Amazing! How to Grow an Avocado Plant From a Seed in 9 Steps!

Education May 1, 2024 By Jess Thodas

Discover the joy of growing avocado plants, an inexpensive and entertaining activity that brightens your home during the cold season. Engage your children in this hands-on experience, teaching them valuable lessons about sustainability and the wonders of nature. With minimal materials and a few simple steps, transform avocado pits into thriving plants, adding fresh air to your indoor space!

The warmer season is on it’s way! Which means the sunlight is more present, the days are getting longer so your kids can spend more time outside. What better than to introduce them to the wonderful world of gardening!

Growing plants from avocado seeds is an inexpensive and sustainable activity that will bring educational entertainment into your home while brightening these warm days with new life. So, grab your seeds and dirt, and let’s garden together!

Making your own Avocado Plant:

Materials:

An Avocado Seed
3 toothpicks
A jar
A 6-inch nursery pot
Soil (a garden area)

Note that gardening isn’t about having fancy equipment, but instead following the right steps to enable our plant to grow!

Let’s get to the steps!

Step 1:

Eat your avocado and save the pit.

Step 2:

Clean the avocado seed with water, then dry it. Once clean, peel off the outer dark brown nail with your fingers.
When finished, the seed should be a cream color.

Step 3:

Find the button of your seed. The top of the seed is a bit more pointed, and the bottom is flatter with a small, indented circle.
The bottom of the seed is where the roots will form, so you want to ensure you keep the bottom facing down and the top facing up.

Step 4:

With your seed facing the proper way, stick the three toothpicks in the middle of the seed just deep enough so they do not fall out.
The toothpicks should be about an inch away from each other and around the same level so they can balance on the jar.

Step 5:

Place the pit in the jar and fill it with water. Place in bright indirect sunlight and change the water every 3-4 days.

Step 6:

Watch over the next few weeks as the seed starts to split open, and a root forms. Once the pit has grown a root, you can plant the seed.

Step 7:

To plant the seed, fill a 6-inch nursery pot with planting soil, then water the soil.

Step 8:

Dig a small hole in the center of the pot that is deep enough for the root to fit without bending. Place the pit in the soil, leaving the top portion sticking out of the soil. Fill in the soil and leave the top of the pit uncovered.

Step 9:

Water whenever the top layer of soil has dried out and ensure proper drainage after each watering.

Enjoy your new avocado plant!

The best part about this activity is it is something your children can come back to every few days to change the water and marvel at the plant’s progress. This education and sustainable activity incorporate many lessons about nurturing new life and the stages of plant development. So, it should be a must-try activity for every family this season!

Note that if the experiment doesn’t work, it’s an important learning opportunity! Gardening is an activity of patience & helps us be aware that if we want things to flourish we need to take care of them!

Make sure to go over various different vocabulary with your child as you complete your plant! Include words such as avocado, plant, gardening, soil, stem, growth, sunlight, etc. Anything you can think of can be a learning experience! If your child is old enough, you can even introduce the process known as photosynthesis!