How We Created A New Avocado Variety
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- It took 9 years. Two years in a pot and 7 years in the ground but we finally got our first seed grown avocado. Every seed grown avocado tree produces a new, unique never seen before avocado. It's one of a kind! Our new avocado looks like it might have a pink coloration to the skin.
Often the fruit doesn't taste good or maybe the tree is a shy producer but every now and then you get a good producing great tasting avocado and a new variety hits the market. Even though it's been 10 years we are still in the early stages but this is a step in the right direction in creating a new and popular avocado variety.
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Congratulations Tom! You're a Grandpa!
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Guacpa
“Sleepy Lizard Viariety Avocado” sounds like a great idea! 😂
I agree
Congratulations Tom 👏💐👏💐👏💐👏👏👏
thanks Heera
Hopefully, that new variety tastes amazing. A new variety called SleepyLizard would be awesome. I can’t wait when one of my seedlings produces its first fruit. I may have have started in August 2021, it’ll likely take me more than 10 years to get fruit, because my seedlings are sooooo skinny and small. The diameter of my oldest seedling’s trunk got to about 2/5 inch thick. I know that my avocado would grow faster if I put them outside in my balcony and get a lot more light without being hit by sun. But there’s a problem though - WIND. But I have another balcony that is a little more protected. I might put ‘em there.
Thank you for uploading the video, I can’t wait for you to do a video about it and try the new variety!
good luck with your trees!
I'm really interested in the fact that you just used the cable ties to join the grafting union, only with no grafting tape! Do you find it makes a difference in the union fusing?😮😮😮
Wow, congrats! Sleepy Lizard variety seems good as a name! I have some other names for you to consider:
Pink Florida
SLavocado (Sleepy Lizard avocado)
Rosa Floridano
Rosa Lagarto
Pink Lizard
yeah I'm waiting to see how that pink hue turns out. interesting coloration.
Oh, what a patient man you are!
I was so happy when it finally flowered
I hope it tastes amazing so I can get some cuttings!
I appreciate it!
Exciting stuff. This is what attracts me to avocados: the promise of endless new varieties that nobody has ever tried before. Is this the only non-grafted mature tree you have? I would have expected to see many more, since more attempts would give you a better overall chance at good fruit (and, as you said, you have the space for it). In any case, I'm jealous. Looking forward to an update on the fruit!
I planted this one and another on the same day. The other one hasn't flowered yet. I've also got a mature seed grown in my backyard that produces very beautiful shiny pear shaped avocados but they taste is bland, almost no flavor at all.
feels like i been subscribed for 10 years lol
Yeah it's been a while. I put this guy in the ground before i started making vids about the farm
Good to see you back Sir! Looking forward for a seedling / rootstock avocado video!
dang, you noticed I hadn't made a vid for a while...we been very busy getting ready for mango season
Finally sleepy lizard avocado graft it bro
Yep
Super interesting and educational video! Thank you! 😊
thank you for the support Gonzalo
Congrats! Time for some hard guac now!
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High 5. A new t-shirt. It looks good with that MoraKniv.
hahahahah. I purposely searched for a newer shirt 🤣
Hi Tom , I would love to get cuttings from you , but being in Australia makes it hard to get them, all the best for your new tree.
yeah shipping ag products across country boarders is difficult. There is at least one Sleepy Lizard tee shirt over there that I know for sure
From now until however long it takes, I will be looking for the Sleepy Lizard Avocado in the produce section of my local Publix. Or wait until you announce its arrival in a RUclips video, whichever comes first.
Unfortunately I can't yet give a review on the Florida Hass avocado because mine dropped all of its fruit yet again this season (its 3rd in the ground, it was a 15 gallon tree when I planted it in 2021) after setting 70+. The largest one was about the side of walnut when it dropped. I know avocados can be finicky trees and it's not unusual for them to drop most of their fruit, but I was hoping for a handful. The one encouraging sign is that the tree did push a lot of canopy growth after flowering, more than it did in the first 2 years combined. I'm hoping that means its roots are established enough where it will hold onto its fruit next year. And another blessing is that my Pickering mango (at a size of about 4-5ft tall/wide) has held onto a dozen fruit despite it being a down year for mangos based on what I've heard.
dang, I'm sorry to hear your tree dropped it's fruit this season. that happened to almost all my mango trees this year but it's a regional thing...everybody has a small crop
Very exciting, Tom. I hope to see Sleepy Lizard avocados in my local supermarket very soon. We have to figure out how to send your cuttings up here. Cheers from Ottawa, Canada🍁
getting an avocado tree to fruit in Canada would be quite the accomplishment
@@SleepyLizard lt’s on my bucket list.
I really enjoy watching these informative vids, thank you for making them. I think you would have issues sending cuting to Australia
yeah it's difficult to send outside the US although I did ship a tee shirt over to Australia
congrats family so happy for u yes i yes i broda cant wait to see more !!!
me too!
Man, that avacado tree is a few years of being my age
awesome
So cool if I ever visit the US I’ll make sure to buy some avocados, maybe the sleepy lizard variety will be in full swing by then
I would love that!
Excellent
I'm so happy
Hi congrats
Yooooo
Good day Tom,
On your seed grown Avocado tree, you also can name it "King Tom Tree"....😂
Royalty 🤣
I like both methos.. if no one would grow from seed, then we would never have discovered all the varieties we have.
correct
Amazing video. How do you keep the squirrels off your avocados? Or the birds off your mangoes? Especially when the stakes are high with inconsistently fruiting or low fruit setting varieties.
Where are you located
Homestead FL
Yay
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very exciting
I'm excited
Thank you for your videos... I have tried to grow Avocado from seed for years. Watched your video, & I have been doing it wrong. At 62, I may have time for a grafted tree, we shall see... Thank you, again, :-)
thank for your comment and good luck with a grafted tree
Hi Tom, can you have a video on type A and B avocados please ❤
you can yes.
I would love to try growing a graft from your stock but I don’t think New Jersey is a good fit.😢 You recommended an avocado that has a full flavor profile like the Hass that you sell but I forgot the name. And when are they available for sale I’d like to try them.
that would be the Monroe which we pick November through Feb.
@@SleepyLizard Thanks!
Do you have any propagation with aloe vera videos, I would love to get a cutting then grow my own! (I also live in florida)
I don't know anything about aloe vera, Sorry
Hi Tom. I have an avocado seedling that is in its second year of production. Last year it only gave 2 fruits and they didn’t ripen well. This year I have about 20 and they are bigger than my hand now. I believe it’s a West Indian variety that flowers in February. When is it safe to harvest?
it's impossible to know when to harvest until you discover the right month. you need to pick one per month starting in June and let it soften on the counter. eventually you'll find the right month then you can harvest them for the next 90 days.
I live in Central Florida near Cape Canaveral. When should I harvest fruit from my Russell Avocado?
Late August
@@SleepyLizard Thanks
Still looking for an avocado whose flesh doesn't turn brown so quickly when you cut it open.
yeah they pretty much need to be eaten in a few hours after opening.
Can you graft many several avocados onto one tree?
I've been told up to 4
I had a neighbour that had an avocado tree, it grew huge taller than a double storey house. It made large avocado fruit. It had avos almost year round
Also can 1 root stem have more than 1 variety of avo and self pollinate ?
Also is seed and grafting the only way to grow an avocado plant? I know some trees can be grown from a cutting putting a special growth enzyme on the cutting then planting it which then grows roots and eventually leaves also. Does this method work for avocados ?
yes there are people who have grafted multiple varieties onto one tree. I've been told it'll work for up to 4 varieties.
As for other methods you can air layer or root a cutting but you don't get a tap root.
@@SleepyLizard thank you for the info
Do you plant avocado seed buried into soil or grow them buried into soil? Squirrels interested in that seed which is visible from a pot and they try to eat it and unfortunately ruin my avocado seedlings
I start them in soil in 1 gallon pots and we keep them safe in the shade house but sometimes a squirrel finds a way in.
@@SleepyLizard when do you move them out from the shade house? it's probably too dark there to leave them until grafting
I don't have a timeline. Just one day I'll up and move them
What would happen if you graft the seedling to a fruiting tree would it fruit faster 🤔
once the tree is fruiting it's too late to take the cutting. you gotta get it before it flowers.
so now look someone told me he has grown a mother tree and also told me my avocado seeds will grow true to type but its hard to believe unless i see the fruit itself, it was from a shop too
I think he's mistaken Frosty. There's no avocados that grow true.
@@SleepyLizard i'm just gonna have to see for myself
@@frostylonewolf1700 I understand
@@SleepyLizard its hard what to believe cause one time i ordered a veinte cohol banana it wasn't even a veinte cohol cause it had blood spots on it
@@frostylonewolf1700 yep, I believe they say: trust but verify
I have a question, If I graft on a tree that is already mature and fruiting, will the scion set out fruits immediately since both the rootstock and the scion is mature?
It will try to flower and fruit the following year
@@SleepyLizard If I graft it at the beginning of the season, would it fruit accordingly?
@@haxmaster6718 no but often they will flower the next season, will be a few years until they can hold fruit though
@@SleepyLizard Thanks for the knowledge
What do i need to do to have an avacado tree ready to graft with one of your scions in 2025/2026? I've pre-ordered some of your avacados and plan to grow all the seeds from them, and graft one or two of them. I'm in west Arkansas, and do have a greenhouse.
you got it...you just need to grow out some seedlings for a few months. also get you some grafting tape and buddy tape and a grating knife and pruning shears
Ok, cool. Thank you. I wasn't sure how old the host tree needed to be before grafting.
Did you try the fruit? Was it a winner?
I've not tasted it. It only produced one fruit and I don't know what month to pick it.
why didnt you graft it 😭, you could have done a return to sender graft where you take top growth of the seed and just graft it back to it.
why didn't I graft what?
@SleepyLizard the seedling your talking about in the video he's asking why you didn't graft it instead of waiting ten years from seed.
@@TuffleG are you certain that's what he's asking?
@@TuffleG yes, he is rights. when I grow seedling, I take bud wood from the seedling and graft it back to the same seedling, or even a different seedling and I get fruit in a couple seasons
@SleepyLizard yes pretty sure now since he responded
It always amazes me that people with a small yard and limited space want to gamble 10 years of their lives waiting on an avocado seedling just to save the $40 it would cost them to get a grafted one that will produce in 3 years and have exactly what they want. The excuse is often "but my grandpa planted a seed a long time ago and he has good avocados now!" Meanwhile, the avocados grandpa grows are disgusting but he likes it because they grew in his yard.
Or more likely the tree grandpa planted is a grafted tree that was bought in a nursery, but the persons conceptualization of that tree is that it was grown from seed because that's what we thought as children.
But if you think about it the vast majority of Backyard trees are put in by a landscaping company who gets grafted trees from a nursery
@@SleepyLizard Yeah, that. Grandpa can't remember anymore where the tree came from.
@@MasterKenfucius Grandpa just says "I planted that tree 30 years ago" and everybody pictures him placing a seed in a hole in the ground and 25 years later that's their "memory"