How To Plant An Avocado Tree In Your Backyard 

you are welcome Jet!

Despina, thank you for taking the time to pay me a compliment.

Appreciate it John. I know some nurseries in AZ carry avocado plants but hella expensive on the water bill one you get them in the ground. Not sure if they have mango out there.

@@SleepyLizard thanks for the info! Water is pretty scarce right now and we're definitely dealing with drought, it has barely rained at all in over 3 months iirc and our typical monsoon season was very minimal last year and looks to be again. Most of the avocados and mangoes I see in the supermarkets and farmer's markets here come from Mexico. We get some California avocados but I've never seen anything more local sadly, though I might not be looking in the right places. I'm about to move to an area of AZ that is much colder and actually gets a lot of snow and has a pretty active skiing/snowboarding season in the winter so I don't think I'll be growing either anytime soon lol such is life I suppose

@@nonfungiblemushroom sounds like you're moving to a very fun place...don't forget us after the move. I enjoy your comments.

@@SleepyLizard Thank you and likewise! And indeed it is a fun place, I am excited but also concerned about the abundant fires that we are experiencing (AZ has 3/4 of the entire nation's active fires right now). But worry not as I won't be straying far from my online homes though, I'm probably like some avocado fungus you can't get rid of very easily lol

Sunday, It was hard to keep my energy up in the heat and sun, ha!

@@SleepyLizard Can only imagine. You're an inspiration

Good luck

Here's a vid I did on pros and cons of growing an avocado from seed. I'd like to know your thoughts. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yWAR_DotvZs.html

You're welcome Viktoria. Do you grow avocados?

Yeah, I get tons of avocado and mango seedlings under the trees and in my mulch pile...they really want to sprout don't they?

Thanks Concha

thank you Gardening Today!

I just got a look at your raised beds...very nice.

best of luck with the trees!

@@SleepyLizardwe will see how it goes.....I know Avocado plants are sensitive...

I put 3 avacado seeds in soil in an container (medium one) thinking well if one grows I’ll be happy. I planted them in March, all three grew. They are 15” tall with leaves. Can I separate them in different bigger containers or if the roots are intertwined in one huge container? Can I grow them in a pot instead of outside as I live in an apartment?

same way, you're golden up there. perfect hardiness zone.

keep trying

hmmmm, I'm trying to guess who you are 🤣

Hunker down. I’ll shoot you a text.

@@s.fla.beekeepingmangoesand1517 yeah, I welcome the rain but this wind that just started up has me a bit worried.

You gotta sample it next time you come

a fellow fan of The Office???

LOL It's just something we've always said growing up.

Thanks Rosie Posie!

yep totally normal. You'll see it bounce back quickly.

Spacing depends, I go 16 x 16, some people go denser than that. As for your other questions, my latest video on the channel goes into detail about that.

I space mine 16' apart. some go as close as 12' and others keep 25 and let the trees grow really wide

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I'm not 100% sure but we usually discourage any kind of addition to the natural soil. I think your best bet would be to go to a local nursery and ask them about the conditions at your place. You are right, the conditions where I am are very different.

yes, as long as you see green keep caring for it normally and see what happens.

Francesco, it's recommended that we prune away the weaker of the two stems to allow the more dominant one to flourish.

Lee, you have an excellent plan. Let us know how it goes.

There are nurseries who sell them online. Best of luck. Y'all get some cold winters up there!

Just a few weeks away!

@@SleepyLizard well actually as a rule is i or anyone else should only send 1 message until its been responded anymore then 1 is too many

@@frostylonewolf1700 don't be silly, keep the comments coming

@@SleepyLizard is compost safe for indoors because i'm looking to getting compost and i know that blood meal is dangerous to breath in

@@frostylonewolf1700 I would keep it outside

we are not. will start up again next year.

@@SleepyLizard Keep us updated when you start selling them again!

Hi Chris, what you're saying contradicts the collective experience and research of farmers and horticulturists. If you were able to provide some proof you are well on your way to making an important contribution to avocado cultivation and could probably make yourself some significant money or earn a PhD. I'd love if you could provide me something credible and I'd be happy to take it to the experts at the University of Florida department of horticultural sciences which is walking distance from my house. If what you say is true it will have a significant and positive impact on the future of avocado cultivation. thx, Tom

@@SleepyLizard now you made me want to find the video they were talking about it in...If I can find it I will let you know.

@@mofomoco yeah I;'d like to see it.

You can plant them in the bed now. However if you plan to hold off a year than yes you absolutely need to go up higher in part size. Take a good look at the roots when you get them out of your pots and if they’re all twisted in tangled in on each other try to kind of straighten them out before you put them in the bed. And good luck with your trees!

@@SleepyLizard Thank you much good sir. You are one cool dude. Wish I lived nearby, we could have a blast!

they'll get through the rock and also they'll grow shallow along the surface. I grow in the same stuff

@@SleepyLizard great. Thank you!

give it a few months until it's approaching the diameter of a pencil

yep!

@@SleepyLizard Thank you!! Shot you an email too!!

@@edkuscg just replied

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no suggestions but good luck!

Which part of India? I live in Tamil Nadu. I am thinking of planting Avocados in my 10 acre farm. The temperature at the maximum 100 in Summer.but throughout summer 3 months we have around 95 to 100 F temperatures. It would be very humid in summer months. More than 75%. Rest of the time it is around 85 to 95F. So we don’t bother cold here. Not sure if my climate is Ok for avocados. Right now I am planting Gliricidia that will provide some shade in summer. I am planning to provide afternoon shade for at least 2 year’s

@@kanagunbr I am from Sira, Tumkur district, Karnataka. You can plant Avocado and shade is required for 1 year. You can also plant Gliricidia. I have planted now. I had planted in July/August and no shade as their development is good I have planted 20 recently and providing shade as now the temparature is around 33 percentage

@@AgroForestry_AvocadoOrchard Thank You Maddy. Thats helpful. Whats maximum temperature you will get in summer. ?

Yeah, that's a challenge. best bet is to google and look for an online supplier.

Hi VARocketry, The idea behind a pollinator pack is to have multiple trees of complementary flowering types. For example a Haas is flowering type a where as a Fuerte is flowering type b. The As pollinate the Bs and the Bs pollinate the As. It has nothing to do with cold hardiness. But I am assuming since that pack contains Haas that the complementary tree would be Fuerte or Zutano which are type B. This vid explains it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tGToJYUkWMU.html

@@SleepyLizard SL - Do you sell these type B trees? I'd like to support you with a purchase. Are your HALL avocados type B?

@@VARocketry thank you but I don't sell trees any more. it's gonna be a year or two before I have more inventory. but yes Hall is a B

hahahaha

yep, it is. nothing we can do about that. you try and plant the heartiest looking ones with the best developed root systems. At least it doesn't impact the fruit, it's more about hardiness.

Sorry Ludwig we don’t ship to Europe. I’m too small to tackle the customs requirements

@@SleepyLizard Too bad! Keep up the good work though! Maybe in a year or two you might be big enough! ;) Cheers from Sweden!

Try a fruit blend and let us know if that works

I hammer that point quite a bit, yes

Excellent question. I knew somebody would ask, ha! My crop doesn't mature until September so I'm picking fruit from September through February. I have two trees that give me fruit in July but they are still small. So from March through September if I want guac I gotta buy my avocados...so embarrassing!

@@SleepyLizard lol I was just giving you a hard time. Gotta get that guac fix! 🥑

@@Rubio_Eric it's even worse when they charge me extra for guac at Chipotle and I'm thinking damn I got thousands of pounds of avocados out my back door, ha!

@@SleepyLizard they should be buying your avocados! What tha hell!

@@Rubio_Eric that would definitely be defined as a "whale" account.

will do Gumpy. We'll be out in the 'glades all day today but I'll respond tomorrow.

how did you know?

@@SleepyLizard I often rely on my intuition. I can tell my looking into your eyes

must be one of them "advanced" children we hear so much about 🤣 I always wanna tell them if every child is advanced then no child is advanced 😝

I been watching his vids, he struggles with English too

Please stopped it he is a great guy

yes

you can graft at any age. Here's how we protect our trees from cold: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Sa7xbWpoL5E.htmlsi=nsCxs2xhakfeqXZD

@@SleepyLizard my avacado tree is just over a year old. Should I wait til the spring to plant it or keep it in the pot? I’m in pace Fl. So it can get in the 20s here

@@SleepyLizard also, do you have scions I can buy to graft to my 2 mango trees and my avacado?

You'll get them back on track. Do you remember what varieties you purchased?

that's too much water. avocados like a nice big drink then a few days to dry out a little. you can test with your fingers and if the soil is moist don't water. if it's dry then water.

I don't. I just let them drop some leaves then they grow new ones. Yours will be fine.

No, all we have is hard rock. Surprisingly everything down here thrives in a giant block of limestone...very very hard to dig holes though.

@@SleepyLizard how is that possible? people saying from left and right that avocadoes are very intolerant of hitting clay (unless they are mature enough to handle it)

@@leventebognar7635 I can only speak to the rock. we farm in limestone rock and our crops thrive. I don't deal with clay

I don't know. our climate is opposite regarding humidity. if you get fungus treat with copper. if not you can leave them alone

they grow a bigger root system yes. Florida exports a lot of seeds to California for their rootstock. Waldin and Lula variety seeds

Nice talking to you last night. thanks for dropping in

You can graft anytime. Or you can let them grow another 8 years and see what you get.

our sun is a lot stronger down here in florida. If I was in California I would do what a California guy says. here in florida we keep them in shade till they take but once they take an avocado can go full sun.

I'm not sure about that. I think you'd get a better answer asking at a local nursery. We grow in sold rock down here.

a that point I water when the soil feels dry.

Von, yes but not species, it would be varieties. And we do both. it's called seedling hunting.

Chandra, you can graft the 4 year old whenever you're ready. The new one you should let grow until it gets to about half the diameter of a cigarette.

if it has flowers or fruit on it you run the risk of them falling off...so if you want to get fruit this year it would be best to leave it in it's pot and transplant after you pick the fruit. then again if it's in a small pot you really don't want it to have fruit on it that young anyhow.

there are nurseries that sell them online periodically when they are in season.

not that I know of. Your best bet would be to periodically search the internet and see if you can find a nursery who has them for sale

Ha! Those Donies I planted had been in my nursery over two years so they're pretty tough. If I was planting a more delicate tree I would have cut open the sides of the pot and extracted it with all the dirt in tact.

@@SleepyLizard haha, this scene on the video looks so professional :-D! Especially for me - a person who lives in a California apartment and have 40 small fruit trees on balcony and in the living room. I plant "grow true" seeds(thanks for introducing that term to me) in plastic bottles from coke. It takes me half an hour to replant them into bigger containers ;-). I need to move out outside of a city and buy house with a big garden!

Wow, 40 fruit trees on a balcony? Most be paradise.

@@SleepyLizard around 25 on balcony and 15 in living room. For my wife it's not a paradise because there's a lot of spiders in the house since i started planting the trees!

@@kaszub lots of spiders means no bugs

you gotta feel the soil and keep it damp. maybe every 3rd day or so...if it's humid every 4th or 5th day

just pinch the little new horn of growth that sprouts out of the top

Hi Vince, thanks for reaching out. Do you have any neighbors with avocado trees?

@@SleepyLizard Yes, theres one. but there tree is really tall already, no one could get some clippings.

Lots of people have this issue. Some nurseries sell cuttings online depending on the time of year. I think if you do a Google search every now and then you’ll eventually find someone with some for sale

Excellent idea

Hi m, thank you for reaching out and thanks for the compliment. In my opinion laying a half eaten mango in potting soil is the best way. I show a few different methods in this vid: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q2czF7QBxPs.html Lemme know if it works for you.

@@SleepyLizard okay, will do, Thanks for the help and the advise in the other video from the link you put. Very helpful!!

welcome to the channel.

@sleepylizard also, how far apart do you recommend planting in the ground?

I will have them at www.guacfarm.com in late fall into winter. I plant 16' apart

Thank you!! Will keep an eye out then

If you're trees survived you'll be able to graft onto the new green sprouts that hopefully they're throwing up by now.

@@SleepyLizard Yes, my root stick has been producing fresh, new shoots out of all three of my trees that froze so badly in February. I should have some well established green wood to graft onto when I get my cuttings from you in the fall👍🏻🌱🌱🌱. I am real excited to get this project under way. Thank you for taking the time to answer my question. These trees are very special to me. I want to do the right thing by them. With your guidance, how could I fail?🧐😉🌱🌱🌱

I think I've heard of that

Eric B Anise is an herbatios plant, not an avocado tree. Although the leaves may have a fragrance of anise is not the same fyi

what is your preferred method?

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You're welcome Selly

they need the hand holding, yep

Thank you Peak Condition, I appreciate it.

thanks Capt Jay

no gophers but the squirrels work overtime

You don't have to but it's better if you do. This vid explains it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X8eQeA88nVo.html

Hey Runboy, glad to hear your box made it and I hope you enjoy the fruit! Since we plant our rootstock from seed it's going to have variation so it's tough to say what rootstock will be cold hardy. that said, the variety you put on your rootstock has a lot to do with cold hardiness. Hass, Mexicola, Zutano, Fuerte are all grow well in California and are cold hardy.

yeah, digging is tough here.

You got it Big Mac, keep trying and you'll see some success

We will take a ride in the bus

solid rock and quick draining

This vid will give you a little start: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q2czF7QBxPs.html There's a few other mango vids on my channel too. Good luck with your mango!

@@SleepyLizard thank you so much

Yep!

wow! that's awesome! so glad to hear it

Allan, thanks for your comment. there's plenty of avocado content on my channel