Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
Just known as Pears down here and cheap as chips but not so fattening. They ripen very quickly with heat. If you want to eat one half and keep the other smear lemon juice on it, stops it going brown.
Avocados...
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Crankarm
Guru
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
Yebbut you have to buy a lemon as well and how do you know when this is ripe? If you cut it to find out how do you keep it from going off? Smear avocado on it by any chance?
Heltor Chasca
Out-riding the Black Dog
Here’s one started in the airing cupboard in January. Better results in a sharp grit compost. They tend to rot off in the water/kebab sticks method.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
In Papua New Guinea, they feed them to their pigs.
Dayvo
just passin' through
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- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Yes! A compost heap is a good place to grow them inadvertently
The one I have at the moment got a bit frost burnt over the winter (parental unit left it outside when I told her not to, and I only realised too late) but it's sprouting from the bottom.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
I rarely have any unripe failures aka military grade ammunition avocados.
Mind, I *only* buy them on YS or on the market when they're 4 for £1 or something of that ilk. Best way to keep them is in the veg drawer in the fridge and let them ripen slowly. They need to "give" all over - if it feels like there's a void between flesh and skin, they're a bit past it. Some though, will remain rock hard no matter how you store them.
How to stop half going brown - leave the stone in, pop in a plastic bag, suck all the air out and tie a knot. Will keep for several days like that.
P.S. Avocados are a brill remedy for anyone suffering from dry, chapped and / or cracked skin. Eat some regularly and it really does help. Also use the flesh stuck to the stone to rub onto your hands & face as a wonderful moisturizer. It's better than scratching like a baboon because you find hand cream makes you itch...
Mind, I *only* buy them on YS or on the market when they're 4 for £1 or something of that ilk. Best way to keep them is in the veg drawer in the fridge and let them ripen slowly. They need to "give" all over - if it feels like there's a void between flesh and skin, they're a bit past it. Some though, will remain rock hard no matter how you store them.
How to stop half going brown - leave the stone in, pop in a plastic bag, suck all the air out and tie a knot. Will keep for several days like that.
P.S. Avocados are a brill remedy for anyone suffering from dry, chapped and / or cracked skin. Eat some regularly and it really does help. Also use the flesh stuck to the stone to rub onto your hands & face as a wonderful moisturizer. It's better than scratching like a baboon because you find hand cream makes you itch...
Heltor Chasca
Out-riding the Black Dog
I would get your mum to a doctor smartish. They will recommend a cream perhaps.
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
So when, if ever, will you be able to pluck fruit to eat from your plant?
Given the size of the average avocado, it would presumably need a small tree to support a crop.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Heltor Chasca
Out-riding the Black Dog
Unlikely to bear fruit in our climes. Even in a poly tunnel we really don’t have long enough seasons of warmth and light. The trees I have come across on distant shores have been solid, 12 foot trees. Small, but sturdy. Quite pretty.
Most of our supermarket avos are Mexican but they can grow commercially elsewhere.
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
Makes sense, not that I know much about plants.
I was surprised the seed germinated at all.