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My Avocado Plant Has 3 Shoots

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Posted by Choralone NS (My Page) on
Tue, Nov 13, 12 at 16:22

Hello! I am using the water method to sprout my avocado and am having success with it. I am just about to pinch off the top leaves (the tallest stem is 6") and was searching around about it but noticed that all of the plants I saw pictured only had one shoot growing up from the pit. My plant has three (in the picture attached you can see two and the third is tiny and in between the two shown). Is this normal? Should I also pinch back the two smaller shoots? Is my plant a super-avocado?

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RE: My Avocado Plant Has 3 Shoots

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"Is my plant a super-avocado?" I think so!

I wouldn't trim anything right now for fear of the residual matter left behind decomposing and fouling the water at this fragile stage. That is so cool, they hardly ever do that for me, sprout I mean. Then they die soon after if they do, I wait too long to go to soil, or mess it up moving it. Maybe the 4th toothpick is the key, I've always used 3. Smiles!

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This is quite common with Avocados ;-)

And I agree, don't prune the leaves off yet. Let them harden.
Also, planting in a well-draining potting mix is best.


Josh

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