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If you love guacamole, grow an avocado! Here's how to grow an avocado from seed (aka the pit), so you'll have a lovely indoor plant for your home.

Kranthi Varala, assistant professor, and Rachel Kuhn, a junior, both in Purdue’s department of horticulture & landscape architecture, collect individual seed pods of genetically modified ...

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You can do this, too. After cleaning the pulp out of the avocado berry (yes, it is a berry), take out the seed and thoroughly wash and dry it. Avocados are from Mexico and Guatemala, and ...