Laughing: this is how you grow your own avocado tree

“Look, look. Look! LOOK! I'm going to make an avocado tree.” You see: my love has a green thumb. In the meantime, our entire living room has become a sort of urban jungle where the mother banana plant keeps getting more babies that have babies that are then propagated in even smaller pots and so on. But now there is a new challenge going on: the avocado tree. It’s actually not difficult at all, the only thing you need is a hell of a lot of patience. What do you do?

• Remove the pit from the avocado. Rinse off the flesh and keep the ‘clean’ pit.
• Insert four toothpicks into the avocado (do this in such a way that the pit can balance above a glass of lukewarm water).
• Place your baby tree in the making in a spot with as much sunlight as possible. And change the water every other day.
• Have. A lot. Of patience. If all goes well, the thing will get roots at the bottom after eight weeks.
• Hey hey, how are you doing? If you've taken good care of the pit, you'll get a little plant. When the leaves have a diameter of three centimeters, you can start repotting.

Dear Sander, I wish you tons of success with your avocado tree. I can't wait until we can eat smashed avocado toast from our own tree. In eight years. Looking forward to it.

P.S.: Does that take way too long for you all? Then Lil still has some plant tips for you.