJB..............maybe you could use plums? 
Timely reminder to keep taking photos for the Harvest Festival which will be opening for entries soon.
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(27-06-2023, 02:29 PM)Veggie Wrote: Here are my new pets, Avo and Cado. Finally potted Avo into his new home.
Peeped into the Avocado incubator, looking for life and pleased to see that one pit has split and there is a shoot forming in between the halves. 
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