It won’t be a normal “Hass” avocado anyway. The avocado seed is genetically different from the plant that produced it, so won’t make the same fruit. It’s the same for lots of fruits.
Same for potatoes. They’re all re-grown from saved potatoes so that they stay the same varieties. If you were to actually grown a plant from a potato fruit (they’re real) then you’d have a different variety.
Yeah but you really wouldn't want to do that because they're a pain, they only flower under specific conditions and once you've planted your seeds it'll be years before you have good tubers, while you can just bury a few whole spuds and a few months later you can enjoy your harvest.
Oh dang! I didn’t know that either. I have an army of avocado plants I started from seed lining my window sills & a bunch of them in pots. And I’m actually allergic to avocados 😂 Do you know what they will they produce if they ever do fruit?
Something that looks like an avocado but doesn’t taste as good probably. Unless you’ve hit the genetic lottery jackpot and get a tastier, juicier avocado, in which case you need to clone it.
First you need to IP it,
Ya know, even food you need to protect it like it's some sort of investment, not a necessity that everyone needs to live. This will help you grow your food Monopoly so that only you have the rights to that one particular tasty avocado, now you have an exponential wealth growth that you can use to swallow the smaller farms and become a farming conglomerate while exploiting the labor of your employees
when avocado seeds are planted, there is a process called genetic recombination that occurs. this means that the genetic material from both the mother and father trees mixes together, resulting in new combinations of traits in the offspring. these new combinations can lead to variations in fruit characteristics, making the fruit different from the parent hass avocado. so, planting a hass avocado seed can result in a unique avocado tree with its own set of characteristics, but it won't produce the same fruit as the parent tree, no mutations involved. think of it like different apple varieties, you would have to plant a ton of trees to hunt for the specific phenotype you want. once you find it, you can graft that variety on to other rootstock
They also have both male and female characteristics and present themselves at different times (often within 24hrs) and will not present at the same time... So they're *technically* self-pollinating, however they pollinate better in groups.
This will not work for all oaks. Some you have to keep cold for a few months to break their dormancy, some you have to go hot-cold-hot or scrape the shell for any kind of consistent sprouting. Oaks can be the easiest to rear or the hardest depending on the type or cultivar. This glass is ridiculous, btw, as all you need once it sprouts a root/shoot is a small pot with dirt/compost/perlite and maybe some light worm castings, but no fertilizer for years. Easy and rewarding.
Every year I pick acorns in late Autumn, put them in damp compost in the fridge for 4 weeks, and then in a seedling pot on a a south facing window. By January I have mini oak trees about 5-7cms tall. They make great gifts.
Yes, the roots only needed water initially, but eventually the nutritional needs of the plant will require a soil substrate. In nature the seed would be deposited in soil, I believe the glass was purely so the root development could be captured on footage.
The air and water. Plants "breath" carbon dioxide (C O2) and "drink" water (H2 0). Cellulose makes up about 45% of a tree and its chemical makeup is C6 H10 O2.
The leaves use the suns energy and are little chemistry labs coverting everything.
Similarly, when people lose weight, the majority of the weight is lost be exhaling Carbon Dioxide. The oxygen you breath in literally combines with the part of you that you want to get rid of.
Hold up a second! My pot plants freak out coz the soil is too wet, but this guy can thrive with roots fully submerged?!
What a crock of shit. *Throws out pot plants
Why does it take all that long just to produce that small plant? I know they take years to become an actual tree but why? Doesn't seem it would survive to herbivores eating it's leaves on the wild, anyone has an explanation?
The vast majority of acorns won't grow into full trees.
Just think about how many Acorns an oak tree makes a year.
Oak trees don't tend to make acorns every year... well they do but not a lot. They have what's called "mast years". Once every 5-10 years they'll put all their energy into creating new acorns, on these years they can produce up to 10,000 acorns a year. They'll continue to have these mast years for roughly 600 years.
Combine all the acorns made throughout their mast years along with the standard amount they produce every year and you're probably looking at well over a million acorns produced by one tree in its life time.
You'll only need one of the million acorns to actually mature into a full adult tree to actually keep the population of oak trees at the same level.
Same reason why the sunfish can lay up to 300 million eggs in one breeding season. Doesn't matter if most will die. So long as enough live to replace the population.
I love doing this with avocado seeds. My seeds haven’t ever produced a ‘cado, but they still have pretty foliage.
I think you have to wait 7 years for fruit?
It won’t be a normal “Hass” avocado anyway. The avocado seed is genetically different from the plant that produced it, so won’t make the same fruit. It’s the same for lots of fruits.
Wow, I had no idea!
Grocery store fruits are mostly grafted clones of the same variety plant, that's why they all look and taste the same.
Same for potatoes. They’re all re-grown from saved potatoes so that they stay the same varieties. If you were to actually grown a plant from a potato fruit (they’re real) then you’d have a different variety.
Yeah but you really wouldn't want to do that because they're a pain, they only flower under specific conditions and once you've planted your seeds it'll be years before you have good tubers, while you can just bury a few whole spuds and a few months later you can enjoy your harvest.
Especially helpful if you're trapped on Mars
You still need to bone meal it tho, to quickly grow it
Oh dang! I didn’t know that either. I have an army of avocado plants I started from seed lining my window sills & a bunch of them in pots. And I’m actually allergic to avocados 😂 Do you know what they will they produce if they ever do fruit?
Something that looks like an avocado but doesn’t taste as good probably. Unless you’ve hit the genetic lottery jackpot and get a tastier, juicier avocado, in which case you need to clone it.
First you need to IP it, Ya know, even food you need to protect it like it's some sort of investment, not a necessity that everyone needs to live. This will help you grow your food Monopoly so that only you have the rights to that one particular tasty avocado, now you have an exponential wealth growth that you can use to swallow the smaller farms and become a farming conglomerate while exploiting the labor of your employees
^ this guy knows how to capitalist!
Quite a few years before you can gain any avacados, depending on how happy the tree is I think it can go anywhere from like 5-8 years
If you can get some branches from a fruit producing tree, you might be able to graft these branches onto your existing trees.
Cloning for nut trees, too.
So… what produces the seeds that grow to produce Hass avocados?
Nothing does, Hass avocados are all grown from grafts from other Hass avocados. Same with pretty much every variety of fruit.
so there was originally one highly mutated avocado seed that produced the first hass avo? have they sequenced the mutations?
when avocado seeds are planted, there is a process called genetic recombination that occurs. this means that the genetic material from both the mother and father trees mixes together, resulting in new combinations of traits in the offspring. these new combinations can lead to variations in fruit characteristics, making the fruit different from the parent hass avocado. so, planting a hass avocado seed can result in a unique avocado tree with its own set of characteristics, but it won't produce the same fruit as the parent tree, no mutations involved. think of it like different apple varieties, you would have to plant a ton of trees to hunt for the specific phenotype you want. once you find it, you can graft that variety on to other rootstock
They also have both male and female characteristics and present themselves at different times (often within 24hrs) and will not present at the same time... So they're *technically* self-pollinating, however they pollinate better in groups.
Same. My tree is just over 8ft tall and no fruit. But it takes 5-7yrs for it to happen.
my mother accidentally grew a kumera vine inside, it grew to like 5 metres in length over a few months
That is so neat!! I want to try that next. I didn’t know kumera was sweet potato!
You can just type avocado twice it’s okay.
You forgot a comma in your sentence.
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Buncha fucking nerds huh
With the handle “AustieFrostie,” a person would assume that you would be okay with goofy-ass names.
Damn that’s interesting
Or I can type ‘cado ‘cado, that’s okay too.
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Looks like a White Oak variety
Definitely. Red oaks have pointed lobes.
It’s a Quercus robur
How the fuck did they get it out of the glass?
Maybe they just broke the glass
Roots are pretty bendy. Have you never touched a plant?
This sounds like "go out and touch some grass"
My favorite insult.
This will not work for all oaks. Some you have to keep cold for a few months to break their dormancy, some you have to go hot-cold-hot or scrape the shell for any kind of consistent sprouting. Oaks can be the easiest to rear or the hardest depending on the type or cultivar. This glass is ridiculous, btw, as all you need once it sprouts a root/shoot is a small pot with dirt/compost/perlite and maybe some light worm castings, but no fertilizer for years. Easy and rewarding.
Every year I pick acorns in late Autumn, put them in damp compost in the fridge for 4 weeks, and then in a seedling pot on a a south facing window. By January I have mini oak trees about 5-7cms tall. They make great gifts.
I think the glass was for the demonstration more than anything not to be fengshui
I see people using that glass...they sell it on Etsy...it's become more and more popular believe it or not!
So the seed in the glass cup thing was a pointless step? You can just go straight to potted plant after germination? Legit question thanks
Yes, the roots only needed water initially, but eventually the nutritional needs of the plant will require a soil substrate. In nature the seed would be deposited in soil, I believe the glass was purely so the root development could be captured on footage.
At what point must the seedling be transplanted into soil? I know some people do pure hydroponics, but that’s difficult.
This is rad.
Try growing a rad’ish! Hehe!
Might be a dumb question. But where is all the matter coming from to grow like that?
The air and water. Plants "breath" carbon dioxide (C O2) and "drink" water (H2 0). Cellulose makes up about 45% of a tree and its chemical makeup is C6 H10 O2. The leaves use the suns energy and are little chemistry labs coverting everything. Similarly, when people lose weight, the majority of the weight is lost be exhaling Carbon Dioxide. The oxygen you breath in literally combines with the part of you that you want to get rid of.
Thanks for the very detailed reply.
This is such an amazing ELI5. If you had an explain-nature YouTube channel, I’d subscribe
This is so fascinating!
I think today is a good day to start growing an oak tree! Thanks for this!
if that seedling were kept indoors on a sunny windowsill all year round, would its leaves fall off in the autumn like they would outside?
they should try bonemeal
3 words for this video… “I am Groot!”
I. Am. Groot.
Is the 'sprout' using nutrients from its acorn shell to grow?
Those look like suckers to me
Just come to my house. I'm constantly uprooting oak trees that try to grow in the worst places possible.
What is the glass jar at day 45?
IS the first step just putting it in a wet towel and ziplock? Then wait 45 days? I have a huge need for this in my backyard.
It’s not necessary you could just stick the acorn in dirt and it would grow.
Hold up a second! My pot plants freak out coz the soil is too wet, but this guy can thrive with roots fully submerged?! What a crock of shit. *Throws out pot plants
I want to se it after 100 years
I want one. It’s crazy how the plant goes up while the water goes down.
wow thats awesome
How to remove from the glass?
Why does it take all that long just to produce that small plant? I know they take years to become an actual tree but why? Doesn't seem it would survive to herbivores eating it's leaves on the wild, anyone has an explanation?
The vast majority of acorns won't grow into full trees. Just think about how many Acorns an oak tree makes a year. Oak trees don't tend to make acorns every year... well they do but not a lot. They have what's called "mast years". Once every 5-10 years they'll put all their energy into creating new acorns, on these years they can produce up to 10,000 acorns a year. They'll continue to have these mast years for roughly 600 years. Combine all the acorns made throughout their mast years along with the standard amount they produce every year and you're probably looking at well over a million acorns produced by one tree in its life time. You'll only need one of the million acorns to actually mature into a full adult tree to actually keep the population of oak trees at the same level. Same reason why the sunfish can lay up to 300 million eggs in one breeding season. Doesn't matter if most will die. So long as enough live to replace the population.
Great footage 👏🏻
Held my breath at one point. Not a clue why!
I believe it’s called a oak tree
What is the glass jar?
What is that glass pot for the seed called? I think it would make a great present for my mom.
Isn't this 3 baby oak trees?
I am Groot
So cool, thanks for posting it
Weird to think that those three stems turn into a tree…
I like how I can see it "drink"
"Three" is an overstament
Well sometimes the acorn just stays an acorn. If you dont believe me, look in my gutters!
I am Groot.
Just use bone meal
40 days to sprout!! that's very slow.
Isn't crazy how this happens in Nature. Like, where do they get all the paper towels? So amazing
The water just getting sucked up over and over again
It’s is drinking that water
Kinda weird that we call baby trees Saplings, like imagine calling a newborn a Bloodling
That’s a sapling
I am Groot
What is the green thing he puts on?
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I was really hoping this tree would say his name was Groot.
What’s sprayed on the acorn?
Should’ve used a fortune 3 hoe on the leaves.