Ever grown an avacado?

[Zen]

Holy guacamole! Did you start the pit in water or dirt?

Water.

Sounds like no good will come of this

[SadieKate]

You can do it as a houseplant. Fruit in the market is from grafted trees, so what you'll be growing is just a beautiful house plant. The leaves are gorgeous.

http://www.avocado.org/about/growing-avocado

[malkin]

My grandmother loved them, and often had several going at once and they could get up to around 4' tall, ok, she had alzheimer's disease, but she was really wonderful.

But to get fruit, you're probably better off sneaking into the grove to steal it.

[smilingcat]

For a commercial growers, you do want a root stock and a scion graft. Scion is chosen to be a prolific producer but the root may not be as strong...

But for home grown avos. the single tree from the pit will be just fine. It will produce IF THERE IS ANOTHER AVOCADO TREE NEARBY. IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE IT NEEDS A COMPANION TREE.

My partners avocado tree was from a pit and it produced just fine. The tree can tolerate some mild freezing but that's about it. winter time high should be well above freezing.

Good luck

[Zen]

Pot, dirt, watering, sunlight...this is just too much work for me
This house doesn't have very good sun exposure.
We'll see.

[bmccasland]

Water.

Sounds like no good will come of this

naah, you can still plant it in a pot, in some nice garden loam. Then move it back to it's nice sunny window, and promise it that spring really will come one day. Move to the porch in the summer. You'll probably have to repot it a time or two. But unfortunately you'll may not actually get a tree out of it. Unless you have a green house space. I know you do...

It'll be a fun experiment, and the plant was free for the most part.