after years of planting and growing avocado seeds since i was a child I evetually grew an avocado varitey that is unique but it took over a decade to grow. I didn't think it would amount to much and when bought my own house I planted it there. It eventually gave fruit but I thought it was a bad type grown from seed. still I didn't cut the tree down and I was glad i didn't. It developed into the most valuable avocado tree i have ever seen. It produces a two pound avocado that had the does not spoil after being cut open for almost a week. It stays fresh and good kept in the refrigerator crisper so you can slice it all week and use it in your meals . I have come to love this avocado with it wonderful taste but i have yet to patent it . I now grow a lot more aovocado seeds so i can develop root stock to graft this unique avocado tree. Thsi is why I am watching your video. For now i call it the MPpp avocado. i have started growing the seeds but I know they won't come out thje same and only cloning will produce the same tree but I want to keep trying to invent new straine of avocado trees so I grow a lot from seed. Los Angeles California.
I loved reading your story. Thanks for sharing. Stories like yours are one of the reasons why I started my RU-vid channel. It’s fascinating to read about unique and special avocado trees
This is really awesome, I’m going to this same type of grafting in June when I go to india 🇮🇳 Well done dear and please keep putting the latest of your grafting. 🙏👌👍
Very good tutorial. I live in Maui Hawaii and there are so many different varieties and cross pollinated avocado. I have a variety that we know as the butter avo and they can get to be almost the size of a child's head. They have a small to medium seed and the meat is super creamy and flavorful like butter. Best avo I have ever eaten bar none. I have been wanting to reproduce this variety for years so other people can enjoy them. Now I can thank you
Yes sir!! ..going to have to try this one. It's our wet season in Thailand and quite cool now before the flowering season comes new year, perfect time for grafting. All our trees are from seed but we have 2 favourites i believe of the Fuerte variety, one is particularly rich in oil and I'm doing as much propagation surgery as possible on a few dozen saplings around the garden. I notice that it helps to cover the scions with a small plastic bag to protect them from the regular rains we get here. Thanks for your clear and crafty instructions, you've been very inspirational and your videos are much appreciated, all the best :)
Thank you so much. I really appreciate your support. Yes plastic bag does help a lot in rainy conditions. Good luck with your grafts. All the best to you too :)
I've tried grafting my avocado tree before and no luck, I just tried 3 grafts like this one a few days ago and I hope they take. Your videos are very informative thank you.
We are a small orchard in Valencia, Spain. We are moving from an old variety of orange to Hass avocados. Last winter here was unusually cold and we lost 60 out of our 200 baby trees. However, most have regrown directly from the Zutano rootstock, so now we are going to re-graft Hass scions using your technique. Fingers crossed and thanks for great videos..!
I just did a graft two weeks ago, a Hass onto a two year old seedling our temperature is down to 39 degrees from the 90s i just hope it makes it... Thanks for sharing 👍
I have grafted Reed onto Lula rootstock for my Florida yard. It's thriving and I am happy each time I see it flush new growth. Part of the excitement of growing fruit trees in my yard is the hope and anticipation.
I have a very rare variety. In fact, it's one of a kind. Yes, it's a seedling but it's grown in Canada and got to 3 metres before I cut it back last summer. It's now 2 metres tall and a lollipop shape. It's about 4 years old now and I'll be moving it up in pot size from the 5 gallon bucket it had lived in for almost 2 years. I know that seedlings are "whatever" to people living in avocado growing zones but it's my plant baby :)
Salute you mr.Ajmal. Thank you for sharing your talent. Will try this technique soon, hope I can do it right this time. God bless you. More tutorial videos and garden tours to come. :)
I have Miki avocado which already tall. It has very nice fruits, sweet taste, not wet but buttery. Good for table fruit. Avarage size is 500gr. This variety is good for low land (below 200 m sea level and warm place) I tried grafted it several time on Alligator avocado rootstock with no luck. Alligator also good variety and suitable for low land. But I want to have two kind of avocado in one tree. I did not succed may be I did not tight it well since I did not use proper tape. Thanks for the tutorial I will try another with your technic, since my rootstock exactly the same size as yours in this video.
@@AJTheGraftMan I grafted two Lila scions onto a Haas two weeks ago. Would you suggest cutting the tips off now to increase the success or is it too late? Thanks for the tips.
Thanks, AJ., another great video. Your camera work is getting better all the time. Pretty soon you’ll have to start holding Zoom classes for all your terrific grafting techniques and knowledge. Really appreciate all your fine demonstrations.👍👍 🥑 🥑 🥑 - Neal in Anaheim
Love your work mate,advo grafting is my latest obsesion,I'm down south ozz wa though finding it hard to find the reed Advo for grafting onto my root stocks,it's winter here atm so I will keep looking....thanks again very informative...👌
The only method I never tried. I have Fuerte trees. Fruits weigh from 300 to 500 gms Flowering starts in Sep and again in end Dec!! Fruits are ready bu end Jul but I find those harvested in end Sep are far better flavored. Anyway, thanks for the video. I have over 300 saplings and I am going to try it though it is now 29 Sep 2021.
Thanks. Fuerte is an excellent avocado. Yes I’ve noticed that the longer the fruit stays on the tree, the better it tastes. Good luck with your grafting
Instead of the grafting tape you use, give Parafilm a try. It seems to snap less than the one you use, and is a bit more flexible and stretches more too. It may be sligly more expensive, but $30 for a 250 ft rool (2 inches wide) will stretch to like 750 ft so it will last you a loooong time.
I notice at 5:15 , there's a branch out just below your bark grafting , can it be kept in case if it fruit one day, then we can know the original flavor of the fruit produce from this avocado tree.
By any chance do you have any scions available? The recent storm snapped my Reed in half. I think it’s a perfect opportunity to make a multi graft tree.
Can I use avocado scion from another 5 years avacado tree that has not produced fruits yet unto my 2 months old seedlings so that it produces fruits faster
I always thought avocado tree goes into a semi-dormant or quiescent state in the fall and stop growing. Doesn't that make it not a so good time to graft?
Thanks. You can pick Reeds starting in June, and they're good then. By July they're really good. The longer they stay on the tree, the more oil content develops. If you pick them in August and onwards, they're extraordinary :)
@@tinyjungle_ Just a heads up I was referring to fruit that flowered from last year. Fruit that flowered and developed this year will be ripe and ready to eat in June 2021 and onwards
@@AJTheGraftMan oh snap. I just harvested one lol I got too excited. these are from this years flowers. Looks like I'm waiting another year for the other one. Is what it is. Thanks for the heads up otherwise I probably would have picked the other one next week. Peace
Hello there I live in corona cal , I have planted an avocado tree from seed in a very large container, it’s over 10 feet long now . But it doesn’t seem that I am able to successfully graft it ( tried few times) I do need help, I watched all your videos and been subscribed for a long time. Please what would be your advice. Thanks 🙏
Hi there. Thanks for subscribing and watching my videos. All I can think of is to keep trying as many grafts as you can. The next time you prune any branches, practice making grafting cuts on the branches to improve your technique. Good luck!
Yes I would like to take you up on it can you tell me what kind of avocado tree I have ? Poo pah I don't know how to send a photo so as I stand in front of this
Another great video mate. Just one question. You sliced your scion wood long on one side, short on the other. Does the long side go onto the white wood ? In other words , does the long side face the centre of the seeding trunk?
TomYi247 yes you can. All avocado varieties are graft compatible to each other. You cannot graft avocado to apple or mango or anything else. Only avocado to avocado
Thanks for your reply. Is it better to leave some leaves when you are grafting to a larger plant then? Usually you would remove all leaves on a smaller graft so that all the energy goes into the new scion piece yeah?
@@kirstyglasgow8289 better to leave some leaves when grafting to larger trees. It keeps the nutrients flowing from the roots to the branches of the tree. For younger trees, I’ve seen and done both- remove all leaves or leave some on- and gotten good results with both
I wonder what could happen, if the SCIONS borrowed from the mother tree that was grown from the seed and the and grafted on the same tree ? Will the mother tree give the fruit more quickly from the grafted tree, than from the tree already grown from the seed itself ?
Tree is doing great. The Reed scion significantly outgrew the Pinkerton. I did a poor job of balancing their growth. I’ll do a whole garden tour video and include this tree. Stay tuned...
