The Avocado

I have previously shared the story of my accidental avocado tree.

Here's my favorite part:

  (from my May 1st post linked above)

"I'm hoping...leaves shoot out from every possible place..."
"the [original] one really can't get much bigger..."

Ha!

Let's review, shall we?

May, 2015 - cute little accidental avocado tree gets put in the shade garden...

It grows a bit, comes inside, then goes back out for the summer of 2016.
By August 2016, it's looking pretty dandy; it has TWO branches now!

Back in for the winter.

Comes out in April/May 2017, gets put in a bigger pot while its original pot goes to brand new little brother...

And out in the garden they go.
And thrive.

Like - scarily so!


Let's look, shall we?

May versus October:

  

Grew about a foot (which means almost double its height!)

Aaaaaand the original?

May......                                                                         October......

😯

How is that possible?!!

All summer it just kept exploding! It loved its new, bigger pot!

And then it hits me.....uhhhhhh ohhhhhhh.....

                                                                                           .....there's a hole in the bottom.



I had images of lifting the pot to find an inch diameter root shooting 2 feet into the ground!


I gently lifted the pot, heard the familiar popping sound and slight resistance of roots being pulled out, aaaaaand....

Oh! That's not bad!

Just a couple tiny ones coming out!

So I'm amazed at that tree!


In review:

April...                                                                                    October...

It has the craziest, most ridiculous, Dr. Seuss
curvy trunk!

(Me being the genius that I am, brought them up from the garden and decided "oh! It's going to rain tonight and all tomorrow, so I'll leave them out on the deck to get watered and then take them in tomorrow before the frost warning"... mmmhm...and what exactly do you do with five foot tall trees that are sopping wet?!!        Towels...lots of towels!)

There they sat for several days (I have the most gracious, patient, supportive-of-my-hobbies-and-insanity husband!)
Once they dried, I found winter spots for them.

Filling a corner:

And keeping the also crazy, Dr. Seuss money tree company behind the couch:

Oh! And the LEAVES!!
I am not kidding, the biggest ones are about the size of a football if you flattened it (keep your Patriots jokes to yourself).

They are enormous!
      (Google images tells me that's not normal...as in, full grown trees seem to have leaves smaller than the avocados they produce, sooooo....?  Maybe because they can't make avocados, they're putting all their effort into leaves...?)



So, this year I did not have a compost-induced, 30' squash vine in the front yard, but I did have two compost-induced avocados trees absolutely explode!


The adventures of accidents!