Huh, you can't grow any avocados with an avocado pit

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: with an avocado pit you can't grow any avocados at all.

After a long time of messing around, you finally managed to grow a little plant from an avocado pit, then we have disappointing news for you. The chance is quite large that no avocado will grow at all. And if you can harvest anything, that avocado is not edible. How is that possible? This avocado farmer explains.

Tom Siddons from Sleepy Lizard Avocado Farm knows exactly how it works. On his farm in Florida, enormous amounts of hass avocados are grown. But Tom also knows: if you want to grow avocados, you can't start with the pit of a tasty avocado. Even if a little plant grows from it, which you manage to nurture into a tree, the chance is negligible that delicious fruit will grow on it. This is because avocados are not, as he puts it: true to seed.

On the windowsill
If you eat a delicious juicy peach, save that pit and put it in the soil. Because from that pit, a peach tree can grow, from which you can harvest exactly such delicious peaches. Unfortunately, that doesn't work the same way with an avocado tree. If your tree is about four years old, it could theoretically start to bloom, from which avocados can grow. If that succeeds, don't count on creamy guacamole or avocado toast: those fruits are most likely not edible. The avocados that grow from your plant also have no pit. To get such a perfect avocado, you need to ensure that the right types come together during the pollination of the flowers to get a good taste. No, that won't work on your windowsill.

Stick it in
Do you still want to give it a try? Then wash the pit of your avocado well, sand it a little, and stick cocktail sticks in it. Then place the pit on a glass of water, with the sticks on the edge, so that the pit hangs a little in the water and remains mostly dry. If all goes well, after about six weeks, you'll get small sprouts. Then plant the pit in a pot (part of the pit remains above ground) and take care of your little plant as if it were a baby. After years of water, light, and love, you might get the first avocados. And, is Tim right?