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Avocado tree indoor plant
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reogarden
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February 24, 2025 - 3:57 pm

I have an indoor avocado tree that is about 4 or 5 years old, stands 5 feet tall with about a 1" trunk. It has a sprawling bi-lateral growth (long main stem then two main lateral branches at the top) that is top-heavy with leaves. For the past 6 months its leaves have been droopy with no sign of additional growth. I re-potted it into a larger pot several months ago hoping that and some fresh soil might revitalize it, but it's not perking up. I've also tried more water and less water, but neither shows any response. 

I'm hoping for suggestions on possible treatments or if I could prune it back severely in the hope that would stimulate growth. 

Thanks.

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February 26, 2025 - 12:29 pm

I've deleted the two spam posts in response to this one, but also question whether this one is legit, or just a setup platform for the follow ups, all suspicious.

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February 26, 2025 - 4:11 pm

jafar said
I've deleted the two spam posts in response to this one, but also question whether this one is legit, or just a setup platform for the follow ups, all suspicious.

  

I don't know how that works, that they were spam that is; but I could not dispute the information offered. Seemed all valid to me.

The format of the two answers was just so similar, although I believe the registered answering posters had apparently different login/accounts.

Definitely seemed to be AI generated answers, in the good sense. Makes me feel a little less relevant as an observational, first person hands on source, myself though. Oh well. 

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February 26, 2025 - 8:43 pm

I'm okay is somebody who is a real life participant in this forum wants to source an answer from AI and post it as such, after vetting the response themselves.

But when its a 1st time poster, no acknowledgment its AI and either having URL link or shilling for a business ... no.

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February 28, 2025 - 11:17 am

All that said and acknowledged. Back to the original post, if not bait for the follow up…

seems avocado, at least ours indoors, will suffer all sorts of abuse. Neglect will usually present itself with drooping leaves, water perks it up by the next day or sooner. Ours is situated with an East and early season Southern exposure. Early on a friend told us if we’d clip the main stem advantageous buds would send out replacement growth. That be true, and with most botanic cousins it turns out. Avocado just like to grow, ours did put up a couple of stems and maybe we clipped one or another again at some point to encourage lateral growth, that then got out of hand unmanaged. I started winding various (likely suspect) growth around each other as a way to… I don’t recall what possessed me to do that… anyway I sporadically take another run at weaving wandering new growth around existing or other new growth. What has evolved is a kind of franken-form topiary that might be uniquely interesting, especially if I paid a little attention to snipping off of unwanted outreaching bits of sprouting bits, encouraged I suppose with the reorienting of the apical dominant aspect. 

can’t seem to get text below the photo to say btw that’s a ‘thanksgiving cactus’ cutting that took from a broken piece shoved into the soil there. In case anyone wonders what’s going on there. 
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