Nice information to planting avocado. I am as beginer and small farmer to learn planting avocado local variety. Say regard me from Banjarnegara, Central Java, Indonesia. Save the world with plant a tree.
@@iCultivate1 hi please I want to ask you about girdling avocado tree does it makes tree gives fruits quickly even if it's on 3 or 4 years old please answer me I'm waiting for your answer????
Does anyone know of a video that shows how to recognize avocado types based on leaves? I planted with seeds from fruit I ate but don't know if they are a or b. thanks
@@iCultivate1 Indeed as I don't have huged property I've spaced them as much as possible and ensured drainage is as good as can be. Just not too sure how they'll go with the deeper clay soil .5m deep l have layed the base wish gypsom to break down the clay base.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Cc9OE77bO2k.html Here is another guy who has that down, showing how he waters it and what is not food for the plant
Thanks for the video. I have some questions. The first is: Is simultaneous cross-pollination more efficient between two different verieties of avocado trees in the same field? Or can it also be done efficiently between trees of the same verieties? Which one is better? . Second: If it were better for simultaneous cross-pollination between two different verieties of avocado trees, which veriety would you prefer as the veriety that blooms simultaneously as a male and the Haas veriety as a female? Third: If we have a field with 100 trees totally, what is the appropriate number of male trees that correspond to the appropriate number of female trees or rather what is the ratio between them? What is the optimal distribution map for the distribution of those 100 trees in the field? Thank you very much in advance.
Sorry about my late reply. You can successfully grow avocados without different varieties. But I like having a 50/50 ratio of A and B types. Please note that avocados do not come in male and female varieties - each tree is both. What makes A and B varieties different is the time of the day when the make and female flower structures are open. Hope this helps
Shepard and bacon are both good varieties, but it depends on things like your climate and how big you ultimately want the tree to be. Look in to both of those and see if they meet your needs 😊
Absolutely. As long as it protects the soil from drying out. But please do remember that it is critical with avocados that the soil is very well drained - too much water will be the death of them.
Thank you so much for your question. I don’t actually have a video specifically for avocados, but this older video of mine might help 😊 How to Transplant Plants from Pot to Ground ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sn_z9FDUNCo.html
This is a really good question! Unfortunately I have never done this, but I believe the tree itself would espalier very well. But my main concern would be for the fruit and their protection from the sun - they do sunburn quite easily. Hope this helps
A good question, but unfortunately I think your winters might not be suitable for avocados - I think you get frosts, is that correct? Below 32 degrees can cause damage to the plant. Hope this helps :)
@@iCultivate1 32 degrees :O oh my god, which countries has that temperature. Probably tropical places like mexico etc :/ so ill never have this tree :(
I have avocado trees growing inside 25 gallon planters. Now, Japanese Clover is growing in the soil around the trunk base in each planter. Is this dangerous to the avocado trees, or does the clover act more like mulch?
I bought a 4’ Avocado Tree last year on Etsy and they said it will be ready to fruit within 1-2 years and this year I have flowers but it is a little thicker than the one here in the video but should I take off the flowers? They look like a bunch of little balls at the moment, was already thinking of cutting them off so the tree can do its thing and get stronger another year but how do you know when to let the tree fruit and do its thing so we can enjoy the Avocados?
just going through so old comments saw that I had missed yours .......sorry. You probably know the answer now, but the answer is absolutely, yes. Where I live (sunshine coast hinterland) there are avocado farms - in red soil, so avos grow very well in red soil!.
Thanks for the feedback. Usually, when planting avocados, pruning is not necessary, although I would remove any flowers that appear in the first couple of years. Hope this helps 😄
@@iCultivate1 Thanks for the feed back. I can't find much good quality info on this subject I.e. pruning @ planting time? One site recommends to prune back by 50%. The reasoning here being new growth would mainly go to the roots to produce a healthier tree. Makes sense? But you recommend just leave it alone & let it grow naturally? I'm not sure which way I should go here.
If you are buying your avos from a good nursery, cutting back/pruning should not be necessary. Now, if you were transplanting from one section of the garden to another, that would be different. Hope this helps.
You mentioned the roots feeding from the ground soil around but what about the tap root ? If the soil is clay based won’t the tree die from become water logged or start ed if the clay dries ?
The title should be “ How to plant avocado on good drainage soil”. This guy lucky, he got the best quality of soil, whereas most of us did not have a chance.
Great video :: currently I am in uk .. however I have farming land in India near Shimla.. I am watching few videos at the moment and I just today put avocado seed in water: let us see the results in 8 weeks and later on I will transfer my knowledge to India : quite possible 100 avocado trees :: that’s the dream or plan of one of my smart goals : let us see:: however good video
A good question - avocados are bisexual - their flowers have both male and female structures.. You therefore can have only one tree, but by having both an A and a B type you should increase your harvest. Hope this helps 😊
Thank you for your question. If you go to a reputable nursery, you should be able to get both there. The ones I used in this video all cam from the one nursery. Hope this helps :)
Hello! I am in Pensacola Florida and am looking to buy type A and B trees. Do you have any recommendations for a reputable seller? Just found your channel and subscribed. You give great information!
Thank you and Welcome :) Unfortunately I don't know the reputable sellers in your area, but I would look at a nursery and consider a number of questions: Are the staff knowledgeable, do the plants look healthy and is there a suitable amount of water available for their stock. If you can answer yes to each of these, I would be confident that your plants would be off to a good start. Hope this is helpful; and happy gardening :)
You shouldn't just plant a seed and expect to get that variety of avocado from that seed, it doesn't work that way. You have to have a grafted plant so it's a certain variety of avocado, that's why they do it that way. If you just grow from seed at home it will likely be a totally different avocado when it matures, because they are usually cross pollinated with other varieties.
It will take yeeears to fruit if you grow from a pit but it can be done. I have 2 friends who have done it and they eventually got good avocados from a store pit. A grafted tree will produce much quicker.
Hi Steve, good video as always. I have a question for you not relating to this particular video but rather to the description section of the video, even back to 2017 videos you have podcast link but I've never been able to find a podcast by you there that is at podbean, what's up with that? Where is the podbean podcasts?
Hi Maggie. I am glad you like the video and other content. I am sorry about the podcasts - I created the channel and added the links to most of my videos and then COVID happened - I will be endeavouring to get the podcasts happening within the next 2 weeks - sorry about the confusion and hope you have been safe during these difficult times.
@@iCultivate1 the link was in your 2017 videos and no links are on the landing page of the link in description for podcast. I had thought that was audio podcast not youtube vlogcast?
I’m in Australia, there is someone selling 3 trees online pretty cheap , I’ve got no idea if they are a or b , what do you think my odds are of getting the right mix ?
We have an Hass tree 8-10 years old that was planted in our backyard. We got a moisture meter because our leaves are dropping so bad. We took all the soil out around the tree and replaced it with better soil. But the soil continues to stay wet No it’s not clay and the soil is from the pot it came in. I’ve been letting it dry out for a little over a week and The water meter still says it’s wet around the base of the tree. The leaves look so sad. I don’t know what to do any help?
Go with Butsogs Balsog's suggestion, because it seems like you have an issue where the water is struggling to fully drain. Watch the amount of water you use on the tree too - go drip.
I started growing my avocado tree in 2016. I'm in the UK. I bring it indoors in winter, and leave it out spring to autumn. Would it survive a winter outdoors? Our current winter temps go down to about -8C. The avocado tree is about 5ft high now.
Some varieties can with stand down to 20farenheit or more. But they will get stressed and drop everything before that. You would need to try to keep it warm or maybe experiment, but one bad freeze could totally kill it
To just look at them it is difficult. It all comes down to which sexual phase their flowers are in at a specific time of day ……. Type A flowers will be female (receive pollen) in the morning and male (shed pollen) in the afternoon. Type B is the other way around. Hope this helps 😊
Good question. Generally you would plant avocados about 6m apart. But if you want to keep them pruned to smaller trees, you could go as close a 4m, but definitely not closer. Hope this helps 😄
Sorry about my slow reply. A and B types will be different varieties, but don't worry too much. You will get a good crop even with just one tree. Mixing up the A and B type trees just helps to make it even better.
If I understand your question correctly - yes. When planting, you should always ensure that the root flare is slightly above the soil level. This helps to ensure that the roots are able to access the necessary oxygen that they need, while also ensure that the trunk is not subjected to the risks of collar rot. Hope this is helpful :)
So I got a Dwarf Cado Acocado tree can I plant it on a plant container instead of ground since it’s a small tree? Anither thing so I need to get two avocado trees for it to give me fruits, any help will help thanks.
Good question - yes, they will grow to be quite large, although I will prune them to the size I want. If left to grow, they can grow to 10 to 12 metres tall and quite wide. Hope this helps 😄
Great video Steve Question; I have some young avocado plants growing less than a year old and some have leaves. Should I remove them or wait until they are big enough to plant?
Thank you for your question. You could remove them and plant in the ground. Just ensure that they are well protected. If you can’t protect them, you may prefer to move them in to a bigger pot. Hope this helps 😊
Avocados like a well draining soil but do like regular water. I would imagine that the water may be difficult in Iraq? If you are able to keep the soil moist, then you should be able to grow avocados. Hope this is helpful.
You don't have to, but I do it this way because it helps to establish the size of the hole i a way that minimises the disturbance to the roots. Hope that explains.
Actually, that's wrong. You should have broken up the soil in the bag FIRST so the roots can now point in different directions outwardly instead of being trapped in a circular pattern, which develops an undesirable root-ball around the stem. You want them to reach out as much as possible and that's a good time to re-educate them from being bound to the bag. So, cut the bag, break the dirt immediately around it just a bit, let the roots stick out some, and then backfill.
Thanks for contributing to the conversation. But, there is much debate about what you suggest. Whether the roots are teased out or not depends very much on their condition of them when the bag is opened. Also, the process of sizing the holes by using the plant still in its bag has no impact on whether you leave the roots alone or not. But, thank you again. I do welcome conversation about this and other matters about gardening 😊
