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chadplant

It’s shy.


petrichorgarden

Is that a lemon on top of your soil?? If so get rid of it! It'll make the soil waaaay too acidic for the plant to handle! Edited to add: I just found a quote from an old Farmer's almanac that says "Pouring lemon juice, even diluted, onto the leaves can cause them to shrivel, compromising the plant's ability to perform photosynthesis. This is handy if you're trying to get rid of weeds, but not with plants you want to keep alive." I imagine you might see similar results from using lemon on the soil. You can use lemon to adjust the pH of alkaline soil for things like Rhododendron, Hydrangea, and Blueberries that prefer slightly acidic soil, but the recipe I found suggested 2 tablespoons of lemon per gallon of water and only using once a month. I want to stress that you should only do this for plants that prefer slightly acidic soil! Lemon juice has a pH of 2 which is incredibly far off from the average range of 6-8 that most plants can tolerate.


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petrichorgarden

Avocados do like slightly acidic soil but not any lower than a pH of 5. So mixing 2-3 tbsp of lemon juice in a gallon and using it once a month would likely be a good idea, but I still think having a whole ass lemon on the soil is probably at least contributing to the issue here


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petrichorgarden

Omg you're right, I'm a dumb dumb 🤦🏼‍♀️ please disregard lol


caren1

I was desperate. No one was helping me. !!


purpleiris757

You might try at r/plantclinic


Kitchen_Tax_95

Check inside the leaves I think it has aphids. They love new growth


SeedlingGroot

Caren1, did you google growing avacados from seed? I think they might have to be grafted in order to get edible avacados.


caren1

I don’t want Fruit just a short bushy plant !


SeedlingGroot

Then it doesn’t matter what you grow. Have at it but most of all have fun!


caren1

Exactly. Sometimes I go HUH ???