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I moved the avocado plant to a 4.5 gallon bucket from a 1-gallon grow bag. I used a mix called Gary’s Top Pot, but with a bit more sand and pumice. I want it to be pretty fast draining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This plant grew in a glass of water by the kitchen sink for a few months. At the beginning of July I planted it in a little grow bag. It struggled in the hotter months. But in the last few weeks it started adding new leaves. I think this coincided with cooler days and nights, but also with the removal of scale on the stems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I moved the avocado plant to a 4.5 gallon bucket from a 1-gallon grow bag. I used a mix called Gary’s Top Pot, but with a bit more sand and pumice. I want it to be pretty fast draining. This plant grew in a glass of water by the kitchen sink for a few months. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}