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@@RareAvoTrees yup, they might be outgrowing the pots finally.

@@RichsTopGardening 🤣 🤣 🤣 anytime!

@@sheri023 yes those are fine. We Asians use those in soups or just eat them. You can buy them like that at Asian markets. It’s like a dried date.

@@GrowsGoneWild thank you.

So far so good on the thorns. We'll see what happens when I take the net off 😂. Theres a lot less wear and tear with the zipper.

No problem! Pluots are so good. I think Flavor King was the best thing I ate this year from my garden! The squirrels literally took all my fruit off some trees last year lol. They got a lot of my peaches as well until I got the nets. The thing is, at least for me, even if you get rid of the squirrels, the rats will come shortly after, or the birds will come pecking at fruit. Luckily the nets seems to protect them for me!

@@GrowsGoneWild I really liked the Splash pluot, so sweet. I'd like to get a Flavor grenade. I hear they are prolific. I had a few on my 2 yr. old combo tree this year here in zone 9B northern ca.

@@sheri023 I will have to add Splash next year! Flavor Grenade is the one in my video, actually. It’s very sweet and productive, as you said!

@@VirginiaFruitGrower you’ve been bagging your trees too? Game changer for me!

@GrowsGoneWild yes but with the smaller organza bags until this year. I bought the huge ones late spring.

@VirginiaFruitGrower nice. Bag it up. Gotta stay safe out there 🤣

@@GrowsGoneWild my college motto 😅🤣

@VirginiaFruitGrower best motto 🤣

@@FAST3RCA I’ll add it onto the end of my next update 👍. Have been eating quite a bit of GA866 these days.

@@BillsTropicalFruits hello Bill! It depends on the temperatures. Around 85-90F I will water probably once a day, 90-100F twice a day, and above they possible 3 times, depending on how dry they get. I am hand watering, but if I had drip irrigation I’d probably run it a couple minutes every hour in the intense heat 🤣

@@sheri023 this variety does. It’s called unk pastiliere. Lots of good ones that don’t.

@@VirginiaFruitGrower thank you G! Good to see you! Them leaf miners are annoying 😂.

@@sheri023 silk hope is known to not root easily. There’s a very large range in rooting mulberries. Some root super easily, like these, and some are known to not root at all.

@@Insafpassand these come from a fruiting tree and are genetically the same 👍

@@do7229 not really much more to it. The key is the mineral based soil more than anything. The organic fertilizer is used to create some life into the soil in terms of bacteria and whatnot. Osmacote is actually what will feed the plants first as the organics take time to break down. Organics are considered complete as theirs probably trace fertilizers that are missing in osmacote, but they will wash out of the pots and you’ll need to add them monthly. I had the same issues when I started gardening where things just wouldn’t really grow. I started using Top Pot soil and everything thrives. It’s like day and night lol. If you haven’t seen the videos from Gary Matsuoka at Laguna Hills nursery, then I suggest you check him out. That’s where I learned about proper soil and container gardening in general. If you use an inorganic potting mix, it’s basically foolproof unless you are trying to grow something way outside of your zone. And thanks so much for watching!

@@GrowsGoneWild Thanks for the explanation on fertilizer and yes I've watched Gary's videos on potting mix. I'm mostly trying to grow mangos and some other sub-tropicals in zone 9b (Phoenix AZ area). I've been gun shy about fertilizing too much as mangos can be sensitive to salt burn but I feel I probably have not been fertilizing enough. Would love to see you do some videos on mangos.

@@do7229 No problem! My mangos are still super small lol, but I do add osmacote plus to them. I do recall getting salt burn as well when they were small seedlings. But I recently up potted them and there was no salt burns. You should check out Rich’s Top Gardening for mango content. He has some impressive trees. Our strategy in SoCal is to grow out Manila / ataulfo seedlings to a decent size and then top work the trees after they are established. Not sure how that would work in AZ 😂

@@RichsTopGardening when you going to start growing mulberries? 🤣

@GrowsGoneWild I have a few of them 😅. I'll give some sugar canes u may like propagating those 😃

@@RichsTopGardening I used to love chewing on sugar cane!

Yup, before I knew anything about rooting cuttings, I failed many tries with avocado cuttings and air layers 🤣

@@TheGreenAnt no problemo! Eat some mangosteen for me 🤣

@@Na_da_ol in the 25g pots, my most productive tree was holding around 70-80 fruit. It has taken some recent heat damage at 111 F. I think the rootstock makes a big difference in how productive the tree can be. Pinkerton was holding about 10 fruit, and sharwil was holding about 25 but it has dropped a lot from the heat. I don’t have any trees on their 3rd year in 15g pots, but I have a sharwil on its second year holding 3 fruit. I’ll be leaving it in that pot next year to see how productive it can be. But I think you’d want them to be at least in 25g pots for long term productivity. Thanks so much for watching!

@@do7229 thanks so much for watching! I don’t make any type of shade structures but I will move some plants under a larger tree or something like that. Last year it didn’t get too hot, highest temp was 98 F that I tracked. There was no damage to any plants. This year we got to 111 F and the only things that had serious damage were the avocados. I think the main reason was inadequate watering or my containers just being too small.

@@titoace408 you can build a shade structure for young trees. I’ve seen people have success with that 👍

@@CatchCatchFish yes the blueberries surprised me as well. I have seen a lot of people say they can’t take the heat but they did fine for me. I’m convinced everyone should grow them! Some of those are from yours, and some that I planted earlier. I think whatever I was planting earlier just wasn’t suitable here 😂. These have been very easy to grow!

@@growyourownavocados thank you! They didn’t take the heat wave too well tho 😂

@@RichsTopGardening thanks, Rich! Yes, very interesting. I will have to give the steel mesh bags a try once I have something sizeable to keep 😂. Bagging the tree has been doing very well for me, tho.

@@peteruism thanks! I didn’t do much. You can spray the leaves and the entire tree directly which will cool it down as well.

@@rrajesh1975 I was getting it at a landscape supplier but they have inventory issues. Some farm supply stores have them as well.

@@GrowsGoneWild Is that landscape supplier in SoCal?

@@rrajesh1975 oh you’re in SoCal lol. It’s Whittier fertilizer. They are often sold out. You can try Orange County Farm Supply as well. You can call around to other suppliers too, let me know if you find a good deal 🤣.

@@GrowsGoneWild Thanks!

@@chrisinsley5880 thank you 🙏!

@@FAST3RCA thank you very much sir 🫡

@@BlessingsFruitGarden thank you brotha. Appreciate you. Happy to hear you got a bunch of trees 😂.

@@RichsTopGardening thanks Rich!

@@mauricelee2404 thank you for watching! Yes all in pots. The ones in their 3rd year went from 5g to 25g pots. The ones on their second year from small tree liners, to 5g, to 15g. I think 25g is the minimum if you want to have a decent harvest. But not sure how long they will be happy in there.

hi, by your estimation how many fruits do you average on the 25 gallons ?

@@mychal4895 between 10-50 depending the tree. Some are growing more aggressively than others.

@@FAST3RCA been eating some Chico recently. The fruit in the rest aren’t ready. The tiger tooth I grafted in spring outgrew the 5g and is in a 15g pot. It’s growing like crazy!

@@JohnJohn-gt5mo thank you for the tips 🫡

@@vegardno thanks so much!

@@ethanvo5812 I think most of them are the same ones sold under different branding. The ones I like are then AC Infinity Heavy Duty Fabric Pots on Amazon. I found them to be a little more sturdier and well built. My brother and I were able to lift them straight up with the bigass Stewart tree. We did not love them very far, but the handles did not rip off. Definitely not going to be as sturdy as plastic tho 😆.

@@CatchCatchFish I have a tree with fruit now actually.

@@AvocadoTalk thanks! They got a lot of my fruit last year 😂

@@RichsTopGardening thanks Rich!

@@greg1813 this is their 3rd year.

@@thesarge- you are very welcome. Thanks for watching!

@@RichsTopGardening thanks, Rich!

@@TheGreenAnt hell yeah brotha 🐢 🐍

@@AvocadoTalk moment of silence every morning 🤣. Thank you for subbing!

@@FAST3RCA thanks so much!

@@FAST3RCA sure, thing! I had GA866 and Shanxi Li last year and GA866 was much better. I’ll record as they ripen. Thanks for the idea!

@@stampznightaway most nurseries around me carry them. There’s some online ones as well like Burnt Ridge. These days I mostly buy scions and graft my own.

@@RichsTopGardening oh they disappear for that? That’s interesting. I should have cages a couple 😂

@@selwynr I’m in 10a in Southern California. I was reading something today on people at growingfruit where members were growing in 7b and even 6b in the states. Not sure how this compares to your area, though, as I am not too familiar with Ballarat. They seem to have had success with the varieties Honey Jar and Sugarcane. Good luck!

@@MasterKenfucius they were closer before 😂. They were growing into each other 😂

@@GrowsGoneWild I'm still watching the video. You sometimes water them twice a day? You're hard core! I moved from California to Florida and I'm going to try growing California avocados here in Central Florida in my ultra-organic soil. I know that sounds crazy but my other avocado trees seem to be OK with it. So far no root rot and the soil is very damp all the time and they're all covered in wood chips and mulch all the way to the trunk. I drip on them 24x7 with an artesian well that needs no pumping.

@@MasterKenfucius yup twice a day now. I need to setup some drippers! If it works for you that’s all that matters 😆. Good luck with the avocados and thanks for watching!

@@edmonpierre4562yup GA866 is great! Those suckers are rootstock so will need to be grafted, unfortunately.

@@RichsTopGardening thanks! White sapote are related to citrus. I find they like the white sapote more than my citrus. Maybe the leaves are more tender 😂.

@@BlessingsFruitGarden thanks for watching! I don’t have anything to keep them out, but once they move in I use those terro bait stations. It usually clears them out after a few days. Or sometimes I have to add an extra one.

@@GrowsGoneWild great I will try it and let you know how it works here in north Florida

@@BlessingsFruitGarden good luck!