You know your avocado plant is happy when...

My avocado plant has been growing happily for weeks now, he's even got some new leafage showing up.

An Avocado Tree's New Home

I finally decided (okay, got around to) planting my avocado tree in a real pot.

I think he looks happy in his new home. I know the pot is a little bit big for him, but I needed a very deep pot in order to have room for his incredibly long tap root.  And this way I figure that he'll have plenty of room to grow for a while.

I also should let you know that I didn't pinch off his baby leaves, I left for about a week and when I came back his leaves were huge and I just couldn't do it.  Many of the things I read online say that's its important to prune an indoor avocado tree, but with this being my first attempt I'll just see how it goes.

Avocado land

My avocado plant's shoot is growing all the time and there are even two little leaves at the top.  Knowing that I will be able to plant it soon, I've started to ponder my pot options.  But as it turns out the avocado's taproot has grown very long, too long for most standard pots.  I'm not sure what that means, but it makes finding an appropriately sized pot difficult.

 I'm glad that my gnome keeps a good watch over my indoor garden.

A lot of the stuff I'm reading about growing and avocado plant like this say to prune the 1st leaves off of the shoot so it will put more energy into root growth.  I'm not sure that I'll be able to cut off those cute little leaves :(

Update: Avocado land

My avocado pit is now sprouting and looking good.

 I've been trying to figure out when to plant it some dirt.  Everything I read seems to say something different, but I guess I'll wait until it has leaves. 

I'm really excited about this, its probably because I've been trying to get this to work for so long and now it finally is.

Things are looking up in avocado land

 Finally got an avocado pit to do something :)

When it comes to avocados, I no longer feel like a failure.