Layering Avocado. After having managed to layer gevuina avellana and chaenomeles japonica i am now trying to do this with the avocado. I found a small low growing branch on my young avocado tree. I clipped off all the leaves and cut a slit into the tiny stem. I wedged a piece of matchstick into the wound so it stays open. I am trying it without rooting hormon this time. The avocado is a fantastic seedling with a strong anis smell of the crushed leaves indicating mexican genetics. I am using a mixture i am trying out lately that i found on an internet video and that seems to work very well.
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One third washed sand, one third perlites and one third peat moss.
The difficulty will be to keep the soil moist enough for a whole year and since the avocado is growing in my polytunnel i will need to regularly check on it to avoid it drying out.
Small side shoot growing at the base of the stem
Sideshoot with a piece of matchstick placed in the cut, put through the bottom of a plastic pot.
Pot filled up with soil mixture and watered in well. Now in one year all going well and if i constantly keep the soil moist there should be roots growing.
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