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North FL Beach Avocados Zone 9A
Добавлен 17 окт 2022
Last year I started purchasing grafted avocado trees once I learned that certain varieties that can grow in hardiness zone 9a. I am on the coast of south Walton County in NW Florida - on the fringe of 8b & 9a. On top of the climate, my soils are sandy & the trees are growing in ground about 1000 ft from the Gulf of Mexico so salt is also a factor.
Varieties I'm growing:
Brogdon x3
Winter Mexican
Taylor
Day
Bacon
Florida Hass
Lula
Lila
Fantastic x2
Mexicola Grande x2
Mexicola
Poncho/pancho
#Brogdon #Winter #Mexican #WinterMexican #Taylor #Day #Bacon #FloridaHass #hass #haas #Lula #Lila #Fantastic #Mexicola #Grande #Mexicolagrande #Brogdonavocado #WinterMexicanavocado #Tayloravocado #Dayavocado #Baconavocado #FloridaHassavocado #Lulaavocado #Lilaavocado #Fantasticavocado #MexicolaGrandeavocado #Mexicolaavocado #Poncho #Pancho #Ponchoavocado #Panchoavocado #Avocado #tree #Hardiness #zone #9a #zone9a #mallika #mallikamango #mango #cold #hardy #coldhardy #florida #floridaavocado
Varieties I'm growing:
Brogdon x3
Winter Mexican
Taylor
Day
Bacon
Florida Hass
Lula
Lila
Fantastic x2
Mexicola Grande x2
Mexicola
Poncho/pancho
#Brogdon #Winter #Mexican #WinterMexican #Taylor #Day #Bacon #FloridaHass #hass #haas #Lula #Lila #Fantastic #Mexicola #Grande #Mexicolagrande #Brogdonavocado #WinterMexicanavocado #Tayloravocado #Dayavocado #Baconavocado #FloridaHassavocado #Lulaavocado #Lilaavocado #Fantasticavocado #MexicolaGrandeavocado #Mexicolaavocado #Poncho #Pancho #Ponchoavocado #Panchoavocado #Avocado #tree #Hardiness #zone #9a #zone9a #mallika #mallikamango #mango #cold #hardy #coldhardy #florida #floridaavocado
Dwarf Namwah Banana flower emerging - Zone 9A - Too late in season?
I am curious if it is too late in the season for these dwarf namwah bananas to ripen before winter. 8/21/24 time of video. Florida Panhandle zone 9a. Planted 6/15/2023.
#dwarf #namwah #Namwah #dwarfnamwah #nam #wah #namwa #wa #banana
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Poncho Avocado - July 2024 Update - Garden Update Zone 9A
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Mexicola Avocado - Zone 8B July 1 2024
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Poncho Avocado - June 2024 Update - Garden Update Zone 9A
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Poncho Avocado - May 2024 Update - Garden Update Zone 9A
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#Mexican #Avocado #tree #avocadotree #Hardiness #zone #hardinesszone #zone8 #zone9 #8 #9 #8b #9a #zone9a #zone8b #cold #hardy #coldhardy #north #florida #northflorida #floridaavocado #ponchoavocado #poncho #pancho #panchoavocado #fantastic #fantasticavocado #lila #lilaavocado #mexicanavocado #persiana #americana #drymifolia #persianaamericana #persianaamericanadrymifolia #frost #resistant #fros...
Mexicola Avocado - Zone 8B Northwest FL
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Here is what is believed to be a Mexicola avocado. Grown in northwest FL in the Miramar Beach area. It has bounced back nicely from the winter freeze and set hundreds of fruit. The 2023 freeze was nowhere near as bad as the 2022.  #Mexicola #MexicolaAvocado #Mexican #Avocado #tree #avocadotree #Hardiness #zone #hardinesszone #zone8 #zone9 #8 #9 #8b #9a #zone9a #zone8b #cold #hardy #coldhardy #...
Poncho Avocado - Zone 9A Fruit Tree Update April 2024
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April 2024 update. It looks like my large Poncho avocado has set a couple dozen fruit. We'll see if they hold on and don't drop. My larger Fantastic avocado is still recovering from its transplant 2 months ago and the root rot incurred while it was in a 30 gallon pot with loads of organic material rotting over the years. It does seem to have about 10 fruit but I've already seen it drop several....
Poncho Avocado - Zone 9A Fruit Tree Update March 2024
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Poncho and Fantastic avocado trees in ground. At mature size, these varieties are cold hardy to 15 degrees F. Purchased 10 months ago as 30 gallon pots. The Poncho was immediately planted in ground. I waited until a month ago to plant the Fantastic. Removing the pot revealed pretty significant root rot on the majority of the root system from being in the pot for so long. I removed the damaged r...
Avocados in Zone 9A - First Freeze of 2024
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#Mexican #Avocado #tree #avocadotree #Hardiness #zone #hardinesszone #zone8 #zone9 #8 #9 #8b #9a #zone9a #zone8b #cold #hardy #coldhardy #north #florida #northflorida #floridaavocado #ponchoavocado #poncho #pancho #panchoavocado #fantastic #fantasticavocado #lila #lilaavocado #mexicanavocado #persiana #americana #drymifolia #persianaamericana #persianaamericanadrymifolia #frost #resistant #fros...
Avocados in Zone 9A North Florida- Mexican Varieties - Christmas Update
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Growing pure Mexicxan varieties of Avocado. Poncho and Fantastic and seedlings. #Mexican #Avocado #tree #avocadotree #Hardiness #zone #hardinesszone #zone8 #zone9 #8 #9 #8b #9a #zone9a #zone8b #cold #hardy #coldhardy #north #florida #northflorida #floridaavocado #ponchoavocado #poncho #pancho #panchoavocado #fantastic #fantasticavocado #lila #lilaavocado #mexicanavocado #persiana #americana #dr...
5+ year old avocado tree in zone 8B of FL - Cold hardy UPDATE
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This tree has completely bounced back! For reference - Here is the old video of this very this tree in April, just 4 months recovered from an 18 degree freeze that on Christmas Eve. It has made quite the recovery over the summer ruclips.net/video/M_04KB8Sh7Y/видео.html #Mexicola #MexicolaAvocado #Mexican #Avocado #tree #avocadotree #Hardiness #zone #hardinesszone #zone8 #zone9 #8 #9 #8b #9a #zo...
Avocados in Zone 9A - Mexican Varieties
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Growing pure Mexicxan varieties of Avocado. Poncho and Fantastic and seedlings. #Mexican #Avocado #tree #avocadotree #Hardiness #zone #hardinesszone #zone8 #zone9 #8 #9 #8b #9a #zone9a #zone8b #cold #hardy #coldhardy #north #florida #northflorida #floridaavocado #ponchoavocado #poncho #pancho #panchoavocado #fantastic #fantasticavocado #lila #lilaavocado #mexicanavocado #persiana #americana #dr...
5+ year old avocado tree in zone 8B of FL - Cold hardy
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Update video on this tree ruclips.net/video/J2YqIwDZoHU/видео.html I met someone who has a 5 year old in ground avocado tree that has survived the harsh winters here in the Panhandle of Florida. Located in Miramar Beach, FL 32550. Hardiness zone 8B. He does not protect this tree in any way. He said it produces 500-800 avocados each year. Last year on Christmas Eve we had temperatures at 19 degr...
3 nights below freezing - Zone 9A - Avocados
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Three continuous nights below freezing with the lows at 22, 23, and 31. Take a look and see how everything fared. The pure Mexican varieties did the best. #Brogdon #Winter #Mexican #WinterMexican #Taylor #Day #Bacon #FloridaHass #hass #haas #Lula #Lila #Fantastic #Mexicola #Grande #Mexicolagrande #Brogdonavocado #WinterMexicanavocado #Tayloravocado #Dayavocado #Baconavocado #FloridaHassavocado ...
Zone 9A Mango - Disease? Question for viewers
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I have a young Mallika mango in ground in northwest FL zone 9a. Soil consitions are sandy and I fertilize 3-4x a year with organic fertilizer. I am trying to figure out if it has any disease. There is blackness on some parts of the trunk/stem. When it flowered and fruited last year, eventually each of the fruit turned black and fell off. Is this anthracnose? Bacterial black spot? Any help woul...
Introduction - Zone 9a avocado experiment
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Introduction - Zone 9a avocado experiment
Got a few racks over in lake city waiting to ripen. Mine have already bloomed and have tiny fruitlets. Hope yours make it to maturity.
Very exciting to see a flower on its way! Hopefully, it stays warm enough in your area for the bananas to ripen 🤞
Unfortunately its prob too late in season to ripen fully, usually need about 4 months.. we might not get frost for the next 4 months, but when the days get short it really slows down the process.. However, once it sets all it fruit, allow the peduncle to grow about 8 more inches, then cut the flower off and remove all but 5 or so hands.. it may ripen those in time. Good luck.. Ive got alot of late season flowers due to last years freeze slowing spring growth.. If you can ge thte hands to fill enough you can cut the bunch down and hang in your garage any they will ripen. Also its a good idea to cease nitrogen fertilizer now, and just supplement with postassium using muriat of potash
@@sethmeashey3219 appreciate the comment and very useful info. I planted this 6/15/23.
@@northflbeachavocadoszone9a Ive been growing bananas here for 6 or 7 years now. I grow many varieties but the namwa/dwarf namwa are my most reliable producers. For best fruit production, try to keep each stand to 3 plants, removing the rest of the suckers and relocate etc. They will put out lots of babies once established, and it can be tough to keep up with removing them. Great plants to grow in our area though!
Type B " cold hardy trees" dont produce fruits as much as type A
Just curious how you know that. I'm not disagreeing with you but genuinely curious
I might put bags on things fruit flies like. How exactly do they deter the raccoons? They are basically miniature bears.
What ever took them has stopped. Perhaps birds?
@@northflbeachavocadoszone9a Probably raccoons, opossums or something like that if it takes them off because birds, squirrels and rats generally take a bite out of or poke a hole in the fruit instead of hauling it off.
Zone 8B? Is that in Ga?
@@rangerismine this is Miramar Beach, FL
Thanks for the update
Jerry is a legend. Looking forward to hearing your opinion on the taste of Pancho.
This is jerrry sattterly with Texas… avoocados 😂
Great idea on bagging them, im going to do the same with my lila and fantastic fruits. The squirrels decimate my peaches and apples, but so far have left my avocados alone.. i was getting complacent but for sure gonna bag them now. My fantastic fruits are just a big larger than yours.. and my lilas are about the size of your poncho fruit.. I feel like both varieties should be ripe around august? That sound right?
First year I've had fruit! That is what I'm thinking (early-mid August). My Fantastic is definitely ahead of the Poncho. The little info that I've found online says that Poncho should ripen before Fantastic but that does not seem like the case with mine. I think both will be ready in August/September
I just wrote this on another video but you have a very beautiful garden, absolutely beautiful avocado trees.
Very nice trees + setup.
Look at my more recent videos for updates.
Nice! Beautiful tree!
That tree is loaded...
Nice looking avocados
I'm curious. What are the coldest temps you have experienced since you've had your first avo tree there.
23 degrees F
Use gypsum on your tree in the ground 😎
For what purpose?
man that Poncho looks great! My Lila prob set over a hundred fruit this year, but has dropped all but maybe 15.. my fantastic has dropped all but one but thats expected from transplant/shipping shock.
Avocados are like peaches in that regard. They form scads of embryonic fruitlets that drop off before maturity.
@@Avo7bProject these were far past the fruitlet stage.. many were pinball size, then dropped
Looking for advice so I don’t mess it up. I bought two four foot(ish) Hass Avocado Fruit Tree, Cold Hardy, Persea Americanas about a month ago. I put them in 100 qt pots, and have them in full sun on our patio. They seem to be doing great, with new leaves sprouting daily. How long should I wait to plant them in the yard? I’m in Panama City Beach, close to water, with very sandy soil. Thanks in advance to anyone that wants to chime in.
@@joemiles79 If your soil is salty, plant them on mounded soil that you prepared. I would not plant during the height of summer or deep in the winter. Early autumn (around September) or early spring (around March) is less stressful on plantings, and gives them time to form roots before temperatures become difficult.
Everything looks great. I’m located in Gainesville, so it’s awesome to see someone north of me growing with such success.
The poncho is looking really good! The bananas are looking great too. You just reminded me I need to get my bananas planted.
I bought one of those Panchos from Home Depot a few months ago in the winter. I couldn't believe it can handle down to 18 degrees! Can't wait to start grafting it into seedlings and making more of them. You sound like an older Napoleon Dynamite by the way - that's a compliment.
I just upplanted Two trees a Poncho and a fantastic here on the Mississippi gulf coast zone 9a. I'm going to leave them in pots for a couple years because I have to build a couple rather large raised beds for them being so close here to the water table. I look forward to hopefully being alive long enough to have nice big trees like that and hundreds of fresh home grown avocados😜😋❤️👍 !!!
It is so sad to see this happened. As I know watering before freezing is BAD idea, water turns to ice while freezing and roots that was soaked in it getting frozen too especially those close to surface.
Wow. I just planned two avocado trees in my yard. I live in the panhandle.
Do you know what variety you planted?
@@northflbeachavocadoszone9a Mexicola Grande and Lila.
Thats an awesome tree! Do the homeowners have any idea how old it is? As I said before, Im in Ft Walton and have never seen an Avocado of this size in our area, of course its in the front yard so easier to see.. Is this person a neighbor? You should take a cutting and graft it if they would allow!
He planted it in 2017 I believe. This is the only mature avocado tree in the area. I live 20 minutes east of Miramar in Walton County and I have a 4ish year old Poncho with about 30 fruit on it currently. My poncho handled the cold way better than the mexicola.
Avocados must grow like mad in Florida. I would have guessed that tree is 40+ years old.
You need a Pancho avocado. They're good down to 18 degrees.
How far down did you place the bricks around the Pancho?
That's so cool. I'm in zone 9a Mississippi gulf coast. About 3 miles north of the gulf. I was up at a garden shop a few days ago and got their last two avocado trees a Poncho and a Fantastic. Got them at a discount because they are looking a little sickly. Going to up pot them tomorrow and check for any root rot. Mine were a little over 5 foot tall but pruned the top off . Hope to get mine in the ground in a couple years but want to protect them for a couple years
Waw awesome ❤❤❤
Lila is looking good this year for me.
Looks good! Keep growing.
Oak leaves are super nice for composting. Your lucky to have them.
Yes took me a while to discover but I have grown very large tree using purely oak tree leaves that shed in fall and winter. Can't believe throwing them away and buying expensive compost for so long prior to learning their composting value.
I know the feeling of checking an avocado tree daily, to see how the fruit develops.
Also, where did you buy your 30 gal plants?
Nice! Im just down the road in FWB.. I have Bacon, Lila, Winter mex, hall, and just ordered a fantastic. My bacon and Lila are 3 years old now and the lila must have set 150 fruit this year.. tree is only 10ft or so, will likely drop many. Bacon didnt flower til much later., and not many flowers.. however it had some cold damage from our cold snap in jan.. its made it 3 years uncovered so im happy with that. cheers.
I would love to see some videos and/or pictures of your Lila in FWB! I only grow pure Mexican avocados because once every 5 years it gets to 20 degrees F or slightly below. Did the Bacon do alright in the 2022 Christmas eve freeze? It got to 17 degrees & I lost every avocado I had growing - including pure Mexican varieties. I connected with a grower in Gainesville and she had a delivery going to Destin and I added to that feight and met them when they got here.
Great video 😊
This year was much better than last year for freezes
I have a 1 year old fantastic with 3 fruits on it it's in a 5 gallon homedepot bucket and a same age lila with 5 fruits 3' tall 5' wide tree in a 10 gallon pot seems like they like wide pots. They were both grafted 5/23 came in 1 gallon pots.
I'm not sure where your location is, but I'm in Pensacola. Where are you purchasing those mexican advicados. From your videos, I should be able to grow one.
Liner Source which is a provider for Home Depot. They grow some incredible cold hardy varieties. Their grafts are extremely low to the ground - the lowest I've ever seen. You should be able to request some varieties from your home depot.
Feed, feed, and more with this wood chips rhat suck up the N . Good luck with your garden!
No, wood mulch will never remove nitrogen from your soil
Looks great. In most cases "Fantastic" is Del Rio. I have one bought at Lowe's in Georgia that ended up being a Lila/Opal. Good luck with your avocados. You have some nice cold hardy varieties now.
Craig talks about that here floridafruitgeek.com/cold-hardy-avocados/
So glad you are posting videos from FL 9a. I have 10 varieties of avocado, an expensive test for 9a but you never know unless you try. Thank you for sharing. Best wish!
I have found that only pure Mexican are the only ones worth pursuing in Zone 9A. What varieties are you growing?
@@northflbeachavocadoszone9a Mexicola, Brazos Bell, Joey, Fantastic, Lila, Poncho, Oro Negro, Taylor, Improved Pollock and a seedling Miguel. Been looking for other Mexican varieties but they are hard to come by...
I agree. If you ever make it down to Gainesville, FL - Craig of Florida Fruit Geek has several huge trees in which he uses its fruits to graft on to cold hardy rootstock. He has some pretty cool varieties as well as other interesting zone 9A fruit that he sells. floridafruitgeek.com/cold-hardy-avocados/@@DavidHardesty
I live in Jax but I do get over that way on occasion. I'll check it out. Thanks!
Hi from Ft Walton beach.. Currently have a 3 year old bacon, and 3 year old Lila.. Bacon suffered damage in 22, but survived and has grown back nicely, this years cold damaged some leaves but thats it. My Lila has never had so much as a brown leaf, including its very first year. That plant is tough. Just added a Hall, and a winter Mexican. I grow all quite a few bananas, citrus, peaches, apples, pineapple guava etc.. Glad i found your channel. Cheers.
Beautifull avocado trees this is very interesting video
Great update, It's nice to see the Poncho doing so well. Hopefully, you get some fruit from it this year 🤞
4/3/2024 update: Looks like the big Poncho will have 5-10 fruit if they hold.
It take christmas lights and or 12gph microsprinklers to keep plants warm and some protection from wind if its windy
Looks like Mexicola?
where you bought the Mexicola tree
These is how my trees get in the summer and i also live in zone 9A central valley
Looks good 👍
What's the temperature going to be? I have a poncho in ground 1 yr and it got one brown leaf at 28f, it was a 3 gal planted in may, the frost blanket is supposed to touch the ground to trap the heat. But better than nothing
Most frost/freeze damage takes weeks to show its effect, I learned that last year. It got down to 25 last night. The frost cover is 10x10 feet and the tree is too large. The 500 watt halogen lamp gave off quite a bit of heat along with the incandescent lights. My hope is that some of the heat is retained under the cover, even with it not able to go to the ground. I wanted to be overly cautious being its first winter in ground. It was a 30 gallon tree with 2-2.5 inch thick trunk that was put in ground May 2nd, 2023.
The trunk size below the graft has no effect on the damage that occurs above the graft, what matters is the variety, the amount of foliage, and the thickness and age of the growth trunk, branches above the graft as far as how much damage occurs and the temperature, wether it was covered and wether the leaves are touching the fabric covering those touching could get damage, however I found that poncho is very hardy I have another one that has survived 3 winters with no damage, in zone 9b 28f this year, 27f last year, and 28 the first year and it was planted in ground from 3 gallon. Yours is huge I would not expect much damage with the setup you have at 25f
I have 3 ponchos the one I described above only got a cover the first year and last year was not covered with many days 20-30 between 28-32 f
This year the poncho tree described above is 4 ft tall was 1 ft tall when i planted it in ground, has flower buds that survived 28 f without a cover and no damage whatsoever this winter but this winter I only got one day below 33f
The flower buds show no damage at 28 f on the poncho described above, I have a joey too same performance as the poncho no damage to baby leaves, flower buds or leaves, through 3 winters at my place