Nice one Ajmal. The tree grows in that sideways manner because the scion that it was made from was taken from a side branch of the original tree. So it continues to grow sideways.
Hello. Am in Texas and very determined to cultivate some avocados trees to fruition. Do you sell the stock for grafting? I will like to get some if possible. Thanks.
This is something to cherish! What an awesome dwarf tree. I have just purchased one in Florida and have just the right spot near the house where I want an avocado, but one that won't get so large. Fun!
Good for you! Most of my trees all started fruiting this years except the baby ones. Nothing like small trees. I just cut back my 25 foot Reed to 3 feet and I would have preferred not to. At least you will never have to worry about that with your Wurtz.
I’m going to try some indoor grafting on seedlings this winter , I live in atlanta ,winters suck here it gets down to 20.I can’t wait for a tree to make fruit !!
Have you ever considered the possibility of having a “sport” of the littlecado?? Maybe you should take a scion of your littlecado and graft it to another tree to see if it continues the same growth habits? This could be a new variety beneficial for people who would like to grow avocados in containers.
I've done this. I took a scion from this Littlecado tree and grafted onto a Littlecado seedling. I did that graft 5 years ago, and the tree is now 1.5 feet tall. It looks like an avocado bonsai, and it has fruits on it
ajmal31 you should do it again and see if the results are the same. If they are...I would say you would have a new perfect avocado variety to grow in pots.
I agree. I showed this fruit experimenter David Johnson of CRFG Modesto who specializes in rare avocados and he said that this could he worth a lot money. I have 6 trees and I meet people all the time who want a small avocado tree of course some are smaller but nothing to compared to this!
@ajmal31, Thanks for the video, and sorry the tree has since passed. I have two young Wurtz trees, both from the same nursery, both currently in #15 pots. From the beginning, one was growing more upright so I supported it with a stake, the other just wanted to lie down, like yours, so I let it. I was wondering if one tree would produce better than the other - apparently not so far, as both trees flowered well throughout Feb and Mar and are holding numerous tiny green fruit at this point.
Thats great! For fruit avocados fruit best on horizontal branches. If you want, you could train some branches with stakes to grow vertical and see what happens?
It's shooting from the rootstock! You are really lucky that the shoots are of the 'good' stock, not the 'bad' dwarfing stock. There are always two parents to every dwarf tree, the fruiting parent and the dwarfing roots. You have been very lucky to get shoots off the good parent.
@ClissaT, you sound like you know your trees! How does one make a dwarf avocado tree? Is it using dwarf rootstock, or is the scion the part that determines the size of the tree? Also, what do you mean by ‘bad dwarfing stock’? I would love to have a small (8’ to 10’) avocado tree.
@@IrinaSol66 Yes for the most part the rootstock determines the size of the tree (and in citrus also a lot of the sweetness of the fruit). The fruiting stock is generally from full-sized trees. So in the case of this particular tree in this video, the shoots that survived from the rootstock also happened to be good for producing fruit. It is possible that over the years some rootstocks have developed better fruiting tendencies which may have helped in this instance. Scientists are always trying to improve the various stocks used in all fruits and particularly in avocados since in many varieties it takes 4years and 3 different stocks to make a tree ready for sale. There is the root stock with dwarfing and disease attributes, the stem stock that produces a strong tree able to support all that leaf and branch growth along with a heavy fruit crop, then the fruiting stock itself which every year gets heavier.
@ClissaT, thank you for your answer, it definitely makes more sense than most answers I've got to my questions. I also have a dwarf avocado tree that I thought was dead until it started shooting little branches from the rootstock. I bought it from Home Depot as a Little Cado. Now, since this trees we buy from nurseries are made of 2 or 3 different pieces of other trees, what determines the tree description? Is it fair to assume that in my case the rootstock is from a Little Cado (wurtz I believe), and the scion from either a Little Cado, or other full size avocado tree? I have a small backyard and having a big tree is not an option, but I still want good fruits, lol. I was planning on regrafting when the suckers got bigger, maybe a hass scion. Would that be a good idea? Thank you for your time. 😊 🌲 😊 🌲 😊
Ya, avocado tree got a lot of personality. I got like 10. They are decades old, never cared for yet still produce amazing delicious abundant fruit. One tree that was cut down, and stands about 7 feet and looks dead, produces huge softball size fruit. Another one won't stop springing off shoots that grow like wild. I have to cut a bunch back, but I let 1 grow. It's like a foot away from the main tree, grew to about 10 feet in 2 years and last year it actually grew an impressive amount of fruit. My experience has been to just leave these fuckers alone and do their thing. I trim a little when branches grow to far out, or get like 20 feet high, but that's about it. I don't even water them and I'm in dry ass southern California. They just keep on growing, keep on dropping seeds that keep growing everywhere, and just never stop amazing me.
Mine is doing the same thing but it's in a container. Which is weird since the branches go to the ground. I pruned it to the pots perimeter and it went dormant for 1/2 year. It is just now starting to push buds. I think I'm going to leave it alone til I need to up pot it.
AngelLee O Thanks for watching. I’ll let the Hass grow. Hopefully the dwarfing effects of the Wurtz keeps the Hass graft small. If it does, I’ll graft on the Fuerte and other large avocados onto this tree
Beautiful! Both interesting and concerning--I have a new Wurtz, about 6' tall and half as wide in my front yard expecting i can prune it into an attractive as well as productive tree. Surely this could be pruned into a nice tree, NO? Great fruit but vulnerable to rodents, raccoons and such so close to the ground in my space.
My wurtz is 12 ft tall by 12 ft wide and 20 yrs old with a definite upright growth habit and my leaves are not taco shaped taco leaves are definitely holiday characteristic holiday grows more on the ground
Many thanks for sharing mate. I am thinking of buying a Dwarf Avocado 🥑 However I have clay so I don’t know how I would go any one got any ideas Thanks in advance
My tree is a dwarf Wurtz Littlecado its 20 yrs old and only 12 ft tall never been pruned has a wide spreading upright canopy has never grown on the ground like a bush iT has a definite tree form definitely not a pinkerton which grows to 30 ft and is a large tree.
Avocados do not grow true to seed. If u live in USA, you can get many grafted varieties from 'Four Winds Growers', incl this one. I recently bought a few diff varieties.
ajmal31 what area are you in again? Sorry I can’t remember (I have terrible brain fog due to health issues) and I can watch something 3 times and still forget things 🤦♀️
@@sharoncourt75 If you are in USA, u can get 'Fantastic' variety from 'A Natural Farm' and Plantogram. You can also try Mexicola, Mexicola Grande, Day, Joey
Home Depot sells a small tree called Dwarf Avocado Hybrid Dwarf Persia Hybrid Just like I say it here it doesn’t say Little Cado or Wurtz Avocado. And I understand from your video that it is the tree that is dwarf and not the fruit. Except on that label on that tree I just described it has a picture of little avocados. I suppose these small avocados are small only because they are still growing. Except if that is not the case then my second guess stems from the “Persea hybrid” designation on the label. That maybe this tree might actually still be a small fruit bearing tree ? No? It’s still confusing . Other posts say there are other dwarf avocados like the Holiday . So how do I distinguish this aptly named little cado tree variety except the label says little Cado? Answer: you can’t, don’t buy it unless it say Little Cado🥸
It's a poor label. The hybrid dwarf at home depot is a Wurtz Avocado. The nursery that sells these trees to home depot and other big box stores confirmed it. The picture on the label shows a different variety. Home depot does this with other varieties as well
The fruits on my wurtz are green longer and more slender with somewhat of a longer slender neck and my tree grows upright not on the ground Like yours I bet almost 100% yours is a holiday
Nice one Ajmal. The tree grows in that sideways manner because the scion that it was made from was taken from a side branch of the original tree. So it continues to grow sideways.
Makes sense. Never thought of that. Thanks!
Holy crap!
That is a substantial fruit grown on an unusual growing tree. Good job!
Hello. Am in Texas and very determined to cultivate some avocados trees to fruition. Do you sell the stock for grafting? I will like to get some if possible. Thanks.
All I got to say is, what an amazing avocado tree.
Thanks :)
It’s like a weeping avocado I’d graft it and sell it👍
This is something to cherish! What an awesome dwarf tree. I have just purchased one in Florida and have just the right spot near the house where I want an avocado, but one that won't get so large. Fun!
Nice! Thanks!
You can stake it up to let the branches harden and grow upward if you like! Otherwise it's a gorgeous tree and like nothing I've ever seen
Bhry Wareing Thank you
Wow thats so amazing!!!!
Being tiny is so easy to pick the fruit!!
Good for you! Most of my trees all started fruiting this years except the baby ones. Nothing like small trees. I just cut back my 25 foot Reed to 3 feet and I would have preferred not to. At least you will never have to worry about that with your Wurtz.
Thanks! 25 foot Reed must be beautiful
It's really a HUMBLE TREE!! LOL!
I’m going to try some indoor grafting on seedlings this winter , I live in atlanta ,winters suck here it gets down to 20.I can’t wait for a tree to make fruit !!
Good luck with the grafting 🥑🪴
Have you ever considered the possibility of having a “sport” of the littlecado?? Maybe you should take a scion of your littlecado and graft it to another tree to see if it continues the same growth habits? This could be a new variety beneficial for people who would like to grow avocados in containers.
I've done this. I took a scion from this Littlecado tree and grafted onto a Littlecado seedling. I did that graft 5 years ago, and the tree is now 1.5 feet tall. It looks like an avocado bonsai, and it has fruits on it
ajmal31 you should do it again and see if the results are the same. If they are...I would say you would have a new perfect avocado variety to grow in pots.
I agree. I showed this fruit experimenter David Johnson of CRFG Modesto who specializes in rare avocados and he said that this could he worth a lot money.
I have 6 trees and I meet people all the time who want a small avocado tree of course some are smaller but nothing to compared to this!
@@AJTheGraftMan Let me know if you want to sell any!
@@growyourownavocados I want some seeds 👀
@ajmal31, Thanks for the video, and sorry the tree has since passed. I have two young Wurtz trees, both from the same nursery, both currently in #15 pots. From the beginning, one was growing more upright so I supported it with a stake, the other just wanted to lie down, like yours, so I let it. I was wondering if one tree would produce better than the other - apparently not so far, as both trees flowered well throughout Feb and Mar and are holding numerous tiny green fruit at this point.
I'm glad to hear you're getting fruits :)
Thats great! For fruit avocados fruit best on horizontal branches. If you want, you could train some branches with stakes to grow vertical and see what happens?
I want 10 trees just like yours, perfect
WOW!!! Very impressive fruits!
Gorgeous tiny tree!😍
Thank you for posting this video!
Wow, thanks for sharing your avocado tree, where are you growing your little avocado, is this somewhere in California, USA?
Thank you. Yes Southern California
You should have staked the main trunk when you got it to keep it from falling over.
Exactly
It's shooting from the rootstock! You are really lucky that the shoots are of the 'good' stock, not the 'bad' dwarfing stock. There are always two parents to every dwarf tree, the fruiting parent and the dwarfing roots. You have been very lucky to get shoots off the good parent.
Thank you!
@ClissaT, you sound like you know your trees! How does one make a dwarf avocado tree? Is it using dwarf rootstock, or is the scion the part that determines the size of the tree? Also, what do you mean by ‘bad dwarfing stock’? I would love to have a small (8’ to 10’) avocado tree.
@@IrinaSol66 Yes for the most part the rootstock determines the size of the tree (and in citrus also a lot of the sweetness of the fruit). The fruiting stock is generally from full-sized trees. So in the case of this particular tree in this video, the shoots that survived from the rootstock also happened to be good for producing fruit.
It is possible that over the years some rootstocks have developed better fruiting tendencies which may have helped in this instance.
Scientists are always trying to improve the various stocks used in all fruits and particularly in avocados since in many varieties it takes 4years and 3 different stocks to make a tree ready for sale. There is the root stock with dwarfing and disease attributes, the stem stock that produces a strong tree able to support all that leaf and branch growth along with a heavy fruit crop, then the fruiting stock itself which every year gets heavier.
@ClissaT, thank you for your answer, it definitely makes more sense than most answers I've got to my questions. I also have a dwarf avocado tree that I thought was dead until it started shooting little branches from the rootstock. I bought it from Home Depot as a Little Cado. Now, since this trees we buy from nurseries are made of 2 or 3 different pieces of other trees, what determines the tree description? Is it fair to assume that in my case the rootstock is from a Little Cado (wurtz I believe), and the scion from either a Little Cado, or other full size avocado tree? I have a small backyard and having a big tree is not an option, but I still want good fruits, lol.
I was planning on regrafting when the suckers got bigger, maybe a hass scion. Would that be a good idea? Thank you for your time. 😊 🌲 😊 🌲 😊
Well looks like my little cado is not growing up anytime soon... 😂Thanks for update
Nice 🤩. Awesome share bro 👍
Very interesting, i bet everyone would like to have one of those, i would love to get my hands on one of those. thanks for sharing
Ya, avocado tree got a lot of personality. I got like 10. They are decades old, never cared for yet still produce amazing delicious abundant fruit. One tree that was cut down, and stands about 7 feet and looks dead, produces huge softball size fruit. Another one won't stop springing off shoots that grow like wild. I have to cut a bunch back, but I let 1 grow. It's like a foot away from the main tree, grew to about 10 feet in 2 years and last year it actually grew an impressive amount of fruit.
My experience has been to just leave these fuckers alone and do their thing. I trim a little when branches grow to far out, or get like 20 feet high, but that's about it. I don't even water them and I'm in dry ass southern California. They just keep on growing, keep on dropping seeds that keep growing everywhere, and just never stop amazing me.
Wow sounds like an interesting collection! Yes it’s amazing to watch avocado trees grow. Totally agree about them having unique personalities
Wow I would love to get a sport from your tree since I want to keep mine in a container
You should be cloning and selling this tree. This is a very nice tree cultivar, and would likely have commercial applications.
I’ve grafted from this tree once. I should do more, like you said. Though I can’t determine if it’s a true mutation of the original Wurtz variety
Mine is doing the same thing but it's in a container. Which is weird since the branches go to the ground. I pruned it to the pots perimeter and it went dormant for 1/2 year. It is just now starting to push buds. I think I'm going to leave it alone til I need to up pot it.
I think the branches go to the ground as a natural protection from the hot sun. Avocado trees like a cool root zone and trunk area. Happy growing 👍🏼😀🌴
Fantastic mate ! Send a seed. To Australia.. love to have one!
Wurtz avocados in Perth, Western Australia tend to grow taller, 3-5 metres...
Yes, I have seen a big one on the 'Real Life Fruitopia' channel.
Good avocado Tree
Have you made guacamole with these Little cados? How do you describe the taste?
Yes. Tastes fine. But I like hass, Fuerte and Reed avocados more
@@AJTheGraftMan Thank you for responding. Your Little Cado avocado tree is beautiful.
Wow amazing
Looks like a Gem Avacodo tree
Nice. So what happens now that you grafted the hass to the wurtz? The hass is a very all tree.
AngelLee O Thanks for watching. I’ll let the Hass grow. Hopefully the dwarfing effects of the Wurtz keeps the Hass graft small. If it does, I’ll graft on the Fuerte and other large avocados onto this tree
Love it as usual💚
great video. thanks for the info.
bud row you’re welcome and thanks for watching
Looking awesome. What zone? I'm on the border of 9b 10a
TheJman thanks! Zone 10b, I think
Have been thinking about buying a Little Cado. Where did you get yours?
I got it from Armstrong Garden Centers
What city and state is that?
Beautiful! Both interesting and concerning--I have a new Wurtz, about 6' tall and half as wide in my front yard expecting i can prune it into an attractive as well as productive tree. Surely this could be pruned into a nice tree, NO? Great fruit but vulnerable to rodents, raccoons and such so close to the ground in my space.
Bo McGillacutty yes you can certainly prune it
Like your videos alot mon seen
Seen I. Thanks
WOW! Nice!
My wurtz is 12 ft tall by 12 ft wide and 20 yrs old with a definite upright growth habit and my leaves are not taco shaped taco leaves are definitely holiday characteristic holiday grows more on the ground
If you can clone that for people's yards you could make some money if it a different variety from Wurtz of course.
gregsjazz I wish but it’s certainly a Wurtz. I’ve grafted it onto a few other trees and it does quite well
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.
Strange. Gary Gragg has the same tree (on UA-cam) but it's the size of a semi-dwarf tree.
gregsjazz I’ve seen his tree. Mine is strange. It’s main trunk is basically lying on the ground
Has this tree been grafted or was it grown from seed?
It’s a grafted tree
Many thanks for sharing mate. I am thinking of buying a Dwarf Avocado 🥑 However I have clay so I don’t know how I would go any one got any ideas Thanks in advance
My tree is a dwarf Wurtz Littlecado its 20 yrs old and only 12 ft tall never been pruned has a wide spreading upright canopy has never grown on the ground like a bush iT has a definite tree form definitely not a pinkerton which grows to 30 ft and is a large tree.
I would love to have a tree like that to sneakily plant in my front yard! I’m in an HOA and bug fruit trees aren’t allowed…
Aren't allowed!?! Boy they better have a good mf reason 💯
You need freedom first! HOA! Why do people do this to themselves! Pay money to be slaves
What country do you live? It's amazing and i just know in my life that there's vines avocado kind, it is very rare
USA. Thanks!
Did you prune at all?
Shekhar Moona I haven’t pruned, but I have cut some branches to graft other varieties to this tree
Do you have an updated videos? Are you selling any? Thanks
Update video: ua-cam.com/video/h3-sy7tF6xk/v-deo.html
@@AJTheGraftMan Too bad. Thanks
When and How long does it fruit?
Hello, what kind of avocado is this?
Hello. This is the Wurtz Avocado variety
@@AJTheGraftMan Hello, can you add friends to fb?陳清波
I have a 3 yrs grafted tree an sending shoots like crazy after u been fokuge it spray with a fruit flower inducer hope it fruit soin
where can i get a seed or seedling of the wurtz? will it thrive in the philippines? thanks
It's pretty common in USA. I'm sure it can do well in the Philippines
WOW
My Fuerte is bag like dat one skipper
Where do I buy this? Suggestions? I tried finding seeds but to know avail =(
Home Depot sells this tree under the name ‘Hybrid Dwarf’ Avocado Tree
@@AJTheGraftMan thanks!
If u r in USA, u can get some from 'Four Winds Growers' -- they also have many other varieties (all grafted).
Yeah sure enough the red and green leaves are very Wurtz!
Wowwwwww!
Hey bro would you sell me some cuttings? Love your tree 🌳
My indoor avocado tree is almost as tall and its only a year old. Granted its not as thick as that tree
Don't complain if the tree produced fruits🤣
Do you know anyway of getting seed from this variety? Thanks
Unfortunately this tree died last year from root rot and lace bug infection
@@AJTheGraftMan Ok sorry to hear that! It's very unique.
Avocados do not grow true to seed. If u live in USA, you can get many grafted varieties from 'Four Winds Growers', incl this one. I recently bought a few diff varieties.
@@AJTheGraftMan That is very sad
Can i buy a cutting?
Are they a cold hardy tree? I don’t think they are 🤔 but I am not sure.
I don't have first hand experience, but I've read it can survive down to 29 degrees
ajmal31 cool thanks mate. I love how small the trees are so I’m keen to try one and I think you said the fruit was nice yeah?
ajmal31 I think I may try a wurtz aka lil Cado myself.
ajmal31 what area are you in again? Sorry I can’t remember (I have terrible brain fog due to health issues) and I can watch something 3 times and still forget things 🤦♀️
Can this grow in fort worth texas?
Needs some cold protection. You can try growing it in a container and bringing it in for the winter
Where can you buy this kind of avocado?
A lot of nurseries and big box stores in California sell them
If u live in USA, you can get many grafted varieties from 'Four Winds Growers', incl this one.
Bush master fire some big shot like the m1 or 16
What growing zone are you i please?
10a
@@AJTheGraftMan 😂🤣 i am in 6B try to find a fantastic to grow in a pot out in the summer in 5 months
@@sharoncourt75 If you are in USA, u can get 'Fantastic' variety from 'A Natural Farm' and Plantogram. You can also try Mexicola, Mexicola Grande, Day, Joey
Hi.... can i have scion from this tree?
Hi anyone there?
👍🍺
Home Depot sells a small tree called Dwarf Avocado
Hybrid Dwarf
Persia Hybrid
Just like I say it here
it doesn’t say Little Cado or Wurtz Avocado. And I understand from your video that it is the tree that is dwarf and not the fruit. Except on that label on that tree I just described it has a picture of little avocados. I suppose these small avocados are small only because they are still growing. Except if that is not the case then my second guess stems from the “Persea hybrid” designation on the label. That maybe this tree
might actually still be a small fruit bearing tree ? No?
It’s still confusing . Other posts say there are other dwarf avocados like the Holiday . So how do I distinguish this aptly named little cado tree variety except the label says little Cado? Answer: you can’t, don’t buy it unless it say Little Cado🥸
It's a poor label. The hybrid dwarf at home depot is a Wurtz Avocado. The nursery that sells these trees to home depot and other big box stores confirmed it. The picture on the label shows a different variety. Home depot does this with other varieties as well
balls to the wall
sorry that fruit doesn't look like a wurtz I think its a holiday maybe the tag got 2dwarfs mixed up.
nope
I have a wurtz tree and the fruit is green with white speckled yours looks like holiday
The fruits on my wurtz are green longer and more slender with somewhat of a longer slender neck and my tree grows upright not on the ground Like yours I bet almost 100% yours is a holiday
@@xrsjohnm based on your description, your fruit sounds like a Pinkerton avocado. Sounds like your tags got mixed up
dwarf Gem variety..?
No the variety is called Wurtz. It's also known as Littlecado
Strange lol
U
its a holiday avocado
It's a Wurtz Avocado
Weird.