Couple of points: avocado trees are self-fertile. But because of the of time difference of the male/female functionality, they require a pollinator that can bridge the time gap, or you can hand pollinate with a cotton tipped applicator or a small paint brush. For years I've had a Fantastic avocado tree that I pollinated by hand. Fantastic is a type A avocado tree. It blooms in very early spring while it is still in the greenhouse. On years that I did not pollinate by hand, I got tons of flowers but no fruit. The years that I did hand pollinate I got fruit every time. I simply brush every open flower with the cotton tipped applicator regardless of the time of the day collecting pollen in the afternoons and depositing pollen in the mornings. I only have the one avocado tree. The greenhouse is kept closed because the tree blooms so early in the year that it is much too cold for the tree, so I'm certain no pollinators were bringing pollen from other avocado trees into the greenhouse. Besides I live in a remote area where there are no avocado trees anywhere around. The second point is that if you use an air pump with an air stone in the aquarium you germinate your avocado seeds in, they will grow much more rapidly and produce stronger and more roots.
I'm 8 months in on my Avocado tree from seed. I understand it might not produce good fruit, but I wanted to give it a go. I chucked the avo pit in a pot with soil and kept it watered. It took 3 months for it to sprout up top, but now 8 months in and it's taller than me (190cm).
Same here. I threw mine out in the soil in disgust after it failed to sprout in water, but about 10 weeks later someone asked me …. what was that plant I was growing?! It was AN AVO!!!! Couldn’t believe it. It’s growing in a pot now. About 60cm high
There is a very small chance that the avocados that you get from seed actually taste better than the tree the seed came from. This is how you get new varieties of avocados! This is the beauty of growing them from seed - you are playing the game of genetics!
I have a seed grown avocado tree from a haas pit, it's 5-6 years old. Had its first flowers last year and has its first fruit this year pollinated by ladybugs on the one tree. They are currently about 2cm in diameter. Looking forward to find out what they turn out like..
@@shrimuyopa8117may i ask why? Ive always been curious and i never understood it, how did people eat it before? Was grafting the norm for our entire history? Thank you in advance😅
@@MineCraft-nz9pg I have watched some videos of guys saying it is highly unlikely and they professionally grew grafted avocado trees. Then just a couple of days ago I saw a video of a guy who actually grew one and he said the fruit was good. He also said that he had heard multiple stories of other people getting good results too. So maybe I was misled! I don't know.
Thanks for keeping up with this, Scott. I don't get to watch every video anymore but watching both you and your trees grow and mature has been and still is such a gift. The trees may take 10 years to produce, but the real fruit is right here, buddy.
Growing gems and hass in az, in my 3rd year growing from seed. I hope to plant in the ground in the fall. The heat here is brutal on them, hoping they take well. I have about 40 trees. I enjoy your channel.
Growing from cuttings will give you the same tasting fruit of that tree, from what I understand. Haas are pretty easy to grow from seed but I easily have grown Grande Avocado trees from cuttings. Those trees will start with multiple stems and you just clip those off and propagate. Then in just a couple years you can graft to speed things up. I grow a lot of trees from seed, all kinds of trees and avocado trees seem to grow sooo fast. My location is terrible though, recent freeze and drought..it's a real pain. Great video, man! I'm debating whether I should plant an avocado tree against a north facing wall right now..I'm so afraid to plant in the sun after this INSANE Texas heat I am still dealing with. I just hope partial sun is okay.
Awesome video! Loved to hear your insight on grafting! I’m super interested in both grafting some of my avocado trees as well as letting some of them grow straight from seed. Love your videos as always!
As I outlined in the second half of this video - grafting is excellent! ✂️🌱 I am yet to graft any trees myself, I’m waiting for my nursery-bought trees to get a little larger before I start chopping branches off (and they got hammered last year when I brought them home by a heatwave and a freak storm which caused a bit of damage). You can be sure that I’ll make a video when I eventually get there! 🪴🥑
I did learn a few things, but I specially liked your project and hope you keep enjoying and growing from the whole process. I also think that this is already in need to be individually applied and will be even more in the future. So as your actual harvest of your avocados, I bet you'll see the digital fruits of your efforts and documentation as well. Cheer mate!
thanks so much for this channel. I've got about 10 seeds in various growth states now.. .and I'm hoping to live long enough to get fruit from one of them.. but if not, I do enjoy the process of growing them, and your channel has helped so much in the understanding of how to treat them.. and I've only watched 3 or 4 so far.. thanks again
Thanks! I've been able to start 2 trees from pits from watching your videos! I appreciate you sharing. And 100% agree "...the journey is the most beautiful part."
I have a very big avocado tree grown from seed that I show in my channel. The most asked question is if it gives fruit :). I agree with you that I am in it for the journey, when I first planted seeds, I just wanted to see if i could grow a tree. I never thought about the fruits, although the mystery of what it would produce is kinda exciting :).
I have seen a few amazing seedlings with excellent fruit but I see even more that don't seem to fruit in my area. I would recommend buying grafted tree first and then perhaps growing a seedling if someone has the space.
A lady at a nursery said its best to shade a relocated avacado tree for the first 3 to 5 years until its established. Then the top part of the tree can shade the trunk and the lower leaves. So my avacado trees grown from seed is growing super fast and branching out b itself. It's already growing bark and only 1 year old. It's branched out already multiple times and it's looking like trees now. Standing like 1 meter tall. This is growing under shade cloth. The leaves always stand up perky. Only time they droop is if they tell me they need some water. I will keep them in shade for up to 5 years.
subscribed!! Your passion for this makes me excited and want a whole garden of avocado trees now! Thank you for your clear explanations! I'll be following your journey as I start mine.
I grew an avocado tree and it gave me fruits after three years!! I'm from Puerto Rico. It could have given fruit after 4 or 5 years!!! It doesn't take 10 years!!!!
I grow a lot of trees from seed . Most are ok to eat however if you have another tree of same species you can use a bad outcome as rootstock by grafting. Or buy budwood that is much cheaper
I grew one from seed last winter and it was looking good but then it died when I put it outside on my porch over the summer. Think I will try again even if it doesn't fruit I have a pretty houseplant 🤷♀️
Thank you, that was very educational Thank you for taking the time to explain in detail I like to grow all sorts of seeds. I live in the process, but I live in a small flat. I don't know what to do with them after they grow as small trees. Can you give me any ideas, please
Thanks for all the information 👍. Now I'm disappointed because I planted one from seed.Not only I have to wait for a long time and don't even know get quality I'm going to get from that tree.Anyway I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and information. Very much appreciated 👍
Hello. I placed an avocado seed on top of my aquarium overhead sump last April 15, and it's growing really fast. In two and a half months it's already 75 cm tall. Can I just wrap bonsai wire on it and keep it in the sump?
Wow! This was a really thorough and clear explanation of the subject! :D Learned a lot! I was looking for exactly this since I was wondering if if would make any sense keeping all the avocado seeds I collected :P If you are grafting, do the tree grown from seed and the graft need to be from the same variety? Or maybe even from the same tree? Or could you use them interchangeably? E.g. graft a hass scion to a bacon seedling? Good luck with the project! I will be rooting for you (like the avocados)! Wheheh ;) :P Only Love!!!
Hello! I saw you on “Pam Pretty Plants” and loved your episode with her. This video is my first of yours that I have watched. Wow! This was such AWESOME information!!!!! Also your video is amazingly put together! I thought I was watching a Netflix documentary for a minute! Hahaha! Love it!
The creator of the hass planted a couple of seeds for grafting, but the seedling that became the hass the graft failed so in his frustration he just decided to plant the tree in the ground at his home as a decorative tree, Eventually he was gonna cut it down but his daughter who liked to eat the avocados told him not to and he tried them too and they became the next big hit. point is it’s not like 1/10,000 like some people say it’s probably way higher probably closer to 1/10 or 1/5 of trees will produce good fruits.
I hadn’t heard this story! Thanks for sharing :) I would be very interested in doing the maths on the likelihood of getting reasonable fruit - but that’s a long experiment to run!
@@ScottGrowsanAvocadoTree yeah the hass was a unintentional creation, I keep hearing stories of a lot of people that in their countries they only plant from seed and they get good avocados. from it and alot of people seem to attest that their family members or people they know have planted good trees from seed even just one seed from a heirloom tree when moving and every time it was a good tree. so I dunno if I trust people who sell grafts like that guy in Florida about the chance of good fruit. They have a financial interest in telling you it’s a fruitless endeavor. Or perhaps it’s certain cultivars that have a better gene pool and produce a good one every time, who knows.
Hey Scott, I'm writing to you in hopes that you can help me with a quick response on my situation: I've recently started to grow indoor avocado seeds through the toothpick/water method. One of my seeds has started to develop white mildew on the bottom part of the avocado seed (the flat part that touches the water). Through a few quick google searches, I've seen that you can make a "natural fungicide" by combining 1tbsp of Baking Soda, 1/2 tbsp of dish soap and 4L of water. I did that today (October 21, 2022). Is there anything else I can do to make sure that my beautiful avocado seed stays healthy? Should I be trying other natural fungicides? I'm fairly new to plants and would appreciate any advice. Hope to hear back soon. Thanks, F.
I watched an avocado “farmer” & he said the avocado will taste like the mother fruit IF you wait for it’s 4-5th year of fruiting. But I’ve not got that far yet.
So there is no way to get two different grafted strains to produce a seed that would have good fruit? It seems if you had two good strains they should both have decent enough genetics to make seeds with yum avos. Just a thought. So weird 😂 Liked and subbed! 👍
From my current understanding, it ~should~ be possible. There are folks who graft multiple apple varieties onto the same root stock; the same with citrus - but I haven’t yet seen anyone do it to avocados. In saying that, I expect it should be possible!
The slim chance an avocado will be good is sort of a myth. There is actually a decent chance a home grower will get a tree that has an avocado they enjoy eating. The slim to none chance came from commercial growers trying to find a similar or better avocado than what they are selling. This is a lot harder as commercial growers need a lot of traits that home growers could care less about such as small seeds and less damage when shipping. Home growers would need neither of those to enjoy a good tasting avocado grown at home.
That’s true! The varieties of pretty well all fruits grown on trees we get in the supermarket (or have been named) grow from grafted stock, but the graft could be traced back to the original tree which was grown from seed.
Is it possible to harvest pollen from a tree then brush the same tree when it turns female? I would imagine there will be some crossover of male/female action in the middle of the day anyway. Or is the pollen incompatible?
@@ScottGrowsanAvocadoTree Especially for a big tree I would imagine. My seedling won't be doing much before I pop my clogs anyway but it would be nice to leave a beautiful tree for future generations.
I'd nitpick on some details but I wonder if it's just not worth it. In reality, self-pollination does happen and I've had it happen, it's just not common esp. without insects (typ. bees) around. Also, both A and B are first female then male, in precisely 2 days, with flowers in sync within the same tree... except (very curious natural fallback mechanism!) when temperatures are a bit too low, then the flowering becomes erratic and self-pollination more possible. It's as if avocado trees evolved to strongly prefer cross pollination, but self-pollination is still possible. They're like the flora equivalent of turkeys. The fact that the order is female to male makes self-pollination through bees a lot less likely than cross-pollination with other trees. However A-A and B-B cross-pollination happens relatively often, it's not strictly true you need both A and B, it just works much better but several same-type trees in close proximity will give you some fruit pretty much every year. Just not a lot usually.
I planted an avocado from fruit five years ago and it only started to fruit this year. There's not a single avocado tree where i am for miles. Not sure how it is fruiting now?
It’s because the male flowers don’t instantly become female flowers at midday. There is a period where some flowers are male and some are female as they change sexes. We get hundreds of fruit off of just one tree
S that tree coming? I grew a tree and had it over 20 years grew from seed that never gave me fruit. Beautiful tree 15 foot. I'm buying a tree this year
scott i have a question do you know why avocado leaves can be pale green? because i have this younger avocado aside from my big one its in pretty big pot but when i cut it the new growth has pale green leaves not the usual green we are used to with avocados
Yep, you should be able to do that. When you prune a tree it allows it to use more of its energy to grow the fruit since it is not creating as many new branches.
hey scott, so i have been growing an avocado using the toothpick method for about a month, and it has about a 3 inch root, and today i accidentally dropped it and it split in half, will it survive?
Hi Scott love your videos on avocado trees, I'm in Cape Town South Africa and bought 2 grafted avocado trees, a Hass and a Feurte, we going into our winter when can I plant it in the ground, thank you, will wait for the grafting video also
Why shouldn't they??? Have you ever grow any plant? This is such noob question that chids usually ask. The true to seed argument shows when a person knows about plants or not... such thing doesn't exist. All plants will produce seeds that are genetic mix of the parents of such fruit. So it all depends on the impollinators. If the hass avocado got impollinated by a bad tasting variety then it's almost certain that the seed will produce a worst fruit, if it was a good avocado you can probably get a better quality fruit. Still the fruits will all be good, most of the times. Anyway nice explaination of the avocado impollination process. If not impollinated avocadoes still produce small seedless fruits that are very tasty if not better. No one wants the same fruit everytime, it's boring and common. The beauty of growing your fruit trees is that you have your own genetics and your own special tree that has special fruits with unique flavours. Grafting for gardens is wrong, it's something you do in business for production, not for home. Unless you are starving and need to start producing food in less than 5 years. Grafting doesn't guarantee quality, it actually reduce quality becouse the trees are weaker if grafted. If you want a good quality seed you should know the father and the mother of the fruit, that's all. I agree with the time and appreciate that you are at lest trying to grow from seed, thz.
All I hear is not to grow different plants from seed because they won't be the same. This is bad, because the more seeds we plant the more diversity we get. That makes germinating seeds fun, plus you can get all kinds of different flavors. If everyone grew their own seeds, 100% we would eventually find fruit better than the mother plant.
So it’s like when really good-looking people have a child, the child may not look like them at all because the parents may have had a ton of plastic surgery and those features that make them good-looking aren’t passed down. Lol maybe not? Sorta? Haha
Couple of points: avocado trees are self-fertile. But because of the of time difference of the male/female functionality, they require a pollinator that can bridge the time gap, or you can hand pollinate with a cotton tipped applicator or a small paint brush. For years I've had a Fantastic avocado tree that I pollinated by hand. Fantastic is a type A avocado tree. It blooms in very early spring while it is still in the greenhouse. On years that I did not pollinate by hand, I got tons of flowers but no fruit. The years that I did hand pollinate I got fruit every time. I simply brush every open flower with the cotton tipped applicator regardless of the time of the day collecting pollen in the afternoons and depositing pollen in the mornings. I only have the one avocado tree. The greenhouse is kept closed because the tree blooms so early in the year that it is much too cold for the tree, so I'm certain no pollinators were bringing pollen from other avocado trees into the greenhouse. Besides I live in a remote area where there are no avocado trees anywhere around. The second point is that if you use an air pump with an air stone in the aquarium you germinate your avocado seeds in, they will grow much more rapidly and produce stronger and more roots.
I'm 8 months in on my Avocado tree from seed. I understand it might not produce good fruit, but I wanted to give it a go. I chucked the avo pit in a pot with soil and kept it watered. It took 3 months for it to sprout up top, but now 8 months in and it's taller than me (190cm).
All trees are supposed to grow in soil. Not a cup of water. You don't put toothpicks into a banana, and soak it in a cup of water.
Same here. I threw mine out in the soil in disgust after it failed to sprout in water, but about 10 weeks later someone asked me …. what was that plant I was growing?! It was AN AVO!!!! Couldn’t believe it. It’s growing in a pot now. About 60cm high
I've been growing mine for years and it's only above my waist. Very interesting
It will bare fruit, but the taste of it is the question.
Update? I'm thinking about starting to plant one
There is a very small chance that the avocados that you get from seed actually taste better than the tree the seed came from. This is how you get new varieties of avocados! This is the beauty of growing them from seed - you are playing the game of genetics!
It is like a one in a million chance that it tastes better though. Unfortunately.
My avocado tree has taken 20 years to fruit! This year I had eight! Yay!
I have a seed grown avocado tree from a haas pit, it's 5-6 years old. Had its first flowers last year and has its first fruit this year pollinated by ladybugs on the one tree. They are currently about 2cm in diameter. Looking forward to find out what they turn out like..
Did you graft any branches onto it? Because if not, I can almost guarantee that fruit is going to be almost inedible.
@@shrimuyopa8117may i ask why? Ive always been curious and i never understood it, how did people eat it before? Was grafting the norm for our entire history? Thank you in advance😅
@@rosanna3965 I wish I knew too lol.
@@shrimuyopa8117 oh the 1/1000000 chance of a good fruit? I doubt thats even true
@@MineCraft-nz9pg I have watched some videos of guys saying it is highly unlikely and they professionally grew grafted avocado trees. Then just a couple of days ago I saw a video of a guy who actually grew one and he said the fruit was good. He also said that he had heard multiple stories of other people getting good results too.
So maybe I was misled! I don't know.
Thanks for keeping up with this, Scott. I don't get to watch every video anymore but watching both you and your trees grow and mature has been and still is such a gift. The trees may take 10 years to produce, but the real fruit is right here, buddy.
I did learn more about avocado trees by watching this video. So thank you very much.
I’m very pleased to hear that! ☺️🥑🪴 thanks for saying so
Growing gems and hass in az, in my 3rd year growing from seed. I hope to plant in the ground in the fall. The heat here is brutal on them, hoping they take well. I have about 40 trees. I enjoy your channel.
Thanks. I think you're absolutely right about buying one at a nursery. 😊
Growing from cuttings will give you the same tasting fruit of that tree, from what I understand. Haas are pretty easy to grow from seed but I easily have grown Grande Avocado trees from cuttings. Those trees will start with multiple stems and you just clip those off and propagate. Then in just a couple years you can graft to speed things up. I grow a lot of trees from seed, all kinds of trees and avocado trees seem to grow sooo fast. My location is terrible though, recent freeze and drought..it's a real pain.
Great video, man! I'm debating whether I should plant an avocado tree against a north facing wall right now..I'm so afraid to plant in the sun after this INSANE Texas heat I am still dealing with. I just hope partial sun is okay.
Awesome video! Loved to hear your insight on grafting! I’m super interested in both grafting some of my avocado trees as well as letting some of them grow straight from seed. Love your videos as always!
As I outlined in the second half of this video - grafting is excellent! ✂️🌱
I am yet to graft any trees myself, I’m waiting for my nursery-bought trees to get a little larger before I start chopping branches off (and they got hammered last year when I brought them home by a heatwave and a freak storm which caused a bit of damage).
You can be sure that I’ll make a video when I eventually get there! 🪴🥑
@@ScottGrowsanAvocadoTree Very cool, I can’t wait to see your process when you graft them!
I did learn a few things, but I specially liked your project and hope you keep enjoying and growing from the whole process. I also think that this is already in need to be individually applied and will be even more in the future. So as your actual harvest of your avocados, I bet you'll see the digital fruits of your efforts and documentation as well. Cheer mate!
Scott, great video, thanks! ❤
thanks so much for this channel. I've got about 10 seeds in various growth states now.. .and I'm hoping to live long enough to get fruit from one of them.. but if not, I do enjoy the process of growing them, and your channel has helped so much in the understanding of how to treat them.. and I've only watched 3 or 4 so far.. thanks again
Thanks! I've been able to start 2 trees from pits from watching your videos! I appreciate you sharing. And 100% agree "...the journey is the most beautiful part."
Thank you for the Super Thanks! I’m so glad my videos have been helpful - I hope you continue to enjoy the journey! ☺️🪴🥑
I have a very big avocado tree grown from seed that I show in my channel. The most asked question is if it gives fruit :).
I agree with you that I am in it for the journey, when I first planted seeds, I just wanted to see if i could grow a tree. I never thought about the fruits, although the mystery of what it would produce is kinda exciting :).
So you need a male and female?
Are you in a cold country?
I planted one in a pot about three months ago Wow it's growing 🥰
Did you cut it yet?
@@Pippie5555 not yet still allowing the poor thing to suck up the sun 🤣😂😆
UK avocado 🤣😂😆😂
🤔🙄🥴 Maybe it's only growing because I look Mexican 🤣😂😆😂😆😂😭😭😭
This was extraordinarily helpful, so informative! Thank you :)
Glad it was helpful! ☺️🥑
Amazing & informative video thank you very much for sharing this video
I have seen a few amazing seedlings with excellent fruit but I see even more that don't seem to fruit in my area.
I would recommend buying grafted tree first and then perhaps growing a seedling if someone has the space.
A lady at a nursery said its best to shade a relocated avacado tree for the first 3 to 5 years until its established. Then the top part of the tree can shade the trunk and the lower leaves. So my avacado trees grown from seed is growing super fast and branching out b itself. It's already growing bark and only 1 year old. It's branched out already multiple times and it's looking like trees now. Standing like 1 meter tall. This is growing under shade cloth. The leaves always stand up perky. Only time they droop is if they tell me they need some water. I will keep them in shade for up to 5 years.
Omg this guys channel has been the best I've watched to learn how to grow my plant. 😊
Hey Scott, this was a very well done, educational video! (The theme song is brilliant too!)
Hi Scott! :) Awesome drawings! I am learning from you & building a sort of youtube friendship hopefully. See ya next time! Have an awesome week!
Thank you, Aimee! I always appreciate reading your comments ☺️ I hope you’re doing well! ☺️🥑
subscribed!! Your passion for this makes me excited and want a whole garden of avocado trees now! Thank you for your clear explanations! I'll be following your journey as I start mine.
I grew an avocado tree and it gave me fruits after three years!! I'm from Puerto Rico. It could have given fruit after 4 or 5 years!!! It doesn't take 10 years!!!!
Did they taste good? I'm curious and trying to ask people who have grown theirs from seeds
So wonderful! Excellent info!!
I grow a lot of trees from seed . Most are ok to eat however if you have another tree of same species you can use a bad outcome as rootstock by grafting. Or buy budwood that is much cheaper
I grew one from seed last winter and it was looking good but then it died when I put it outside on my porch over the summer. Think I will try again even if it doesn't fruit I have a pretty houseplant 🤷♀️
Oh no! I'm sorry to hear that.
They're certainly beautiful plants :)
Thanks so much. Yes, I am learning so much from each of your videos.
So interesting !
Thanks for the videos. I think I’ll give it a try.
Looks challenging, interesting, and fun.
Do avocado trees’ roots grow sucker shoots when the main tree senses a need to survive?
Yeah bought 2 Avo trees. Can't wait from seed, and 10 years.
I planted avocado tree from seed and it has grown in tall tree but no fruit since 2year what should I do
Your editing skills always amaze me!!
Some Arabic country the non grafting avocado take just 5 years to give fruits some take just 7 . I think the wheather play also.
Still rooting for you to grow an avocado tree!
Rooting 😂
Thank you, that was very educational
Thank you for taking the time to explain in detail
I like to grow all sorts of seeds. I live in the process, but I live in a small flat. I don't know what to do with them after they grow as small trees. Can you give me any ideas, please
Thanks for all the information 👍. Now I'm disappointed because I planted one from seed.Not only I have to wait for a long time and don't even know get quality I'm going to get from that tree.Anyway I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and information. Very much appreciated 👍
What if you graft two avocado trees of different plants together ?
Hello. I placed an avocado seed on top of my aquarium overhead sump last April 15, and it's growing really fast. In two and a half months it's already 75 cm tall.
Can I just wrap bonsai wire on it and keep it in the sump?
Very helpful video thanks
Wow! This was a really thorough and clear explanation of the subject! :D Learned a lot! I was looking for exactly this since I was wondering if if would make any sense keeping all the avocado seeds I collected :P
If you are grafting, do the tree grown from seed and the graft need to be from the same variety? Or maybe even from the same tree? Or could you use them interchangeably? E.g. graft a hass scion to a bacon seedling?
Good luck with the project! I will be rooting for you (like the avocados)! Wheheh ;) :P
Only Love!!!
I know that almond growers will graft scion on to different types of (root stock) fruit trees such as peach trees.
Hello! I saw you on “Pam Pretty Plants” and loved your episode with her. This video is my first of yours that I have watched. Wow! This was such AWESOME information!!!!! Also your video is amazingly put together! I thought I was watching a Netflix documentary for a minute! Hahaha! Love it!
Thank you so much! Welcome to the channel :)
Do you need to root prune manually an avocado growing in container at some point ?
hi Scott, thanks forall the info,it's great. Just wonder if we can graft both avocado trees that were planted from seeds?
Thanks for the information Brother 😎👍💯
The hass avocado tree that has the flowers during spring, how old is that one, & did you start that one from seed?
Hi Scott, If you root a cut from a desired tree (haas) do you still need to graft for fast fruiting?
Ive sprouted a few seeds, should i buy a quality tree with good fruit and just use these seeds i sprouted as pollinating trees?
The creator of the hass planted a couple of seeds for grafting, but the seedling that became the hass the graft failed so in his frustration he just decided to plant the tree in the ground at his home as a decorative tree, Eventually he was gonna cut it down but his daughter who liked to eat the avocados told him not to and he tried them too and they became the next big hit. point is it’s not like 1/10,000 like some people say it’s probably way higher probably closer to 1/10 or 1/5 of trees will produce good fruits.
I hadn’t heard this story! Thanks for sharing :)
I would be very interested in doing the maths on the likelihood of getting reasonable fruit - but that’s a long experiment to run!
@@ScottGrowsanAvocadoTree yeah the hass was a unintentional creation,
I keep hearing stories of a lot of people that in their countries they only plant from seed and they get good avocados. from it and alot of people seem to attest that their family members or people they know have planted good trees from seed even just one seed from a heirloom tree when moving and every time it was a good tree.
so I dunno if I trust people who sell grafts like that guy in Florida about the chance of good fruit.
They have a financial interest in telling you it’s a fruitless endeavor. Or perhaps it’s certain cultivars that have a better gene pool and produce a good one every time, who knows.
Hey Scott,
I'm writing to you in hopes that you can help me with a quick response on my situation: I've recently started to grow indoor avocado seeds through the toothpick/water method. One of my seeds has started to develop white mildew on the bottom part of the avocado seed (the flat part that touches the water).
Through a few quick google searches, I've seen that you can make a "natural fungicide" by combining 1tbsp of Baking Soda, 1/2 tbsp of dish soap and 4L of water.
I did that today (October 21, 2022). Is there anything else I can do to make sure that my beautiful avocado seed stays healthy? Should I be trying other natural fungicides?
I'm fairly new to plants and would appreciate any advice.
Hope to hear back soon.
Thanks,
F.
Awesome video.
Do you trim an tree down to no leaves? I learned a lot. 3:50pm
You can, but don’t have to 🥑☺️
Hi in the west indies we plan
t avoado and we don't take 10 yeard to get ftuit for the most 3 years
I watched an avocado “farmer” & he said the avocado will taste like the mother fruit IF you wait for it’s 4-5th year of fruiting. But I’ve not got that far yet.
So, if i plant haas variety and backn variety from seeds , will the trees produce fruits ?
In the night both flowers are open go round with a make up brush and make avocados baby’s
Ty..
I’m curious if I can graft different varieties to one root stock?
Great video
So there is no way to get two different grafted strains to produce a seed that would have good fruit? It seems if you had two good strains they should both have decent enough genetics to make seeds with yum avos. Just a thought. So weird 😂
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From my current understanding, it ~should~ be possible. There are folks who graft multiple apple varieties onto the same root stock; the same with citrus - but I haven’t yet seen anyone do it to avocados. In saying that, I expect it should be possible!
The slim chance an avocado will be good is sort of a myth. There is actually a decent chance a home grower will get a tree that has an avocado they enjoy eating. The slim to none chance came from commercial growers trying to find a similar or better avocado than what they are selling. This is a lot harder as commercial growers need a lot of traits that home growers could care less about such as small seeds and less damage when shipping. Home growers would need neither of those to enjoy a good tasting avocado grown at home.
From do you have branches of anult avo ???
To graft ?
The original Hass was grown from a seed.
That’s true! The varieties of pretty well all fruits grown on trees we get in the supermarket (or have been named) grow from grafted stock, but the graft could be traced back to the original tree which was grown from seed.
I live in high heat. April in 90s. Is it to late to trim the top leaves?
Hello Scott, Does pruning always have to be so aggressive?
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Is it possible to harvest pollen from a tree then brush the same tree when it turns female? I would imagine there will be some crossover of male/female action in the middle of the day anyway. Or is the pollen incompatible?
Manual pollination is possible, but tricky!
@@ScottGrowsanAvocadoTree Especially for a big tree I would imagine. My seedling won't be doing much before I pop my clogs anyway but it would be nice to leave a beautiful tree for future generations.
I'd nitpick on some details but I wonder if it's just not worth it. In reality, self-pollination does happen and I've had it happen, it's just not common esp. without insects (typ. bees) around. Also, both A and B are first female then male, in precisely 2 days, with flowers in sync within the same tree... except (very curious natural fallback mechanism!) when temperatures are a bit too low, then the flowering becomes erratic and self-pollination more possible. It's as if avocado trees evolved to strongly prefer cross pollination, but self-pollination is still possible. They're like the flora equivalent of turkeys.
The fact that the order is female to male makes self-pollination through bees a lot less likely than cross-pollination with other trees. However A-A and B-B cross-pollination happens relatively often, it's not strictly true you need both A and B, it just works much better but several same-type trees in close proximity will give you some fruit pretty much every year. Just not a lot usually.
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I planted an avocado from fruit five years ago and it only started to fruit this year. There's not a single avocado tree where i am for miles. Not sure how it is fruiting now?
How does it taste
It’s because the male flowers don’t instantly become female flowers at midday. There is a period where some flowers are male and some are female as they change sexes. We get hundreds of fruit off of just one tree
I didn’t think that you can put the seed into an aquarium.
S that tree coming? I grew a tree and had it over 20 years grew from seed that never gave me fruit. Beautiful tree 15 foot. I'm buying a tree this year
Can we grow avocado in black soil
I had no idea Jared Leto was growing Avocado trees.
scott i have a question do you know why avocado leaves can be pale green? because i have this younger avocado aside from my big one its in pretty big pot but when i cut it the new growth has pale green leaves not the usual green we are used to with avocados
Can I grow an avocado tree indoors to fruit? Including pruning to keep it under 8 ft.
Yep, you should be able to do that. When you prune a tree it allows it to use more of its energy to grow the fruit since it is not creating as many new branches.
@@krissebesta Thank you!
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hey scott, so i have been growing an avocado using the toothpick method for about a month, and it has about a 3 inch root, and today i accidentally dropped it and it split in half, will it survive?
hey, how did it go?? my guess is that it did survive if you kept it
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Hi Scott love your videos on avocado trees, I'm in Cape Town South Africa and bought 2 grafted avocado trees, a Hass and a Feurte, we going into our winter when can I plant it in the ground, thank you, will wait for the grafting video also
I only get my avocado from Chipotle 😢
Why shouldn't they??? Have you ever grow any plant? This is such noob question that chids usually ask.
The true to seed argument shows when a person knows about plants or not... such thing doesn't exist.
All plants will produce seeds that are genetic mix of the parents of such fruit. So it all depends on the impollinators.
If the hass avocado got impollinated by a bad tasting variety then it's almost certain that the seed will produce a worst fruit, if it was a good avocado you can probably get a better quality fruit. Still the fruits will all be good, most of the times.
Anyway nice explaination of the avocado impollination process.
If not impollinated avocadoes still produce small seedless fruits that are very tasty if not better.
No one wants the same fruit everytime, it's boring and common. The beauty of growing your fruit trees is that you have your own genetics and your own special tree that has special fruits with unique flavours.
Grafting for gardens is wrong, it's something you do in business for production, not for home. Unless you are starving and need to start producing food in less than 5 years.
Grafting doesn't guarantee quality, it actually reduce quality becouse the trees are weaker if grafted. If you want a good quality seed you should know the father and the mother of the fruit, that's all.
I agree with the time and appreciate that you are at lest trying to grow from seed, thz.
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All I hear is not to grow different plants from seed because they won't be the same. This is bad, because the more seeds we plant the more diversity we get. That makes germinating seeds fun, plus you can get all kinds of different flavors. If everyone grew their own seeds, 100% we would eventually find fruit better than the mother plant.
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Edit: hermaphrodite avacados
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Bare?
So it’s like when really good-looking people have a child, the child may not look like them at all because the parents may have had a ton of plastic surgery and those features that make them good-looking aren’t passed down. Lol maybe not? Sorta? Haha
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Hass is American. Take away the 'H' and how would an American say that? Same pronunciation with the 'H'.
Hermaphrodite 😆
It did for me
Yes or No?
you know you can get married to yourself if your in love
Wow. I knew about the time and commitment avocado trees take But i guess i should start up to 6 trees and see how these odds turn out for me xD
Great video
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