I just can’t resist planting seeds. No fruit from seeds so far from; lemon, pineapple, avocado. Beautiful plants, especially the pineapple with its giant spread of swords 😂
same... got a calydascope tree out front and lemons limes apples pears... as well ... the apples on this one came in last year tiny with big seeds and a slightly hardier skin. it seems it decided to hybrid three attributes of the tree instead. i put down organic soil yearly and water it twice a day in the summer. do some bonsai stuff without cutting as the branches get so dense they wrap atound each other. i think it wasnt ripe yet man. but try blending them hehe.
Ester, I couldn't come up with words other than the taste reminded me of how my grove smells at the end of the season with all the fallen fruit rotting on the ground. At first it was kind of flavorless and starchy like a barely ripe banana but then the foul flavor kicked in and it was nasty.
Hello Tom: A special video indeed. Having the Fuerte to detail the Haas History is a stroke of genius and to luck out with the Wild Avocado with it’s horrible taste certainly proves the adage that fruits from a seedling is kinda like Russian Roulette, you may live or you may not! Another stroke of genius is having all the other tropical fruits to add credence to the Avocado tale! You keep outdoing yourself each video! Great job!
Nice to see that the shoot below the graft grew fruit. I have an Asian pear tree that grew a side shoot from below the graph. People have been telling me to cut if off but I did some research on what type of tree the Asian pears are graphed onto. So, I'm going to air layer the shoot from below the graph.
@@SleepyLizard Asian pears are my favourite fruit! They taste like a normal pear and are juicy like a good pear, but they are the texture of a crisp apple! And they're bigger than an apple.
Ah, the history lesson we were chatting about illustrated. Nicely done. Fun to finally see Fuerte. And, the big crescendo ending of how the wild one tasted.. LOL. It MUST have been bad if a cherry pepsi made things better.. ;)
Awesome video. I love your energy. I'm open-pollinating a bunch of grafted and seedling avocados in an ultra-high-intensity planting arrangement here in Phoenix, then taking the seeds of the best fruits and growing a bunch out and taking scions of the best and growing them out on mexican seedling rootstocks and some west indian/mexican hybrids that have the mexican cold tolerance. Hoping to get lucky and eventually create a very heat hardy and cold hardy variety with great flavor. Trying to mix in a lot of seedlings of the rarer and more exotic varieties with a bunch of grafted varieties reputed to have a decent chance here. I've created what I think is a really good microclimate for them. I think high intensity planting makes a lot of sense in the desert.
Another great video. I learn something new every time I tune in, never knew how Haas came about. Similar with mangoes and all the new varieties Zill came about of planting thousands of seeds, taste testing and smelling sap. Some selections are intentional some are found by accident with seedlings thrown in a trash pile, I always found this fascinating. Keep up the good work, love your videos.
Good morning Tom, I have a tree that we started from seed, it was suppose to be a hass from Mexico, but the seed was round like that hass you opened up and the actual avocado was huge like a softball. I’m getting ready to plant the seedling and I know I won’t get the same avocado but at least I’ll get some shade in my backyard.
Great video again. Very educational and motivating. I planted two avocado trees from seeds,a Simmons and another. They both produce different fruits from what I planted. The one from the Simmons seed have a nice flavor but the other one is a no no so I have proven what you are talking about. Gonna cut down the other one let it spring g afresh and graft it. Thanks so much for your valuable informations.
Yeah, I have one in my backyard from seed but it hasn't produced in 6 seasons now. I too have stumped it and I'm going to graft another variety onto it.
Im not an avocado connoisseur, i used to react kinda similar to you when you took a bite of the wild avocado. I know now i prefer freshly cut slightly sweeter avocados also slightly firmer over softer mushier.
I came here from your last video where you found the wild avocado on your grafted tree. I see you have trouble when the wild fruit turned out to be disgusting, and I'd say all is not lost. You can send it to labs to get it analyzed for proteins and enzymes, and maybe you've struck gold, if the nutritional value is higher than normal avocado. The pharmaceutical and beauty industry would love to get their hands on such variety. If I'm not mistaken, just like palm oil, the seeds of avocados can be pressed for oil. So, seeing that the wild avocado has a big seed, the oil ratio would be high. Which means it would be suitable for oil production. I also noticed that you picked the wild avocado from it's tree, and waited for a while for it to soften, before eating it. Maybe you should let it ripen on the tree, or try the ones that's fallen (although it will be gross), to see if the sugars have matured fully. Try ripening it by placing it in a box with some calcium carbide (it will produce acetylene gas). That's how people in my country control the ripening of fruits for export. It's wild after all, so maybe it would behave a little different than cultivated ones, so, have fun with trying to find use for it, and maybe you've got a new miracle variety on your farm.
Another interesting and informative lesson. Thanks, Tom. Do you have a video out about cultivating mamey? They're delicious, but I've heard that they're notoriously difficult to grow. BTW, I love Homestead, but the main reason I don't live there: The miserable dragon infestations!
vt, I am going to have one of my workers show how to graft mamey in an upcoming vid. I'll also interview him on growing techniques. Yeah, we got a lot of things that wanna eat you down here by the everglades 😬
I grew up in Florida. The avocados we would get there, are much larger than the Hass avocados. My aunt and mother had actually grown trees from seed. The skin on the outside has the same texture as the hass, but stays green even when ripe. The fruit itself is much larger than the hass, but The seed is normally, the same size as the hass. I have moved to Tennessee and now buy the same avocados at Publix. Do these varieties actually have a name?
Hi Mabel, they generally don't label the varieties at Publix. You got the Hass, then "large green" which could be any of the 60 or so varieties we grow here in florida.
I grew up in Florida in the 1960s and 70s and to me the avocado was, most likely, the Simmonds. My next door neighbor had a tree that reliably filled every year with green pear-shaped fruit about the size of a grapefruit; I don't remember ever seeing a Hass till we moved to Tennessee in the late 70s. My mother liked them. I was always a Fruit Is Sweet person. (On the other hand, she also liked mangoes, and to me they taste medicinal.) I like _oranges,_ ok?! 😉
@@SleepyLizard I'm not aware of why an avocado might taste medicinal, but I definitely taste the resin-y flavor of mangoes. I'm a supertaster, so things might taste different to me than they do to "normal" people. (I'm afraid I have a reputation as a picky eater. Beets? Dirt. Cilantro? Soapy rot. Asparagus? Asparagus. See what I mean?) I don't dislike avocadoes or mangoes but I do have an automatic "that tastes like..." reaction to EVERYTHING.
@@SleepyLizard eww!!! Did you ever accidentally leave a vase of flowers so long the water in the bottom got slimy? Imagine the smell if there was leftover dishwater in the sink, and you pour the nasty rotten stem water on top of it. That's what it's like to me. I never thought of feet.... 🤢
What a shame, I was really hoping it would at least not be bad. :/ Well at least we can see what you often say holds true - most avocados grown from seed will end up tasting bad.
I have one in my yard growing wild but I haven't gotten fruit from it since 2016. Those ones aren't yucky they're just kind of bland. This one was horrible.
Stumbled on this video trying figure out what kind of avocado tree is in my front yard. Im in south florida and my tree produces about 100 cados in august sept(right now). I believe they are wild. They are a little bigger than the hass, green with brown spots on them. They are delicious, though honestly not quite as good as the hass but better than the big Fl avocodos imo.After I moved in people all around the neighborhood would come by and ask me if they could take some as the last owner had let them. Anyway very fascinating video for sure. 🤙
Yeah, that's me. I have some videos in the millions and some of them don't even break 5000 I don't know how to manage this algorithm.🤣. I appreciate your kind and encouraging words, thank you.
Our Avocados from seed suffer frostbite in the low 30 - 32 degree. They were around 2-3 years old. Some part of the branches turned black and so do their top trunk. They were planted in the ground. Love the wild avocado. It got history.
Hi Aneka, yes the Catalinas dont' grow as big as the Simmonds. I LOVE the Simmonds. I only have 2 or 3 left then I gotta wait another year. What language do you speak in your videos?
I hope, one day, one of the trees d on your farm will create the best, tastiest avocado ever... And may they be harvested in February.. lol. Would that be perfect?
I'm glad you mentioned this subject because I have a question pertaining that what you just showed us. What is your preference? Would you use only larger pits to do your grafts or would you also plant the tiny Hass pits to make them? I would think you want as large a plant as possible when grafting for strength, which you would get only with the larger pits. Is that what you do?
@@SleepyLizard Great! Because I'm sitting on a dozen sprouted Marcus pits from 3 lb avocados in my backyard that are now about 18 inches tall. All ready for grafting when the time is right. The grafting knife and tape are on top of my desk and I'm ready! All thanks to you! Thanks for the encouragement.
hey there, great video. I grafted a friend's tree on to my existing rootstock (30+ years old). it fruited within two years and as a result have this beautiful Hass-type fruit. it has the same consistency and colour as Hass but then will blacken. the Hass that we sometimes buy in shops, they are always a dark green in colour. so I'm now wondering whether I do actually have Hass because now, I only pick them when they've got to the dark stage, much like the colour they get when the green store-bought fruits turn when they are ripe. OR, should I be better to harvest when they are in the green stage and before they blacken? I have harvested them in its green stage and while they are tasty and I'm not sure it's as oily than when I harvested it in its blacker stage. more tests to do. the remaining fruit (about 30) are black but the tree is already covered in the next generation fruitlets. I am here in New Zealand and I am telling myself that next season 2024, I will try to harvest the fruit before it next flowers so that I can get more fruits in the spaces where the mature fruits are still occupying and the next generation is already setting fruitlets around it. Would that be sensible or is that just being greedy? LOL. I tell people who have fruit on seed-grown trees, hey that's cool that your tree is fruiting but more than likely you have dud fruit. And they wouldn't really care anyway because they are just happy to have a tree that fruits...it tastes like avocado so whoop-dee-doo, I'll take it however it is. I'm respectful to them of course.
Hello Tom...i like you're video's,, I'm trying to graft a pinkerton on a pit seedling.ill know if it took in a few week's ....but i just have to ask this..when you tasted the wild avo, lol, didn't you overact a bit,, I'm over in south africa, and I've tasted many many wild avo's from tree's in people's yards, and i ask them, did you just threw a pit out..and answer is always always yes..but the avo's taste like any other avo...but you are right..avo's does put a smile on people's face,, because i had to laught for you're reaction on the wild avo..lol...send me a shout-out on you're next video pls..Renaldo over in south africa..
Hi Renaldo, thanks for the message. Nah my reaction was genuine. I have a wild tree in my backyard but it hasn't given fruit since 2016 and those ones are a bit bland but not yucky. The wild one I ate in the vid was disgusting. So you're saying you see a tree in somebody's yard. They share their fruit with you and the fruit tastes good. Then you ask them if they just threw the pit out and they answer yes? And this sequence has happened more than once? 🤣
Yes, this sequence has happend more than once, infact all the tree's in people yards who i have talked to, just threw out a pit..and the avo's taste like avo's...but i do get where grafting comes in..you will get fruit sooner...
Hi Cheryl, yes but like any purchase do what you can to assure yourself it's coming from a good seller. and make sure it says "grafted". If you live in South Florida I recommend against the Hass..it doesn't grow too good here. Its better suited for CA and Mexico
Hi Tom! I have three small grafted Hass Avocado trees (one is 170cm, two are 100cm in height) in my wintergarten (conservatory; 15°C in Winter, up to 37°C in Summer) and they like it there. I wasn't aware of types A and B before I saw your YT channel. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to get any other variety than Hass here in Germany (even Hass avocado is hard to find in a store here). I can import some other varieties from Spain or Italy however. I want to keep the trees relatively compact so that they can stay in my large wintergarten all year (as winter here can go down to -10°C, sometimes -20°C). What type B variety would you recommend for the Hass trees as a cross-pollinator? I can get a Fuerte, Bacon, or Ettinger; which should I choose? Is the fruit season important or can they differ from the Hass? Thank you very much!
Hi Richard. I would chose a B that harvests in the fall that way you'll have Hass from July to September then you can pick the B starting in October. That makes me lean toward the Bacon
@@SleepyLizard …looks like my previous answer disappeared, so here again: Thank you, Tom! I’ve ordered a Bacon plant today. As I will grow all plants indoors in my conservatory, I need them to be compact in size. Do you have any tips how to prune Avocado trees to keep them small but with as many fruits as possible? Thanks for your great work.
I was watching a cooking channel from Germany & she cut into an unripe (hard) Avocado & added it to the salad, tasted the salad saying how good it was. I went to the comment section to tell the cook we dont eat unripe avocados, but hundreds beat me to it! We all thot something got lost in the translation on when Avocados should be eaten. In Germany do the people eat them unripe & hard OR do they normally eat them ripe & soft? In the comments we all wondered....
My haas avocado 🥑 seed grew haas avocado and I did not graft it We had an avocado 🥑 tree in our yard in California as a child it was not grafted it was a haas
Hi Diane, it doesn't work that way. Your tree was a Hass variant but not a Hass. All Hass avocados come from cuttings of cuttings of cuttings...of the original. Yours may have been very similar but I will had DNA from the mother tree and father tree...just like a human baby is not a clone of it's mother.
I just looked at the title again ... "Comparing Wild Avocados to Homegrown and Store Bought Avocados" .. and I think it should be *"Comparing* *A* *Wild* *Avocado* *to* *Homegrown* *and* *Store* *Bought* *Avocados"* Because otherwise you are we saying all wild avocados are yuckier than Cherry Pepsi, and by your own example of the Hass Avocado, that is not true ... there is some fraction of potential avocados out there that could be amazingly good. Like I was reading a book on genetics ( Understanding Genetics: DNA, Genes, and Their Real-World Applications) which was explaining how all the brassica vegetables all descended from one plant that looked nothing like them, called wild mustard ... i.e Brussell's Sprouts, Kale, Cabbage, Kohlrabi, Cauliflower. That pretty much blew me away.
Just wondering if the scions can survive the trip to SE Asia via Fedex coz im thinking of grafting them into my avocado seedlings one day, when i go home for good. Would be awesome im sure.
Emanuel, you can tell when it flowers. When the tree flowers in the morning take a look and see if it's a male or female flower. Type A will be female in the morning. Be will be male. This vid shows how to tell male vs female: ua-cam.com/video/X8eQeA88nVo/v-deo.html
With dread in my heart I cut the tops off my seedlings... some were already frozen off so it didn't seem too much of a big deal. Still... I felt mean 😂
@@SleepyLizard one I planted in autumn and it mightily grew its leaves in the dark cold heart of winter. It was heroic until I came along... I have high hopes for this one being frost hardy!!
I have an avocado tree grafted on it but it didn't take so now I'm I drafted only buds their healthy my seedling tree is 1 year 8 months it's quite big and you got me started on it...it went through it's first winter this year and frost spring starts next month...it was outside the entire winter during frost may,june, july August is dust month ... will buds grow avocado's like drafted trees
Hi Cy, I take it you're in the southern hemisphere. Sorry to hear your graft didn't take. You can always try again. Yes, seed grown trees will bud but it takes 10+ years before they do.
Yeah I'm from the southern hemisphere... though here they keep telling me avocados don't grow here and yet it's thriving, I covered my avocado tree from wintet with blankets it's green and alive how often do I have to feed it organic fertilizer?
@@SleepyLizard we just bought a grafted Monroe and a hass growing in containers so hopefully the Monroe get big enough to survive putting it in the ground here in north Texas
So Ive been pondering grafting various cuttings onto my 7 year old "seedling" as separate branches producing separate avo varieties. Do you have any comments/advice/opinion on that?
We've got this weird thing going on where I live (Tasmania) in that we don't need A's and B's because the climate here makes them flower male and female at the same time. But I still kinda think having A and B would be good. But I can barely fit one tree in my garden so I'm wondering, how do they handle multigrafting? Ever tried it?
I saw homeless man eating what I thought was a football shaped bowl. I notice it was an avocado. It was the largest avocado I've ever seen. I was larger than a toy nerf football. I asked him where he got it. He pulled it of a tree hanging over a fence. What type of avocado gets that large?
Hi Gerald, I have a type called Choquette that gets over 3lbs and are oval shaped. I also have a pear shaped variety called Simmonds that gets over 3lbs as well. The man you saw was having a feast.
I just wonder, if the payoff for developing new avocado species can be so big, who would be working on that, and how many trees to they have to grow to get a popular new superstar avocado? I think there must be a lot of secret information about gardening and all these tricks you have to know. If I buy an avocado or any fruit tree in the store, how would I even know if the root stock was an avocado. or if it was just another compatible species?
if you're asking the history of the cultivar I'm afraid I have no info. If you're asking me to describe it then it's one of my favorites. The flavor reminds me a bit of a cashew nut and they are delicious all by themselves, no oil salt or pepper needed. The trees are reliable and produce a lot of fruit every year. The fruit are very pretty fat pear shaped with smooth light green skin and grow up to 3lbs. It's a type A variety and "early" which means we begin picking them in June.
I have a question. I grew an avocado and in around 1 month it grew a stem it was fat and green 2 weeks later it grew a little red and brown stem on top of the green stem. The new stem grew leaves Is my avocado normal If you wanna see it its in my newest video in my youtube.
I looked at your vid and that's totally normal yes. Much of the new growth in my grove is red like yours. I would recommend you move it to a bigger pot with looser soil so the roots have room to grow.
awesome vid man keep the information coming. I love Avos. Are the Catalina avocados actually from Catalina? Thats bitchin! And gosh whoever the farmer was the sprouted an tree with Avos that big must have freaked out! Super interesting to see how bad an avocado can be, wow! I kind of didn't exactly understand how a male can turn female over night? And very very interesting about the grafting, I've known about it but never tried...Wondering about disease, if you have a virus or disease in a stalk you cut, and you try to graft into it, do you think the graft dna could wipe out the virus in the cut stalk? That's some science.
@@SleepyLizard That's cool, Catalina island is out here on the west coast and I wouldn't be surprised at all if you could grow avocados from there(near san diego great weather year round). I added some more questions/comments to the original comment. Thanks dude
I've been to Catalina and checked out the Coronado Hotel which was so cool. I don't know how or why the flowers do that but it's got a name synchronous dichogamy. Not sure if a graft can cure a tree but it certainly can spread disease if it's infected.
I would melt and die in that weather but oh my golly it would be worth it to be able to go out and risk getting bit by a snake or shot for eating fruit out in your orchard!
I can barely watch your videos it’s painful, man I love Sweden but I would drop sweden in a heart beat for a bucket full of mangoes but dragon fruit and avocados?? I am in the wrong country. That is CRAZY about the sex change on the avocado! This is something absolutely new! I know alot about this topic for other plants but wow what an amazing story!
Ive grown Cherimoya and various guavas in the windows here in Sweden but after many years I had to move and didnt have a place for them and left em with a friend who moved to Italy so I never saw em fruit 😰
it tasted like a rotting avocado smells...and very hard to get the nasty flavor out of my mouth. I have another wild tree in my backyard and the fruit isn't bad...it's not great but it's not yucky either....just kind of bland.
Thanks for the response good sir. Is there a specific time of the year you have them available? Would very much appreciate to know so I can purchase them. Thank you
it's a fascinating history. Every seed produces a unique tree with unique fruit, just like every human baby is unique. Ancient people only ate fruit from the good trees the trees with bad tasting fruit were ignored. what happens after you eat an avocado? you throw the pit on the ground and a tree is born. Now you got an avocado tree growing near your house. If it produces good fruit you keep it, if it is a bad producer you cut it down. That way the quality of the fruit gradually got better and better then eventually humans discovered grafting and the highest quality strains were propagated.
I really really hate avocados. They all make me want to throw up. It is a shame because I have grown several avocado trees, but I give them all away and some to the ducks. The variety I grafted from is unknown but it is a very large oval shaped fruit that was demolishing my steel shed every time a fruit fell on it. Hurricane Wilma tipped the tree over on my house, and killed it. Mangoes I like but bananas are my all time favorite!
Nature is amazing: anywhere you look, the density of knowledge to be learned is unending.
you are right.
I just can’t resist planting seeds. No fruit from seeds so far from; lemon, pineapple, avocado. Beautiful plants, especially the pineapple with its giant spread of swords 😂
it takes a long time but it will be worth it
same... got a calydascope tree out front and lemons limes apples pears... as well ... the apples on this one came in last year tiny with big seeds and a slightly hardier skin.
it seems it decided to hybrid three attributes of the tree instead. i put down organic soil yearly and water it twice a day in the summer.
do some bonsai stuff without cutting as the branches get so dense they wrap atound each other.
i think it wasnt ripe yet man. but try blending them hehe.
@pazsion Graft citrus onto citrus scions and only graft apples and pears onto either apple or a pear scion. They're not interchangeable.
@@CricketsBay yes, we stay within species
amazing although i can’t lie id have loved a bit more detailed description on what tasted bad about the wild avocado
Ester, I couldn't come up with words other than the taste reminded me of how my grove smells at the end of the season with all the fallen fruit rotting on the ground. At first it was kind of flavorless and starchy like a barely ripe banana but then the foul flavor kicked in and it was nasty.
@@SleepyLizard thank you so much for your reply
Hello Tom: A special video indeed. Having the Fuerte to detail the Haas History is a stroke of genius and to luck out with the Wild Avocado with it’s horrible taste certainly proves the adage that fruits from a seedling is kinda like Russian Roulette, you may live or you may not! Another stroke of genius is having all the other tropical fruits to add credence to the Avocado tale! You keep outdoing yourself each video! Great job!
thank you Doug. I appreciate your comment as usual
Nice to see that the shoot below the graft grew fruit. I have an Asian pear tree that grew a side shoot from below the graph. People have been telling me to cut if off but I did some research on what type of tree the Asian pears are graphed onto. So, I'm going to air layer the shoot from below the graph.
what do asian pears taste like?
@@SleepyLizard Asian pears are my favourite fruit! They taste like a normal pear and are juicy like a good pear, but they are the texture of a crisp apple! And they're bigger than an apple.
Ah, the history lesson we were chatting about illustrated. Nicely done. Fun to finally see Fuerte. And, the big crescendo ending of how the wild one tasted.. LOL. It MUST have been bad if a cherry pepsi made things better.. ;)
You make a good point, I usually dont' drink my son's soda but I had to grab whatever was in the fridge. Water wasn't going to do it.
Awesome video. I love your energy. I'm open-pollinating a bunch of grafted and seedling avocados in an ultra-high-intensity planting arrangement here in Phoenix, then taking the seeds of the best fruits and growing a bunch out and taking scions of the best and growing them out on mexican seedling rootstocks and some west indian/mexican hybrids that have the mexican cold tolerance. Hoping to get lucky and eventually create a very heat hardy and cold hardy variety with great flavor. Trying to mix in a lot of seedlings of the rarer and more exotic varieties with a bunch of grafted varieties reputed to have a decent chance here. I've created what I think is a really good microclimate for them. I think high intensity planting makes a lot of sense in the desert.
John, thanks for your comment. please stay close to the channel and keep us updated
How did you get on? I'm seeing this a year later.
How's it going?
Your enthusiasm and teaching ability are great! Thanks for the info!
Thank you for your comment
🎉 yay I followed the link! Super interesting thanks!!!
hahahaha. I'm glad the link worked.
Hola God bless 🙌 this man I need 2 learn this I'm moving 2 florida soon most definitely I learn from this channel
Lenny, if you like tropical fruit you're gonna love it here!
Another fascinating video by the Avocado Whisperer! ;-)
Thank you I appreciate that
Very cool thanks ; somewhat like citrus with the grafting 😎
yes, same idea
Another great video. I learn something new every time I tune in, never knew how Haas came about. Similar with mangoes and all the new varieties Zill came about of planting thousands of seeds, taste testing and smelling sap. Some selections are intentional some are found by accident with seedlings thrown in a trash pile, I always found this fascinating. Keep up the good work, love your videos.
cool history isn't it?
Good morning Tom, I have a tree that we started from seed, it was suppose to be a hass from Mexico, but the seed was round like that hass you opened up and the actual avocado was huge like a softball. I’m getting ready to plant the seedling and I know I won’t get the same avocado but at least I’ll get some shade in my backyard.
John, You're gonna love it! and who knows, you may just discover the next variety of avocado
@@SleepyLizard. That’s what they told me at Laguna Hills Nursery 😉
How'd it go?
Great video again. Very educational and motivating. I planted two avocado trees from seeds,a Simmons and another. They both produce different fruits from what I planted. The one from the Simmons seed have a nice flavor but the other one is a no no so I have proven what you are talking about. Gonna cut down the other one let it spring g afresh and graft it. Thanks so much for your valuable informations.
Yeah, I have one in my backyard from seed but it hasn't produced in 6 seasons now. I too have stumped it and I'm going to graft another variety onto it.
Wow, that was actually really interesting
thank you. I put a lot of time and thought into that vid and I screwed up when I uploaded and the resolution was bad. thank you for the compliment
Amazing what you can learn.
yeah
Jorje catching that bud wood is always so smooth and cool. I can't wait for you guys to have more trees and scion wood in the store.
yeah, the well rehearsed muscle memory of an expert. They are both so good at what they do.
Great teaching, thank you.
Still looking for some budwood here in Houston Texas.
there's lots of people growing avocados over there.
Best video ever made. 👍👍
dang, thank you for the compliment!
Im not an avocado connoisseur, i used to react kinda similar to you when you took a bite of the wild avocado. I know now i prefer freshly cut slightly sweeter avocados also slightly firmer over softer mushier.
I love the hear that. there are so many variety with different flavor profiles.
Love it. 👍
Thank you
Another banger Salute bro 💯👍👊
Thank you Chief OG
Love these educational videos
Thank you Miguel. I hope you're having a great weekend.
Very interesting video!
Thanks Little Rice
Awesome information bro 👍♥️👌 good job well done 👍
thx! by the way, do you live in a part of India where tropical fruit grow?
Absolutely yes I live in North part of India
@@heerasingh7844 lucky you!
I came here from your last video where you found the wild avocado on your grafted tree.
I see you have trouble when the wild fruit turned out to be disgusting, and I'd say all is not lost.
You can send it to labs to get it analyzed for proteins and enzymes, and maybe you've struck gold, if the nutritional value is higher than normal avocado.
The pharmaceutical and beauty industry would love to get their hands on such variety.
If I'm not mistaken, just like palm oil, the seeds of avocados can be pressed for oil. So, seeing that the wild avocado has a big seed, the oil ratio would be high. Which means it would be suitable for oil production.
I also noticed that you picked the wild avocado from it's tree, and waited for a while for it to soften, before eating it.
Maybe you should let it ripen on the tree, or try the ones that's fallen (although it will be gross), to see if the sugars have matured fully.
Try ripening it by placing it in a box with some calcium carbide (it will produce acetylene gas). That's how people in my country control the ripening of fruits for export.
It's wild after all, so maybe it would behave a little different than cultivated ones, so, have fun with trying to find use for it, and maybe you've got a new miracle variety on your farm.
avocados don't ripen on the tree. you have to pick them and wait a week.
Another interesting and informative lesson. Thanks, Tom. Do you have a video out about cultivating mamey? They're delicious, but I've heard that they're notoriously difficult to grow. BTW, I love Homestead, but the main reason I don't live there: The miserable dragon infestations!
vt, I am going to have one of my workers show how to graft mamey in an upcoming vid. I'll also interview him on growing techniques.
Yeah, we got a lot of things that wanna eat you down here by the everglades 😬
I grew up in Florida. The avocados we would get there, are much larger than the Hass avocados. My aunt and mother had actually grown trees from seed. The skin on the outside has the same texture as the hass, but stays green even when ripe. The fruit itself is much larger than the hass, but The seed is normally, the same size as the hass.
I have moved to Tennessee and now buy the same avocados at Publix. Do these varieties actually have a name?
Hi Mabel, they generally don't label the varieties at Publix. You got the Hass, then "large green" which could be any of the 60 or so varieties we grow here in florida.
I grew up in Florida in the 1960s and 70s and to me the avocado was, most likely, the Simmonds. My next door neighbor had a tree that reliably filled every year with green pear-shaped fruit about the size of a grapefruit; I don't remember ever seeing a Hass till we moved to Tennessee in the late 70s.
My mother liked them. I was always a Fruit Is Sweet person. (On the other hand, she also liked mangoes, and to me they taste medicinal.)
I like _oranges,_ ok?! 😉
I get a little medicine aftertaste from a Hass but it's not unpleasant.
@@SleepyLizard I'm not aware of why an avocado might taste medicinal, but I definitely taste the resin-y flavor of mangoes. I'm a supertaster, so things might taste different to me than they do to "normal" people.
(I'm afraid I have a reputation as a picky eater. Beets? Dirt. Cilantro? Soapy rot. Asparagus? Asparagus. See what I mean?)
I don't dislike avocadoes or mangoes but I do have an automatic "that tastes like..." reaction to EVERYTHING.
@@MelissaThompson432 I've hear people say the taste of cilantro makes them think of what dirty feet would taste like 🤣
@@SleepyLizard eww!!! Did you ever accidentally leave a vase of flowers so long the water in the bottom got slimy? Imagine the smell if there was leftover dishwater in the sink, and you pour the nasty rotten stem water on top of it. That's what it's like to me.
I never thought of feet.... 🤢
@@MelissaThompson432 I like you Melissa 😄
What a shame, I was really hoping it would at least not be bad. :/
Well at least we can see what you often say holds true - most avocados grown from seed will end up tasting bad.
I have one in my yard growing wild but I haven't gotten fruit from it since 2016. Those ones aren't yucky they're just kind of bland. This one was horrible.
@@SleepyLizardwas this a ripe avocado? It looked pretty green.
@@da1stamericus yes it was perfectly ripe
Stumbled on this video trying figure out what kind of avocado tree is in my front yard. Im in south florida and my tree produces about 100 cados in august sept(right now). I believe they are wild. They are a little bigger than the hass, green with brown spots on them. They are delicious, though honestly not quite as good as the hass but better than the big Fl avocodos imo.After I moved in people all around the neighborhood would come by and ask me if they could take some as the last owner had let them. Anyway very fascinating video for sure. 🤙
could be a Lula. delicious but scars up easily
@@SleepyLizard You are the man!! Thank you. I just looked up and read about them. They are Lulas.
Wait, did you make the candy metaphor video?? I was just talking about you too. Yo, the algorithm has done this channel dirty. Love your content.
Yeah, that's me. I have some videos in the millions and some of them don't even break 5000 I don't know how to manage this algorithm.🤣. I appreciate your kind and encouraging words, thank you.
Our Avocados from seed suffer frostbite in the low 30 - 32 degree. They were around 2-3 years old. Some part of the branches turned black and so do their top trunk. They were planted in the ground. Love the wild avocado. It got history.
sorry to hear your avocados got hit with a freeze
Awesome explication broda love it thx so much for ur times ... Yes i Yes i broda
you're welcome Simm
I'm laughing so hard.. thanks for that
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Oh, YEAH!! Working now! 🤘
ok. not sure what the issue was
Great story! I didn’t know that all avocados were from grafted trees. GTK. Love avocados, dragon fruit and the name of your farm!
Ps: Hope you get a Sleepy Lizard variety the next time.🙂
thanks Cris!
one of these days
Hehe thank you very much 😁😁 i'm grating full for this video... Ok now i like simmonds the Big one... So catalina smaller?
Hi Aneka, yes the Catalinas dont' grow as big as the Simmonds. I LOVE the Simmonds. I only have 2 or 3 left then I gotta wait another year.
What language do you speak in your videos?
Wow nice
I'm Indonesian language
@@anekabibitimpor4748 now I know how to set the subtitles to translate to English so I enjoy your videos even more
I hope, one day, one of the trees d on your farm will create the best, tastiest avocado ever... And may they be harvested in February.. lol. Would that be perfect?
that would be perfect yes...year round avocados.
I love this comment. Best wishes for your farm, and I hope to catch a day you've got those avocados in stock on payday!
I'm glad you mentioned this subject because I have a question pertaining that what you just showed us. What is your preference? Would you use only larger pits to do your grafts or would you also plant the tiny Hass pits to make them? I would think you want as large a plant as possible when grafting for strength, which you would get only with the larger pits. Is that what you do?
Yes. We try to use the biggest seeds we can find.
@@SleepyLizard Great! Because I'm sitting on a dozen sprouted Marcus pits from 3 lb avocados in my backyard that are now about 18 inches tall. All ready for grafting when the time is right. The grafting knife and tape are on top of my desk and I'm ready! All thanks to you! Thanks for the encouragement.
Es una lástima que no el aguacate no haya tenido buen sabor porque lucían muy bonitos ese aguacate salvaje
Tengo otro que me da unas que saben más o menos pero el de este video era horrible.
Video is fine. 9:08pm Pacific time.
thanks Steve.
You should let some of the wild ones grow you find a wild one that tastes good you can call it your own
That's how I got the Balliet mango but I haven't tried it with avocado yet
hey there, great video. I grafted a friend's tree on to my existing rootstock (30+ years old). it fruited within two years and as a result have this beautiful Hass-type fruit. it has the same consistency and colour as Hass but then will blacken. the Hass that we sometimes buy in shops, they are always a dark green in colour. so I'm now wondering whether I do actually have Hass because now, I only pick them when they've got to the dark stage, much like the colour they get when the green store-bought fruits turn when they are ripe. OR, should I be better to harvest when they are in the green stage and before they blacken? I have harvested them in its green stage and while they are tasty and I'm not sure it's as oily than when I harvested it in its blacker stage. more tests to do. the remaining fruit (about 30) are black but the tree is already covered in the next generation fruitlets.
I am here in New Zealand and I am telling myself that next season 2024, I will try to harvest the fruit before it next flowers so that I can get more fruits in the spaces where the mature fruits are still occupying and the next generation is already setting fruitlets around it. Would that be sensible or is that just being greedy? LOL.
I tell people who have fruit on seed-grown trees, hey that's cool that your tree is fruiting but more than likely you have dud fruit. And they wouldn't really care anyway because they are just happy to have a tree that fruits...it tastes like avocado so whoop-dee-doo, I'll take it however it is. I'm respectful to them of course.
I'm glad your graft was successful
I want you bdevepop a brand of avocados named after you since u so passionate my bro
me too
One day will we all eat delicious Sleepy Lizards and spread happiness ❤
that would be amazing.
@@SleepyLizard Your happiness is our happiness, Sleep 😍
@@sergueiignacinskybenitovic3025 thank you
What a great tutorial,, do u sell scion wood ?
Thank you Ben. I don’t have any scion wood for sale
Hello Tom...i like you're video's,, I'm trying to graft a pinkerton on a pit seedling.ill know if it took in a few week's ....but i just have to ask this..when you tasted the wild avo, lol, didn't you overact a bit,, I'm over in south africa, and I've tasted many many wild avo's from tree's in people's yards, and i ask them, did you just threw a pit out..and answer is always always yes..but the avo's taste like any other avo...but you are right..avo's does put a smile on people's face,, because i had to laught for you're reaction on the wild avo..lol...send me a shout-out on you're next video pls..Renaldo over in south africa..
Hi Renaldo, thanks for the message. Nah my reaction was genuine. I have a wild tree in my backyard but it hasn't given fruit since 2016 and those ones are a bit bland but not yucky. The wild one I ate in the vid was disgusting.
So you're saying you see a tree in somebody's yard. They share their fruit with you and the fruit tastes good. Then you ask them if they just threw the pit out and they answer yes? And this sequence has happened more than once? 🤣
Yes, this sequence has happend more than once, infact all the tree's in people yards who i have talked to, just threw out a pit..and the avo's taste like avo's...but i do get where grafting comes in..you will get fruit sooner...
great info and video, chances of me getting a graft is a no so do you think ordering a hass grafted tree off amazon would be good?
Hi Cheryl, yes but like any purchase do what you can to assure yourself it's coming from a good seller. and make sure it says "grafted". If you live in South Florida I recommend against the Hass..it doesn't grow too good here. Its better suited for CA and Mexico
Hi Tom! I have three small grafted Hass Avocado trees (one is 170cm, two are 100cm in height) in my wintergarten (conservatory; 15°C in Winter, up to 37°C in Summer) and they like it there. I wasn't aware of types A and B before I saw your YT channel. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to get any other variety than Hass here in Germany (even Hass avocado is hard to find in a store here). I can import some other varieties from Spain or Italy however. I want to keep the trees relatively compact so that they can stay in my large wintergarten all year (as winter here can go down to -10°C, sometimes -20°C). What type B variety would you recommend for the Hass trees as a cross-pollinator? I can get a Fuerte, Bacon, or Ettinger; which should I choose? Is the fruit season important or can they differ from the Hass? Thank you very much!
Hi Richard. I would chose a B that harvests in the fall that way you'll have Hass from July to September then you can pick the B starting in October. That makes me lean toward the Bacon
@@SleepyLizard …looks like my previous answer disappeared, so here again:
Thank you, Tom!
I’ve ordered a Bacon plant today.
As I will grow all plants indoors in my conservatory, I need them to be compact in size.
Do you have any tips how to prune Avocado trees to keep them small but with as many fruits as possible?
Thanks for your great work.
@@richardtreu2967 you will want a nice wide tree so prune from the top. I need to do a vid on this specific topic
@@SleepyLizard That would be very helpful to see! 🙂
I was watching a cooking channel from Germany & she cut into an unripe (hard) Avocado & added it to the salad, tasted the salad saying how good it was. I went to the comment section to tell the cook we dont eat unripe avocados, but hundreds beat me to it! We all thot something got lost in the translation on when Avocados should be eaten. In Germany do the people eat them unripe & hard OR do they normally eat them ripe & soft? In the comments we all wondered....
My haas avocado 🥑 seed grew haas avocado and I did not graft it
We had an avocado 🥑 tree in our yard in California as a child it was not grafted it was a haas
Hi Diane, it doesn't work that way. Your tree was a Hass variant but not a Hass. All Hass avocados come from cuttings of cuttings of cuttings...of the original. Yours may have been very similar but I will had DNA from the mother tree and father tree...just like a human baby is not a clone of it's mother.
I just looked at the title again ... "Comparing Wild Avocados to Homegrown and Store Bought Avocados" .. and I think it should be *"Comparing* *A* *Wild* *Avocado* *to* *Homegrown* *and* *Store* *Bought* *Avocados"*
Because otherwise you are we saying all wild avocados are yuckier than Cherry Pepsi, and by your own example of the Hass Avocado, that is not true ... there is some fraction of potential avocados out there that could be amazingly good.
Like I was reading a book on genetics ( Understanding Genetics: DNA, Genes, and Their Real-World Applications) which was explaining how all the brassica vegetables all descended from one plant that looked nothing like them, called wild mustard ... i.e Brussell's Sprouts, Kale, Cabbage, Kohlrabi, Cauliflower. That pretty much blew me away.
Just wondering if the scions can survive the trip to SE Asia via Fedex coz im thinking of grafting them into my avocado seedlings one day, when i go home for good. Would be awesome im sure.
they will last up to 30 days if kept cool and damp
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Tommy where did you get the fruit picker ?
Helena supply in Florida city
Is there anyway to tell if a seedling avocado is a type a or b ?
Emanuel, you can tell when it flowers. When the tree flowers in the morning take a look and see if it's a male or female flower. Type A will be female in the morning. Be will be male.
This vid shows how to tell male vs female: ua-cam.com/video/X8eQeA88nVo/v-deo.html
I used to eat a lot of avocados on a regular basis, but I stopped because it's high in oxalates.
ah yes "oxalates" the new thing everybody is afraid of. You might want to check again if avocados are low or high in oxalates.
I just found your UA-cam channel. What is the fruit next to the Dragon Fruit on your right and how do you spell the name? Thank you for you videos!
Welcome to the channel. It's called mamey. It's spelled m-a-m-e-y. It's is so amazing.
With dread in my heart I cut the tops off my seedlings... some were already frozen off so it didn't seem too much of a big deal. Still... I felt mean 😂
It's tough the first time but then it gets easy. like going to the dentist.
@@SleepyLizard one I planted in autumn and it mightily grew its leaves in the dark cold heart of winter. It was heroic until I came along... I have high hopes for this one being frost hardy!!
Something's the wipd ones are snapper parge seeds an stringy than the known variety h ha used it as a rootztock
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Qual o grupo floral do avocado Thompson e só Brogdon?
in este había varios. Un Hall, Choquette, Monroe, Hass, Fuerte y el salvaje.
I wonder if you cook the wild one it would taste better?
everything is delicious if you bread and fry it 😜
I have an avocado tree grafted on it but it didn't take so now I'm I drafted only buds their healthy my seedling tree is 1 year 8 months it's quite big and you got me started on it...it went through it's first winter this year and frost spring starts next month...it was outside the entire winter during frost may,june, july August is dust month ... will buds grow avocado's like drafted trees
Hi Cy, I take it you're in the southern hemisphere. Sorry to hear your graft didn't take. You can always try again. Yes, seed grown trees will bud but it takes 10+ years before they do.
Yeah I'm from the southern hemisphere... though here they keep telling me avocados don't grow here and yet it's thriving, I covered my avocado tree from wintet with blankets it's green and alive how often do I have to feed it organic fertilizer?
@@cymotsumy726 3x year
Choquette avocado was missing from the line up :(
Yeah. My Choquette about a month away.
Out of the avocados you grow which is your favorite?
Lula
@@SleepyLizard we just bought a grafted Monroe and a hass growing in containers so hopefully the Monroe get big enough to survive putting it in the ground here in north Texas
Oh I'm going to make you rich one day
I would love to be rich.
So Ive been pondering grafting various cuttings onto my 7 year old "seedling" as separate branches producing separate avo varieties. Do you have any comments/advice/opinion on that?
Yes, it’s possible. People have successfully done up to four varieties on a single tree
I am also interested in this, as I have limited space and want a tree with two or even three varieties.
I want to do this too!
We've got this weird thing going on where I live (Tasmania) in that we don't need A's and B's because the climate here makes them flower male and female at the same time. But I still kinda think having A and B would be good. But I can barely fit one tree in my garden so I'm wondering, how do they handle multigrafting? Ever tried it?
I was wondering where you lived. Are you saying an individual tree will have both male and female flowers on it at the same time? That's interesting.
@@SleepyLizard Yeah. Weird huh, but it's legit. Being cool climate they take longer to ripen too but the flavour makes it worth the wait.
@@esjayeff you can graft up to 4 types on 1 tree
I saw homeless man eating what I thought was a football shaped bowl. I notice it was an avocado. It was the largest avocado I've ever seen. I was larger than a toy nerf football. I asked him where he got it. He pulled it of a tree hanging over a fence.
What type of avocado gets that large?
Hi Gerald, I have a type called Choquette that gets over 3lbs and are oval shaped. I also have a pear shaped variety called Simmonds that gets over 3lbs as well. The man you saw was having a feast.
I just wonder, if the payoff for developing new avocado species can be so big, who would be working on that, and how many trees to they have to grow to get a popular new superstar avocado?
I think there must be a lot of secret information about gardening and all these tricks you have to know.
If I buy an avocado or any fruit tree in the store, how would I even know if the root stock was an avocado. or if it was just another compatible species?
What is the story on Simmonds avocado?
if you're asking the history of the cultivar I'm afraid I have no info. If you're asking me to describe it then it's one of my favorites. The flavor reminds me a bit of a cashew nut and they are delicious all by themselves, no oil salt or pepper needed. The trees are reliable and produce a lot of fruit every year. The fruit are very pretty fat pear shaped with smooth light green skin and grow up to 3lbs. It's a type A variety and "early" which means we begin picking them in June.
I have a question.
I grew an avocado and in around 1 month it grew a stem it was fat and green 2 weeks later it grew a little red and brown stem on top of the green stem. The new stem grew leaves
Is my avocado normal
If you wanna see it its in my newest video in my youtube.
I looked at your vid and that's totally normal yes. Much of the new growth in my grove is red like yours. I would recommend you move it to a bigger pot with looser soil so the roots have room to grow.
awesome vid man keep the information coming. I love Avos. Are the Catalina avocados actually from Catalina? Thats bitchin! And gosh whoever the farmer was the sprouted an tree with Avos that big must have freaked out! Super interesting to see how bad an avocado can be, wow! I kind of didn't exactly understand how a male can turn female over night? And very very interesting about the grafting, I've known about it but never tried...Wondering about disease, if you have a virus or disease in a stalk you cut, and you try to graft into it, do you think the graft dna could wipe out the virus in the cut stalk? That's some science.
Catalina came here from Cuba. People brought it when they moved here. It's very popular in backyards around Miami.
@@SleepyLizard That's cool, Catalina island is out here on the west coast and I wouldn't be surprised at all if you could grow avocados from there(near san diego great weather year round). I added some more questions/comments to the original comment. Thanks dude
I've been to Catalina and checked out the Coronado Hotel which was so cool.
I don't know how or why the flowers do that but it's got a name synchronous dichogamy.
Not sure if a graft can cure a tree but it certainly can spread disease if it's infected.
@@SleepyLizard right on ya catalina is amazing! Thanks for the vid and replies have a good night
I would melt and die in that weather but oh my golly it would be worth it to be able to go out and risk getting bit by a snake or shot for eating fruit out in your orchard!
I can barely watch your videos it’s painful, man I love Sweden but I would drop sweden in a heart beat for a bucket full of mangoes but dragon fruit and avocados?? I am in the wrong country. That is CRAZY about the sex change on the avocado! This is something absolutely new! I know alot about this topic for other plants but wow what an amazing story!
Ive grown Cherimoya and various guavas in the windows here in Sweden but after many years I had to move and didnt have a place for them and left em with a friend who moved to Italy so I never saw em fruit 😰
snake and heat are legitimate concerns especially the heat 🥵
I wonder if they ever fruited
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When do the next round of fruit come back into stock?!
Yo Money, our fall varieties start second week of September. I didn't think I'd sell out of spring varieties but wow is there a lot of demand.
So, it was nasty. But, what was the flavor like?
it tasted like a rotting avocado smells...and very hard to get the nasty flavor out of my mouth. I have another wild tree in my backyard and the fruit isn't bad...it's not great but it's not yucky either....just kind of bland.
Dang it! I see the thumbnail but video won’t load.
I think UA-cam is having some issues. You can try again and it should work now.
Try a different browser.
Mr. Sleepy lizard I will pay you to give me one or two mango saplings bc it seems I can't germinate nothing
if you're in South Florida you can come buy some but I don't ship them.
Okay it will take a bit bc I'm 14 and school plus after college so then I can come pick them up, but how much does it cost sir?
Hey sleepy lizard are you selling any grafted avocado and mango plants ? Would love to add one to my backyard🌱
Alberto, I apologize but I don’t have any at this time.
Thanks for the response good sir. Is there a specific time of the year you have them available? Would very much appreciate to know so I can purchase them. Thank you
@@albertojose1565 not any specific time of year just if I wind up with extras. lately the demand is so high I haven none left over to sell online
dragon fruit is okay i suppose
my son loves it. It's very popular around here. people grow them on their fence posts.
if wild avocado taste so bad. why did the ancient americans cherish them so much?
just asking.
it's a fascinating history. Every seed produces a unique tree with unique fruit, just like every human baby is unique. Ancient people only ate fruit from the good trees the trees with bad tasting fruit were ignored. what happens after you eat an avocado? you throw the pit on the ground and a tree is born. Now you got an avocado tree growing near your house. If it produces good fruit you keep it, if it is a bad producer you cut it down. That way the quality of the fruit gradually got better and better then eventually humans discovered grafting and the highest quality strains were propagated.
No work?
should be working now.
Doesn’t load… 🤷♂️
sorry, UA-cam seems to be having technical issues.
Omg I am second
you're fast. is it playing now or still having technical issues?
If that wild avocado tastes worse than cherry pepsi it must really be vile.
It was not a good taste
I really really hate avocados. They all make me want to throw up. It is a shame because I have grown several avocado trees, but I give them all away and some to the ducks. The variety I grafted from is unknown but it is a very large oval shaped fruit that was demolishing my steel shed every time a fruit fell on it. Hurricane Wilma tipped the tree over on my house, and killed it. Mangoes I like but bananas are my all time favorite!
I love bananas and mango too.
Hass is not even the best tasting avocado . Nabal and reed avocados taste better .
I like Lula and Simmonds.
What the heck? Avocados are outta stock
Hi J, Yes we are currently sold out of our summer varieties. Our Fall varieties start up again in mid September. Sorry bout that.
Pls tell me I cant waTch😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Yeah, I don't know what's happening. UA-cam seems to be having some technical issues.
Damn... That's a shame mate.
it's cool...all varieties started as seedlings.
Too bad!!!!
yeah, my expectations were low though.