How To Graft Young Avocado Trees
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- Grafting season is back in full force! Yes!
Back in February 2021, I grafted the 'Jan Boyce' Avocado to a random seedling avocado rootstock. I did that by clipping a small stem from the 'Jan Boyce' tree and grafting it to the rootstock.
The scion took a long time to show signs of growth, due to the cooler temps and shaded spot. The results part of the video was filmed April 22, 2021. It took about 10 weeks for the graft to fully heal and begin to grow. Late winter to early spring is a great time for avocado grafting, though have some patience because the graft can take longer to grow out.
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An absolutely perfect taping of grafting an avocado tree. No background music, nor distracting people or animals. Just you instructing your audience. ❤️
Thank you for the detailed step by step instructions with close-ups! You have given me confidence to try grafting mom's Fuerte tree onto several seedlings. I might even attempt a fruit cocktail avocado tree!
Glad to help. Thanks for watching 🥑
Great video you explained it very well I learned a lot today thanks thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching 👍🏽🌲🥑
Thanks for all the useful info!
Good work ❤thanks
Good video, love it!
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Ok nice video avacado
😮,my avocado tree is 6 years old in a pot,i just moved in to the garden,is from seed ,there's chance to give 🥑🤞?,i planted for shade ,,
I live 2 blocks away the beach in southern California
Hi AJ have a Hass tree growing from seed it about 1.4m or about 3.5ft high what to try to graft A and a B variety on this tree can you get a smaller dwarf variety as avacardo trees can get very tall would like you comments thanks
Yes you can graft some small or dwarf varieties onto your tree. I would suggest Kona Sharwil, Wurtz, Pinkerton, Reed. These varieties can be kept small and productive.
and try buddy tape you may like it
Do you need to graft that 3rd branch also. The top one.
Not necessary, but that branch certainly can be grafted
Hi Ajmal. I just found your channel. I've been interested in grafting for a while now. I have a very young Avocado tree that I planted from a seed. I was overjoyed when it sprouted. It's still in a pot. Should I plant it in the ground yet now or let it get bigger and how long before I can graft it ?? Thank you for your help.
Depends how big it is. In general, you want the trunk to have the thickness of at least a pencil before you graft it. To plant it in the ground, I would wait for the trunk to be at least 1 inch thick. Hope this helps
@@AJTheGraftMan Yes, it helps very much. Thank you
What time/season of the year grafting should be done?
Spring time when plants are growing strong. New leaves and buds.
If the scion and rootstock is from a young tree, will it still lessen the time it takes to bear fruit?
Should have no effect. Time to bear fruit depends on other factors like how well the tree is taken care of, the weather and the pollination at the time of flowering
Hi Aj can u do a graft vid where u do that graft that you use only one bud
Sure
@@AJTheGraftMan thx
10 week u dint eat that orange , eat that orange man, ni nini mbaya na wewe. love from kenya
Lol it’s a sour orange. We use it for cooking. Thanks and love to Kenya 🇰🇪
I'll call you "Smiling Ajmal". Thank you. You are a real teacher in all respect. I wish you the very best.
Thank you for the kind words. Much appreciated 🙂
Wow successful....
I love your videos! Long time subscriber here.
I think the misunderstanding is the way things worded. We graft scions or budwood from “known cultivars”,These known cultivars would have to have fruited at some time.... probably way back or how else would you know the variety ? Lol. This said you can certainly take budwood from a young tree that itself has not fruited.... But its genetics are from one that has!
I agree, though, its best to graft either ON the main trunk or very close to it on the branch as the scion will be pushed by the main tree to try to replicate the branch that was cut away. If on the end of the branch, the tree may not need to push through new buds, I have used the ends of branches to demonstrate the grafting cuts on large trees, some take some do not.
During the grafting process, We are combining tissue of a superior cultivar ( budwood) with a rootstock or seedling to create a new tree. This tree isnt exactly a clone of of the original as we have added a different rootstock to make a completely new tree. Sounds to be splitting hairs... but In my plant propagation class i got the answer wrong when I answered clone. The correct answer is that grafting is a “ transplant “.
Anyway, I look forward to your next video. Your enthusiasm is unparalleled! Have a Great Day and Happy growing!
Thank you!!🥑
Thanks Jeff! Great explanation and great info. Appreciate your support! :)
Wonderful video Thank you for the useful information, your friend from Morocco
Thank you. I love Morocco 🇲🇦
Wonderful video Thank you for the useful information,
Hey AJ! Thanks to you I'm totally into grafting. Remember, You sent me to a place where I could get some para film? Cut to a few months later and I have now successfully grafted a Giant Fuyu to a comon persimon tree and it took. I now grafted some Choquette scions and some Hass to my Wurtz. Can't wait to see how that turns out. I have clay in my yard and was wondering what your views are on mound planting as a solution and if you plan to do a vid on that one day. Keep up the good work. You are so knowledgeable about Avocados, I even suspect you might be the guy Gary, from Laguna Hills nursery might have gotten the idea for using honey water to attract the bees. When watching his seminar vid, he admitted to getting it from TH-cam and I suspect it might be your vid posted on the subject. LOL! 👍
Thanks Raymond! That's awesome. I'm glad you're into grafting. It's a fun hobby. Yes I remember. I'm glad you got a successful graft! Mound planting is a great solution for heavy clay soils. I'd like to do a video about it. I know some people who have clay soils and maybe I can do a video with them. Let me know how your avocado grafts do. Thanks for watching
I always enjoy your videos, AJ, and I learn new things every time! 👍👍
Thanks Neal! 🌴🌳👍🏼
Great video.
The follow up made all the difference.
Like your easy way of explaining the process
Hello Dear Friend! Thank you very much!😊👍186 and sub.
Thanks!
Wow that Amazing 🥑
Is it possible to get some scions? Hass, Donnie, Simmonds, Reed, GEM, How do I contact you?
Cambiun allignment is important to have a successful graft.
Yes indeed
At what temperature
Is grafting only applicable from young to old bearing trees
Ajmal, help me out here. If I multi graft my avocado tree with Hass and Fuerte (I know, boring but is what I can get). Will the yield be larger than just having a Hass and spraying with honey? I don't have enough space for a second tree to plant a type B next to my Hass.
Yield might be larger, but not by much. If you graft Fuerte to your Hass tree, what will happen is you will get a longer avocado season, because Hass avocados mature in the spring to late summer, and Fuerte avocados mature in winter to early spring. This gives you an avocado season that can possibly last six months! As long as you can attract pollinators (like bees) to the avocado flowers, you should get plenty of fruit!
@@AJTheGraftMan thanks man, best of luck with the channel, and what a great garden you have
fuerte and hass and gem: perfect polination: thanx
Thanks for sharing useful methods of grafting!
I have a 10ft sterile avocado. The branches are very large. My friend has a Haas that he needs to prune. I won’t get any scion wood the diameter of my branches so I’ll have to go out on a limb. What would you recommend? A neighbor said to cut the whole tree down and stick a haas into the stump. What do you recommend. Get demonstration!
Thanks! I’ve done a video about grafting small scions onto large trunks. Check it out on my channel!
Great video. Thanks to you, I have tried my first grafts to my mature tree this week. Waiting impatiently to see if it takes. It's Autumn here in South Africa, so I hope the graft will take.
Thanks! Hope your grafts take
I'm in South Africa 2 what province are you grafting in
Awesome video !!
awesome!
Might be a stupid question, but can you graft scions to a grafted tree? Like I have a three year old grafted Holiday but want other varieties on it.
Not a stupid question. The answer is yes you certainly can
@@AJTheGraftMan Awesome! I will try my first attempts in the fall. Thanks for the fast reply.
Hello, nice video.! Do I need a grown fruit tree to get the stem to graft on a baby avacado plant.? Thank you
Thanks! It’s best to collect from a grown fruit tree, but you can also get a scion from younger trees too
Can anyone tell me if I have a tree coming out of seed
Does that mean that the tree needs to be grafted?
It will not produce the original fruit from the seed?
Thank you !
You can let it grow but it can take many years to produce fruit. Some seed grown trees never produce fruit. Grafting is the way to go if you want fruit faster
Good video
Great video! Easy to understand thank you for the detailed instructions.
Thank you
Is it possible to grating 2 types of avocado on one tree? and will the produce 2 kinds of avocados?
Yes it’s certainly possible
Thanks alot....I've had no success on mine..but because I didn't use the tape well
Thanks for watching. The tape can be tricky to use at first, but it's super effective once you get the technique
Love that you showed results. Thankyou.
Great avo grafting video AJ! I really enjoy watching your avo grafting videos, very informative! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Johnny!
Simple step by step...clear and concise!
Tku...
Loved and subscribed! I’m in QLD Australia. Got some baby seedlings from seeds. Some of the seedlings have multiple stems. I mean 2 or more shots from 1 seed. How should I deal with it?
Thanks! Welcome! You can graft onto each one if you'd like. I've done it before and it works.
you can also integrate the stems to have a stronger root structure. I already achieved it I have an avocado with a triple rootstock and it thrives very well.
Hi AJ, your Chanel is my avocado training school. Thank you for this wonderful service. Can I buy good and fresh different scion cuttings from you for grafting.
Thank you
Thank you. Where do you live?
I live in Maryland. Thank you
Not sure how I missed this one but I canceled subscription then resubscribed so I won’t miss any more
Thanks Steve
Hi, Why my new avocado plant leaves are drying in 2 days and cracking after replanting in a bigger pot, is it because it is sunny and windy where I am keeping the big planters, I applied some gypsum also
Wow that Amazing 🥑🥑
Have good teacher my dear
Awesome information! You have inspired me to do grafting and I have my first three successful GEM and Wurtz grafts on junk avacado rootstock. I also am top working
Just Beautiful , and , to the point !!
Increíble trabajo ❤😊
HELP!!
I’m in Texas so when we best time for grafting for my avocado tree? Jan & Feb are usually our coldest months? Also my tree has 2 stocks coming from the pit can I split the pit and separate roots to make 2 trees? Last question tree is about a year and half it’s about 3’ tall I didn’t know I was supposed to cut the top to encourage branching is it too late? Thank you in advance
Hey brother wonderful video. When's the best time to graft. Right now it's a very hot summer here in india
Thanks! Best time in my experience is late winter to early spring and late summer to early fall.
@@AJTheGraftMan thanks, will try again next month
Don't put a graft in the sun it will dry out. How do you use grafting wax? Do you put wrap over the buds? Why do you remove leaves on scion or root stock? Do you remove new buds on root stock (if not a tree like this video)
Great lesson on grafting avacados ,you are a great teacher at this, good job keep them videos coming... 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏
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I grew an avocado seed in water and then planted it. It came from an avocado I bought in a grocery store. I don't even remember what kind of avocado it was. I am being told it will not bear fruit if it is not grafted. Is this true? Thanks. I enjoyed your video.
It can bear fruit, but it can take many years to begin bearing fruit, and there’s a chance the fruit will taste bad
@@AJTheGraftMan Not what I wanted to hear but appreciative of your taking the time to respond. I hate pulling out trees. Especially one that I actually got to grow from seed.
I would save it and graft onto it. That way you get fruit faster
Thank you for informative video ill keep it for the next grafting that i make since is my first time watching thank you😊.
Excellent delivery on a great topic!!
Thanks!
Killer. Thanks for sharing bud.
Your videos are so helpful.
Just grafted some avocado scions from a nieghbor's on February. Hopefully they take
always cut tree 500mm, three quaters thru trunkm, and bend over and then graft on cut off part of trunk: works every time!!!!
AJ the link for the parafilm tape on Ebay list a bunch of them. Which of the did you buy? Can you be more specific on the particular Ebay seller?
New to grafting . thank you for the video
Hey, will you sell some branches for grafting? I am in the Midwest. Thanks.
After 25 days pullout the rotton branch and take a fresh branch to make a new vedio. Good luck
Do you sell avocado grafts from already fruiting branches? or where can I buy grafts ?
Hi there! I was wondering if you could sell me some Jon Boise scions…..TIA Ajmal
Thanks a lot dear
Hey graft man how can I get some scions from you? I live in Tulare county.
Why do you have so many graphs on one tree? Also, how long before it starts to produce fruit?
THIS! IS THE BEST GRAFTING VIDEO IVE EVER SEEN!!
Wow Thanks! You made my day 😀
Who can help me out I have an avocado tree Bt don’t know what kind it is it’s about 13 feet tall
ありがとうございます！
i grew a tree from pit. it's 11yrs old and have only produce a small fruit once or twice. should i prune off the excess branches or? also, would it help to make it bare fruit by grafting from a fruit baring tree?
Pruning might help, but not much. Yes, Grafting would definitely help it make fruit
@@AJTheGraftMan Thank you. I got some fresh stems from neighbor's fruit bearing tree. now waiting for grafting tape to come.
@@eosme great. Let me know how your grafting goes. Good luck
@@AJTheGraftMan one of my neighbor's avocado tree is already bearing fruit. however, she mentioned it's currently stressed, so i'm not sure if it's due to some disease or not. so probably not a good donor to graft with right?
@@eosme probably not. It’s not a good idea to take scions from stressed trees or graft onto stressed rootstocks
Thank you for the awesome step by step video. I have a Haas seedling that is about 4 years old and I would like to graft onto it. I just wonder how you go about getting young scions. (I live in N.California) so avocados are not common. However I am taking a trip to Palm Springs in a couple of weeks and am wondering if this is something that nurseries sell down there?
Look for avocado trees in your neighborhood and try getting scions from them
Thank you
Thanks for watching !
Could I please cover the avocado buds with Paraflim grafting tape when I am grafting young avocado seedling..?
Can the buds able to brake through to the Paraflim grafting tape ....?
It is very important to me to know ... Please let me know .I am your big fan from Myanmar....
Yes you can cover the buds with the tape. The buds will break through the grafting tape
Great!
Great video!!! Someone gifted me an avocado tree saying it's grafted, but aren't sure (they bought it at a nursery). Is there a way to tell? I see a notch on the sapling. There are two other branches that have grown below this notch though. I am wondering whether they should be removed.
Look for flowers on the tree
Another quick question (maybe stupid question) every graft I see is close to thr soil or root, I just had my first 2 successful graft to a seed. As thr tree grows shouldn't the knot where thr graft was done grow upward as well. I'm even sure if thr question I'm asking is making sense 🤓
The knot where the graft was done won’t grow upward. It will always remain at the point where it was done. The scion will grow upward and the trunk will thicken up. Good question
Thank you very much I have learned how to graft an avocado tree.
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Sir...I tried to follow the procedure you did but it failed..I don't know what went wrong..Do you have any idea of what happened? Pls advice...thanks
I recently posted a video about why grafts fail. It’s on my channel. Check it out. Good luck 👍🏼🌲
Did you top the tree you grafted to? It looks like the top was cut off. I'm asking because I was considering doing this to my avocado tree before I graft to it. Thanks!
That’s a good idea. Seems to work well
Can I use another tree I grew from seed, they are the same varietie. Or do I need to use another type of avocado
It’s best to use scions from trees that you know produce good avocados
Great video. Thankyou. What type of grafting tape do you use? It looks like it sticks on its self. The tape I bought from Bunnings is much harder and you have to the it on. Would love to buy the stuff you have.
Also what's a good time to graft? I've tried grafting on my ago plants before But it didn't take. And they were young. I think I've got better info now from you.
Thanks. It’s called parafilm grafting tape. Best time is early spring
Great stuff bro!
Thank you my brother
Wonderful, Brasil
Obrigado!
Am definitely learning something from here ❤❤
thanks,,i enjoy it.i know now how to graft👍😊
fabulous! I have grown 4 trees from seeds, and wish Iʻd seen this before my failed grafting attempts. Hoping to create a successful graft!
Thanks! Good luck with the grafting
Good work bruh keep the videos coming
Can you graft in summer
Yes, with some protection
Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺🤠 👍 good job I want to graft onto my seed grown big trees that are not bearing fruit so that they are not a total waste of time, what are your thoughts can it be done on big trees?
Thanks. Yes certainly you can graft onto big trees. I’ll do a video about it soon
Can I do this same grafting with my avocado tree that’s about a foot and a half tall? But it’s just one long stem, do I cut that one in half and then I can continue to do the same grafting?
Great questions? I answer these questions plus more in my grafting videos. Check them out in the Playlist section of my channel!