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AT LAST ! ! ! Finally somebody who gives me an idea of the time between seed and harvest. Thank you so much. This is the most informative avocado video I've seen on TH-cam.
Great vid. You are one of the few creators who shows what happens over time. Usually the video would be just the cut then an explanation of what should happen. This is a great vid.
@@TheMillennialGardener I appreciate your video. I have been curious about the Lila. Best vidio on showing how to keep the tree small. I wish someone would develop a true dwarf Avaçado that didn't grow over 5 or 6 ft tall. Thank you for your great video 👍🙏
@@kimhicks4781 He just did. lol. Seriously, pruning, in our lifetime, is undoubtedly the only real way to keep it as short as you want. However, you're correct that people and experts are ALWAYS experimenting to find THAT TREE that you mentioned. Whoever figures it out could make a lot of money. Farmers and homeowners alike are looking for that perfect short tree that has all the perfect characteristics.
I transplanted my Lila Avocado tree from container to ground one week ago. Now thanks to you I will go out and prune it with lots more confidence. Thank you very much.
Thank you so much. So helpful. I've watched other videos on pruning avocados but none have given me courage to do it. Yours is so explanatory. Now I'll give it a go. I only want to keep ours small as well. Thanks again. Greetings from Australia.
Born in San Diego my grandfather had 2-beautiful avocado trees and they quit fruiting. He decided to take a pipe up the middle of the trees with a simple sprinkler head attached to the top and that did the trick and from then on the trees produced more fruit than he ever expected.
So pleased I found this video. I want to grow avocados but I don’t want a giant tree shading off the entire garden and dumping tonnes of leaves. Great advice.
Extremely well explained. Always impressed with your logic and methodic definitions in your videos. Super jealous of your ability to speak so clearly without a single "uh" or "um". Superior information sir. Thank you for your efforts ☮️
Alan Robley I edit out the uh’ sand um’s. Believe me, sometimes I have to repeat the sentence 2-3 times because I get tongue-tied. Some days are better than others. I’m glad you find the videos helpful. I appreciate that a lot.
I'm in Washington State In zone 8A I've got several potted avocado trees that I bring in in the winter but I've never considered making a permanent spot outside. Your information obviously shows that it can be done. Super excited to try thank you sir!
@@O_U_No_It_2 bear in mind I'm in a very warm Zone 8a, so while our temps can get cold at night, when the sun rises, we usually shoot into the 50's and 60's quickly. If you rebound quickly in the AM, you may be okay. I have a video on how I protect them here: th-cam.com/video/zYehs-1f7a8/w-d-xo.html
Live in 9a, Bought a Lila avocado tree this year after I saw your first video, planted in a large container and my plan is that once we move to plan it in the ground. Learning a lot from you keep up the great work
Where did you buy your Lila from. I am in Southern California and haven't seen growers that stocks them. Makes me wonder why. I haven't see a profile on the Lila so don't know how heavy a producer it is or if it produces every year and has a lot of fruit or not. Good luck with your tree
@@kimhicks4781 - I'm in North California and looking at Lila info it appears to be an East Coast tree along with the Joey which is a B. Both are are cold hardy but i think they aren't allowed to be shipped to California due to concerns about various bugs and diseases that might come with them. But i'd sure like to get a Joey.
Amazing teaching! It is the first time that I understand how to prune a fruit tree not to grow that tall. I looked at other videos before and could not fully grasp it. Thanks you!
I am happy to see your video on trimming a tree, i always afraid to cut the top of a tree because I am afraid that the tree is destroyed you gave me the courage to cut the top of my fig and pomegranate tree thank you
I am a new subscriber and just finished watching a few of your videos. You managed to give me so much information without losing me. Everything was very well explained and I was excited to see that you can grow a type of avocado in North Carolina. What is the taste and texture like? I was born and raised in Southern California. I have two avocado trees. One was huge until it got pruned this year. I stopped counting the avocados picked at 726. The other tree, I keep low and am surprised I haven't killed it by the way I was trimming to try and Preserve the ocean view. I even bungee down some of the branches. Interesting that the tree I keep low always has large Hass avocados. The taller tree that goes wild has much smaller fruit, larger seed and thinner skin. They are both hass grafted with fuerte. Both are buttery and creamy tasting but the tall tree with the smaller avocados, taste just a little better. I thought about moving from Southern California but I don't think I could survive without my avocado trees. It's no joke!
I'm in Anaheim. Where about are you in the OC? Do you know how old your two trees are - when they were planted? The tall tree, how many feet tall do you think it is? So, now you have 1 Fuerte and 1 Hass?
@@ocnealocneal6549 I am in the Southbay , about a 15 minute drive from where the cliff just crumbled. I have two Haas trees. I believe they’re grafted with Fuerte so they’ll produce every year. The only reason one of my trees is short is because I try to keep my view open. Both of my trees are on each corner of the backyard and they’re both covering the ocean view but, that’s how much I love avocados. I planted them about 25 years ago and I do try to trim the tall one out of courtesy for my neighbors so I don’t block their view but it is still about 30 to 35 feet tall. I made a big mistake this year and trimmed it myself when it was loaded with avocados. the avocados are still there but I think it’s stunted their growth because they’re the same size as they were a few months ago. There are hundreds, but I may end up with a giant seed and little fruit. The other tree has large avocados but they take a long time to ripen and in the meantime, the squirrels enjoy them immensely. I was recently reading that the price of avocados are going to continue to come down, because so many people invested in avocado groves, and now that they are maturing in producing, there’s a lot of competition .
@@ocnealocneal6549 I just Skimmed some other articles, and it seems the information I gave you is not quite correct. Right now there is an over abundance of avocados and the price is expected to stay low through the next year.
Great video, I would however add that moon cycles are important when pruning your plants. Never prune near or during full moons as the salvia of the plant is all in its branches. Near or during new moons the salvia is found in the roots making it ideal for pruning. This is something many don't consider when tending to there plants. Knowledge of moon cycles is imperative for tending to all of your plants needs.
I have an avocado tree that fell down during a hurricane last year. I cut it down about 5 feet to where it had cracked. It’s been about 6 months and is already regrown from the middle of the trunk. It’s about the size of your tree. It’s amazing. I need to prune it so it won’t grow into the house.
I had no idea avocado trees were this vigorous before I grew my own. After I pruned the tree in this video, I had to cut it back again 2 months later! They're very forgiving. If you make a mistake, they'll recover quickly. Thanks for watching!
Absolutely wonderful explanation to pruning and it's advantages. I am growing one indoors, it's only about a foot tall, but, I am enjoying it. You are appreciated for taking your time to share this valuable information for all to learn.
@@francisverdadero3417 not as of yet, got down over it and replaced the empty space with a lemon and a coffee plant, lol. But, I will attempt it a second time. Have not seen avocados at the supermarket, weird. thanks for asking and may you enjoy the beautiful day.
WONDERFUL video. Just bought a Haas, living in zone 10a in California. I would like to keep my tree smaller & possibly buy another. I heard that having at least 2 will maximize my yield... Especially if I wanna keep the tree smaller.
Very timely video, i am thinking of ways on how i can grow my avocado in ways that i will not have a difficult time to harvest the fruits. Your suggestions on pruning really cleared the matter for me, sir. Thanks.
One of the best videos on avocado growing I've seen. You might also want to check out the Rincon avocado variety which has a naturally low-growing, spreading habit and is cold tolerant down to 29 degree F.
Thank you! This one avocado is enough for me because it’s a bit of work protecting it, but if I ever move further south one day, I would want to add a second for sure. They’re beautiful trees.
If I were in Zone 10, I'd have an avocado forest 😆 I prefer my fruits where I can harvest them better than the birds and squirrels, so I always try and keep my trees very low for that reason. Thanks for watching!
I LOVED THE INFORMATION YOU GAVE ..ITS JUST WHAT I NEEDED...AVOCADO SEEDS ARE ALWAYS GROWING IN MY YARD....I HAVE 4 AND THEIR BEAUTIFUL..I NEED IT SMALL
Like others, i liked showing before, during and after. I'm in North California, got a Lamb, Gem, Wurz, Stewart, Hass, Zutano and a Sharwil, but half of those are "fingers crossed" in this sometimes 9A/B zone. I'l love to get a Lila and a Joey. Your Lila looks great. Keep up the good work.
Really helpful video. I inherited an avocado of unknown origin that is 6’ tall and never been pruned, and very gangly. I will cut it down to inspire new lower fruiting branches without fear based on your advice.
thanks for the great Lila avocado videos and want to continue to see how Lila fares in the future in zone 8a being a tree only for 8b+ and being pruned heavily, I learned my lesson avocados do not produce when heavily pruned, it takes many years to recover, all they will want to do is grow new leaves, not flower because the leaves need to be heavy to produce fruit, with a heavy canopy, i heard that avocados do not like to be pruned and won't flower or fruit because they may take 2 years or more after pruning to flower again. the dilemma with avocados is contrary to other deciduous trees if you prune you don't get fruit! I don't prune my avocados anymore I learned it interferes with good fruit production you will have to wait even longer for the free to recover and produce more fruit, I have a 20 yr mexicola Grande that I pruned the heck out of like yours, after it got to 20 ft, at 5 yrs old, and it never did produce much after that, however this year it has about 40 avocados this year and is a forced dwarf that is trying to regrow this time I'm going to let it grow naturally, its now 8 ft tall, and growing heavily upward, I also have in zone 9a 20 yr old wurtz that's 12-14 ft tall, with heavy canopy, 30-50 avocados, and newly planted gwen, reed, lamb hass, Jim bacon, bacon, holiday, all growing in the ground in zone 9a ( our lowest temp this winter of 2020/2021 was 29 degrees for 1-2 hours in the morning and I didn't even have to cover the new avocado planting i found the Lila videos informative about experimental growth of avocado in a warmest microclimate in a marginal/ and colder than normal growing zone Liked your Lila avocado so much i bought one also from. The same place, I hope mine in the mail now is the same size I'm planning to grow it in the ground I'm in inland empire, los angeles i originally saw snow in your yard and said avocados growing in the snow?
Hi millennial gardener, I'm a gen x gardener And love avocado trees so much, its my favorite fruit tree, but hate having to hand water Them and paying 90+ dollars per month, for water in the summer here to keep them alive, I have a House that looks like a fruit tree farm no grass just fruit trees, 100+ fruit trees all crowded in on 1/5 acre. California does not get rain in summer, avocado trees are thirsty trees! I have 10+ Avocado trees growing in Ground in my yard, they are mostly mexican, Mexican Guatemalan hybrids, and Guatemalan, No west Indies, types, holiday, wertz lamb hass, reed, mexicola grande, bacon, zutano, lila, poncho, gwen, jim bacon. I liked your Lila videos so much that I bought a grafted Lila from planto gram 130$ including shipping?Very expensive because I can buy 5 gallon avocado many different varieties For 35$ here at home depot, but we don't have the Texas cold hardy avocados at home depot here. I tried to find it elsewhere but seems this company has a Sort of monopoly on mail order Lila avocados as I could not find it anywhere else online and was disappointed because it arrived only 3 ft tall with only 1 inch trunk,Maybe 2/3 the size of your tree when it arrived, planted my Lila avocado here in inland los Angeles in may 2021 in the ground and it has survived one day at 108 degrees and 20+ days over 100 degrees and has started to grow new leaves about a month after i planted it In june, i have it on a mound 4 ft wide by 1.5 feet tall, on a drip irrigation With only single water drops near the trunk on the rootball, it gets 1 hour of water drops as do all my other trees but I have to hand water because its not enough at over 85 degrees which we are experiencing the hottest June ever in California, im in zone 9a i really think im in zone 9b , though because it very rarely goes below 25 in the winter maybe 2 days in the last 20 years? Im In inland Los Angeles.
Excellent video. Thank you. I have a 9 year old avocado in Phoenix zone 10 that I grew from the pit. It struggles in summer lol. I thought I’d lost it this summer. All the leaves burned and fell off. And then! Miracle! As temps cooled, it sprouted lots of new growth. I just pruned it but after watching your video, I’m thinking it needs a bit more. Not sure I’ll ever get fruit. But it’s fun to grow my little tree that came from a pit.
Awesome! Very informative and educated video. We enjoyed every steps how you pruned your tree and why you needed to do certain way. Thank you for taking your time showing us also the result after pruning.
VEry well explained. I know nothing about gardening, but after watching this video I am ready to start my Avocado farm. Seriously, Good job man. Very informative and enjoyable presentation.
I appreciate you documenting the progression all within the same video (as opposed to part 1,2,3, etc). How important is it to .... use a saw for thicker branches? Can I use any kind of serrated blade such as a bread knife? (semi serious question)
Be very careful. If you do not meticulously monitor the weather and protect it, it won't survive. All you have to do is neglect to protect it on one night and it can be killed. It is possible, but you'll have to be religious with your protection methods, and if you ever decide to vacation during the winter, you'll have to be prepared with some way of protecting things.
@@TheMillennialGardener Thank you for the tips. Luckily my mom, who also gardens, lives just a mile from our house so help is nearby if we ever are out of town. We're trying the Fast Growing Trees cold hardy avocado that claims to survive down to 20, though I plan to protect it long before. My husband is a Miami Cuban who grew up with an avocado tree in his yard and he's desperate for fresh avocados! He wants us to try mamey, but I don't know that we can get it to work out without a whole lot of work.
It is a practical & very informative video! Mine is Hass Avocado from the U.S. market imported from Mexico. It's a year old now & it grows beautifully. I've got a remarkable idea from you. Thanks!!
Glad it was helpful! I will have another big pruning update within in the next 2 weeks, so be sure to stay tuned on the channel. The tree has grown much larger, so it should help you as your tree grows.
It is September 6 here in central FL and I am going to prune my avocado the same way you did. My avocado has been in the ground for a year and is about 6 ft. tall and it is real bushy so first I will have to take out some in the middle and then I plan to trim the big main branches so it will fruit lower. I fertilize all my fruit trees every month but I use less fertilizer every time because I think it is better for the 40 trees of different kinds in my back yard on 1 1/2 acre. Wish me luck.
It is about 1 month behind schedule due to our awful winter. It is just starting to flower now and I hand pollinated for the first time this weekend. I’ll follow up when things get a little more interesting.
@@TheMillennialGardener thanks for your quick reply. I will def be watching. Please tell us how you pollinize your tree, I'm new here but ready to go. Take care!
Very informative. Thank you. I'm about to plant a Hass avocado tree. I'm 9b. I have some physical issues and don't want my tree to be too big. This explained pruning very well. Not only how to prune but why. Thank you.
Thank you so very much for such a caring & compassionate way to do it. i already subscribed & hope to watch more of your fantastic & educational videos . we need more sensitive & caring people like you . kind regards Ben from down under 🙂 Keep up the good work mate.
Thanks for this very valuable info on pruning avocados. Our trees grow so high i have to get the young kids to climb or just wait till the fruit drops.very much appreciated
It was an extremely cold, damp winter with temps much below average and very little sunshine compared to most winters. This is how I protect them: th-cam.com/video/62ZM615RBdc/w-d-xo.html
I have a 20+ yr old Gwen avocado that was never pruned. I recently did major pruning per your good advice. However the tree has a 2-3” dia. branch that is bowed over 90 deg and is about 4+ ft of bare branch with a large clump of leaves at the end. I will likely cut it off to make it the same height as the other branches but the problem is that if I cut it to size it would leave the entire western quadrant including the whole interior exposed to the strong afternoon sun here in SCal. Should I cut it anyway? I also recently whitewashed all the larger branches greater than about an inch in diameter.
I personally prune it in the late summer. Generally, fruit ripens between July - September with avocados. I would prune it after harvest, which for most people is September. That allows you to prune it after all the fruit is gone, but it still allows 2 months before first frost to allow for new green growth so there is new wood to flower for the next season.
You definitely can. The key is to start pruning early in the tree's life to establish a strong form that's low to the ground. Then, you simply cut it back each season as necessary.
Waoh... I wish i had come across this channel long time ago. Thank you so much for the insight. I never knew anything about pruning plants. My avocado is over 7m tall and just started fruiting for the first time and i am worried i can't harvest most of it due to the height. Any remedy?
A very enlightening video on pruning. Bravo!!! Bravo!!!! Very good tips. Hope it's not too late to prune as my avocado tree has grown to a height of about 10 feet. May I know what fertiliser to use after pruning in order to encourage more vigorous and healthy growth of new branches? Tq.
I started one from seed 4 years ago. It's growing in a container. I was wondering when is the best time to repot it. I live in Dallas TX. I bring it inside every winter. Thank you for great video.
You can re-pot it at any time as long as the root mass is sufficient to form a strong enough root ball to hold the soil together. You don’t want it to be disturbed, but you also don’t want to wait for it to become rootbound. If your tree is at that stage, up-pot it. Thanks for watching.
@The Millennial Gardener **PLEASE READ AND RESPOND if at all possible** Love the clarity of your explanations as to how & why you did the pruning as you did. Yes, it was very painful to watch the severe pruning but it is totally understood why it had to be done. I live in lower 8b (Coastal Alabama) so I face the same issues as you with having to winterize for maximum protection. You mentioned putting on strands of lights before you jacketed your tree. Is this to add additional heat inside the jacket? I am new to growing avocado's (this is my first year starting with small saplings) that will be planted in the ground as soon as I feel they have sufficient root growth for thriving. Until then, they will spend their winter in my heated greenhouse. What material did you use for the jacketing? I will need to know this when I put my trees in the ground. You need to protect the pruned wood from water pooling on those areas with a superior product "3-IN-1 Plant Guard" (ALL NATURAL & ORGANIC) from #IVOrganics. #CharlesJMalki is a Botanist & plant expert that developed this product for maximum protection from sunburn, rodent & insects, and for cloning & transplanting. It can be used on fruit/nut trees, Roses, Ornamental Trees & shrubs. (www.ivorganic.com). He also has very informative TH-cam videos on his channel. I am not trying to discredit any procedure/process you use nor take away from your viewer subscriptions by mentioning this product and TH-cam channel. Ultimate success, survival, thriving, and production of your valued plants/trees need ultimate protection to reach these goals. Other very successful TH-cam Gardener's are now using his products with great success. #CharlesJMalki is out to HELP OTHERS with successful organic gardening as well as the benefits they give THE ENVIRONMENT & PLANET! He is a kind soul NOT out for fame & prosperity but to help others! A rare breed in this day & time! Also, the budding wood you pruned from your Avocado tree can be sold as Avocado Scion Wood for grafting/cloning and bring added profits to you. (Just as you sell your Fig Cuttings). Check out the prices they are going for on eBay, Amazon, and other nurseries that sell them online. The rest of your plant cuttings can be used for mulching. People that grow Avocado trees from seeds do not realize how long it will take for their trees to actually produce fruit (5-10 years). (PLEASE NOTE that Avocado trees bought from Nurseries are already grafted with a true variety so they will fruit much earlier than those grown by seed). Also, the fruit of an Avocado tree grown by seed may not be superior nor of the same quality/variety of the seed they planted so they must be grafted with a true variety to ensure much earlier fruit setting and quality. These trees grown from seed will become the rootstock to the variety of the grafted Avocado Scion Wood. Also, people must know that while Avocados are somewhat self-fertile (having both male & female flowers), to get maximum production they must have both a Type A & Type B Avocado tree to successfully pollinate. EXAMPLE: A Type A Avocado's flower opens (say on day one) in the morning. Day two it will open in the afternoon. A Type B Avocado flower (on day one) will open in the afternoon & on day two will open in the morning. The Type A flower opening in the morning will need pollinating from the Type B flower that opens in the afternoon and the Type B flower that opens in the afternoon will need pollinating from the Type A flower that opens in the morning. (I think I got that right This is because the Avocado has both male & female flowers that open up in opposite times of each other and will be pollinated by either wind, bees, wasps, butterflies & other bugs that venture into both flowers. The only reason I have brought this up is if you are going to spend the time & energy to grow Avocado's from seed and wait several YEARS to have fruit, you want to have a good quality, superior taste with a greater producing Avocado without being highly disappointed with all the time you spent growing your Avocado tree. Most people do not know this information so I thought I would explain it to HELP OTHERS have more success in their Avocado's grown from seed. Why wait 5-10 years to have small quantities of inferior fruit when you can spend a little more time & effort and have SUPERIOR fruit and production in 2-3 years! LOVE your channel and all I have learned about figs and other fruiting trees! They have made me quite successful in propagating, proper fertilizing & pruning for growing healthy, thriving, producing trees!
Deep South Bama GRITS thanks for watching my videos. I appreciate it. To answer some of your questions: 1. You will need to jacket your plant with a frost jacket. However, the jacket is useless on its own. Jackets work for humans because we are warm-blooded - we generate heat and jackets hold it in. Plants do not generate heat, so you need to have a heat source for the jacket to hold in. That is what the lights are for. You must use incandescent lights because they generate heat. Then, the jacket holds it in. I have a very detailed video on winterizing fruit trees here: th-cam.com/video/zYehs-1f7a8/w-d-xo.html 2. You don’t need a tree guard paint for pruning. Plants have evolved to seal wounds. If it is a deep gash in the trunk, I would use a tree guard paint, but for tip pruning, it is unnecessary. The tree will heal itself over in a few days. 3. You do not need a Type A and B avocado to fruit in the humid southeast. Type A’s are generally self-fertile with hand pollination. If you lived in California, lone trees have self-fertility issues and you should have both types there, but in the south, our climate with its big temperature swings actually causes huge flower overlap. I have a video on hand pollination here: th-cam.com/video/8jdMMjZjI6g/w-d-xo.html Using this technique, my lone tree set literally hundreds of fruits.
@@TheMillennialGardener Thank you kindly for responding with answers to my questions. When I mentioned needing a Type A & Type B Avocado for pollination, I was referring to the ones people grow from seed since you don't know what you have. Avocado trees such as your Lila is a grafted tree so therefore (in our climate) would/could self pollinate or by hand pollination. I recently got 5 seedlings grown from seed and have no clue what they are. After doing extensive research on Avocado trees I found I would need the Type A & B in order for them to pollinate OR take a chance that one of them was a Type A & Type B. I have decided to purchase some Avocado Scion Wood cuttings of both Type A & B that would be best suitable for my area as far as climate once they are branched out and mature enough to be grafted. I have a greenhouse strictly designated for my tropical fruit trees (Papaya, Cherimoya, Lychee, Jackfruit & Avocado and my dragon fruit, ginger, turmeric & horseradish that can be opened up in the spring/summer/fall and can be covered with shade cloth for protection from our extensive sun, when needed. I heat it in the winter, as needed if the temps fall below 40 degrees in the greenhouse. My citrus trees (Meyer Lemon, Satsuma & Kumquat) are planted in the ground which would greatly benefit from the jacketing method I watched in your video. SUPERB INSTRUCTIONS that I will put into place as we have already been having temps (this week) in the low 50's & upper 40's. We could be in store for another year of an unusually cold winter. My area is still recovering from the direct hit of Hurricane Sally on 9-16-20 and I saw your video where you went thru a hurricane also this year. I hope all of your plants recovered that were damaged. I am also into FIGS and have successfully propagated a Yellow Long Neck fig tree from a cutting as well as several from my Brown Turkey fig tree. I will be branching out to other varieties this next year whenever I can get cuttings. Propagation is so rewarding to me and I truly appreciate the video's from your channel that has helped me be successful. Again, THANK YOU for all you do to help us be HAPPY GARDENERS!!
@@DeepSouthBamaGRITS even with your seedlings, it will still make male and female flowers. As long as you're in an appropriate climate, self-fertility should still be possible with hand pollination. However, some varieties truly are better than others at this. I chose Lila for many reasons, and this was one of them. That being said, it should still be possible for you, but it will take 7-10 years to find out. Growing from seed is a very interesting scientific experiment, but it takes a long time. Good luck with hurricane restoration. We got smacked by Isaias in August as well, but luckily suffered little damage. I can't say the same thing for my favorite beach, though. It got really beaten up.
Thanks for the advise - my yard area is very small but I just pruned my seed grown 8 foot high -5 year old tree - It wasn't grafted but am hoping for the best and fruit some day - zone 10b and a close by neighbor gave me the avocado from her tree and it was great - will I ever get fruit? San Diego coastal area
Hi Master. I have got my little avocado about 2 feet tall by the window for about 2 years now. For the last 6 months it stopped growing from the top and got brown edge leaves but recently it got two new shoots from the bottle near the seed itself. May I know if they should be kept and cruelly cut the main stem? Thanks in advance!
Dale gets only the best! 😀 Col de Dame's are becoming pretty common. It's pretty easy to find Col de Dame cuttings and trees on Figbid these days and they can be had for reasonable prices.
@@TheMillennialGardener I'm waiting for my Coll de Dame Noir to set some figs! Should be receiving my very first successful CDD Rimada rooted cutting soon, since I ruined my own rooting.
I'm in the same situation, have a nearly 3 year old seed planted avocado and need to find out if I can get it to survive outside... christmas lights? That's so interesting!
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AT LAST ! ! ! Finally somebody who gives me an idea of the time between seed and harvest. Thank you so much. This is the most informative avocado video I've seen on TH-cam.
Great vid. You are one of the few creators who shows what happens over time. Usually the video would be just the cut then an explanation of what should happen. This is a great vid.
Thank you. A lot of my videos are staged over months. I have 4 or 5 long-term projects in the works right now.
@@TheMillennialGardener I appreciate your video. I have been curious about the Lila. Best vidio on showing how to keep the tree small. I wish someone would develop a true dwarf Avaçado that didn't grow over 5 or 6 ft tall. Thank you for your great video 👍🙏
@@kimhicks4781 He just did. lol. Seriously, pruning, in our lifetime, is undoubtedly the only real way to keep it as short as you want. However, you're correct that people and experts are ALWAYS experimenting to find THAT TREE that you mentioned. Whoever figures it out could make a lot of money. Farmers and homeowners alike are looking for that perfect short tree that has all the perfect characteristics.
I transplanted my Lila Avocado tree from container to ground one week ago. Now thanks to you I will go out and prune it with lots more confidence. Thank you very much.
this a good tricks for Pruning avocado trees and so helpful, always sharing a nice information thanks
Thank you for watching!
Thank you so much. So helpful. I've watched other videos on pruning avocados but none have given me courage to do it. Yours is so explanatory. Now I'll give it a go. I only want to keep ours small as well. Thanks again. Greetings from Australia.
Thank you. I couldn’t find one myself for pruning, so I decided to make one myself 😂 Glad it was helpful!
Born in San Diego my grandfather had 2-beautiful avocado trees and they quit fruiting. He decided to take a pipe up the middle of the trees with a simple sprinkler head attached to the top and that did the trick and from then on the trees produced more fruit than he ever expected.
That's a good tip. I just purchased our 1st avocado tree. We live in Vista, CA
Water is the key
Yes overhead sprinkler watering is used by a lot of producers in Australia and NZ
Incredibly helpful seeing the timeline and recovery after the big cuts! Thank you for such an informative video
So pleased I found this video. I want to grow avocados but I don’t want a giant tree shading off the entire garden and dumping tonnes of leaves. Great advice.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching.
Excellent detailed explanation about how to properly prune avocados trees! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and video!
Extremely well explained.
Always impressed with your logic and methodic definitions in your videos.
Super jealous of your ability to speak so clearly without a single "uh" or "um".
Superior information sir.
Thank you for your efforts ☮️
Alan Robley I edit out the uh’ sand um’s. Believe me, sometimes I have to repeat the sentence 2-3 times because I get tongue-tied. Some days are better than others. I’m glad you find the videos helpful. I appreciate that a lot.
I'm in Washington State
In zone 8A
I've got several potted avocado trees that I bring in in the winter but I've never considered making a permanent spot outside.
Your information obviously shows that it can be done.
Super excited to try thank you sir!
@@O_U_No_It_2 bear in mind I'm in a very warm Zone 8a, so while our temps can get cold at night, when the sun rises, we usually shoot into the 50's and 60's quickly. If you rebound quickly in the AM, you may be okay. I have a video on how I protect them here: th-cam.com/video/zYehs-1f7a8/w-d-xo.html
Live in 9a, Bought a Lila avocado tree this year after I saw your first video, planted in a large container and my plan is that once we move to plan it in the ground. Learning a lot from you keep up the great work
Congrats! You're going to love the tree. Thanks for watching!
Where did you buy your Lila from. I am in Southern California and haven't seen growers that stocks them. Makes me wonder why. I haven't see a profile on the Lila so don't know how heavy a producer it is or if it produces every year and has a lot of fruit or not. Good luck with your tree
@@kimhicks4781 - I'm in North California and looking at Lila info it appears to be an East Coast tree along with the Joey which is a B. Both are are cold hardy but i think they aren't allowed to be shipped to California due to concerns about various bugs and diseases that might come with them. But i'd sure like to get a Joey.
Thank you for this clear and simple explanation of pruning, thank you for before and after pictures, you are simply the best for me.
Thanks Millennial Gardener! Time to clean my pruning tools and try my hand at pruning my avocado tree.
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!
The knowledge you are imparting here is invaluable, it's a great reference for home gardeners. Thank you from California. Hello to Dale.
Thank you for this video! So many videos that are not helpful or say to not trim them until they are years old. I will use these tips! Thank you!
Awesome video! Loved getting to see the recovery post pruning.
Amazing teaching! It is the first time that I understand how to prune a fruit tree not to grow that tall. I looked at other videos before and could not fully grasp it. Thanks you!
I try my best to be clear and explain why I'm doing what I'm doing. I'm glad it was helpful. Thanks for watching!
I am happy to see your video on trimming a tree, i always afraid to cut the top of a tree because I am afraid that the tree is destroyed you gave me the courage to cut the top of my fig and pomegranate tree thank you
I am a new subscriber and just finished watching a few of your videos. You managed to give me so much information without losing me. Everything was very well explained and I was excited to see that you can grow a type of avocado in North Carolina. What is the taste and texture like? I was born and raised in Southern California. I have two avocado trees. One was huge until it got pruned this year. I stopped counting the avocados picked at 726. The other tree, I keep low and am surprised I haven't killed it by the way I was trimming to try and Preserve the ocean view. I even bungee down some of the branches. Interesting that the tree I keep low always has large Hass avocados. The taller tree that goes wild has much smaller fruit, larger seed and thinner skin. They are both hass grafted with fuerte. Both are buttery and creamy tasting but the tall tree with the smaller avocados, taste just a little better.
I thought about moving from Southern California but I don't think I could survive without my avocado trees. It's no joke!
I'm in Anaheim. Where about are you in the OC? Do you know how old your two trees are - when they were planted? The tall tree, how many feet tall do you think it is? So, now you have 1 Fuerte and 1 Hass?
@@ocnealocneal6549 I am in the Southbay , about a 15 minute drive from where the cliff just crumbled. I have two Haas trees. I believe they’re grafted with Fuerte so they’ll produce every year. The only reason one of my trees is short is because I try to keep my view open. Both of my trees are on each corner of the backyard and they’re both covering the ocean view but, that’s how much I love avocados. I planted them about 25 years ago and I do try to trim the tall one out of courtesy for my neighbors so I don’t block their view but it is still about 30 to 35 feet tall. I made a big mistake this year and trimmed it myself when it was loaded with avocados. the avocados are still there but I think it’s stunted their growth because they’re the same size as they were a few months ago. There are hundreds, but I may end up with a giant seed and little fruit. The other tree has large avocados but they take a long time to ripen and in the meantime, the squirrels enjoy them immensely.
I was recently reading that the price of avocados are going to continue to come down, because so many people invested in avocado groves, and now that they are maturing in producing, there’s a lot of competition .
@@ocnealocneal6549 I just Skimmed some other articles, and it seems the information I gave you is not quite correct. Right now there is an over abundance of avocados and the price is expected to stay low through the next year.
thank you nice to listen to somebody that knows his stuff
I appreciate that! Thank you for watching!
Great video, I would however add that moon cycles are important when pruning your plants. Never prune near or during full moons as the salvia of the plant is all in its branches. Near or during new moons the salvia is found in the roots making it ideal for pruning. This is something many don't consider when tending to there plants. Knowledge of moon cycles is imperative for tending to all of your plants needs.
This is the most helpful video I have ever watched. Thank you
I have an avocado tree that fell down during a hurricane last year. I cut it down about 5 feet to where it had cracked. It’s been about 6 months and is already regrown from the middle of the trunk. It’s about the size of your tree. It’s amazing. I need to prune it so it won’t grow into the house.
I had no idea avocado trees were this vigorous before I grew my own. After I pruned the tree in this video, I had to cut it back again 2 months later! They're very forgiving. If you make a mistake, they'll recover quickly. Thanks for watching!
Absolutely wonderful explanation to pruning and it's advantages. I am growing one indoors, it's only about a foot tall, but, I am enjoying it. You are appreciated for taking your time to share this valuable information for all to learn.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching!
Hello Ma'am. How big is your avocado now? ☺️
@@francisverdadero3417 the tree died.
Did you grow another one?
@@francisverdadero3417 not as of yet, got down over it and replaced the empty space with a lemon and a coffee plant, lol. But, I will attempt it a second time. Have not seen avocados at the supermarket, weird. thanks for asking and may you enjoy the beautiful day.
WONDERFUL video. Just bought a Haas, living in zone 10a in California. I would like to keep my tree smaller & possibly buy another. I heard that having at least 2 will maximize my yield... Especially if I wanna keep the tree smaller.
pengetahuan yang anda berikan sungguh bermanfaat.
Perfect timing, I am planning to prune my avocado dwarf varieties , thanks for sharing your knowledge 👌 ☘🌱🌴🍃🌿🌲
Which dwarf varieties are you growing?
That tidbit about apical dominance was great information! Thanks for sharing :)
Very timely video, i am thinking of ways on how i can grow my avocado in ways that i will not have a difficult time to harvest the fruits. Your suggestions on pruning really cleared the matter for me, sir. Thanks.
One of the best videos on avocado growing I've seen. You might also want to check out the Rincon avocado variety which has a naturally low-growing, spreading habit and is cold tolerant down to 29 degree F.
Thank you! This one avocado is enough for me because it’s a bit of work protecting it, but if I ever move further south one day, I would want to add a second for sure. They’re beautiful trees.
Really helpful explanation! I am in zone 10, but prefer to keep my plant lower as well.
If I were in Zone 10, I'd have an avocado forest 😆 I prefer my fruits where I can harvest them better than the birds and squirrels, so I always try and keep my trees very low for that reason. Thanks for watching!
I LOVED THE INFORMATION YOU GAVE ..ITS JUST WHAT I NEEDED...AVOCADO SEEDS ARE ALWAYS GROWING IN MY YARD....I HAVE 4 AND THEIR BEAUTIFUL..I NEED IT SMALL
I'm glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Like others, i liked showing before, during and after. I'm in North California, got a Lamb, Gem, Wurz, Stewart, Hass, Zutano and a Sharwil, but half of those are "fingers crossed" in this sometimes 9A/B zone. I'l love to get a Lila and a Joey. Your Lila looks great. Keep up the good work.
Really helpful video. I inherited an avocado of unknown origin that is 6’ tall and never been pruned, and very gangly. I will cut it down to inspire new lower fruiting branches without fear based on your advice.
My tree grew back so quickly it is crazy. I have to prune it again shortly. Don't fear pruning your tree. Avocados are vigorous growers.
thanks for the great Lila avocado videos and want to continue to see how Lila fares in the future in zone 8a being a tree only for 8b+ and being pruned heavily, I learned my lesson avocados do not produce when heavily pruned, it takes many years to recover, all they will want to do is grow new leaves, not flower because the leaves need to be heavy to produce fruit, with a heavy canopy, i heard that avocados do not like to be pruned and won't flower or fruit because they may take 2 years or more after pruning to flower again. the dilemma with avocados is contrary to other deciduous trees if you prune you don't get fruit! I don't prune my avocados anymore I learned it interferes with good fruit production you will have to wait even longer for the free to recover and produce more fruit, I have a 20 yr mexicola Grande that I pruned the heck out of like yours, after it got to 20 ft, at 5 yrs old, and it never did produce much after that, however this year it has about 40 avocados this year and is a forced dwarf that is trying to regrow this time I'm going to let it grow naturally, its now 8 ft tall, and growing heavily upward, I also have in zone 9a 20 yr old wurtz that's 12-14 ft tall, with heavy canopy, 30-50 avocados, and newly planted gwen, reed, lamb hass, Jim bacon, bacon, holiday, all growing in the ground in zone 9a ( our lowest temp this winter of 2020/2021 was 29 degrees for 1-2 hours in the morning and I didn't even have to cover the new avocado planting i found the Lila videos informative about experimental growth of avocado in a warmest microclimate in a marginal/ and colder than normal growing zone Liked your Lila avocado so much i bought one also from. The same place, I hope mine in the mail now is the same size I'm planning to grow it in the ground I'm in inland empire, los angeles i originally saw snow in your yard and said avocados growing in the snow?
Hi millennial gardener, I'm a gen x gardener And love avocado trees so much, its my favorite fruit tree, but hate having to hand water Them and paying 90+ dollars per month, for water in the summer here to keep them alive, I have a House that looks like a fruit tree farm no grass just fruit trees, 100+ fruit trees all crowded in on 1/5 acre. California does not get rain in summer, avocado trees are thirsty trees! I have 10+ Avocado trees growing in Ground in my yard, they are mostly mexican, Mexican Guatemalan hybrids, and Guatemalan, No west Indies, types, holiday, wertz lamb hass, reed, mexicola grande, bacon, zutano, lila, poncho, gwen, jim bacon. I liked your Lila videos so much that I bought a grafted Lila from planto gram 130$ including shipping?Very expensive because I can buy 5 gallon avocado many different varieties For 35$ here at home depot, but we don't have the Texas cold hardy avocados at home depot here. I tried to find it elsewhere but seems this company has a Sort of monopoly on mail order Lila avocados as I could not find it anywhere else online and was disappointed because it arrived only 3 ft tall with only 1 inch trunk,Maybe 2/3 the size of your tree when it arrived, planted my Lila avocado here in inland los Angeles in may 2021 in the ground and it has survived one day at 108 degrees and 20+ days over 100 degrees and has started to grow new leaves about a month after i planted it In june, i have it on a mound 4 ft wide by 1.5 feet tall, on a drip irrigation With only single water drops near the trunk on the rootball, it gets 1 hour of water drops as do all my other trees but I have to hand water because its not enough at over 85 degrees which we are experiencing the hottest June ever in California, im in zone 9a i really think im in zone 9b , though because it very rarely goes below 25 in the winter maybe 2 days in the last 20 years? Im In inland Los Angeles.
Excellent video. Thank you. I have a 9 year old avocado in Phoenix zone 10 that I grew from the pit. It struggles in summer lol. I thought I’d lost it this summer. All the leaves burned and fell off. And then! Miracle! As temps cooled, it sprouted lots of new growth. I just pruned it but after watching your video, I’m thinking it needs a bit more. Not sure I’ll ever get fruit. But it’s fun to grow my little tree that came from a pit.
So any updates lol.
This is fantastic and so helpful. Thank you ❤️.
Thank you! I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it.
Awesome! Very informative and educated video. We enjoyed every steps how you pruned your tree and why you needed to do certain way. Thank you for taking your time showing us also the result after pruning.
Thank you! I'm glad you found the video helpful. Thank you for watching!
VEry well explained. I know nothing about gardening, but after watching this video I am ready to start my Avocado farm.
Seriously, Good job man. Very informative and enjoyable presentation.
Glad it was helpful! I'm happy to hear that. Thank you for watching.
I appreciate you documenting the progression all within the same video (as opposed to part 1,2,3, etc). How important is it to .... use a saw for thicker branches? Can I use any kind of serrated blade such as a bread knife? (semi serious question)
Best video I've seen on pruning. Thanks.
Thank you! Glad it was helpful!
Excellent video. Very educational as you showed the results after pruning. I am now encouraged to prune my avocado tree without fear👍
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching and best of luck! Just remember, if you make a mistake, they recover very quickly.
Thank you! i plan to plant an avocado in ground in 8a next week. This is exactly the information I was looking for.
Be very careful. If you do not meticulously monitor the weather and protect it, it won't survive. All you have to do is neglect to protect it on one night and it can be killed. It is possible, but you'll have to be religious with your protection methods, and if you ever decide to vacation during the winter, you'll have to be prepared with some way of protecting things.
@@TheMillennialGardener Thank you for the tips. Luckily my mom, who also gardens, lives just a mile from our house so help is nearby if we ever are out of town. We're trying the Fast Growing Trees cold hardy avocado that claims to survive down to 20, though I plan to protect it long before. My husband is a Miami Cuban who grew up with an avocado tree in his yard and he's desperate for fresh avocados! He wants us to try mamey, but I don't know that we can get it to work out without a whole lot of work.
Thanks for a very valuable information on pruning AVOCADO !!!
You're welcome! Thank you for watching!
Your grass looks pretty green too!😀
It is a practical & very informative video! Mine is Hass Avocado from the U.S. market imported from Mexico. It's a year old now & it grows beautifully. I've got a remarkable idea from you. Thanks!!
Glad it was helpful! I will have another big pruning update within in the next 2 weeks, so be sure to stay tuned on the channel. The tree has grown much larger, so it should help you as your tree grows.
I just brought a Lila Avocado. I will follow your concept makes much sense. Thank you for sharing. New sub today.
It is September 6 here in central FL and I am going to prune my avocado the same way you did. My avocado has been in the ground for a year and is about 6 ft. tall and it is real bushy so first I will have to take out some in the middle and then I plan to trim the big main branches so it will fruit lower. I fertilize all my fruit trees every month but I use less fertilizer every time because I think it is better for the 40 trees of different kinds in my back yard on 1 1/2 acre. Wish me luck.
Best of luck! I just heavily pruned my tree last week in the same way, and I'll have a video up on it shortly. Hope yours went well.
Great vdo, thank you very much from Thailand
watching from Fiji 7.17 pm thanks vinaka
Thank you for watching!
Great video. I appreciate your following up and showing new growth after pruning 👍
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Have you done a Spring follow up video? Can't wait to see your next 🥑 tree video!!!
It is about 1 month behind schedule due to our awful winter. It is just starting to flower now and I hand pollinated for the first time this weekend. I’ll follow up when things get a little more interesting.
@@TheMillennialGardener thanks for your quick reply. I will def be watching. Please tell us how you pollinize your tree, I'm new here but ready to go. Take care!
Very well explained and illustrated, avocado tree is very resilient.
It has recovered nicely. Hopefully, we have another mild winter! Thanks for watching.
Very informative. Thank you. I'm about to plant a Hass avocado tree. I'm 9b. I have some physical issues and don't want my tree to be too big. This explained pruning very well. Not only how to prune but why. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Nice to see your video about pruning avocado tree.....Iam from Bali, Indonesia🥑🥑🥑
Thanks for watching from so far away!
Thank you so very much for such a caring & compassionate way to do it. i already subscribed & hope to watch more of your fantastic & educational videos . we need more sensitive & caring people like you . kind regards Ben from down under 🙂
Keep up the good work mate.
Very very helpful so happy I found your channel
great video, thank you. especially the results of your pruning.
Thank you! I appreciate you watching.
Excellent video you thoroughly understand the pruning process
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
beautiful tree
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!
wonderful video, very informative and easy to follow instructions, thank you
Excellent work very best, I'm trying to grow an avocado forest at my farm in India, thank you so much for a knowledgeable video, thanks a lot 🤝🤗
It looks beautiful now, well done.Thank you for the great information 🇦🇺
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it.
Nice technically managed low branching pruning method....I like it sir...
Thank you! I appreciate it. It's time to give it another haircut.
Thanks for this very valuable info on pruning avocados. Our trees grow so high i have to get the young kids to climb or just wait till the fruit drops.very much appreciated
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching.
So clearly explained, thank you.
Excellent clear presentation! Thank you so much!
Thank you for the tips . Didi you have cold winter ? If you have what you do for protect the tree?
It was an extremely cold, damp winter with temps much below average and very little sunshine compared to most winters. This is how I protect them: th-cam.com/video/62ZM615RBdc/w-d-xo.html
I have a 20+ yr old Gwen avocado that was never pruned. I recently did major pruning per your good advice. However the tree has a 2-3” dia. branch that is bowed over 90 deg and is about 4+ ft of bare branch with a large clump of leaves at the end. I will likely cut it off to make it the same height as the other branches but the problem is that if I cut it to size it would leave the entire western quadrant including the whole interior exposed to the strong afternoon sun here in SCal. Should I cut it anyway? I also recently whitewashed all the larger branches greater than about an inch in diameter.
Thank you for sharing. What time to prune it better? How and when do you protect it in the winter? When will it be blooming?
I personally prune it in the late summer. Generally, fruit ripens between July - September with avocados. I would prune it after harvest, which for most people is September. That allows you to prune it after all the fruit is gone, but it still allows 2 months before first frost to allow for new green growth so there is new wood to flower for the next season.
Finally,,u nailed it sir now I know wat to do with my avo tree, I was so scared that I won't b able to control its height 😅
You definitely can. The key is to start pruning early in the tree's life to establish a strong form that's low to the ground. Then, you simply cut it back each season as necessary.
This is so helpful. Thank you. Did this tree survive the freeze last year? How did you protect it?
Waoh... I wish i had come across this channel long time ago. Thank you so much for the insight.
I never knew anything about pruning plants. My avocado is over 7m tall and just started fruiting for the first time and i am worried i can't harvest most of it due to the height. Any remedy?
A very enlightening video on pruning. Bravo!!! Bravo!!!! Very good tips. Hope it's not too late to prune as my avocado tree has grown to a height of about 10 feet. May I know what fertiliser to use after pruning in order to encourage more vigorous and healthy growth of new branches? Tq.
I started one from seed 4 years ago. It's growing in a container. I was wondering when is the best time to repot it. I live in Dallas TX. I bring it inside every winter. Thank you for great video.
You can re-pot it at any time as long as the root mass is sufficient to form a strong enough root ball to hold the soil together. You don’t want it to be disturbed, but you also don’t want to wait for it to become rootbound. If your tree is at that stage, up-pot it. Thanks for watching.
@The Millennial Gardener **PLEASE READ AND RESPOND if at all possible** Love the clarity of your explanations as to how & why you did the pruning as you did. Yes, it was very painful to watch the severe pruning but it is totally understood why it had to be done. I live in lower 8b (Coastal Alabama) so I face the same issues as you with having to winterize for maximum protection. You mentioned putting on strands of lights before you jacketed your tree. Is this to add additional heat inside the jacket? I am new to growing avocado's (this is my first year starting with small saplings) that will be planted in the ground as soon as I feel they have sufficient root growth for thriving. Until then, they will spend their winter in my heated greenhouse. What material did you use for the jacketing? I will need to know this when I put my trees in the ground.
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Also, the budding wood you pruned from your Avocado tree can be sold as Avocado Scion Wood for grafting/cloning and bring added profits to you. (Just as you sell your Fig Cuttings). Check out the prices they are going for on eBay, Amazon, and other nurseries that sell them online. The rest of your plant cuttings can be used for mulching. People that grow Avocado trees from seeds do not realize how long it will take for their trees to actually produce fruit (5-10 years). (PLEASE NOTE that Avocado trees bought from Nurseries are already grafted with a true variety so they will fruit much earlier than those grown by seed). Also, the fruit of an Avocado tree grown by seed may not be superior nor of the same quality/variety of the seed they planted so they must be grafted with a true variety to ensure much earlier fruit setting and quality. These trees grown from seed will become the rootstock to the variety of the grafted Avocado Scion Wood. Also, people must know that while Avocados are somewhat self-fertile (having both male & female flowers), to get maximum production they must have both a Type A & Type B Avocado tree to successfully pollinate. EXAMPLE: A Type A Avocado's flower opens (say on day one) in the morning. Day two it will open in the afternoon. A Type B Avocado flower (on day one) will open in the afternoon & on day two will open in the morning. The Type A flower opening in the morning will need pollinating from the Type B flower that opens in the afternoon and the Type B flower that opens in the afternoon will need pollinating from the Type A flower that opens in the morning. (I think I got that right This is because the Avocado has both male & female flowers that open up in opposite times of each other and will be pollinated by either wind, bees, wasps, butterflies & other bugs that venture into both flowers. The only reason I have brought this up is if you are going to spend the time & energy to grow Avocado's from seed and wait several YEARS to have fruit, you want to have a good quality, superior taste with a greater producing Avocado without being highly disappointed with all the time you spent growing your Avocado tree. Most people do not know this information so I thought I would explain it to HELP OTHERS have more success in their Avocado's grown from seed. Why wait 5-10 years to have small quantities of inferior fruit when you can spend a little more time & effort and have SUPERIOR fruit and production in 2-3 years!
LOVE your channel and all I have learned about figs and other fruiting trees! They have made me quite successful in propagating, proper fertilizing & pruning for growing healthy, thriving, producing trees!
Deep South Bama GRITS thanks for watching my videos. I appreciate it. To answer some of your questions:
1. You will need to jacket your plant with a frost jacket. However, the jacket is useless on its own. Jackets work for humans because we are warm-blooded - we generate heat and jackets hold it in. Plants do not generate heat, so you need to have a heat source for the jacket to hold in. That is what the lights are for. You must use incandescent lights because they generate heat. Then, the jacket holds it in. I have a very detailed video on winterizing fruit trees here: th-cam.com/video/zYehs-1f7a8/w-d-xo.html
2. You don’t need a tree guard paint for pruning. Plants have evolved to seal wounds. If it is a deep gash in the trunk, I would use a tree guard paint, but for tip pruning, it is unnecessary. The tree will heal itself over in a few days.
3. You do not need a Type A and B avocado to fruit in the humid southeast. Type A’s are generally self-fertile with hand pollination. If you lived in California, lone trees have self-fertility issues and you should have both types there, but in the south, our climate with its big temperature swings actually causes huge flower overlap. I have a video on hand pollination here: th-cam.com/video/8jdMMjZjI6g/w-d-xo.html
Using this technique, my lone tree set literally hundreds of fruits.
@@TheMillennialGardener Thank you kindly for responding with answers to my questions. When I mentioned needing a Type A & Type B Avocado for pollination, I was referring to the ones people grow from seed since you don't know what you have. Avocado trees such as your Lila is a grafted tree so therefore (in our climate) would/could self pollinate or by hand pollination. I recently got 5 seedlings grown from seed and have no clue what they are. After doing extensive research on Avocado trees I found I would need the Type A & B in order for them to pollinate OR take a chance that one of them was a Type A & Type B. I have decided to purchase some Avocado Scion Wood cuttings of both Type A & B that would be best suitable for my area as far as climate once they are branched out and mature enough to be grafted. I have a greenhouse strictly designated for my tropical fruit trees (Papaya, Cherimoya, Lychee, Jackfruit & Avocado and my dragon fruit, ginger, turmeric & horseradish that can be opened up in the spring/summer/fall and can be covered with shade cloth for protection from our extensive sun, when needed. I heat it in the winter, as needed if the temps fall below 40 degrees in the greenhouse. My citrus trees (Meyer Lemon, Satsuma & Kumquat) are planted in the ground which would greatly benefit from the jacketing method I watched in your video. SUPERB INSTRUCTIONS that I will put into place as we have already been having temps (this week) in the low 50's & upper 40's. We could be in store for another year of an unusually cold winter. My area is still recovering from the direct hit of Hurricane Sally on 9-16-20 and I saw your video where you went thru a hurricane also this year. I hope all of your plants recovered that were damaged. I am also into FIGS and have successfully propagated a Yellow Long Neck fig tree from a cutting as well as several from my Brown Turkey fig tree. I will be branching out to other varieties this next year whenever I can get cuttings. Propagation is so rewarding to me and I truly appreciate the video's from your channel that has helped me be successful. Again, THANK YOU for all you do to help us be HAPPY GARDENERS!!
@@DeepSouthBamaGRITS even with your seedlings, it will still make male and female flowers. As long as you're in an appropriate climate, self-fertility should still be possible with hand pollination. However, some varieties truly are better than others at this. I chose Lila for many reasons, and this was one of them. That being said, it should still be possible for you, but it will take 7-10 years to find out. Growing from seed is a very interesting scientific experiment, but it takes a long time. Good luck with hurricane restoration. We got smacked by Isaias in August as well, but luckily suffered little damage. I can't say the same thing for my favorite beach, though. It got really beaten up.
Thanks for the advise - my yard area is very small but I just pruned my seed grown 8 foot high -5 year old tree - It wasn't grafted but am hoping for the best and fruit some day - zone 10b and a close by neighbor gave me the avocado from her tree and it was great - will I ever get fruit? San Diego coastal area
Very Well explained!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks a lot for your detailed explanation.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching.
what fertilizer is good for the avocado tree? Great schooling by the way.
Hi Master.
I have got my little avocado about 2 feet tall by the window for about 2 years now. For the last 6 months it stopped growing from the top and got brown edge leaves but recently it got two new shoots from the bottle near the seed itself.
May I know if they should be kept and cruelly cut the main stem?
Thanks in advance!
Is it important to prune avocado.what time is best to cut how would we know which branches to cut .my plant is in the ground.
Thank you for sharing .
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the awesome video. Quick question, where did you buy your Lila avocado tree? Or where can I buy cuttings?
Thank you for all this great information
Glad it was helpful! You may want to check out my follow-up pruning video posted this week: th-cam.com/video/ygnk_ydeVsg/w-d-xo.html
Than mmm you for Sharing your Ideas
Thanks for watching!
Hi wondering if you can make a video about how to protect the avocado during winter
It's really nicely explained
Thanks for watching!
I'm jealous of that dog. I haven't tasted a Coll de Dame fig ever.
Dale gets only the best! 😀 Col de Dame's are becoming pretty common. It's pretty easy to find Col de Dame cuttings and trees on Figbid these days and they can be had for reasonable prices.
@@TheMillennialGardener I'm waiting for my Coll de Dame Noir to set some figs!
Should be receiving my very first successful CDD Rimada rooted cutting soon, since I ruined my own rooting.
Thanks for sharing
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Thanks for that reminder👌
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I wonder if you got any fruit? I would have thought cutting if the tips would delay fruiting...interested to know?
Such a beautiful tree!
Thank you!
Excellent explanation 👍👍👍
salamat sa sharing
I'm in the same situation, have a nearly 3 year old seed planted avocado and need to find out if I can get it to survive outside... christmas lights? That's so interesting!
What do you use to keep the bugs off of it? Is Seven dust good for this?
Great info and beautiful tree. Can you use some of the cuttings to grown another avocado?
Thank you! You can grow avocado seedlings, cut the seedlings and graft this scion wood to make a clone of the tree.