Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site weitek.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!cae780!weitek!mmm
From: mmm@weitek.UUCP (Mark Thorson)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Growing an avacado from pit.
Message-ID: <240@weitek.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 16:45:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: weitek.240
Posted: Thu Aug  1 16:45:46 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Aug-85 08:42:31 EDT
Organization: Weitek Corp. Sunnyvale Ca.
Lines: 12
Keywords: avacado

My mom tried unsuccessfully to grow avocados from seed for many years
until she learned the trick from a women's magazine.

Take a razor blade and cut about an eighth of an inch off the top and
bottom ends of the pit.  If you don't do this, it will take much longer
for the root and shoot to come out.  By the time they do, the pit will
usually be rotting.

Other than this trick, the technique of suspending the seed on a glass
of water with toothpicks works.

Mark Thorson ( ...!cae780!weitek!mmm)