Bro this guy is the fkn GOAT. Holy crap. Came to youtube looking for answers to a programming question, came away with grafting knowledge for avocado tree's. Didn't know I needed it, but I am now pivoting from coding to farming.
Bonjour ! It only takes one video to make me want to watch all the videos on your channel. You taught me more than most French channels. Thanks a lot. Sorry for my bad English.
Great information again. I have two avocado trees that are producing but not the same fruit as I planted. Gonna graft them pretty soon because I got the hang of the grafting & getting successful results. I learned so much from you. Thanks in a million. God bless you.
Thx very much for sharing.. I live in the Caribbean and have one pear tree that produce about 12 pears. Could you say when they are ready to pick.. What to look for?? Smile. Thx
Lucky me, my grandfather planted two Hass trees 70 plus years ago in the back yard. They produce fat soft ball size fruit every year. I maintain them now. Use organic bat guano every January. Both trees stand a good 40 feet tall. They love to grow north and west. Must trim them back several times a year.
I was raised in Bethlehem, Tauranga New Zealand. The local avocado trees there were two storey high, huge fruit. The leaves over shadowed the orchard. It was just a every day thing having beautiful avocados on toast daily. I believe those trees are no longer there for housing. Even feijoa trees were of stature, palm size feijoas. The local Caucasian community were excellent growers
Hello sir question. Can you grow a avacado tree from a rooted cutting? Or airlayering. I have tried and failed. The internet say yes and no. The cuttings won't root or the cuttings will not have a tap root. I don't have patience to grow from seed. But I have bought many trees that always end up dying. Usually do to root rot. Right now I have a Ooh la la verity basically a super hass I think. Any advise im in zone 9b corpus christi tx.
MY STORY - Grew my Bacon Avocado tree from a seed from my parent trees. Took around 6 years to get Avocados. It's 12 years old and 15 feet tall now (I topped it). I get around 150 large avocados a year now. I spray the buds with honey water for bees to pollinate the flowers. Which increased my fruit production tremendously.
I have many fruit trees and yearly bears fruit abundantly. Pollinating and self pollinating as I have seen it thru many years of experience in a tropical country like the Philippines. My avocado tree bears fruit once. A good harvest but on the second year it never bears fruit until now 2024. The tree is almost 25 years old. I used the leaves as my regular tea and it helps me maintain my health. Thank you for sharing your experience. ❤
Just a comment for avocado growers in general. Not necessarily a Tom issue... I would love a spot where we can buy scions from and get different varieties. Its hard to find varieties. Especially since we are seeing more cold hardy varieties becoming available. Would be great to get my hands on some. (Tom does sell them but he is only one man with a decent orchard. He can't sustain cuttings for everyone)
I went to a worm farmers place who had a 2 year old avocado in a very cold climate and it was taller than those big trees behind this guy. It had avos and the Australian CSIRO were VERY interested.. His answer was Worm castings Lots of WORM castings all over the base where the roots are.. He didn't graft, and his tree was full of avos and annoying him.. 2 yrs 12ft tall worm casting kept the soil warm even when some leaves were dying of frost... warm roots is like warm blood Id say.. The place was Griffith Australia cold and hot.... it does snow there and the year I was there it had frozen sleet on all car windows. Cold enough to kill leaves. I originally thought it was 5 years old but it was 2.. I was wondering why 5 wasn't so surprising when I wrote it..
If you scroll around the comments on my videos you'll find all kinds of claims about worm casings. The climate in Griffith Australia does not go below freezing. Avocados will thrive there.
What can i do with my,8 avacado trees that are 20 and 25 years old,and never flower or bear. Just keep it as wind breakers😂?i did grow them from seeds.I feed them with fertilizer but they are as tall as ever,very green and healthy.
I bought a reproducing grafted set (one Cold Hardy and one Haas) in November 2022. Babied them through the Christmas freeze. 4 ft tall, the Cold hardy has four or five marble sized fruit, the Haas 3 smaller fruit.
Thanks a lot sleepy lizard.. you remind me of my late father. At the age of 7, my father used to towed me along in his small acre of farm, doing those grafting / budding technique. I learned it by just watching him but never i take it seriously coz I have other dreams to take. Also i hve no idea why he was doing it, until i come across with youtr content. I wish to try it. God bless..
I have 2 trees in pots in GA , 1 is 7 years 1 is 3 I got tired of waiting , I finally grafted this year , I hope to have fruit one day !🤞🥑 great video !!
Great video! I just received my scions so I’m excited to graft! Just curious, tho, why you didn’t wrap the entire scion in Parafilm? Every video I’ve watched on grafting, the scion is fully wrapped. Thanks!
Sometimes we wrap the whole Scion in parafilm. The answer to your question is I didn’t have any parafilm.🤣 There’s some other vids on my channel you’ll see the scions all wrapped in parafilm
Sir, I grow a avocado tree and it about 3 to 4 years old a healthy tree. How can I can get fruit from it. I don't have a young tree for crafting. Das , Pk
Great to see all of your new content. We’ve binged watched just about your entire channel over the weekend. Are you open to the public, and is there an address to visit your farm? And are you still offering classes? The website still shows most items are out of stock. Thank you for all the great content! My girlfriend and I have learned so much from you!
Hi Perry, thanks for the comment. We host visitors all the time but I'm not off a main road so I don't get people dropping in or anything like that. If you'd like to come by send me a text and we can set something up. I'll start up the classes again in the fall. And yes, my early season fruit will be for sale in about 10 days but everything else got sold out during the pandemic and I wasn't able to replant new inventory due to our house fire.
Quick question. Can I plant similar Avocados in my field. Let say Hass or Monroe avocados or is it necessary to grow Mix Avocados in the field for pollinaiton?
We bought a Lula avacado tree from a local nursery a few months ago. Is there a way to tell if it was grafted or just grown from seed? Its already about 3 feet tall.
if it's labeled "Lula" then it had to have been grafted. you can't call it a specific variety unless it was grafted. to be sure look for a grafting scar down toward the bottom. Lula is a great choice by the way. my favorite
@@SleepyLizard about a week going on week 2, since I grafted it. While the original plant of the avocado was approximately 10months old. Did I wasted it?
yes or grow the seedlings yourself. then again for two acres you're looking at maybe 80 trees which you can buy grafted for less than 1500 and get a several year head start on production.
I need help, I had a grafted Hass from Home Depot and after 2 years it gave fruit, unfortunately I had to relocate the tree which I had planted in the ground, after relocating it went dormant, now after 1 year it started growing, the only problem is I don’t know if the new growth is from the OG graft or seed, because there is a dead stump towards the bottom, the tree has grown to about 6 feet and it seems to be flowering, how can I tell if it will produce fruit or if I should graft onto the tree since it’s the seed growing, I hope this makes sense.
Jim, if it's flowering and only 3 or 4 years old it's almost certainly from the grafted portion. Avocados trees take 10 or more years to reach sexual maturity so if you have growth from below the graft flowering the tree will have to be at least 10 years old and yours is not that old yet. Hopefully it fruits this season.
As always you always come through with a response, that’s really admirable not everyone on RUclips takes the time to reply, but you do, may you continue to grow prosperous and continue to educate us to make this world a better place full of Avocado trees nationwide!
Hi i bought a advo tree about three years old, a year after i planted a couple of the branches had long stem like appendages close to the head leaves on couple of the branches with small flowers which fell off leaving little 😊bumps on the ends of the stems. They looked like small advos but we had very strong winds here in Spain for a short time when i looked no more of these stems were visible and this year non of stems with flowers and little balls on them appeared. Would this be fruit and why hasn’t it shot out again. The trees about 3-4 meters in height and robust. What I’ve noticed this year is a lack of bees, my roses and other flowers normally attract them, any help will be appreciated.
yes they were probably small fruit and high winds can be very damaging during the flowering phase. All I need is one windy day in March to change the outcome of my whole year.
Awesome info, question tho. Is there any harm of keeping a few leaves on the grafted branch? Seems like it could only help with getting some sunlight right?
@@SleepyLizard are mangos and avocado's similarly grown? I'm an amateur at this and trying to learn as much I can about grafting. Grafting my first avocado tree this coming weekend.
I know what you are asking but let me clarify some terminology first. all avocados are the same species: Persea Americana. within the species we have cultivars, such as Hass, Zutano, Fuerte, etc. We graft onto seedlings which are grown from seed and unique, they do not fall into a cultivar...each seedling is it's DNA just like people. You can graft a cutting from any cultivar onto a seedling grown from a seed that comes from the fruit of any cultivar. In summary you can craft a cutting from any avocado tree onto any other avocado tree. Thank you for your question.
Thanks for all of this information on these avocados, but I have a few questions about grafting. 1. Does the tree you take the branch from to graft have to produce good tasting avocados, or can it just be any tree? 2. Does the graft have to be the same type of tree you planted from seed, or can it be different? 3. After I graft the tree, what will happen to the original tree that I planted from seed? 4. What happens if the graft dies, will the original tree take over, or will a different graft grow? 5. Most importantly, will these avocados be safe to eat, or even edible at all? My family loves avocados so if I grew them I’d want them to be safe to eat. 6. Also, how often should I be watering them? I’d hate to kill them by overwatering, because I am very good at that. 7. Finally, I have a seed that when I planted it, it grew two trees and both of them are in great shape, so if I do graft them, should I only graft one, or both. If only one, which one? Sorry for all the question. 😅
You can graft from any avocado tree but the sole purpose for doing it is to replicate the output of the tree you took the cutting from. So if you take a cutting from a tree that produces bad tasting fruit you'll get the same exact bad tasting fruit. No, you can graft any avocado variety onto any seedling or other avocado tree as long as it's avocado to avocado the tree you planted From seed will continue to grow roots down into the ground and the trunk with thicken. Every now and then it might attempt to sprout it's own shoots and you have to prune them off. If the graft dies or fails the seedling will continue to grow on its own they will be safe to eat if in pots water when the soil is only mildly damp, don't let it totally dry out. In the ground every 3rd or 4th day We would normally prune off the small one and let the dominant shoot grow. You don't want two trunks fighting each other for nutrients...they both lose out. it's best to prune one and let the other grow strong.
I researched it and some Avos are thought to need another pollinator but that is not true. There A and B ryes but that only helps up to 20%. I’ll graft in a cut off to my plant and see what happens in 3 yrs.😂
What's the fertilizer you would use in central Florida. Also how often would you spread some of that fertilizer around the avocado tree. Luis Mercado from Altamonte Springs Central Florida
It’s difficult to say. It depends on the root stock which of course is subject to variation and therefore impossible to predict. That said most of the tree above the ground will be cold hardy and most of the unpredictable part of the tree will be below ground where it is much warmer than the air temperature so you should be good
sold my dad's home got 3 seeds from the best tasty avocado in the plant. the only thing is the tree gives fruit about 20 to 30 avocado one year and the following year about 200 avocado and so one for 25 years.my question is that all 3 seed sprouted but one seed has 3 stems what should i do
I tried to graft to a seedling that I had planted out it’s abt 6 feet tall last year this time of year All failed. I live in Wellington Florida. My question is what month is it best to graft here Thank you
Could i graft seedling from another grafted plant. Home depot has small avocado tree and i have small upcoming plant from seedling. I believe Depot is grafted i can see where they slit...grower Saxon Becnel. Thank you for these great videos and information .
This is great. My neighbor inherited an avocado tree that was cut down at the trunk but is now greened out and looks beautiful. What should she do or is it possible for this tree to produce fruit?at all
Wow my man this is like my 100th avacado video and you just blew my mind! I have a very mature avacado tree in my rented accommodation, i will take from it. Now the only question i now have is would you grow the seedling from a cutting of the mature tree or would you grow it from a store bought seed or it doesnt matter?
which seed to plant doesn't matter. seed grown is random. Search up my vids and sort by popular and the vid that rises to the top will tell you more about the random nature of seeds
@@SleepyLizardoh, ok. It’s counterintuitive. You’d think it gets energy from the sun through the leaves. How does it grow then after the graft? You just leave it in the sun?
I don't know because I don't allow the tree to flower until year 6. When I see flowers on my young trees I prune them because I'd rather the tree dedicate it's energy to growing rather than producing just a handful of fruit. If I had to guys I'd say a 5 year old tree might produce 5-10 fruit depending on the variety.
you are welcome. I don't know where you live but if no local nurseries carry avocados you can get a mature tree online at a nursery up the street from me: www.larafarmsmiami.com
I have an unrelated question..... I just saw your clip on genetics and why you can not grow from seed. I was in the U.S. Army for 4 years on Oahu Hawaii..... We would play army games in the rain forests. There were wild avocados. We ate them and they were good. What do you think?
Thanks! This was really informative. I'm in central Italy and wondering if it's worth me trying to grow avocados... can they survive a little frost if covered, or would they need to be grown in a greenhouse? If they were inside, do they do okay with pruning to keep them smaller than they might like to grow?!
frost will kill a young tree but mature trees can take a few hours of frost or freezing temps but no days and days in a row. in cold nights you can protect them and there are cold hardy varieties such as Oro Negro, Mexicola, and Hass
@@SleepyLizard Thanks! Yes I think Hass is the main type they grow down in Sicily. I think I will have a go and keep my fingers crossed I can protect them... I am hoping the same for my moringa and pigeon peas! (although those are quick grow, so less of a loss if they don't make it).
So I have seed growing tree of avocado almost 10yrd bt it did gave me a fruit. so is it possible to graft on the big tree by bringing a stem from sexual matured tree. Will it work???
My seed grown (non grafted) tree finally gave me a decent crop of about 50 avocados at eight years old and they taste amazing.
that is so awesome. Let us know how it does next year. hopefully you get even more!
@@SleepyLizard do you sell grafted pieces?
Name it! It's a new variety 👍
Very nice
I'M agronomist
Bro this guy is the fkn GOAT. Holy crap. Came to youtube looking for answers to a programming question, came away with grafting knowledge for avocado tree's. Didn't know I needed it, but I am now pivoting from coding to farming.
that is a huge compliment. thank you
Your explanation of when grafting is necessary is quite easy to understand. You're a great teacher. Thanks for keeping it simple.
thank you Dianne
Holy shit
@@mabokduren7188 i know
Ok if I don't have a mature tree then how can I get the a cutting 🤔
I like this tree. Where i get avocado. Can i took to u.please gave me number
This hAs to be thee "best" avocado growing video ever!!!🤠👍
Straight to the point
No brainer
Excellent presentation
Awesome vibe!!!😊
you just made my day, thanks
Your explanations of grafting and its importance made my day
thanks
Bonjour !
It only takes one video to make me want to watch all the videos on your channel. You taught me more than most French channels. Thanks a lot.
Sorry for my bad English.
Bonjour Tristan, Thank you for the compliment and welcome to the channel. I had three years of French in middle school but that was 40 years ago 😂
Great information again. I have two avocado trees that are producing but not the same fruit as I planted. Gonna graft them pretty soon because I got the hang of the grafting & getting successful results. I learned so much from you. Thanks in a million. God bless you.
that's awesome Michael. I wish RUclips had a way for commenters to share their pics.
@@SleepyLizard do you happen to sell already grafted trees???
@@SleepyLizard That's true. Thanks again.
@@adrianamorales818 sometimes when I have extra in stock. I don't have any right now though.
Thx very much for sharing..
I live in the Caribbean and have one pear tree that produce about 12 pears.
Could you say when they are ready to pick..
What to look for?? Smile.
Thx
Thank to explaing about ovocods
you are welcome!
Thank you for showing the Grafton procedures thank you such a nice person
I appreciate the compliment.
I learned! Thank you! My brain doesn't let me focus when people talk lol but I understood you so well. Thank you for explaining it all so perfect!
thank you, I take this as a compliment.
Lucky me, my grandfather planted two Hass trees 70 plus years ago in the back yard. They produce fat soft ball size fruit every year. I maintain them now. Use organic bat guano every January. Both trees stand a good 40 feet tall. They love to grow north and west. Must trim them back several times a year.
wow, such mature trees, that's great!
@@SleepyLizard I live in east Ventura County, CA. Citrus capital of the US. Perfect weather for the avocado tree.
I was raised in Bethlehem, Tauranga New Zealand. The local avocado trees there were two storey high, huge fruit. The leaves over shadowed the orchard. It was just a every day thing having beautiful avocados on toast daily. I believe those trees are no longer there for housing. Even feijoa trees were of stature, palm size feijoas. The local Caucasian community were excellent growers
@Sleepylizard
1. Why cut off center?
2. Why at an angle?
3. Can I manually pollinate?
1. I don't know
2. to ensure you have contact on both cambiums
3. yes
Hello sir question. Can you grow a avacado tree from a rooted cutting? Or airlayering. I have tried and failed. The internet say yes and no. The cuttings won't root or the cuttings will not have a tap root. I don't have patience to grow from seed. But I have bought many trees that always end up dying. Usually do to root rot. Right now I have a Ooh la la verity basically a super hass I think. Any advise im in zone 9b corpus christi tx.
yes you can root the cuttings or air layer but it's not as effective as grafting a seedling.
wow..awesome presentation..!!!..best part "yeah Papi" and "how you're doing?"...awesome man..!!!
😝
I live in South Carolina. I planted a avocado plant from seed. For grafting where do I will find a mature stem.
if there are none nearby you'll have to resort to periodically searching google. when the season is right you'll find people selling them online.
This is the best channel on RUclips
Gumpy!
MY STORY - Grew my Bacon Avocado tree from a seed from my parent trees. Took around 6 years to get Avocados. It's 12 years old and 15 feet tall now (I topped it). I get around 150 large avocados a year now. I spray the buds with honey water for bees to pollinate the flowers. Which increased my fruit production tremendously.
that's a really productive tree
@@SleepyLizard after using the honey water to attract more bees. My avocados tripled.
I have many fruit trees and yearly bears fruit abundantly. Pollinating and self pollinating as I have seen it thru many years of experience in a tropical country like the Philippines. My avocado tree bears fruit once. A good harvest but on the second year it never bears fruit until now 2024. The tree is almost 25 years old. I used the leaves as my regular tea and it helps me maintain my health. Thank you for sharing your experience. ❤
wow that's amazing
The tree that you cut is it grafted mature tree?? To connect to the pot@SleepyLizard
@@Wonderland584 yes
Thank
you are welcome Irene
Thank you for sharing. I have about 10 avocado trees from seeds and I’m going to feast them. Wish me luck!!! ❤
Good luck Sally!
Just a comment for avocado growers in general. Not necessarily a Tom issue... I would love a spot where we can buy scions from and get different varieties. Its hard to find varieties. Especially since we are seeing more cold hardy varieties becoming available. Would be great to get my hands on some. (Tom does sell them but he is only one man with a decent orchard. He can't sustain cuttings for everyone)
Wesley, I agree with you. It's a great idea.
Which season fruiting comes
our varieties produce June through January. Depends the the variety.
I went to a worm farmers place who had a 2 year old avocado in a very cold climate and it was taller than those big trees behind this guy. It had avos and the Australian CSIRO were VERY interested.. His answer was Worm castings Lots of WORM castings all over the base where the roots are.. He didn't graft, and his tree was full of avos and annoying him.. 2 yrs 12ft tall worm casting kept the soil warm even when some leaves were dying of frost... warm roots is like warm blood Id say.. The place was Griffith Australia cold and hot.... it does snow there and the year I was there it had frozen sleet on all car windows. Cold enough to kill leaves. I originally thought it was 5 years old but it was 2.. I was wondering why 5 wasn't so surprising when I wrote it..
If you scroll around the comments on my videos you'll find all kinds of claims about worm casings. The climate in Griffith Australia does not go below freezing. Avocados will thrive there.
Thank you
you are welcome, do you grow avocado trees?
What can i do with my,8 avacado trees that are 20 and 25 years old,and never flower or bear. Just keep it as wind breakers😂?i did grow them from seeds.I feed them with fertilizer but they are as tall as ever,very green and healthy.
wow, that's a long time to never flower, you can cut them back and graft onto them if you wanted.
I bought a reproducing grafted set (one Cold Hardy and one Haas) in November 2022. Babied them through the Christmas freeze. 4 ft tall, the Cold hardy has four or five marble sized fruit, the Haas 3 smaller fruit.
fantastic! glad they survived the freeze. Nice job.
Thanks a lot sleepy lizard.. you remind me of my late father. At the age of 7, my father used to towed me along in his small acre of farm, doing those grafting / budding technique. I learned it by just watching him but never i take it seriously coz I have other dreams to take. Also i hve no idea why he was doing it, until i come across with youtr content. I wish to try it. God bless..
Glad I could bring back some happy memories
I've learnt something valuable today! Thanks!
glad to help you out!
I have 2 trees in pots in GA , 1 is 7 years 1 is 3 I got tired of waiting , I finally grafted this year , I hope to have fruit one day !🤞🥑 great video !!
keep us posted and good luck!
Will do !
I used the under the bark method
@@Ob1311-x8b How does that differ from the wedhe method?
Sir you are such a nice person thank you for showing me the
thank you for your kind words
Could I use the branch of already matured tree but has not yet given me fruit to a new seedling, in grafting and could give me fruit in three years?
if the branch you are referring to comes from a grafted tree yes. if it's from seed and hans't produced fruit it's not yet mature.
Excellent presentation of grafting. Thanks a lot.
thank you. Tomorrow morning I'm posting a vid where I graft two varieties onto the same tree.
Great video! I just received my scions so I’m excited to graft! Just curious, tho, why you didn’t wrap the entire scion in Parafilm? Every video I’ve watched on grafting, the scion is fully wrapped. Thanks!
Sometimes we wrap the whole Scion in parafilm. The answer to your question is I didn’t have any parafilm.🤣
There’s some other vids on my channel you’ll see the scions all wrapped in parafilm
@@SleepyLizard LOL well that’s an honest answer. Thank you for replying! I’m nervous to make the first cut but going to do it!! I love your channel ❤️
hello from Hong Kong... thank you sir for your tips!
Hello from Florida and you're welcome.
Would an avocado cose to the main house destroy the building
not sure.
Sir, I grow a avocado tree and it about 3 to 4 years old a healthy tree. How can I can get fruit from it. I don't have a young tree for crafting.
Das ,
Pk
Hi Green Eyes, you'll need to wait another 6 years or so.
Can we do that to mangoes?
yes you can. I have a few vids on the topic on my channel
I just came across your video and I was most pleased in the way you explained everything so I am a new subscriber I am from Trinidad and Tobago
Thank you for subscribing. Welcome to the channel
Buy some 3 year old small tress, wrap them in copper wire (electroculture) feed them well and you only have to wait 2-3 years for fruit i bet.
tell us more. How does that work.
Great to see all of your new content. We’ve binged watched just about your entire channel over the weekend. Are you open to the public, and is there an address to visit your farm? And are you still offering classes? The website still shows most items are out of stock. Thank you for all the great content! My girlfriend and I have learned so much from you!
Hi Perry, thanks for the comment. We host visitors all the time but I'm not off a main road so I don't get people dropping in or anything like that. If you'd like to come by send me a text and we can set something up. I'll start up the classes again in the fall.
And yes, my early season fruit will be for sale in about 10 days but everything else got sold out during the pandemic and I wasn't able to replant new inventory due to our house fire.
Thank you you explain this very well
thanks for the compliment Queeney
Where do I get tree graft at??
I see then online from time to time. Depends on the time of year.
Quick question. Can I plant similar Avocados in my field. Let say Hass or Monroe avocados or is it necessary to grow Mix Avocados in the field for pollinaiton?
not necessary but better. this vid explains it: ruclips.net/video/Sgm-7wHT8K0/видео.htmlsi=BrSb4m0-ApAzGM4q
Could I graft a cutting onto a mature apple tree?
an apple cutting yes. it has to be within species but the age of the tree doesn't matter.
Thx so much for sharing. Have a nice weekend 🍻 cheers🍻
We bought a Lula avacado tree from a local nursery a few months ago. Is there a way to tell if it was grafted or just grown from seed? Its already about 3 feet tall.
if it's labeled "Lula" then it had to have been grafted. you can't call it a specific variety unless it was grafted.
to be sure look for a grafting scar down toward the bottom.
Lula is a great choice by the way. my favorite
Such a great explanation of grafting!!
thank you
How to prune the mature avocado tree. Thanks for your answer.
I'm going to do a vid on this topic.
Thanks for teaching us,will plant today😊
awesome
ok what is the seedling type of what that you cut to work with here to graf the simmons
Summer, I don't know for sure but that seedling was probably from a seed that came from a Monroe avocado.
Is it normal that the grafted tree/plant will dry? What I mean is the top portion that comes from the matured tree that is already bearing fruit.
Gerald, how old a tree you talking about. Fresh graft or mature?
@@SleepyLizard about a week going on week 2, since I grafted it. While the original plant of the avocado was approximately 10months old. Did I wasted it?
@@Fritz184 you didn't waste it. sounds like the graft didn't take. if it turns brown and dies you can cut back the seedling and try again
I want to farm two acres,can I just buy then seedling from anywhere then I graft with my choice of a mature avocado tree
yes or grow the seedlings yourself. then again for two acres you're looking at maybe 80 trees which you can buy grafted for less than 1500 and get a several year head start on production.
Well my minds blown thanks!! Lemme get a couple cuttings from your trees friend I'll send you a box haha
Ri m, I used to sell cuttings but right now I only sell the fruit.
@@SleepyLizard well lucky for me because I've been broke, how about ya just send a new friend one once my sapling gets a lil bigger ;)
Does It self-pollinate?
avocados will self pollinate but its much better to have two in proximity of complimentary flowering types
@@SleepyLizard ok, thank you.
I need help, I had a grafted Hass from Home Depot and after 2 years it gave fruit, unfortunately I had to relocate the tree which I had planted in the ground, after relocating it went dormant, now after 1 year it started growing, the only problem is I don’t know if the new growth is from the OG graft or seed, because there is a dead stump towards the bottom, the tree has grown to about 6 feet and it seems to be flowering, how can I tell if it will produce fruit or if I should graft onto the tree since it’s the seed growing, I hope this makes sense.
Jim, if it's flowering and only 3 or 4 years old it's almost certainly from the grafted portion. Avocados trees take 10 or more years to reach sexual maturity so if you have growth from below the graft flowering the tree will have to be at least 10 years old and yours is not that old yet. Hopefully it fruits this season.
As always you always come through with a response, that’s really admirable not everyone on RUclips takes the time to reply, but you do, may you continue to grow prosperous and continue to educate us to make this world a better place full of Avocado trees nationwide!
@@jimmyl9516 thank you Jim.
Hi i bought a advo tree about three years old, a year after i planted a couple of the branches had long stem like appendages close to the head leaves on couple of the branches with small flowers which fell off leaving little 😊bumps on the ends of the stems. They looked like small advos but we had very strong winds here in Spain for a short time when i looked no more of these stems were visible and this year non of stems with flowers and little balls on them appeared. Would this be fruit and why hasn’t it shot out again. The trees about 3-4 meters in height and robust. What I’ve noticed this year is a lack of bees, my roses and other flowers normally attract them, any help will be appreciated.
yes they were probably small fruit and high winds can be very damaging during the flowering phase. All I need is one windy day in March to change the outcome of my whole year.
Thank you for explaining about the avocado trees.
My pleasure.
Awesome info, question tho. Is there any harm of keeping a few leaves on the grafted branch? Seems like it could only help with getting some sunlight right?
we did some mango with the leaves on back in December, the vid is out there.
@@SleepyLizard are mangos and avocado's similarly grown? I'm an amateur at this and trying to learn as much I can about grafting. Grafting my first avocado tree this coming weekend.
similar yes
Mine is 5 years grown from seed and I got 3 fruits yeah
But I fertilized it every spring and it is 10 feet tall.
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Entertaining to say the least with some information thrown in. lol
Thank you. That's exactly my intent
grafting need to be done within the same type (species) of avocado tree?
I know what you are asking but let me clarify some terminology first. all avocados are the same species: Persea Americana. within the species we have cultivars, such as Hass, Zutano, Fuerte, etc. We graft onto seedlings which are grown from seed and unique, they do not fall into a cultivar...each seedling is it's DNA just like people.
You can graft a cutting from any cultivar onto a seedling grown from a seed that comes from the fruit of any cultivar.
In summary you can craft a cutting from any avocado tree onto any other avocado tree.
Thank you for your question.
Thanks for all of this information on these avocados, but I have a few questions about grafting.
1. Does the tree you take the branch from to graft have to produce good tasting avocados, or can it just be any tree?
2. Does the graft have to be the same type of tree you planted from seed, or can it be different?
3. After I graft the tree, what will happen to the original tree that I planted from seed?
4. What happens if the graft dies, will the original tree take over, or will a different graft grow?
5. Most importantly, will these avocados be safe to eat, or even edible at all? My family loves avocados so if I grew them I’d want them to be safe to eat.
6. Also, how often should I be watering them? I’d hate to kill them by overwatering, because I am very good at that.
7. Finally, I have a seed that when I planted it, it grew two trees and both of them are in great shape, so if I do graft them, should I only graft one, or both. If only one, which one?
Sorry for all the question. 😅
You can graft from any avocado tree but the sole purpose for doing it is to replicate the output of the tree you took the cutting from. So if you take a cutting from a tree that produces bad tasting fruit you'll get the same exact bad tasting fruit.
No, you can graft any avocado variety onto any seedling or other avocado tree as long as it's avocado to avocado
the tree you planted From seed will continue to grow roots down into the ground and the trunk with thicken. Every now and then it might attempt to sprout it's own shoots and you have to prune them off.
If the graft dies or fails the seedling will continue to grow on its own
they will be safe to eat
if in pots water when the soil is only mildly damp, don't let it totally dry out. In the ground every 3rd or 4th day
We would normally prune off the small one and let the dominant shoot grow. You don't want two trunks fighting each other for nutrients...they both lose out. it's best to prune one and let the other grow strong.
@@SleepyLizard is there a male and female tree or are they hermaphroditic? If male and female do they need to be planted next to each other?
@@OneWhoKN0ZE this vid will answer all your questions: ruclips.net/video/Sgm-7wHT8K0/видео.html
I researched it and some Avos are thought to need another pollinator but that is not true. There A and B ryes but that only helps up to 20%. I’ll graft in a cut off to my plant and see what happens in 3 yrs.😂
Question ,my avocado plant is already three years old and has many branches how can l do the grafting?
look up videos on top working. you pretty much cut back the tree to stimulate new branch growth then you graft onto the new growth
What's the fertilizer you would use in central Florida. Also how often would you spread some of that fertilizer around the avocado tree.
Luis Mercado from Altamonte Springs Central Florida
6-6-6 in the fall. 8-3-9 in the spring. 5lbs per mature tree
@@SleepyLizard thank you very much. I was using 8 3 9 all year around. The 5 lbs are all at one time on a adult tree?
Also hiw often. I was spreading the 839 every month
@@luismercado5372 all 5lbs one time. once in the spring then 6-6-6 in the fall
@@SleepyLizard that's what i call super fast service responce. Thank you SleepyLizard👍
Really good information, thanks for sharing.
thank you for your comment Sherri!
Just watched 2 videos!! Thank you, I am going to look you up!! Wish you were on the West Coast!! I would attend classes!!
Thanks Gradechecker. Welcome to the channel
Very informative and I that for your explanation which is easy to understand God bless sir
thanks Jack
Is it possible to still do the grafting to a 7yr old tree?
yep!
Very clear explanation wow..
thank you
Can I graft two different types? Cause I have a bunch of seedlings ready to be grafted but my mature tree is a different variety
yes
Thank you gentleman i live in SOMALIA can you tell me if i can grow 🥑 in tropical climate 36° in avarage thank you veryMuch indeed
you can yes
Thank you, i have a few 1.5yr old avocado trees, how do I get a mature tree graft in the UK please?
I believe there are people growing avocados in the extreme southwest
If I graft a Hass on to a Mexican will the whole plant have the cold hardiness characteristics of the Mexican which can tolerate -10C?
It’s difficult to say. It depends on the root stock which of course is subject to variation and therefore impossible to predict. That said most of the tree above the ground will be cold hardy and most of the unpredictable part of the tree will be below ground where it is much warmer than the air temperature so you should be good
You just gained a subscriber. Came for the info, staying for the laughs
thank you Guillermo. I appreciate it!
Beautiful.. great information.. thanks
thank you Jose
Can I do grafting anytime of the year?
yep
sold my dad's home got 3 seeds from the best tasty avocado in the plant. the only thing is the tree gives fruit about 20 to 30 avocado one year and the following year about 200 avocado and so one for 25 years.my question is that all 3 seed sprouted but one seed has 3 stems what should i do
Ernie, we generally prune away the weakest of the stems and allow the biggest one to grow
I tried to graft to a seedling that I had planted out it’s abt 6 feet tall last year this time of year All failed. I live in Wellington Florida. My question is what month is it best to graft here Thank you
Try December.
Thank you
Could i graft seedling from another grafted plant. Home depot has small avocado tree and i have small upcoming plant from seedling. I believe Depot is grafted i can see where they slit...grower Saxon Becnel. Thank you for these great videos and information .
yes you can do that. that's exactly what we do.
@@SleepyLizard Thank you for responding.
This is great. My neighbor inherited an avocado tree that was cut down at the trunk but is now greened out and looks beautiful. What should she do or is it possible for this tree to produce fruit?at all
Just let it grow back. She'll be fine
Wow my man this is like my 100th avacado video and you just blew my mind! I have a very mature avacado tree in my rented accommodation, i will take from it. Now the only question i now have is would you grow the seedling from a cutting of the mature tree or would you grow it from a store bought seed or it doesnt matter?
which seed to plant doesn't matter. seed grown is random. Search up my vids and sort by popular and the vid that rises to the top will tell you more about the random nature of seeds
I’m in Orlando do anyway to come out and pay you for a plant ?
I don’t sell the plants these days. Sorry
Thank you for the information sir
you are welcome Andrew
I want to plant 500 trees
@@andrewmulenga4476 yes! more trees is better for everyone
@@SleepyLizard thanks
Why not leave some leaves on the scion before you graft it? How does it start to grow as just a stem?
you want it sending all it's energy to healing the graft
@@SleepyLizardoh, ok. It’s counterintuitive. You’d think it gets energy from the sun through the leaves. How does it grow then after the graft? You just leave it in the sun?
avocados we keep in partial sunlight but they can go to full sunlight pretty quickly
Can you do this to any tree for instance a mango
yep, that's how we do mango too
Yes, you have answered my questions. Thank you😊
glad I could help
What is the tree from seed is bigger than the one in your example?
the seed tree was a graft that failed. it actually produced one avocado this year.
What would you say is the average yield of a grafted tree at about year five?
I don't know because I don't allow the tree to flower until year 6. When I see flowers on my young trees I prune them because I'd rather the tree dedicate it's energy to growing rather than producing just a handful of fruit. If I had to guys I'd say a 5 year old tree might produce 5-10 fruit depending on the variety.
Great video but I cannot seem to have any avocado or mangos take off from grafts the Grafts have died 100% is this a common thing?
yes, it's a skill and takes practice and even the best grafters do more than they need because it's not a 100% thing.
Do you ship to the UK?
I do not. sorry about that.
What would be the best time putting a fertilizer on newly planted avocado?
mix it with the soil when you first plant then a spoonful or two around the edge of the pot every 60 days.
Could I buy cuttings from you? And could you ship to Canada?
Keith, I don't sell the cuttings. Plus I can ship to Canada anyhow. Sorry about that.
Great videos and info! Thank you! I have a question. How can I buy an Avocado tree that is already 3 or 4 years old?.
you are welcome. I don't know where you live but if no local nurseries carry avocados you can get a mature tree online at a nursery up the street from me: www.larafarmsmiami.com
I am trying understand clearly here, so how old is my seedlings should be before I connect the cutting? 🤔
once it gets to about the diameter of a pencil you're ready
I have an unrelated question.....
I just saw your clip on genetics and why you can not grow from seed.
I was in the U.S. Army for 4 years on Oahu Hawaii..... We would play army games in the rain forests. There were wild avocados. We ate them and they were good. What do you think?
I’m inclined to believe they were not wild but more likely the remains of an abandoned grove. They are not indigenous to Hawaii.
berapa mister harga per batang bibit alpukat Catalina
the only word I understood was Catalina
Thanks! This was really informative. I'm in central Italy and wondering if it's worth me trying to grow avocados... can they survive a little frost if covered, or would they need to be grown in a greenhouse? If they were inside, do they do okay with pruning to keep them smaller than they might like to grow?!
frost will kill a young tree but mature trees can take a few hours of frost or freezing temps but no days and days in a row. in cold nights you can protect them and there are cold hardy varieties such as Oro Negro, Mexicola, and Hass
@@SleepyLizard Thanks! Yes I think Hass is the main type they grow down in Sicily. I think I will have a go and keep my fingers crossed I can protect them... I am hoping the same for my moringa and pigeon peas! (although those are quick grow, so less of a loss if they don't make it).
So I have seed growing tree of avocado almost 10yrd bt it did gave me a fruit. so is it possible to graft on the big tree by bringing a stem from sexual matured tree. Will it work???
Abdella, yes you can graft onto an already mature tree but if yours is giving fruit you may not need to. Does the fruit taste good?
So if you buy a Hass tree from a store, is it reasonable to assume the grafting came from a mature tree?
that is the only reasonable assumption unless the store is lying to you.
@@SleepyLizard awesome, thank you! Your videos are super helpful!!