Bro this guy is the fkn GOAT. Holy crap. Came to youtube looking for answers to a programming question, came away with grafting knowledge for avocado tree's. Didn't know I needed it, but I am now pivoting from coding to farming.
Great information again. I have two avocado trees that are producing but not the same fruit as I planted. Gonna graft them pretty soon because I got the hang of the grafting & getting successful results. I learned so much from you. Thanks in a million. God bless you.
Thx very much for sharing.. I live in the Caribbean and have one pear tree that produce about 12 pears. Could you say when they are ready to pick.. What to look for?? Smile. Thx
Bonjour ! It only takes one video to make me want to watch all the videos on your channel. You taught me more than most French channels. Thanks a lot. Sorry for my bad English.
I was raised in Bethlehem, Tauranga New Zealand. The local avocado trees there were two storey high, huge fruit. The leaves over shadowed the orchard. It was just a every day thing having beautiful avocados on toast daily. I believe those trees are no longer there for housing. Even feijoa trees were of stature, palm size feijoas. The local Caucasian community were excellent growers
Lucky me, my grandfather planted two Hass trees 70 plus years ago in the back yard. They produce fat soft ball size fruit every year. I maintain them now. Use organic bat guano every January. Both trees stand a good 40 feet tall. They love to grow north and west. Must trim them back several times a year.
Just a comment for avocado growers in general. Not necessarily a Tom issue... I would love a spot where we can buy scions from and get different varieties. Its hard to find varieties. Especially since we are seeing more cold hardy varieties becoming available. Would be great to get my hands on some. (Tom does sell them but he is only one man with a decent orchard. He can't sustain cuttings for everyone)
I have 2 trees in pots in GA , 1 is 7 years 1 is 3 I got tired of waiting , I finally grafted this year , I hope to have fruit one day !🤞🥑 great video !!
Great to see all of your new content. We’ve binged watched just about your entire channel over the weekend. Are you open to the public, and is there an address to visit your farm? And are you still offering classes? The website still shows most items are out of stock. Thank you for all the great content! My girlfriend and I have learned so much from you!
Hi Perry, thanks for the comment. We host visitors all the time but I'm not off a main road so I don't get people dropping in or anything like that. If you'd like to come by send me a text and we can set something up. I'll start up the classes again in the fall. And yes, my early season fruit will be for sale in about 10 days but everything else got sold out during the pandemic and I wasn't able to replant new inventory due to our house fire.
I went to a worm farmers place who had a 2 year old avocado in a very cold climate and it was taller than those big trees behind this guy. It had avos and the Australian CSIRO were VERY interested.. His answer was Worm castings Lots of WORM castings all over the base where the roots are.. He didn't graft, and his tree was full of avos and annoying him.. 2 yrs 12ft tall worm casting kept the soil warm even when some leaves were dying of frost... warm roots is like warm blood Id say.. The place was Griffith Australia cold and hot.... it does snow there and the year I was there it had frozen sleet on all car windows. Cold enough to kill leaves. I originally thought it was 5 years old but it was 2.. I was wondering why 5 wasn't so surprising when I wrote it..
If you scroll around the comments on my videos you'll find all kinds of claims about worm casings. The climate in Griffith Australia does not go below freezing. Avocados will thrive there.
Thanks a lot sleepy lizard.. you remind me of my late father. At the age of 7, my father used to towed me along in his small acre of farm, doing those grafting / budding technique. I learned it by just watching him but never i take it seriously coz I have other dreams to take. Also i hve no idea why he was doing it, until i come across with youtr content. I wish to try it. God bless..
Thanks for all of this information on these avocados, but I have a few questions about grafting. 1. Does the tree you take the branch from to graft have to produce good tasting avocados, or can it just be any tree? 2. Does the graft have to be the same type of tree you planted from seed, or can it be different? 3. After I graft the tree, what will happen to the original tree that I planted from seed? 4. What happens if the graft dies, will the original tree take over, or will a different graft grow? 5. Most importantly, will these avocados be safe to eat, or even edible at all? My family loves avocados so if I grew them I’d want them to be safe to eat. 6. Also, how often should I be watering them? I’d hate to kill them by overwatering, because I am very good at that. 7. Finally, I have a seed that when I planted it, it grew two trees and both of them are in great shape, so if I do graft them, should I only graft one, or both. If only one, which one? Sorry for all the question. 😅
You can graft from any avocado tree but the sole purpose for doing it is to replicate the output of the tree you took the cutting from. So if you take a cutting from a tree that produces bad tasting fruit you'll get the same exact bad tasting fruit. No, you can graft any avocado variety onto any seedling or other avocado tree as long as it's avocado to avocado the tree you planted From seed will continue to grow roots down into the ground and the trunk with thicken. Every now and then it might attempt to sprout it's own shoots and you have to prune them off. If the graft dies or fails the seedling will continue to grow on its own they will be safe to eat if in pots water when the soil is only mildly damp, don't let it totally dry out. In the ground every 3rd or 4th day We would normally prune off the small one and let the dominant shoot grow. You don't want two trunks fighting each other for nutrients...they both lose out. it's best to prune one and let the other grow strong.
I researched it and some Avos are thought to need another pollinator but that is not true. There A and B ryes but that only helps up to 20%. I’ll graft in a cut off to my plant and see what happens in 3 yrs.😂
I bought a reproducing grafted set (one Cold Hardy and one Haas) in November 2022. Babied them through the Christmas freeze. 4 ft tall, the Cold hardy has four or five marble sized fruit, the Haas 3 smaller fruit.
This is great. My neighbor inherited an avocado tree that was cut down at the trunk but is now greened out and looks beautiful. What should she do or is it possible for this tree to produce fruit?at all
MY STORY - Grew my Bacon Avocado tree from a seed from my parent trees. Took around 6 years to get Avocados. It's 12 years old and 15 feet tall now (I topped it). I get around 150 large avocados a year now. I spray the buds with honey water for bees to pollinate the flowers. Which increased my fruit production tremendously.
Wow my man this is like my 100th avacado video and you just blew my mind! I have a very mature avacado tree in my rented accommodation, i will take from it. Now the only question i now have is would you grow the seedling from a cutting of the mature tree or would you grow it from a store bought seed or it doesnt matter?
which seed to plant doesn't matter. seed grown is random. Search up my vids and sort by popular and the vid that rises to the top will tell you more about the random nature of seeds
Question : I just put 3 sprouted avocado seeds in soil, we ate in Florida.very hot weather, how often you water it, they look like dry , love your channel, thank you!
Hi Laura, When mine are new (first two years) I try to water every 2nd or 3rd day. Also, I don't put them in the ground until year 3 or 4...I get critters that will eat the small trees. If you're in Florida the rainy season seems to be just about getting started (a little early this year) so you'll get plenty of water from the sky from now till Halloween.
Hi Master. I have got my little plant 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!
I tried to graft to a seedling that I had planted out it’s abt 6 feet tall last year this time of year All failed. I live in Wellington Florida. My question is what month is it best to graft here Thank you
Hi Tom: Very good lesson! And another thing, if you go with the seedling you are likely to receive a fruit that’s different from the fruit you ate 10 years ago! I tried a few grafts on some seedlings I had. Seems I have 4 successful grafts! As the old saying goes “I am as proud as a Cock Chicken”! Yeah!🐔🐔🐔🐔
Thank you. I have bought Avocado trees from my local nurseries for the last 25 years and none ever lived. I gave up and bought one 7 ft tall with fruits on it and that year we had a hot summer. The nursery said buy a shade cover which I cdid and it died anyway. I gave up. I love avocados so I buy them at Costco or Sam’s Club every week. Enough to last me a week.😢😢
My avocado tree was cut down, now shoots are coming out from the old tree. Are those mature clones of the tree that was cut down? Will a graft of those shoots, fruit in three yrs? Thanks so much.
I'm assuming the tree was originally grafted. if it was cut above the graft you'll get fruit in a season or two. if it was cut below the graft the new growth is unpredictable
Thanks! This was really informative. I'm in central Italy and wondering if it's worth me trying to grow avocados... can they survive a little frost if covered, or would they need to be grown in a greenhouse? If they were inside, do they do okay with pruning to keep them smaller than they might like to grow?!
frost will kill a young tree but mature trees can take a few hours of frost or freezing temps but no days and days in a row. in cold nights you can protect them and there are cold hardy varieties such as Oro Negro, Mexicola, and Hass
@@SleepyLizard Thanks! Yes I think Hass is the main type they grow down in Sicily. I think I will have a go and keep my fingers crossed I can protect them... I am hoping the same for my moringa and pigeon peas! (although those are quick grow, so less of a loss if they don't make it).
I have an unrelated question..... I just saw your clip on genetics and why you can not grow from seed. I was in the U.S. Army for 4 years on Oahu Hawaii..... We would play army games in the rain forests. There were wild avocados. We ate them and they were good. What do you think?
A stupid question maybe, but I managed to grow a avocado plant here in the UK, so far it is doing well in the summer months. Am I right in thinking that without other avocado plants around to polonate it, it will never grow fruit? I am growing it for the sake of growing it, but it would be cool to think one day it might fruit.
Chris, Avocados can self pollinate but they pollinate better when combined with other trees of complementary flowering type. This vid explains it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tGToJYUkWMU.html
Quick question. Can I plant similar Avocados in my field. Let say Hass or Monroe avocados or is it necessary to grow Mix Avocados in the field for pollinaiton?
Great video! I just received my scions so I’m excited to graft! Just curious, tho, why you didn’t wrap the entire scion in Parafilm? Every video I’ve watched on grafting, the scion is fully wrapped. Thanks!
Sometimes we wrap the whole Scion in parafilm. The answer to your question is I didn’t have any parafilm.🤣 There’s some other vids on my channel you’ll see the scions all wrapped in parafilm
you are welcome. I don't know where you live but if no local nurseries carry avocados you can get a mature tree online at a nursery up the street from me: www.larafarmsmiami.com
Thank you for a very well done and informative video that answered a lot of questions I had. I bought a grafted Haas Avocado tree last April from a local nursery/garden center here in Gulfport Mississippi. I replanted it in a container and placed it in my garage with a space heater for the couple of days that our temperature got below 40. It did loose all of its leaves but they have returned even stronger. I don’t know the age of it when I bought it but it was about 3 feet tall. Now it is over 4 feet tall and covered in blooms. Do I have to have 2 trees before it will pollinate and make fruit?
Hi Don, it's normal for trees to shed their leaves when they are stressed and repotting and moving indoors is a stressful event. As for needing two trees, the tree will self pollinate but it will help if you got out every morning and afternoon and shake it to simulate the wind. it'll cause the pollen to fall onto receptive female organs.
Tina, yeah that's a challenge for people who don't have neighbors with trees. There are nurseries who occasionally sell them online but it's seasonal you you gotta do periodic google searches until you find one
I have a tree that came up in my garden form a hass pit and I’ve let it grow. It’s about 4 to 5 years old. I was wondering is it better to graft the tree when it’s small or when it gets bigger?I was planning on grafting it but I moved and rented the house. My renters just moved out and the tree is getting huge. It’s about 15 to 20’ tall and the trunk is the size of a roll of Costco paper towels 18” around. If this was your tree what would you do to graft it? Thanks for all the great information. Also what is a good avocado tree to grow in Northern California?
Wow, I'm glad you've got a successful tree going. If I was you I'd look around and see if I could find an expert at grafting. A tree of the size you described needs to be prepped a few months in advance then we come back and graft later. it's called top working. Essentially you stump the tree and graft onto the new growth as it regenerates.
I say organic because a biogas digester from Homebiogas I also plan on getting also makes a rich organic liquid fertilizer, that’s what I was referring to
@@adamtain7627 ah ok, I don't know anything about that kind of stuff. Please stay close to the channel and update us so we can learn from you...if you want to that is.
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Nice video as always. I have a couple of questions which I hope you can answer: - I have a two years old grafted Hass avocado tree. It's about 2 feet tall. Isn't that too short? - This guy has about 10 mini avocados hanging right now. Should I cut them off? Like what we do with mangoes when they are young, that we cut the flowers in order to promote growing.
Hi Ayoze, 2 feet is not too short. Tress hit growth spurts. And I typically prune flowers from young trees for exactly that reason. I’d rather the tree focus on growing in the early years.
I am new at growing avocado from seed. I have a long way to go. I have more than a dozen growing in the cup right now. My question is when should I graft them? Next question is how can I get monroe and simmons cutting from your farm and how is it per cuttings?
Hello Phy, Once you see good root development it's time to move your seedlings to pots then let them get used to the pots for 45 days or so. Once the stems are 8 or 10 inches tall you can graft. I don't sell cuttings but if you're local to south florida I'm sure you can find some.
@@phylim4055 Did you ever find a place that will sell you cuttings? I am in San Antonio TX and have 4 Avocado seedlings about 10 inches tall so far. I think it might be close to time to graft. But I can't find any farms around here.
Awesome info, question tho. Is there any harm of keeping a few leaves on the grafted branch? Seems like it could only help with getting some sunlight right?
@@SleepyLizard are mangos and avocado's similarly grown? I'm an amateur at this and trying to learn as much I can about grafting. Grafting my first avocado tree this coming weekend.
Where do you buy your trees? I’m in Tampa and all I’m finding is berry bushes and bananas in the big box stores. I want mango, papaya and avocado. Links?🙏🏼
I grow my own but when I need to buy a variety I don't have I go to Lara Farms. I got a lot of my banana varieties at Going Bananas. Both are near my house.
Hello sir question. Can you grow a avacado tree from a rooted cutting? Or airlayering. I have tried and failed. The internet say yes and no. The cuttings won't root or the cuttings will not have a tap root. I don't have patience to grow from seed. But I have bought many trees that always end up dying. Usually do to root rot. Right now I have a Ooh la la verity basically a super hass I think. Any advise im in zone 9b corpus christi tx.
Jonathan, avocados are capable of self pollination but it's better if you've got two or more of complimentary flowering types. This vid explains it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X8eQeA88nVo.html
Hi i bought a advo tree about three years old, a year after i planted a couple of the branches had long stem like appendages close to the head leaves on couple of the branches with small flowers which fell off leaving little 😊bumps on the ends of the stems. They looked like small advos but we had very strong winds here in Spain for a short time when i looked no more of these stems were visible and this year non of stems with flowers and little balls on them appeared. Would this be fruit and why hasn’t it shot out again. The trees about 3-4 meters in height and robust. What I’ve noticed this year is a lack of bees, my roses and other flowers normally attract them, any help will be appreciated.
yes they were probably small fruit and high winds can be very damaging during the flowering phase. All I need is one windy day in March to change the outcome of my whole year.
Thanks for the explanation. We all kinda knew there was something about an older scion on a young stock meant earlier harvesting but nobody really explained why that was true. There was never any explanation why the REAL THING takes 10 years, while a GRAFT shortened up the time. I feel smarter already. :D
I m frustrated on my plants coz they are 4 to 8 yrs already but haven't given any fruits yet! But some of the neighbors have fruited avocado plants already. I m too upset though i have never stopped giving organic fertilizer. What shld i do more for my plant to grow?
I know what you are asking but let me clarify some terminology first. all avocados are the same species: Persea Americana. within the species we have cultivars, such as Hass, Zutano, Fuerte, etc. We graft onto seedlings which are grown from seed and unique, they do not fall into a cultivar...each seedling is it's DNA just like people. You can graft a cutting from any cultivar onto a seedling grown from a seed that comes from the fruit of any cultivar. In summary you can craft a cutting from any avocado tree onto any other avocado tree. Thank you for your question.
yes or grow the seedlings yourself. then again for two acres you're looking at maybe 80 trees which you can buy grafted for less than 1500 and get a several year head start on production.
Awesome amigo . I love your channel. I have a question : Is ''air layering'' useful to grow a healthy avocado tree which can hopefully lead to some nice and sweet fruits real quick?
Walid, thank you for the compliment. Yes, air layering works but we prefer to graft onto seedlings because you get a better developed root system much faster.
sold my dad's home got 3 seeds from the best tasty avocado in the plant. the only thing is the tree gives fruit about 20 to 30 avocado one year and the following year about 200 avocado and so one for 25 years.my question is that all 3 seed sprouted but one seed has 3 stems what should i do
I have been eating a lot of avocado the whole last month and then "the robot" bring me to your vdeo XD I learnt many things about avocado trees so then thank you so much. I'm sorry because english is not my mother tongue (I'm from Chile) but I got surprised for cleary understand what you speak, may I ask where in the USA are you from? Do all the people speak clearly there? Thank you
Esteban, I live in Florida and no not everyone speaks clearly. I try to slow down and pronounce my words when I'm recording a vid. thanks for the comment.
if you don't live near anybody that grows avocados your best bet is to periodically do a google search. I've noticed sometimes when nurseries have them in stock they'll sell them online.
