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.