Growing The Bacon Avocado Tree - A Cold Hardy Mexican Avocado Variety with a Delicious Surprise!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ม.ค. 2023
- I picked a Bacon Avocado off my MultiGrafted Avocado Tree and I do a quick taste test.
#BaconAvocadoTree, #MexicanAvocado, #HardyAvocadoTree
We harvested 105 total, off our 6 year old Bacon, beginning in late October, here east of San Diego. It's one of our favorites, as it bears every year, and is a beautiful tree. I keep it pruned to about 4M. Thx for all the videos.
Excellent! Thanks for watching!
Great video Jeff, thanks for sharing!
Welcome!
Greetings from Escalon California
Greetings neighbor!
Great video. Thank you.
From Selma, Ca.
You are welcome!
Bacon avocado my favourite 😍
My bacon avocado holding 5 fruits, very excited to test 😊
thanks for sharing 👍
Excellent Alyssa!, Happy growing!
New subscriber, I have been working through some of your videos as we are about to purchase a orchard operation here in Australia so I am trying to get my head around a lot of the fruits on the property to propagate the Lychees, Custard apples and Avocado's to mention a few.
Great videos and really enjoy your style of presenting
Cheers Garry
thanks for watching
Nice video Jeff. Hope all is well where you are with the flooding.
Thanks , most of the flooding is in agricultural areas, though each storm does affect street flooding as we have only dry wells for excess runoff in the city .
Fortunately flooding hasn’t my garden as we are quite a bit higher than streets.
Too answer your question my avo orchard doing pretty well some trees are growing faster than others some have been in ground about 2 years now and I planted about 20 more in 2023 but i still need a few hundred more in ground, I'm slow it will take a few years to get that many I'm only about 70 trees in ground now, zutano bacon,big black grow fastest, gem is a slower growing tree.
Hey Jeff you've got a dayum good channel here buddy! I live in Houston,TX and you've shared some great advice. I have a question that I'd love for you to share your thoughts on. I remember you showing an example of a large mango tree growing next to a wall. You said that it definitely frosts in the area that it was thriving in. I have an avocado that I'm thinking of doing the same thing with. The variety is brogdon. Although it is known for being cold hardy down to the low 20s the last 2 winters here have been very odd (down to the high teens!) Just wondering if you could share your thoughts on planting a tree next to a western facing wall to provide some radiant winter warmth. Again, love the channel and thanks for sharing your passion! Cheers!
Hi Shannon, Thanks for the kind words .
Yea the mango tree I mentioned is in a city close by.
The tree has seen lows below 25f and mangoes are usually damaged severely below 30f .
all of my sensitive trees, I plant close to walls as once the canopy becomes large enough, the tree and wall tends to be one mass. Outer leaves and branches can freeze but at a much lower rate.
@@TropicalGardenGuy You're a gem! Thank you sir!
You should grow passion fruit too just plant it in a corner, guide it upwards and let it climb over the roof
I had planned on doing that but our HOA won’t allow anything on the wall
Hi Jeff. Nice video. Our Bacon has its first three big fruits. I’m here in Sonoma County, so a little different weather than you, but your video convinced me to pick one and see how it goes. Just a couple of days on the counter should do the trick? Thanks.
Yup, sounds good.
Very hard to buy bacon fruit here but I managed to get some from Spain last year, I much prefer them to Hass. I've germinated some of the seeds
Yup, they are good!
How did you get the seeds through customs?
Hello from Oakdale. My avocado 🥑 tree has some trouble growing. I have it covered. Two branches are still alive . It grew well under our porch but really struggled when I put it in the ground. Any advice on how to promote growth. I really want an avocado tree in my collection. Congratulations on your wife now becoming your full-time camera person. She used to work with my wife.
Hi Neighbor, Hard to say without seeing the tree or growing conditions.
One piece of advice I give to newbies is to plant avocado trees on a raised bed, water deeply and infrequently to avoid root rot. Once the tree is stressed its sometimes hard to recover.
Thanks. I'd never heard of these before. They sound great though. Do you know where I can buy one of these? I'm up by Yosemite, but I (obviously) won't try to grow it up here.
Lowes has this variety usually in late spring
Happy new year, just found and followed, sorry if you have answered this before, do you sell any plants or seeds(all fruits)? Thank you in advance, just got some property/ greenhouse to start my collection in Shingle Springs Ca 9a. Cheers.
I’m just a home gardener. I don’t sell stuff. But I might give away thing through local plant clubs once I have excesses.
I thought the bacon graft I put on my tree had died.
Surprised, I picked the avocado did a quick taste test.
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Excellent Jeff congrats on finding a bacon branch in your tree, I like your taste test too many give bacon a bum rap saying it's too mild and too watery, I love bacon taste I can eat 2 or 3 at once.i have about 4 bacon trees in ground I expect first fruit winter 2025. What fruit did you get on your tree fall of 2024 ?
Only mex grande and some cukes queens
@@TropicalGardenGuy ok the others must be on an alternate year,which prob means heavy fruit need year.
@@TropicalGardenGuy what about monster graft across the street is it big enough to set fruit in spring
How does this avocado plant perform in hot climate like 40 + degrees C ?
All of my avocados do fine at 40c
How are they doing in the floods?
Here in Sonoma county it’s bad!
Only street flooding here
Hey good morning I to live in Modesto this is my first year redoing my backyard and doing tropical plants would love any advice I am starting from scratch
You came to the right channel!
@@TropicalGardenGuy do you have any suggestions on good nurseries local or semi-local
Hello, what is the most resistant cold hardy Avocado variety? Mexicola? Thanks from Italy
There are many that claim to be super cold hardy, but the one that Ive personally experienced as cold hardy is Mexicola
@@TropicalGardenGuy ok thanks, which variety should it be pollinated mexicola variety? Thanks
@@roccobarca4558 they are self fruitful… no pollinator needed
@@TropicalGardenGuy ok thanks 👍🤗
@@TropicalGardenGuy wish I could get a mexicola tree or even seed in Australia. Sucks they don’t sell them varieties here 🤦🏻♀️