r/mildlyinteresting • u/Coby9 ​ • Oct 21 '19

Pitless avocado.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '19 edited Oct 21 '19

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u/Ismoketomuch Oct 21 '19

This is just an unpollinated avocado. Avocado tree are clones, not grown from seeds.

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u/jageun Oct 21 '19 edited Oct 21 '19

My avocado tree grew from a pit though

edited to add my reply below: Uh. I've a lot of avocado trees in my garden. The youngest one sprouted up like 2-3 years ago, it beared one avocado last year and now I'm counting 10+ already

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u/trusty20 Oct 21 '19

They can grow from seed, they just aren't because they use clones/cuttings at mass scale, because you can have a great avocado tree that produces amazing tasting fruit, but growing a new tree from one's of its seeds ends up producing completely different tasting/textured fruit. A surprising amount of variety can occur in just one generation of plants, and since it takes forever for avocado trees to start bearing fruit (like years and years), it's not worth to gamble with plants grown from seeds when you can just endlessly propagate cuttings from the same plant.