While it is always best to grow your Avocado trees in ground, They will fruit in containers with the right soil mix. Then you can move into protection if killing temperatures are expected.
Great video Jeff! I have to start mixing my own soil too for my avo trees, I have not gone that far in my avo tree experience. That is great next level advice. Thank you for sharing!
I just added an avocado tree to my container garden today. I'm going to up pot it later tonight after the sun goes down a bit. TY for the useful information!
Thanks for sharing your video! Your garden is beautiful. I’m a gardener too and I’m researching all the things I can grow in containers. I’m happy it led me to find you. I’m so happy it did your channel has so much to offer! This is very helpful. Thanks for teaching me something new. I hope we can learn more from each other as we grow our gardens and our channels!
I have killed every single one of the avocado trees that I’ve purchased (about 10 so far). Now I understand the reason why. Thanks for sharing this information. I have a 3 foot seedling that has survived 2 winters and it’s the only avocado tree I haven’t killed.
@@ThePresentMoment23 I just bring mine in near my house concrete walls (will radiate thermal energy during the night) in a place where it’s under the roof but still receives sunlight. Bringing it near your house also protects from cold winds and rain
Have a tree coming this week, I live here in Lodi and am planning to grow mine in a pot also. Your videos are very informative and I’ll be following to see more-thank you
Miracle grow bagged potting mix is mostly peat moss, not compost. I agree though that you don't want to go heavy on peat moss and rather you should look for a citrus/cactus mix which will have wood fines mixed throughout. Avocados in pots love compost, however I recommend filling it to the brim of the pot and let it settle a few inches while still having a full pot. Avocados have brittle surface feeding roots. Add a lot of mulch without touching the trunk. Handful of azomite for trace minerals will help pot bound avocados. To keep them light but also allow for good drainage I also mix in vermiculite, which will retain water yet is extremely light. Have a couple avocados in 15-40 gallon pots that are fruiting. Definitely possible! Also helps to have the ability to roll them into the shade during heat waves like we just had.
Hi, thanks for your super-good advice!! I live in South America, no real balcony, a light corridor with huge windows ... and my little avocado trees in their first months don't grow well, sometimes the leaves shrink, and some other problems, some even died or barely managed to recover. The summer in the southern hemisphere is over and in june to october it will be about 10°C there, rather consistently; too cold? How big must the container be and how moist should it be - I am not sure whether a tropical plant can be left in a pot with dry soil. Thanks for your help!
Can you show us exactly what you use and how much of each for the soil mix when potting? I'm having such a hard time starting and growing avocados. it makes me so sad because I love them. Please help🙏🙏🙏
@@TropicalGardenGuy how about the soil. Do I need to put new soil at any time, 6 months, 3 years, never? I font want to kill my tree once I've got it going. Thanks
Great Video! I'm a newbie and I live in the Midwest and was looking at growing a Mexicola Avocado Tree in a pot. What would the recipe be for the potting mix? Regular ol' sand, perlite, and peat moss? Thanks for the help!
@@TropicalGardenGuy I throw all sorts of plants in my bigger potted citrus trees like chili peppers, flowers, spring onion, tomatoes, strawberries....since I'm watering them, I'll get some additional goodies too. Definitely agree with the soil type in pots for avocados.
This is the first year none of my potted avocados flowered. They all look great, green leaves and all, zone 8b. I make my own soil very similar to yours that’s mineral based never organic based. I have a Mexicana, Don Juan, Haus, Joey and 4 other unknown. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for the video. I had no idea that avocado trees need a different type of soil. I have a cold hardy avocado tree in a pot. It's been in that pot for 2 or 3 years, outside, partial sun/shade. I recently transplanted it to a bigger pot and placed it in a spot where it gets more sun. I used the regular potting soil. The roots looked fine. A couple of days after I transplanted it all the leaves started to look droopy. I thought it would recover but it's been about 2 weeks and it still looks like that. Some leaves actually died. Is it getting too much sun? Is it the fact that I used regular potting soil? What can I do to correct this? Should I add something to the soil as you mention in the video?
For planting bare roots trees on ground vs. planting bare root trees in a pot, would you recommend organic planting mix (has some compost smell) or 50:50 topsoil planting mix from gravel yards? Would that organic planting mix (organic implies animal excrement components) be too strong for bare root trees even when you mix with dirt 50:50 on the ground or in the pot?
@@TropicalGardenGuy what about Green Acre leaflet saying mix 1-2 feet all around the root system with 50:50 planting mix vs dirt? Would using organic planting mix be overkill? Which manur compost was it that killed root system of the well established avocado?
Interesting.. i live in Panama (Central America) Soils are heavy clay... all my avocados died. Now, i have three (hass and two catalinas) and i'm gonna try one in Pot and the others on a mound in soil. Question regarding avocados in pot. How you do the watering?
@@TropicalGardenGuy Thanks.. i believe the catalinas are west indian. Anyway, i have a big yard 1,000mts2 and still a bit hesitant about putting using a pot.. its just that i don't trust my soil even with doing a mound hehehe. I also don't know if when i do a mound, then my avocados will die from dryness (we are now on dry season until may, after that, it's rainy as hell until december)... Should i just to the mound and put the three of them in ground... Also, like i said, i have pleeeeenty of construction sand.. and i can get also plenty of good brown soil (might have clay but its better and compost).. Trying to avoid root rot as well, how long are the roots of avocados... probably i'll have to do like a meter high mound...
I have a huge avocado tree that i had for about 5-6 years. It always flowers, but never fruits. Do i need another avocado tree? I also might add, is grounded, and was grown from a seed……Whats going on… thanks
Thats hard to say, but have you tried using a different fertilizer? Also soil ph can affect fruiting! Only one healthy grafted avocado is needed for fruit!
I have one in the ground grafted an another one in a huge container both grafted an waiting for one to flowers as last year did flowers an all the flowers fall off so waiting
@@TropicalGardenGuy Hello Jeff. As you may be aware, there is a global shortage for perlite right now. A 4ft3 bag at home depot is over $50 CAD right now! Do you have any alternatives that you can recommend? Or perhaps just go to a 50/50 peat sand mix and deal with the added weight. I'm looking to get my Wurtz Avocado into a 24" wheeled box as soon as possible without breaking the bank. Thanks
@@ragnaraxelson59 Wow, I paid less than $20 a year ago. Horticulture pumice is a good alternative. Looks like you already made a $$ investment, You can do a 50/50 sand / peat, but I like perlite for aeration.
I Just want to understand the grafting Méthode. Does it mean that The roots are from a new avocado Tree (Avocado seed) but the scion (plant with leaves is from an old Avocado tree? Thank you
growing avocadoes in a container sounds tough cause they need root prune but they don't like it having roots pruned back making it tougher for me to grow them but i wish i lived somewheres where its warm all year round cause its best if i plant them in the ground
Recently I happened to killed my 15 yr old avo tree, by over fertilizing it, it didn't bear fruit even once, the one and only avo tree that miraculously grew in my hot and humid town
Don't grow avo in pots and expect to produce fruit in large numbers, few people have the skills to keep avos thriving in pots long term, my advice plant on mounds in non clay soils in ground and use lights and tenting for colder temps areas.
Good point, A tree in ground can produce over 1000 lbs of fruit. Whereas a healthy one in a 24 inch grow box might get 1/10 of that. But still worth it if you cant otherwise grow in ground
Yes if someone has no other choice, my sister has a avo that's been in pot over 20 years never produced any fruit it might be a world record to keep alive that long in a pot.soil mix is key good advice to use pearlite for fast draining pumice also not bad, sand I don't know gravel seems like it would drain faster than sand and if a clay pot used do not use the ones with a single hole at bottom get a clay pot that has 4 drain holes at bottom
For mounted, how tall should it be? I have 3 gallon Hass and a small one from the seed, both need to transplant to a bigger pot. So I'm debating if I should do the pot for now until they are bigger or transplant it to ground. Any suggestion? Thank you.
Hi Kevin, Sorry about that. The video was created when I just started filming videos and some scenes may have been deleted in edit. If I remember correctly, the parts that discussed “ Fruiting “ Included , min pot size ( 25 gal ) and fertilizer. I plan of doing several much more detailed series of videos on the subject , beginning with a Step by step demo on how to make your own avocado potting soil. Which will be out very soon.
I like your channel. I'm about to transplant my avocado tree from a 25 gallon pot to a 50 gallon pot. But I'm not sure if I should do this. It is currently planted in MiracleGro.
