This is one of the greatest concepts that I learned from my father. He once said that planting teaches us many things and that sacrifice is the most beautiful aspect of it. I really wondered how could sacrifice described as beautiful! isn’t hurting and sad for us to sacrifice something we really want! to sacrifice the blossoms of today for tomorrow’s food, to sacrifice the things attached your heart and soon realize that you have attained the most beautiful, to sacrifice what people might think that its important, when you know that it will later be “the most important." well done, i really was asking why no one talks about this. 👍🏼
i've been checking the socal tropical growers forums and people have had problems with taking off the panicles and having the tree flush out new flowers but limited new growth as far as leaves and branching. They concluded that you need to let fruits form and after they reach about the size of a pea or larger then you remove the fruit and the panicles and you will get a flush of actual new growth. Just what I read.
Hello! So happy to see your enthusiasm for gardening. Our avocado trees are about 10 years old, (this year they are covered with fruit!) but I've never taken time to learn more about how to care for them. Thank you for the information Take care and enjoy your own, homegrown avocados!
It is difficult to remove the flowers, but important to strengthen the tree. I have 5 different varieties of avocados 🥑 growing in Mesa Arizona. On one of the trees I grafted 3 other varieties, so that makes 8 varieties growing now.
I can feel the love you have for the subject matters, can be contagious in the best way possible. Your smiles on the video is also wonderful, thank you for sharing your garden knowledge.
Brandon and Alissa, congrats on your Avacado tree. I just planted a cold hardy Avacado tree in my garden, under a Mexican tree that stays green all year long. We freeze down to 25° for a couple of nights. And our summers can get 105° A couple days. But my avacado should be protected. Praying! I love Brandon , How you treat Alissa. Hugs!🤗😋
Thank you for this teaching. It is really hard to cut back trees. I grew a moringa tree from seed in a grow back last year and it reached 12ft within 3 months, when the winter came I had to cut it down 😔 it was so hard, but it needed to be done. I put it inside the house to protect it from frost. Now I am waiting for it to come out its dormancy 😊. I will follow your tip on avocado trees once I get one. God bless you.
Hi, depends on what zone you are in for the moringa. Mine is a dwarf moringa which is what I recommend. I am in zone 9. For 2 or 3 years the tree was getting established. The year before it hit 17 while this year the temp was 19 or 20. We piled mulch around the base. The tree is up again and around 4 ft tall. The key (growing from seed) is for the tree to be well established in the ground before taking these temps. Usually we warm up after the cold hits so prolong really cold temp with this method might not work.
Hi - first too many "you guys" - otherwise, great info - now have to detour compost material to my tree that is huge, but struggles - now I'm gonna remove most of the flowers and fertilize, fertilize, fertilize - thank you very much
my avocado tree had flowers for the first time last year but they all fell. This year it’s starting to have flowers again and hopefully we get some avocados this year 🤞🏻
My neighbor gave me an avocado baby tree (8" tall). I potted it in an orchid pot (lots of holes in the sides), and it has air-pruned and grown 4" in 2 weeks.
I don’t know anything about that variety of avocado but I have a Mexicola, Fuerte and Reed that the first two years in the ground they all flowered like crazy but did not set any fruit all flowers just dropped. This year the mexicola has already set some fruit, still waiting on the others.
Next year you can get some fruit from it to enjoy it is one of those tough decisions plucking all the flowers like that. BRAVE, but also smart a good move imho. HAVE AN AWESOME!! Day also !
Good, but you don't have to take all the flowers off you can take off most and still allow the flowers to produce some avocados and they will probably end up being massive but your roots system will do just fine
Hi! I have planted my avocado too here in the Philippines. But I think there is a big difference, I saw and noticed that your tree is quite small and started blooming/flowering. Mine started to bear fruit on the fifth year with increasing number of fruits each year. It is a good variety of avocado, however, I wanted to have a variety of yours. I don't know how is that possible as I understood that transporting seeds on to another country is prohibited. But I would love to have a variety of yours if that is possible. Recently, I made an experiment of growing roots on the branches and cut them once roots showed up and transplanted it to a pot. Surprisingly, the method became successful, I transplanted my first cloned avocado-I don't know how I call it. It has been on a pot for 5 weeks and looks very healthy, it has even flowers on it. I am glad we're sharing the same fashion, perhaps we can share ideas on how to enhance techniques, guidelines on growing avocados. I would love to hear from you guys. God bless
Thanks for sharing! It sounds like you mastered the art of air-layering. We haven't tried doing that yet, but it's a great way of propagating more trees!
I live in the Algarve, I purchased a grafted avocado tree 2 and 1/2 years ago it was about 5 feet tall, it had 12 small fruit on it the first year, last year it had about 15 larger fruit on it and it was growing like crazy lots of branches but this year lots of flowers but no fruit buds...(i will take your advice about removing some of the flowers). I dont have the space for another avocado tree so i am wondering if it was grafted can nature do what nature does and turn it back into a none grafted tree?
No, it will always remain grafted. Check the graft line and see if any branches are growing from underneath it. If there are, remove them -- they will not produce the fruit that you want. If there aren't any, then it's possible the tree just didn't want to fruit this year. Sometimes the yields will be higher or lower than other years. Other than that, keep watering and feeding it consistently and hopefully you will be able to enjoy more avocados next year!
If you want to ensure that your avocado flowers are pollinated you'll need two to three ounces of honey a spray bottle and fill the rest of it up with water just spray the leaves and branches with the mixture about once a week the bees swarm and go nuts trying to clean it up. The reason why bees are probably ignoring the avocado tree is because there are the flowers around that smell more yummy to them
We actually bought this grafted tree, we have some seedlings in the yard but we haven't intentionally tried growing from seed before. You can try "tipping" your seedling to encourage more branching!
I like the way you guys presentation ...I love avocado tree so..my one ,I got it (grafting)from the garden shop 8 months ago ( when it was 1 yo.)and has been leaving in the green house in winter .. when it was 1 yo.It is flowering now .Should I pick all of flowers...?..Well,I was wondering if your avocado 🥑 grows from seed or grafting???? When I should let it fruiting?.
Do avocado trees need shade? Mine started from Ecuadorian pit, 4 months inside. Hot summers. Now humid also. Socal. Do I need to put it in shaded spot?it is 1 and half year old. Cyndi
Depending on where you live, they may need full sun or full shade -- we are in AZ, and our avocado gets only a little direct sunlight and is provided with filtered shade through out the rest of the day from our shade tree. Since yours is still in a container, try placing the pot in your yard where you think you want to plant the tree eventually, and just monitor its health for a few months or a year to see if it likes that location or not! Hope this helps!
Wonderful ... can you tell us how you treat avocado tree . I have succeed with many varieties of fruit trees except avocado and I don’t know the reason Thanks
Kind of like we mentioned in the video, we killed a handful of avocados before finally getting it right! A good microclimate and a nutrient rich soil seem to be doing the trick for us :D
I have tried, tried, tried and failed with avos! I We live in a valley that sees 110+ summer heat and winter can at times drop to below freezing (at times). The cold however always gets my trees in the end. I think the roots aren't mature enough. This year I have a Fuerte and a Mexicola (this have failed me before). I want them to establish a very strong root system, get height (thinking a good 8'), and bushy. I got the Fuerte in Jan. at about 2.5ft. currently its at 5' with quite a few very healthy branches sticking out. The Mexi was a more recent addition that had a pretty sad root system but it is starting to perk up. New greens are sprouting on it currently. During the our cold snap I've had them on my patio under semi cover. I just moved to to full sun. They look a lot happier. I want to baby them for at least another year or two before getting them in the ground based on my failures. So in the fall right before the cold snap I'll move them back to my patio. Is this a good tactic? Before I leave this earth I have to have a healthy giving Avo tree. For me it's the fruit of the gods period.
We live in a very similar climate, with those high high summer temperatures and below freezing winters. Our avocado tree finally died, and we're not sure that we're going to try to force another one to work in our yard. Your tactic sounds good, and if you know it's the frost that kills your trees each time, then you can plan accordingly. If you plant it in the ground, you could also try covering your plant in frost cloth, putting a thick layer of mulch around the roots (straw or wood chips), and water deeply on nights when frost is predicted. Let us know how it goes!
Thanks for the good information! I'm afraid if we put compost under the mulch, we'll have rodents digging it up. We live in FL., and there are lots of animals around our fruit trees. Also, we have been growing avocado trees for years, but have killed a few from overwatering we think, and we have never actually gotten any avocados to eat yet. We now have some flowers budding on one avocado, but maybe they need to be removed too. How long does it take before you get avocados? Thanks!
Florida is beautiful, we loved visiting! If you are growing your avocado trees from seed, it could be years (up to 30) before it will produce fruit. If you purchased a grafted tree, you should expect fruit in 2-3 years. Don't give up, they are definitely possible in your climate!
Not on an avocado, but we see it all the time on mangos. I believe it comes down to whether or not the plant you are growing is monoembryonic or polyembryonic; if you get multiple shoots, it could just be the way that plant grows! We say let it mature and see what happens :D
This tree is maybe 2-3 years old, but we purchased it as a grafted tree. If you are growing yours from seed, it can take a long time to set fruit. Keep caring for it and hopefully it will set a crop for you soon!
I see alot of people growing avacados in AZ. Im interested in knowing if anyone has first hand experience of actually harvesting fruit from one here locally. If so, what variety produced fruit and was it any good?
We have only seen two fruiting avocados trees in all of Arizona, which isn't to say there aren't more, but we are only aware of those two. We don't know if they produce fruit that is edible or not. We're definitely treating the avocado as an experimental tree and appreciate its beauty, even if it never fruits.
If the plant is still young, be patient and give it a couple more years. If it's mature, you may want to reach out to a local arborist to have them see if the tree needs anything. :)
Hello from Australia. Thanks for your video - I enjoyed it. I have an Avacado tree which is now about 6 metres tall. I have had fruit on it for the last 3 years. The first year I got 3 fruit (beautiful), last year I had 7 fruit (about half way grown) which all disappeared from the tree, it was like someone picked them as there was no evidence of them ever being there, even their little stalks were gone. This year I have 7 fruit again, same thing happening, I have 3 left. No it is not my neighbour! Any suggestions as to why this is happening. I don't know of any animal or bird that would like "hard avocados" and there is no evidence (pips, skin etc) on the ground. Any suggestions Greenies Garden? PS I had to laugh when you said you had a couple of freezing nights that got down to 20 - don't come to Aus in the winter!
Wow your avocado tree sounds incredible! We have never seen one that large, and we have no idea what could be eating or stealing your fruits! We also don't have the same kinds of animals and birds that you guys have, hopefully you're able to figure out a solution!
Hello I'm hoping you can help me I started an avacado tree from an avacado I purchased from a local food store I have it inside growing it off a 90watt Led purple light grow light Its 2 years old and is only 1.5 feet tall and the leaves are a dark yellow green color witch dead spots on them I have it in a 5 gallon pot and am giving it regular farm water And it starting to finally produce new growth but super slowly any suggestions this is my first time growing an avacado tree
Try cutting back on water a little bit or adding fish emulsion to it, yellowing leaves can be a number of things but usually either from too much water or not enough nitrogen.
Try doing something different, like adjusting the amount of water it gets, the amount of sun/shade it gets, or give it some food! Let us know how it does :D
Wow that’s cool that it’s so cold hardy. So it’s a Brogden variety? Is that an a or b? I have heard of them (sorry not sure how it’s spelt) and I may look into getting one. I live in Australia and it’s harder to get all the varieties here. I live in a cooler area of Australia so I have to grow the cold tolerant varieties too. What area do you guys live in? Sorry if you said I have a terrible memory.
Thanks for the comment! Brodgen is a B type. We live outside Phoenix, Arizona where we often get temperatures below freezing for hours at a time each winter. Hope this helps!
@@NMW80 We'll have to highlight it again soon, avocados don't seem to do great either in our yard or our climate. It was a brutal summer and the tree is hanging in there but not really thriving. Thanks for checking in!
I've been growing avocado seeds for a while. I have a 3 year old avocado 3 feet tall. I have about 16 plants right now. I'm going to try growing 3 main branches on each plant and I'll have one branch be an A type variety grafted, one be a B type, and the 3rd will be whatever the root stock is. I just want to see what it will be when it gets larger. I'm in love with avocados!
Also keep mine in pots... I mulch and keep them in shade and have a colony of worms in the soil and I fertilize with bushski compost tea, worm run off liquid, fish tank water, and compost
I also have a young avocado tree that I am growing for over 6 months now. At this moment most of the tree is full with flowers and very little leafs. Should I take out all the flowers? if so the tree will have only around 20 leafs left and thats it. Will love to hear your opinion. Thanks.
Unfortunately the tree didn't make it, so we can't say one way or the other if removing the flowers would have caused any benefits or problems. But thanks for following up!
It's hard to be patient, but nature really works on her own time. Make sure you're providing enough nutrients to the plant, you can increase the phosphorus (the middle number on a bag of fertilizer) when the tree is in bloom to encourage more of the flowers to hold fruit. Make sure you have pollinators too, we have heard that some people dilute honey in water and spray it on the leaves to attract pollinating insects, it might be worth a try? Also, if you live in AZ like we do, it's possible it won't fruit. There are very few examples of fruiting avocados in AZ, so you might just have to learn to appreciate the plant for its foliage instead of its fruit. :)
Another millennial, “look what we are doing, isn’t it cool” video. 😂 avocado trees aren’t sensitive after the 2 year mark. They will grow whether you like it or not lol... I have a 2 year old mexicola, and it’s flowering like CRAZY. If the tree isn’t ready, the flowers fall off without setting fruit, so why remove them? I’m pretty sure Mother Nature knows best, and meanwhile you’re missing out on all that awesome pollination and 1000s of bees that would visit your tree. 🤷🏻♂️
When you say "put all your scraps out - anything, right?" that should NOT include any starchy items such as pasta or potatoes or rice, because these attract vermin (rats etc.) and also NO BONES, FAT, MEAT or FISH SCRAPS. Just fruit and veg and eggshells, which ought to be well crushed, not just in halves. Godalmighty, couldn't you just tell us what we need to know without all the post-hippy-era-hippy stuff like, "awesome this and awesome that and you guys, you guys, you guys"? Plus...not all varieties are equally frost hardy. Fact. And you need more than one tree if you want fruit, because, while each tree has both male and female flowers, they open at different times of the day. Why? Because...Nature has decreed that, for genetic diversity, and therefore better opportunities for improved sports and mutations, it is better to have a different tree's male flowers fertilise that first tree's female flowers. OK? Oh, I give up. I can't understand why people put such lame videos on TH-cam. Well-meaning but LAME!
You make some great points! Since this video was more about removing the flowers rather than how to compost, we didn't get too in depth about what organic materials are appropriate for adding to the soil, but we agree with you that pasta and bones don't make good compost! Thanks for watching and taking the time to leave such a detailed, thoughtful comment! :D
This is one of the greatest concepts that I learned from my father. He once said that planting teaches us many things and that sacrifice is the most beautiful aspect of it. I really wondered how could sacrifice described as beautiful! isn’t hurting and sad for us to sacrifice something we really want! to sacrifice the blossoms of today for tomorrow’s food, to sacrifice the things attached your heart and soon realize that you have attained the most beautiful, to sacrifice what people might think that its important, when you know that it will later be “the most important." well done, i really was asking why no one talks about this. 👍🏼
i've been checking the socal tropical growers forums and people have had problems with taking off the panicles and having the tree flush out new flowers but limited new growth as far as leaves and branching. They concluded that you need to let fruits form and after they reach about the size of a pea or larger then you remove the fruit and the panicles and you will get a flush of actual new growth. Just what I read.
Thanks for sharing!
Hello! So happy to see your enthusiasm for gardening. Our avocado trees are about 10 years old, (this year they are covered with fruit!) but I've never taken time to learn more about how to care for them. Thank you for the information Take care and enjoy your own, homegrown avocados!
That's awesome! Congrats on your healthy and happy avocado trees!
I’ve been waiting for a video from you guys. Awesome!
It is difficult to remove the flowers, but important to strengthen the tree. I have 5 different varieties of avocados 🥑 growing in Mesa Arizona. On one of the trees I grafted 3 other varieties, so that makes 8 varieties growing now.
The two of you are doing a great job
Thanks for the love!! :D
Great to see you guys great trippy video
Thanks for the love! :D
I can feel the love you have for the subject matters, can be contagious in the best way possible. Your smiles on the video is also wonderful, thank you for sharing your garden knowledge.
Thanks so much for the kind words, they really mean a lot to us :D
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Thanks so much for the love and support!! :D
Brandon and Alissa, congrats on your Avacado tree. I just planted a cold hardy Avacado tree in my garden, under a Mexican tree that stays green all year long. We freeze down to 25° for a couple of nights. And our summers can get 105° A couple days. But my avacado should be protected. Praying! I love Brandon , How you treat Alissa. Hugs!🤗😋
It sounds like it should do great in that microclimate! Keep us posted and have an awesome day! :D
Thank you for this teaching. It is really hard to cut back trees. I grew a moringa tree from seed in a grow back last year and it reached 12ft within 3 months, when the winter came I had to cut it down 😔 it was so hard, but it needed to be done.
I put it inside the house to protect it from frost. Now I am waiting for it to come out its dormancy 😊. I will follow your tip on avocado trees once I get one. God bless you.
It feels weird doesn't it! Your tree will thank you for it later though! Thanks for the kind words!! :D
Hi, depends on what zone you are in for the moringa. Mine is a dwarf moringa which is what I recommend. I am in zone 9. For 2 or 3 years the tree was getting established. The year before it hit 17 while this year the temp was 19 or 20. We piled mulch around the base. The tree is up again and around 4 ft tall. The key (growing from seed) is for the tree to be well established in the ground before taking these temps. Usually we warm up after the cold hits so prolong really cold temp with this method might not work.
Hi - first too many "you guys" - otherwise, great info - now have to detour compost material to my tree that is huge, but struggles - now I'm gonna remove most of the flowers and fertilize, fertilize, fertilize - thank you very much
I love avocado i have 20 trees 2 year old
This was so hard to do !! But I hope to see the benefits of removing the flowers she to young to bear fruit !! Loved the video!!
That's a sick shirt!!
Thanks for the love! :D
Such a good hype man :o
my avocado tree had flowers for the first time last year but they all fell. This year it’s starting to have flowers again and hopefully we get some avocados this year 🤞🏻
My neighbor gave me an avocado baby tree (8" tall). I potted it in an orchid pot (lots of holes in the sides), and it has air-pruned and grown 4" in 2 weeks.
That's fantastic, keep it up!! :D
I don’t know anything about that variety of avocado but I have a Mexicola, Fuerte and Reed that the first two years in the ground they all flowered like crazy but did not set any fruit all flowers just dropped. This year the mexicola has already set some fruit, still waiting on the others.
That's exciting, hope you get them to fruit for you!! :D
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Next year you can get some fruit from it to enjoy it is one of those tough decisions plucking all the flowers like that. BRAVE, but also smart a good move imho. HAVE AN AWESOME!! Day also !
Gardening teaches us about patience :D
HaHa that it does, that it does
Good, but you don't have to take all the flowers off you can take off most and still allow the flowers to produce some avocados and they will probably end up being massive but your roots system will do just fine
Thanks but to many GUYS!🙏🏻
Hey Greenies, thank you for the video. I was thinking about removing my Hass Flowers, she is 2yesrs in the ground
It's not a bad idea while they're young, let us know how she does! :D
Hi! I have planted my avocado too here in the Philippines. But I think there is a big difference, I saw and noticed that your tree is quite small and started blooming/flowering. Mine started to bear fruit on the fifth year with increasing number of fruits each year. It is a good variety of avocado, however, I wanted to have a variety of yours. I don't know how is that possible as I understood that transporting seeds on to another country is prohibited. But I would love to have a variety of yours if that is possible. Recently, I made an experiment of growing roots on the branches and cut them once roots showed up and transplanted it to a pot. Surprisingly, the method became successful, I transplanted my first cloned avocado-I don't know how I call it. It has been on a pot for 5 weeks and looks very healthy, it has even flowers on it. I am glad we're sharing the same fashion, perhaps we can share ideas on how to enhance techniques, guidelines on growing avocados. I would love to hear from you guys. God bless
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That’s called grafting
Thanks for sharing! It sounds like you mastered the art of air-layering. We haven't tried doing that yet, but it's a great way of propagating more trees!
I live in the Algarve, I purchased a grafted avocado tree 2 and 1/2 years ago it was about 5 feet tall, it had 12 small fruit on it the first year, last year it had about 15 larger fruit on it and it was growing like crazy lots of branches but this year lots of flowers but no fruit buds...(i will take your advice about removing some of the flowers). I dont have the space for another avocado tree so i am wondering if it was grafted can nature do what nature does and turn it back into a none grafted tree?
No, it will always remain grafted. Check the graft line and see if any branches are growing from underneath it. If there are, remove them -- they will not produce the fruit that you want. If there aren't any, then it's possible the tree just didn't want to fruit this year. Sometimes the yields will be higher or lower than other years. Other than that, keep watering and feeding it consistently and hopefully you will be able to enjoy more avocados next year!
If you want to ensure that your avocado flowers are pollinated you'll need two to three ounces of honey a spray bottle and fill the rest of it up with water just spray the leaves and branches with the mixture about once a week the bees swarm and go nuts trying to clean it up. The reason why bees are probably ignoring the avocado tree is because there are the flowers around that smell more yummy to them
Great tip, thanks for sharing!
When your avocado tree is flowering, do you water them more frequently than you normally do?
Yes it's generally a good rule of thumb to provide a little extra water when a tree is in flower
Hi. Wondering, did you grow your tree from the pit? I am growing one indoors in a pot. it’s nine months now about a foot tall very skinny.
We actually bought this grafted tree, we have some seedlings in the yard but we haven't intentionally tried growing from seed before. You can try "tipping" your seedling to encourage more branching!
I like the way you guys presentation ...I love avocado tree so..my one ,I got it (grafting)from the garden shop 8 months ago ( when it was 1 yo.)and has been leaving in the green house in winter .. when it was 1 yo.It is flowering now .Should I pick all of flowers...?..Well,I was wondering if your avocado 🥑 grows from seed or grafting???? When I should let it fruiting?.
Ours is grafted, they should produce in 2-3 years (versus seedlings could take over 20 years to set fruit!). Best of luck!
Do avocado trees need shade? Mine started from Ecuadorian pit, 4 months inside. Hot summers. Now humid also. Socal. Do I need to put it in shaded spot?it is 1 and half year old. Cyndi
Depending on where you live, they may need full sun or full shade -- we are in AZ, and our avocado gets only a little direct sunlight and is provided with filtered shade through out the rest of the day from our shade tree. Since yours is still in a container, try placing the pot in your yard where you think you want to plant the tree eventually, and just monitor its health for a few months or a year to see if it likes that location or not! Hope this helps!
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Wonderful ... can you tell us how you treat avocado tree .
I have succeed with many varieties of fruit trees except avocado and I don’t know the reason
Thanks
Kind of like we mentioned in the video, we killed a handful of avocados before finally getting it right! A good microclimate and a nutrient rich soil seem to be doing the trick for us :D
I have tried, tried, tried and failed with avos! I We live in a valley that sees 110+ summer heat and winter can at times drop to below freezing (at times). The cold however always gets my trees in the end. I think the roots aren't mature enough. This year I have a Fuerte and a Mexicola (this have failed me before). I want them to establish a very strong root system, get height (thinking a good 8'), and bushy. I got the Fuerte in Jan. at about 2.5ft. currently its at 5' with quite a few very healthy branches sticking out. The Mexi was a more recent addition that had a pretty sad root system but it is starting to perk up. New greens are sprouting on it currently. During the our cold snap I've had them on my patio under semi cover. I just moved to to full sun. They look a lot happier. I want to baby them for at least another year or two before getting them in the ground based on my failures. So in the fall right before the cold snap I'll move them back to my patio. Is this a good tactic? Before I leave this earth I have to have a healthy giving Avo tree. For me it's the fruit of the gods period.
We live in a very similar climate, with those high high summer temperatures and below freezing winters. Our avocado tree finally died, and we're not sure that we're going to try to force another one to work in our yard. Your tactic sounds good, and if you know it's the frost that kills your trees each time, then you can plan accordingly. If you plant it in the ground, you could also try covering your plant in frost cloth, putting a thick layer of mulch around the roots (straw or wood chips), and water deeply on nights when frost is predicted. Let us know how it goes!
Thanks for the good information! I'm afraid if we put compost under the mulch, we'll have rodents digging it up. We live in FL., and there are lots of animals around our fruit trees. Also, we have been growing avocado trees for years, but have killed a few from overwatering we think, and we have never actually gotten any avocados to eat yet. We now have some flowers budding on one avocado, but maybe they need to be removed too. How long does it take before you get avocados? Thanks!
Florida is beautiful, we loved visiting! If you are growing your avocado trees from seed, it could be years (up to 30) before it will produce fruit. If you purchased a grafted tree, you should expect fruit in 2-3 years. Don't give up, they are definitely possible in your climate!
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What variety did you say it is? I couldn't make it out. Nice video. Thanks
This is a Brogdon avocado :D
seaweed extract? Did I hear it right? Did you start applying it from the seed?
Yes seaweed extract or kelp meal :D We didn't grow this avocado from seed, but you can definitely start applying the seaweed from the get-go :)
Have you had a seed come up in multiple shoots? Any tips if you have? I have 2 seeds that have multiple shoots and I am not sure why
Not on an avocado, but we see it all the time on mangos. I believe it comes down to whether or not the plant you are growing is monoembryonic or polyembryonic; if you get multiple shoots, it could just be the way that plant grows! We say let it mature and see what happens :D
My avocafo tree now started to flowers ??
Congrats! Hope you get some avocados!
It’s been almost a year, what’s the results?
We'll share an update, still no fruit on our young avocado!
How old is this tree ? My avocado tree is 16 years old..when it give fruits ?
This tree is maybe 2-3 years old, but we purchased it as a grafted tree. If you are growing yours from seed, it can take a long time to set fruit. Keep caring for it and hopefully it will set a crop for you soon!
great video. nice avocado tree you have. How is your Valencia pride mango tree doing.
Thanks! :D That mango got hit hard with the frost, we had to cut her down to about 2 feet. But she's already coming back! :D
I see alot of people growing avacados in AZ. Im interested in knowing if anyone has first hand experience of actually harvesting fruit from one here locally. If so, what variety produced fruit and was it any good?
We have only seen two fruiting avocados trees in all of Arizona, which isn't to say there aren't more, but we are only aware of those two. We don't know if they produce fruit that is edible or not. We're definitely treating the avocado as an experimental tree and appreciate its beauty, even if it never fruits.
@@GreeniesGarden good to know. Thanks for the info
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Did you buy this Avocado tree or grow it from seed? What state and grow region do you live in?
We bought this avocado, it is grafted. We're just outside Phoenix, zone 9ish :D
How come my avocado flowers all turned to leaves and not fruits? Honeys do come too! Help! Thanks
If the plant is still young, be patient and give it a couple more years. If it's mature, you may want to reach out to a local arborist to have them see if the tree needs anything. :)
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haha thanks bro!!
My avacado seeds are so sunburnt 🌞🌞🌱🌱
Try adding some shade cloth?
Hello from Australia. Thanks for your video - I enjoyed it. I have an Avacado tree which is now about 6 metres tall. I have had fruit on it for the last 3 years. The first year I got 3 fruit (beautiful), last year I had 7 fruit (about half way grown) which all disappeared from the tree, it was like someone picked them as there was no evidence of them ever being there, even their little stalks were gone. This year I have 7 fruit again, same thing happening, I have 3 left. No it is not my neighbour! Any suggestions as to why this is happening. I don't know of any animal or bird that would like "hard avocados" and there is no evidence (pips, skin etc) on the ground. Any suggestions Greenies Garden? PS I had to laugh when you said you had a couple of freezing nights that got down to 20 - don't come to Aus in the winter!
Wow your avocado tree sounds incredible! We have never seen one that large, and we have no idea what could be eating or stealing your fruits! We also don't have the same kinds of animals and birds that you guys have, hopefully you're able to figure out a solution!
Fruit bats
Video camera ?
Was it a grafted or seedling mate?
This avocado was grafted, we were too impatient to wait for a seedling to produce fruit :)
Hello I'm hoping you can help me
I started an avacado tree from an avacado I purchased from a local food store
I have it inside growing it off a 90watt Led purple light grow light
Its 2 years old and is only 1.5 feet tall and the leaves are a dark yellow green color witch dead spots on them
I have it in a 5 gallon pot and am giving it regular farm water
And it starting to finally produce new growth but super slowly any suggestions this is my first time growing an avacado tree
At 2 years old only has 10 leaves on it
Try cutting back on water a little bit or adding fish emulsion to it, yellowing leaves can be a number of things but usually either from too much water or not enough nitrogen.
you too
Hi, how do you deal with the flies?
FLY TRAP
We try not to worry about the bugs in our yard too much. The less we interfere with them, the more nature seems to come in and balance them out. :D
Please help me my avocado tree is skinny, with 3 or 4 leaves and nothing special about it
Try doing something different, like adjusting the amount of water it gets, the amount of sun/shade it gets, or give it some food! Let us know how it does :D
Wow that’s cool that it’s so cold hardy. So it’s a Brogden variety? Is that an a or b? I have heard of them (sorry not sure how it’s spelt) and I may look into getting one. I live in Australia and it’s harder to get all the varieties here. I live in a cooler area of Australia so I have to grow the cold tolerant varieties too. What area do you guys live in? Sorry if you said I have a terrible memory.
How is your avo tree going now?
Thanks for the comment! Brodgen is a B type. We live outside Phoenix, Arizona where we often get temperatures below freezing for hours at a time each winter. Hope this helps!
Greenies Garden oh ok thanks. Hope your avo tree is going well?
Greenies Garden I have a bacon and a feurte both B types. They seem to be doing ok in our weather so far. Do you have any updates on the tree?
@@NMW80 We'll have to highlight it again soon, avocados don't seem to do great either in our yard or our climate. It was a brutal summer and the tree is hanging in there but not really thriving. Thanks for checking in!
*Sounded, like he was proposing to the camera girl 👧 and or the tree*
Its sad to do but its the vest to get a stronger tree
I've been growing avocado seeds for a while. I have a 3 year old avocado 3 feet tall. I have about 16 plants right now. I'm going to try growing 3 main branches on each plant and I'll have one branch be an A type variety grafted, one be a B type, and the 3rd will be whatever the root stock is. I just want to see what it will be when it gets larger. I'm in love with avocados!
Also keep mine in pots... I mulch and keep them in shade and have a colony of worms in the soil and I fertilize with bushski compost tea, worm run off liquid, fish tank water, and compost
Cool thanks for sharing! It sounds like you're giving them everything they need! :D
Why is my Avocado tree turning yellow .
Hello is it grafted avacado
Yes this is a grafted avocado :)
I also have a young avocado tree that I am growing for over 6 months now. At this moment most of the tree is full with flowers and very little leafs.
Should I take out all the flowers? if so the tree will have only around 20 leafs left and thats it.
Will love to hear your opinion.
Thanks.
It sounds like your tree is too young to produce fruit anyways, so the flowers will probably drop off on their own. :)
Where are u located? Just wondering climate for your avocado tree.
We're outside of Phoenix, AZ :D
It's a mulch I ford it to
The flowers just fall off of our young avocado trees
It's like nature is doing the pruning herself! :D
doesn't that mean that they aren't getting pollinated?
Update video in 2019?
@5:42
It's 2021 guys ... 3 years later ... Was this experiment successful, or do you have a regrets about deflowering the tree?
Unfortunately the tree didn't make it, so we can't say one way or the other if removing the flowers would have caused any benefits or problems. But thanks for following up!
I’ve had a little cado for years but no fruit! I’m starting to get impatient.
If grown from seed, then you won't be able to get fruit for a VERY long time.
Angel Gutierrez it was from a nursery and grafted to produce fruit.
@@bigmack2262 very unlucky, same thing happened with a peach tree of mine. I hope you get fruit next year at the least
It's hard to be patient, but nature really works on her own time. Make sure you're providing enough nutrients to the plant, you can increase the phosphorus (the middle number on a bag of fertilizer) when the tree is in bloom to encourage more of the flowers to hold fruit. Make sure you have pollinators too, we have heard that some people dilute honey in water and spray it on the leaves to attract pollinating insects, it might be worth a try? Also, if you live in AZ like we do, it's possible it won't fruit. There are very few examples of fruiting avocados in AZ, so you might just have to learn to appreciate the plant for its foliage instead of its fruit. :)
Another millennial, “look what we are doing, isn’t it cool” video. 😂 avocado trees aren’t sensitive after the 2 year mark. They will grow whether you like it or not lol... I have a 2 year old mexicola, and it’s flowering like CRAZY. If the tree isn’t ready, the flowers fall off without setting fruit, so why remove them? I’m pretty sure Mother Nature knows best, and meanwhile you’re missing out on all that awesome pollination and 1000s of bees that would visit your tree. 🤷🏻♂️
So great that avocado trees thrive in your climate! Thanks for the comment!
When you say "put all your scraps out - anything, right?" that should NOT include any starchy items such as pasta or potatoes or rice, because these attract vermin (rats etc.) and also NO BONES, FAT, MEAT or FISH SCRAPS. Just fruit and veg and eggshells, which ought to be well crushed, not just in halves. Godalmighty, couldn't you just tell us what we need to know without all the post-hippy-era-hippy stuff like, "awesome this and awesome that and you guys, you guys, you guys"? Plus...not all varieties are equally frost hardy. Fact. And you need more than one tree if you want fruit, because, while each tree has both male and female flowers, they open at different times of the day. Why? Because...Nature has decreed that, for genetic diversity, and therefore better opportunities for improved sports and mutations, it is better to have a different tree's male flowers fertilise that first tree's female flowers. OK? Oh, I give up. I can't understand why people put such lame videos on TH-cam. Well-meaning but LAME!
You make some great points! Since this video was more about removing the flowers rather than how to compost, we didn't get too in depth about what organic materials are appropriate for adding to the soil, but we agree with you that pasta and bones don't make good compost! Thanks for watching and taking the time to leave such a detailed, thoughtful comment! :D