I've been watching my avocado pit and replenishing its water every day. I'm amazed at how quickly the water level goes down. Of course, it has been really dry lately.
Two weeks in, I think of what I've heard about seeds. I think that it is a fact of the way nature works (or rather how God has orchestrated it) that the seed falls to the ground, and in the process of dying and of decay, new growth begins. I think there are nutrients and such that come from the breakdown of the seed that give sustenance to a new plant. I'm not a Avocado Scientist, so it's a layman's opinion.
I've certainly seen that in this pit. I guess there was a little bit of doubt in my mind if this would really work. It was a little bit of faith to stick my Starbucks' stirs into it and plop it in water. I've watched it for two weeks, and I guess it could go either way. It could sit there and soak up water and rot and never have a shoot. Or it will surprise me soon with some evidence that it's alive.
It has some strange oozing in some cracks on the side, and the top is completely dried out. Yesterday I noticed it has some fuzzy mold on the side. So I'm a little skeptical about its potential, but I will wait. There's no sprout at the top yet, although there is a little dark spot there. I've picked it up a few times, and no roots.
I'm all set to seize the symbolism of the old part dying away and the new life beginning. You know, death to our sinful nature and new life in Christ. Hopefully that is the way this works out and my faith comes to fruition, or else this blog will be really, really short.
I did not take a picture this week, since it looks exactly the same as last week, except for the fuzz.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
My Avocado Tree
This is an awfully silly thing to blog about, I must admit. But I did something funny one day and I thought I'd write my thoughts about it.
We have a break time in our office division, every Wednesday at 10 am. We have a signup list for people who will bring food and drink for that break. On this particular day, someone brought in guacamole dip and chips. When I got to my seat with my dip and chips, I discovered that my dip had an avocado pit in it. Evidently you are supposed to put the pits in the dip. It tastes better or something. I don't know these subtleties.
I took it out and sort of cleaned it off. I remarked to those sitting close to me that it had a really cool design and color to it. It was sort of amber with a mixture of lights and darks and it was attractive to me.
At first I threw it away. I had flippantly said that oh, I should grow an avocado tree from it! But I passed it off as just another goofy thing that I say on occasion. I went back to my desk three floors up and then I got curious.
I started looking around at how to grow your own avocado tree. By the way, I always want to spell avocado wrong. My fingers want to type avacodo, for some reason. Anyway, I found quite a bit of information on how to grow your own tree from an avocado pit. You stick three toothpicks into it and suspend it in water. Then supposedly, anywhere from 2 to 6 weeks you should get a sprout out the top and roots out the bottom.
So on a whim, I decided to try it. I rushed back down and retrieved my pit from the garbage can. Hopefully my pit wasn't offended by being thrown away.
I've had a mug in my storage cabinet by my desk that I never use, so I put some water in that. I didn't have any toothpicks, but I did have some wooden stir sticks from Starbucks. And it just so happened that I had my pocketknife with me. So, I whittled small, sharp ends in three 2" stick pieces and plunged them into the pit. I wondered a bit at the injury this would cause, but that's what the internet told me to do.
Now I had my pit sitting in water. We'll see what time will do to it.
We have a break time in our office division, every Wednesday at 10 am. We have a signup list for people who will bring food and drink for that break. On this particular day, someone brought in guacamole dip and chips. When I got to my seat with my dip and chips, I discovered that my dip had an avocado pit in it. Evidently you are supposed to put the pits in the dip. It tastes better or something. I don't know these subtleties.
I took it out and sort of cleaned it off. I remarked to those sitting close to me that it had a really cool design and color to it. It was sort of amber with a mixture of lights and darks and it was attractive to me.
At first I threw it away. I had flippantly said that oh, I should grow an avocado tree from it! But I passed it off as just another goofy thing that I say on occasion. I went back to my desk three floors up and then I got curious.
I started looking around at how to grow your own avocado tree. By the way, I always want to spell avocado wrong. My fingers want to type avacodo, for some reason. Anyway, I found quite a bit of information on how to grow your own tree from an avocado pit. You stick three toothpicks into it and suspend it in water. Then supposedly, anywhere from 2 to 6 weeks you should get a sprout out the top and roots out the bottom.
So on a whim, I decided to try it. I rushed back down and retrieved my pit from the garbage can. Hopefully my pit wasn't offended by being thrown away.
I've had a mug in my storage cabinet by my desk that I never use, so I put some water in that. I didn't have any toothpicks, but I did have some wooden stir sticks from Starbucks. And it just so happened that I had my pocketknife with me. So, I whittled small, sharp ends in three 2" stick pieces and plunged them into the pit. I wondered a bit at the injury this would cause, but that's what the internet told me to do.
Now I had my pit sitting in water. We'll see what time will do to it.
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