Great video, I have to give you a lot kudos for trying to grow avocado trees in your area with such drastic weather changes during the year! The trees are looking good. Interesting that you hand pollinated and it produced some bbs. Thanks for sharing!
I’m very curious how the Lila will taste. The only documented taste test I’ve seen is the millennial gardener. It’s strange how little you can find on these cold hardy varieties.
Yes - I have made similar RUclips searches. There are several people who planted "cold hardy" trees, that didn't follow up with the results. If you step outside of RUclips there is some further discussion on forums like TropicalFruitForum.com where people share notes on their trials.
@@Avo7bProject very interesting, I’ll take a look. I purchased both the Lila and a Joey at the same time. I since saw the Millennial Gardner mention he liked the flavor of his Lila (which is encouraging). I found one video later on the Joey and this guy said it tasted like grass (not so encouraging). It’s already a lot of work as you know keeping these things alive in our climates and certainly not worth it if the fruit is poor tasting.
Looking good, its funny how now the climate zone numbers have changed the local nurseries are carrying more southern tropicals. Im a fan of the brogdon for taste and fantastic for cold hardiness. A hint with thin skin avos is to cut it into 4ths instead of halfs and then fellet it like a flounder.
Awesome! I’d recommend the fantastic avocado. I need to get me a Lila. If your Lila has enough fruits. I would like to purchase a seed or fruit of your Lila avocado. I want to grow a seedling, directly in ground and see how it does. I know it’ll do good at the beaches but I live inland and we are still zone 8a unlike the beaches which are 8b/9a 😭 and I can’t find seedlings anywhere, just grafts
We'll need to see what I end up with. There are 5 fruits in the tree that I think are good prospects to make it to maturity. I remember Millennial Gardener only got 1 fruit to hold the first year he succeeded. It takes modest expectations at first.
I don't have any grafted trees that I can sell, maybe in the future I might try organizing a private nursery. But I get most of my trees from FourWinds or from ANaturalFarm, and you can order a shipped tree from them. www.fourwindsgrowers.com/collections/avocado-trees www.anaturalfarm.com/#about-section
I had one jim bacon avocado and one mexicola avocado next to each other that were the same size, the mexicola died from the cold, but the jim bacon didn't.
Yes, Mexicola is good with mild frosts, but the North Florida Beach channel said he lost his too. Mine has not been through a winter yet in ground, although it was outside all of this past winter, tucked snugly into a corner of my house while still in a container. I will be offering mine protection during winter extremes.
Texas has more extremes than here, due to those "Blue Northers" (even if the average lows balance out to an 8A zone.) Be ready to act quickly to protect your planting! My impression is the "Texas avocados" (Lila, Joey, Wilma etc) have a tough time surviving north of a line from San Antonio to Houston. To answer your question though, I used a mix of a local brand of sandy loam soil called "Daddy Pete" with about 20% native soil, augmented with Perlite and some stone fruit tree fertilizer. I may drop a fresh layer of garden soil on both trees in another month.
@@Avo7bProject extremes is very accurate. At this point I’m less concerned with the lows and more concerned with high winds, tornadoes, hail, and extreme heat. It’s a challenge for sure and well worth it in my opinion if the fruit is any good.
Your trees both look really healthy and the fruit are developing really well! 🥑
Great video, I have to give you a lot kudos for trying to grow avocado trees in your area with such drastic weather changes during the year! The trees are looking good. Interesting that you hand pollinated and it produced some bbs. Thanks for sharing!
Incredibly jealous 😅
I’m very curious how the Lila will taste. The only documented taste test I’ve seen is the millennial gardener. It’s strange how little you can find on these cold hardy varieties.
Yes - I have made similar RUclips searches. There are several people who planted "cold hardy" trees, that didn't follow up with the results. If you step outside of RUclips there is some further discussion on forums like TropicalFruitForum.com where people share notes on their trials.
@@Avo7bProject very interesting, I’ll take a look. I purchased both the Lila and a Joey at the same time. I since saw the Millennial Gardner mention he liked the flavor of his Lila (which is encouraging). I found one video later on the Joey and this guy said it tasted like grass (not so encouraging). It’s already a lot of work as you know keeping these things alive in our climates and certainly not worth it if the fruit is poor tasting.
Looking good, its funny how now the climate zone numbers have changed the local nurseries are carrying more southern tropicals. Im a fan of the brogdon for taste and fantastic for cold hardiness. A hint with thin skin avos is to cut it into 4ths instead of halfs and then fellet it like a flounder.
Awesome! I’d recommend the fantastic avocado. I need to get me a Lila. If your Lila has enough fruits. I would like to purchase a seed or fruit of your Lila avocado. I want to grow a seedling, directly in ground and see how it does. I know it’ll do good at the beaches but I live inland and we are still zone 8a unlike the beaches which are 8b/9a 😭 and I can’t find seedlings anywhere, just grafts
We'll need to see what I end up with. There are 5 fruits in the tree that I think are good prospects to make it to maturity. I remember Millennial Gardener only got 1 fruit to hold the first year he succeeded. It takes modest expectations at first.
Great video. Where do you purchase your avocado trees? I'm in Bailey NC and I'd like to purchase a Lila avocado tree.
I don't have any grafted trees that I can sell, maybe in the future I might try organizing a private nursery. But I get most of my trees from FourWinds or from ANaturalFarm, and you can order a shipped tree from them.
www.fourwindsgrowers.com/collections/avocado-trees
www.anaturalfarm.com/#about-section
I had one jim bacon avocado and one mexicola avocado next to each other that were the same size, the mexicola died from the cold, but the jim bacon didn't.
Your mexicola avocado tree is very impressive.
Yes, Mexicola is good with mild frosts, but the North Florida Beach channel said he lost his too. Mine has not been through a winter yet in ground, although it was outside all of this past winter, tucked snugly into a corner of my house while still in a container. I will be offering mine protection during winter extremes.
Looks great! I put my Lila in the ground this year in North Texas; dealing with similar climates. What are you doing for feeding and fertilizer?
Texas has more extremes than here, due to those "Blue Northers" (even if the average lows balance out to an 8A zone.) Be ready to act quickly to protect your planting! My impression is the "Texas avocados" (Lila, Joey, Wilma etc) have a tough time surviving north of a line from San Antonio to Houston.
To answer your question though, I used a mix of a local brand of sandy loam soil called "Daddy Pete" with about 20% native soil, augmented with Perlite and some stone fruit tree fertilizer. I may drop a fresh layer of garden soil on both trees in another month.
@@Avo7bProject extremes is very accurate. At this point I’m less concerned with the lows and more concerned with high winds, tornadoes, hail, and extreme heat. It’s a challenge for sure and well worth it in my opinion if the fruit is any good.
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