How I Grow Lemons & Avocados in Zone 6 

They smell SOOOO good when they flower!

The thorns were a surprise, and they get me every time I need to move her in or out due to temperatures. But the lemons and amazing floral scents in the winter are well worth the occasional prick. :)

I may be babying mine a little. Grasshoppers were bad this year and I've been enjoying watching her recovery now that she's inside away from natural stressors.

Thanks for watching!

I was just looking at my very pathetic lemon and avocado tree and thinking about this! I don't know what latitude you're growing in, but in my latitude there's a very awkward month or two in the spring and fall when temperatures are too low outside but the sun is too high in the sky for them to get adequate light indoors. If you're in NJ as your RU-vid name suggests, you're just 1 degree farther south than I am and you have a similar issue. During those awkward months I get some leaf drop and I may get fruit termination. Make sure you're fertilizing potted trees twice a year (spring and fall) with a balanced fertilizer that's right for them- both avocado and lemons can do citrus fertilizer, so that's handy. Fertilizing regularly will make sure the trees have the resources they need to bounce back from those awkward months during the winter and summer when they get more sun. If you want to do more, I suppose you could invest in some very strong lights to point at your trees during the awkward months, but that would be a substantial outlay of capital to buy the lights and the electrical bill would also be problematic.

If you're in zone 8 and above a cold hardy avocado tree can be planted outside. Here in zone 6 my tree will spend the rest of its life in a pot, coming inside in the winter.

I wish I knew! It shipped as a hardy avocado. I may need to email Fast Growing Trees for more information. It's probably not a Hass because those were sold out.

@@casualgardeningwithdustin, they won't tell you what exact type it is because they don't know. They only know that it's either the Mexicola, the Brogdon, the Oro Negro, or the Bacon.

Can't do anything about that. It's the voice I've got. For what it's worth, I don't like listening to recordings of me, either.

What a ridiculous comment and unkind. How about thanking him for his content?

Thanks for that, @Rileygirl77, but at the end of the day I'm still a small channel, and even unpleasant interaction helps my channel grow. So whatever 32SQUID's intention was, they probably helped my channel more than they hurt my feelings. ;) Of course, your comment in my defense was equally as helpful to my channel growth, and much less painful.

@@casualgardeningwithdustin Well, it wasn't the unkind comment that added myself as a new subscriber, but it didn't hurt. :)

@@Rileygirl77, I'm just glad you decided to share this part of your gardening journey with me. :)