Thank you for your videos... From your seed growing video, I put several seeds into pots, & my first one germinated... it is about 8" tall now :-) at 63, with a heart condition, I do not think I will live to see fruit from it, we shall see :-) The older I get, the more I love The Garden.
Love love your videos. I never get bored. The contents are so informative and full of so much energy that it’s contagious. I feel i can grow anything. Thank you and never change. 😊
I loved all the jokes and informaton in the video... I mean like, your videos just keep getting better and better. I noticed I haven't been updating on my avocados and nonexisting mangos, because this root rot just ruined most of my avocados. I don't wanna buy any new soil from the chain stores or big box stores, because it's likely going to be a rotting medium. I know there's good potting soils out there, but I don't know which are actually good. You know, there's organic matter, wood chips that break down over time and provide nutrients for the plant and make for excellent drainage. Well, that's probably one of the reasons why my some of my avocados died in the first place. The first year of my avocados being in that soil grow somewhat good and are relatively healthy, but the next year is where the browning takes place and kills my seedlings. And when I bought a huge pot and planted my beloved avocado in it, I checked the holes aa year later and they were block by caps or whatever these are called, these caps shouldn't have been there. And the insecticides, pesticides and fungicides I used didn't help at all. The compacted and poorly draining soil, the wood chips and other organic matter that hasn't been fully decomposed yet, the tiny, sometimes blocked drainage holes and the new soil having potential to spread pests and diseases is what causes my affected seedlings to get deprived of oxygen and eventually die. My seedlings in water never get root rot, unless I don't change the water for at least 3 months. I know that my only fix a few months ago was to buy decomposed granite or very sandy soil, but the closest store seling decomposed granite was at least 100 miles away. I still have some good news that the avocados in water have a lot of nice white roots and the albino avocado is not doing too bad, it tried to grow a few green leaves. The apples I planted 4 months ago, well, let's just say the heat didn't give them a chance, especially when I was away and unable to give them water. I'm a bit angry, but sometimes don't feel anything from what happened with my seedlings and main avocados. But I hope that I'll be able to save the affected avocados from root rot, but I highly doubt that black hollow rotten sticks will turn into anything good. I guess I'm just gonna have to put in more effort
Nice, nice! I believe I watched at least half of the stream. You did mention my name at some point, but didn't quite understand what you said on the stream. Anyway, keep up the hard work you put in everyday
I named my variety in Nepal called Aarpok. My initials . And believe me they are delicious! 3rd year of production 7 year old tree. It was a seedling of Reed avocado.
I caught your show on all the Avocados 🥑. My mother was a gardener but my sister has scientific mind. She has an Avocado which is maybe 40 years old. From her grafted Avocados she got an accidental pepper plant cross hybrid. She’s got pepper seeds that taste like that sweetness of an Avocado. The plant is massive bonsai. I sent her a stream of your site. Thank you for making your site so accessible. We getting a group order together. Thanks again
I 64 and have bought 3 grafted avocado trees 3 to 5 ft a a Hass, choquette and a Bata and just grafted two Oro Negra branches on my Hass that's 5 ft let's see what I get . Thanks for all your help Tom we look forward to more videos
Love the videos. It's crazy this came along my thread now. I have some friends in Miami looking for things to do and I just told him to go visit your farm.
Greetings to you mr. Sleepy,viewing from the Caribbean, I can tell for a fact those avocados are in almost full season right up to about November, have a great day bro!!
@@SleepyLizard we have avocado in my country, all now I just eating one. The breadfruit and the avocados go hand in hand from late july early August right up to November so I know what I'm talking about. There people with avocado trees in their yard, the farmers have on their farms.
Thank you for subscribing to Familia D... I mean thank you for uploading the video. It was very educational. The cousin joke was funny. Don't tell me you're gonna reply with my cousins also thought the joke was funny, .
Had no idea anyone was still growing avocados here in south Florida! I was at a friend's home in Labelle and saw you on the Ft Myers news. Growing up in Miami we would find a lot of seed grown avocados in old homes and they ranged from tiny little ones to massive football sized ones! A friend of our family had a 20 acre avocado grove my 137 Ave near the canal. I was used as the free labor who usually was in the Bobcat picking up trimmings as he cut branches while in the Polecat. I loved that job!! My lot in Pioneer has a collection of seed grown trees and I am waiting until they start producing fruit. It's been 12 years and so far nothing...
@@chargermopar I grew one from seed and it's in it's 9th season...very weak flowering and one avocado this year. another one I planted same day hasn't flowered yet.
@@SleepyLizard There was a tree I planted in the late 1970's and it was blown over in Hurricane Andrew when it produced its first fruits. Everyone loved them! They were pear shaped but came from a oval large avocado. Those trees grew very fast in our Westwood Lakes home. The few I have seen in Homestead.Redland seem to be slower growing. The laurel wilt seems to have avoided our area so far, it;'s the people here that cut down the trees.
HAHAHAHAHAHA “Grandma Slept With The Milk Man” Almost starts like a Christmas carol. So, the amount of work that goes into growing an absolute great avocado, is no different than producing a great race horse. My buddy created great race horses by artificially insemination from a great stallion into a mare and then again from the offspring into another mare, and so on and so on. HOLY CRAP, it’s the same concept… !
😂I have a lot of cousins😂, one of them has dark brown curly hair with fragile skin while my other cousin has a red hair with thick oily skin😂 I wish I actually had cousins😢
The Caribbean Islands/South America/Africa and pretty sure India, the Polynesian and Pacific Islanders have those heirloom varieties of Avocodos (know for sure that Jamaica have them). THE CREATOR BLESS
@@SleepyLizard Yes. You know we call it "pear" in Jamaica. There are a few varieties there. I remember the purple skin ones, the long ones, some smaller ones that are round. A slice or 2 is a must side dish with every meal when in season.
Boy, I really feel lucky that I have fruit within the first four or five years. And loads of it on the branches that you told me to shake. I hope they taste good. Now can you air layer? Avocado trees.
i just ordered Lara Purple, Ronnie and Apmay, do you know what of those 3 is gonna be the biggest and the smallest one? also do you know if they are Type A or B?
I grew a seedling and was expecting to wait 15 years for it to fruit. So, I ring-barked the tree to graft another known variety, however I did not cut the top of the seed plant off. The graft failed and at five years of age the plant grown from seed flowered and fruited. It seems if you put a seed grown avocado under stress it produces years earlier than expected.
I didn't know those tiny avocados existed until I moved from the Caribbean to the United States. They are only as big as the seed in the avocados in the Caribbean.😂 And in all honesty Hass avocados just taste so so to me, perhaps I'm just spoiled. Hello Google
Thanks for the content- I sure do love avocados. Being that I live in a colder area, I decided to try some smaller tree varieties in containers. I got Joey/Lila/Fantastic in 3g pots. I did not repot and cared for them as I do my containers of citrus. Within a couple of months, they had all died back to just above the graft - and eventually died completely. I repeated this the following year and the same thing happened. I grow hundreds of plants in containers, including loquat/citrus/ palms / cherimoya/ feijoa / passion fruit - all outdoors in summer and greenhouse in winter. I have never had such a dismal failure as with avocados. I thought you might be the one to ask - do you have any thoughts on my experience?
These 2 varieties are available here in South Africa but are not found in the market, they are mostly found in Venda and Tzaneen, they are not easy to find .
Your joke on "Grandma Slept With The Milk Man". That is exactly what happened to my dad, His ex-wife slept with the milk/bread man and my dad divorced her. Five years later he met my mother and adopted me & 3 of my brothers. He is the best father I could ask for. My dad is the love of my life. I have already place my order with Lara Farm for 2 Apmay avocado trees for next year.
So where can i buy the seeds to plant to make the purple avocados? Do you sell them? Or are they only sold as created trees? I've never grown one but i do love avocados.
@@SleepyLizard so I'll need to buy a tree then attach the purple avocado sticks to it? That seems like everything you did but I don't have any avocado trees yet. What kind should I grow first before adding the purple to it? I didn't quite understand your video as I'm really new to wanting to do this.
Hey, I have a question, my grandpa's mango tree is flowering despite the tree not being at the expected time of the year that it should be flowering, we've experienced a very hot weather, followed by a storm and a lot of rain, for almost 1 day, a few hours ago I saw a flower on the road, have you ever experienced something like this before?
all the time. If we walk my grove right now we'll probably find a mango tree flowering. they'll just drop the flowers or if it produces little fruit they'll drop
grafting seedlings to mature trees must not work often BUT if it worked ~10% of the time still huge savings from time2market perspective of new avocado variety discovery!?
you gotta calculate the opportunity cost. at 10% success rate then 5 or six more years for the market to catch on you're looking at 12 - 15 years you coulda been grafting and selling known varieites. It's a very low return endeavor.
Can bees 🐝 travel from America to South Africa to polinate my trees with Florida avocado pollen until I discover an unknown variety on my trees grown from seedlings? I'm asking this because we don't have Florida varieties here in my country.
Does anyone know, whereto these AVOZILLA Avocados disappeared? I bought one of these about 10 years ago in Europe and it was a great Avocado. Never seen it again. Never heard anything about it again. ...
they only make up 5% of the avocado market. The other 95% is the Hass. I sell them these big ones at www.guacfarm.com. Variety depends on time of year.
This is actually awesome video because - it seems there are aint enough videos explaining simply to simple guys like me how to make new varieties and the reasons behind. I live in israel and my dream is to provide a genetic abondence of tropical fruits to those who wish. I do not have formal education, but through time i developed a little theory that trees are like humans - a variety dont want to be planted alone, it wants to have sex with another variety. A species dont want to grow alone - he wants different trees, shrubs and herbecious near him. If a variety have sex with a tree from seedling - theyll develope strong seeds with awesome genetics, if not for food then for graft
I'm surprised by all I've learned here about avocados! I'm from the Caribbean and I think we mostly just grow them from seeds & whatever they produce get eaten! 😅
you might be surprised at how many of the trees you think are from seed are actually grafted. People from the Caribbean are very skilled fruit growers.
Tom is using a $$$$100.00 word.😮😂 heterozygous adjective having two different alleles of a particular gene or genes. "the genetic study showed two heterozygous variants"
@@SleepyLizard, I have no idea because I never tried to eat that avocado..... It is called domingo's heirloom avocado. Developed by Domingo Umali, a public school teacher. With no formal training in agriculture, he taught himself grafting and through countless ffailures over decades he finally came up with the perfect avocado...
Hmmmm... University Tropical Research Center that is 1/2 a mile South from your house... if you see some missing scions from that avocado... it wasn't me. Could you put a little flag next to it? To make sure they don't cut it down, of course.
Love those things but can't hardly eat them anymore. Great source of potassium but when your liver doesn't get rid of excess potassium anymore, they're an awful source of potassium. lol
U SHAKE A WHITE AVOCADO TREE HARD ENOUGH…..A NINJA WILL FALL OUT!!!! ANOTHER NINJA IN THE WOODPILE!!!! NO WONDER COUSIN JOHNSON HAIR SO NAPPY!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿🥷🏿🥷🏿🥷🏿🥷🏿🥷🏿🥷🏿🥷🏿🥷🏿🥷🏿🥷🏿
"In this business it takes 20 years to succeed; heck, it takes a dozen years just to fail." That's long term, brother. Labor of love, for sure.
in the software industry we used to say fail quickly...it's a little different in my new profession
Thank you for your videos... From your seed growing video, I put several seeds into pots, & my first one germinated... it is about 8" tall now :-) at 63, with a heart condition, I do not think I will live to see fruit from it, we shall see :-) The older I get, the more I love The Garden.
what a great goal to keep you active!
Watch his graphing video if u havent already
Of course you can. Do grafting. After three years you can see bunch of fruit from it
Of course you can. Do grafting. After three years you can see bunch of fruit from it
SleepyLizard, your content is a gift to the world
thank you
Whoa! Instant reply? I wasn't expecting that.
I reply to all your other comments instantly, why would you be surprised?
A couple of things I’ve learned from this video Sir….
#1. I know nothing about avocados.
#2. You know everything about avocados.
❤️
go to my channel and in an hour or two you will know everything about avocados
Great showmanship….you amaze me… love the informative videos
😁
Love love your videos. I never get bored. The contents are so informative and full of so much energy that it’s contagious. I feel i can grow anything. Thank you and never change. 😊
I'm so glad I read this comment early in my day. sets the tone for a good day
I just wanna own a big old farm with lots of trees and live like you, absolutely my dream life.
excellent goal
I loved all the jokes and informaton in the video... I mean like, your videos just keep getting better and better.
I noticed I haven't been updating on my avocados and nonexisting mangos, because this root rot just ruined most of my avocados. I don't wanna buy any new soil from the chain stores or big box stores, because it's likely going to be a rotting medium. I know there's good potting soils out there, but I don't know which are actually good. You know, there's organic matter, wood chips that break down over time and provide nutrients for the plant and make for excellent drainage. Well, that's probably one of the reasons why my some of my avocados died in the first place. The first year of my avocados being in that soil grow somewhat good and are relatively healthy, but the next year is where the browning takes place and kills my seedlings. And when I bought a huge pot and planted my beloved avocado in it, I checked the holes aa year later and they were block by caps or whatever these are called, these caps shouldn't have been there. And the insecticides, pesticides and fungicides I used didn't help at all. The compacted and poorly draining soil, the wood chips and other organic matter that hasn't been fully decomposed yet, the tiny, sometimes blocked drainage holes and the new soil having potential to spread pests and diseases is what causes my affected seedlings to get deprived of oxygen and eventually die.
My seedlings in water never get root rot, unless I don't change the water for at least 3 months. I know that my only fix a few months ago was to buy decomposed granite or very sandy soil, but the closest store seling decomposed granite was at least 100 miles away.
I still have some good news that the avocados in water have a lot of nice white roots and the albino avocado is not doing too bad, it tried to grow a few green leaves. The apples I planted 4 months ago, well, let's just say the heat didn't give them a chance, especially when I was away and unable to give them water.
I'm a bit angry, but sometimes don't feel anything from what happened with my seedlings and main avocados. But I hope that I'll be able to save the affected avocados from root rot, but I highly doubt that black hollow rotten sticks will turn into anything good. I guess I'm just gonna have to put in more effort
That was a lot of
Thank you for this video! I finally found out what's in my yard....Purple Lara! .....
oh that's so cool!
Nice, nice! I believe I watched at least half of the stream. You did mention my name at some point, but didn't quite understand what you said on the stream. Anyway, keep up the hard work you put in everyday
thank you Pokemon
Wonderful sharing buddy 👏😀😀😀😀😀😀👏👏👏
thank you
Very good video, love it! Continue like that. I love the guitar- I mean Brogdon avocados
Golden man that you are! May the lord bless you and your family!
thank you Adam
I named my variety in Nepal called Aarpok. My initials . And believe me they are delicious! 3rd year of production 7 year old tree. It was a seedling of Reed avocado.
I bet they are delicious
Love the passion for and teaching about avocados 🥑 🎉
thank you
Great video Tom, you do a great job informing and presenting. 👏 Thank you 🙏
thank you Jeremy
I caught your show on all the Avocados 🥑. My mother was a gardener but my sister has scientific mind. She has an Avocado which is maybe 40 years old. From her grafted Avocados she got an accidental pepper plant cross hybrid. She’s got pepper seeds that taste like that sweetness of an Avocado. The plant is massive bonsai.
I sent her a stream of your site.
Thank you for making your site so accessible.
We getting a group order together.
Thanks again
enjoy the fruit!
I 64 and have bought 3 grafted avocado trees 3 to 5 ft a a Hass, choquette and a Bata and just grafted two Oro Negra branches on my Hass that's 5 ft let's see what I get . Thanks for all your help Tom we look forward to more videos
you are going to be feasting on avocados!
liking the sounds of avocadoes
I notice you been hitting the gaming stream hard. you're putting in the work!
@@SleepyLizard yeah
I always enjoy your videos
thank you for the encouragement
Those avocados are HUGE
yes, the Hass is actually one of the small sized avocados
I like planting from seed. The mystery of not knowing what variety will manifest in kind of fascinating.. Even so, great video!!
yes, I;m hoping my seed grown avocado tastes good
I knew you were going to post a vid about avocados, I knew it.
Love the videos. It's crazy this came along my thread now. I have some friends in Miami looking for things to do and I just told him to go visit your farm.
have them reach out through the contacts in the 'about' section of the UA-cam channel
Thank you 🙏👍 lovely video get to learn a lot
you are welcome
Greetings to you mr. Sleepy,viewing from the Caribbean, I can tell for a fact those avocados are in almost full season right up to about November, have a great day bro!!
how do you know about them?
@@SleepyLizard we have avocado in my country, all now I just eating one. The breadfruit and the avocados go hand in hand from late july early August right up to November so I know what I'm talking about. There people with avocado trees in their yard, the farmers have on their farms.
@@melchurmoreau5677 back home most people have a few trees growing around the homes
In the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, we love avocados daily, I love eating them with olive oil and cod fish some rice, and beans
sounds delicious
I'll take my time, indeed, by watching your videos.
I'm not Gary, my name is, as mentioned, Marc- Fly... Carson Simp... Harminghton😎
Great great video did it with the jookman
the jookman
Hi buddy purple avocado may be new there but they are just another variety out of many we have here in Kenya.
there are many purple varieties. this particular one is new
Thank you for subscribing to Familia D... I mean thank you for uploading the video. It was very educational. The cousin joke was funny.
Don't tell me you're gonna reply with my cousins also thought the joke was funny,
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wow, i live in cali and i can tell you live in that HUMID heat im used to that dry heat lol
This time of year I'm covered in sweat from morning till night 🥵
Had no idea anyone was still growing avocados here in south Florida! I was at a friend's home in Labelle and saw you on the Ft Myers news. Growing up in Miami we would find a lot of seed grown avocados in old homes and they ranged from tiny little ones to massive football sized ones! A friend of our family had a 20 acre avocado grove my 137 Ave near the canal. I was used as the free labor who usually was in the Bobcat picking up trimmings as he cut branches while in the Polecat. I loved that job!! My lot in Pioneer has a collection of seed grown trees and I am waiting until they start producing fruit. It's been 12 years and so far nothing...
let us know when they finally produce avocados
@@SleepyLizard I wonder how long it will take, they have not even flowered yet and one tree is almost 20 feet tall!
@@chargermopar I grew one from seed and it's in it's 9th season...very weak flowering and one avocado this year. another one I planted same day hasn't flowered yet.
@@SleepyLizard There was a tree I planted in the late 1970's and it was blown over in Hurricane Andrew when it produced its first fruits. Everyone loved them! They were pear shaped but came from a oval large avocado. Those trees grew very fast in our Westwood Lakes home. The few I have seen in Homestead.Redland seem to be slower growing. The laurel wilt seems to have avoided our area so far, it;'s the people here that cut down the trees.
Bro.. your intro made me turn around pay attention. Well played!!
Thank you for tuning in.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
“Grandma Slept With The Milk Man”
Almost starts like a Christmas carol.
So, the amount of work that goes into growing an absolute great avocado, is no different than producing a great race horse. My buddy created great race horses by artificially insemination from a great stallion into a mare and then again from the offspring into another mare, and so on and so on. HOLY CRAP, it’s the same concept… !
Same with mangos
yep
Too bad you can't graft horses!
great great grandma did it with a milkman!! what?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😱
Love the knowledge you share
thx Miguel
I've got a cousin with red eyes and green hair. Great grandpa did it with the milk man.
You need to work on your material. this ain't the 1970s Catskills. 🤣
Great great grandma did it with the milkman😂😂😂😂
😱
Nice video. Any tips for shipping scions for grafting?
Yes. Put in a ziplock bag with damp moss or paper towels. Keep in refrigerator. Do not freeze
Muchas gracias por la valiosa información que nos has mostrado en este video
de nada
i hope in my lifetime i get the privilege to sample those!
come to south florida in august. 🥵
The ApMay must be kept alive at all costs
Yes
😂I have a lot of cousins😂, one of them has dark brown curly hair with fragile skin while my other cousin has a red hair with thick oily skin😂
I wish I actually had cousins😢
Yup, I wish I wasn't his fri... I mean... nevermind
😎
The Caribbean Islands/South America/Africa and pretty sure India, the Polynesian and Pacific Islanders have those heirloom varieties of Avocodos (know for sure that Jamaica have them).
THE CREATOR BLESS
no they dont
Some universities have agriculture programs which work on developing cultivars. Or great grandma did it with the milk man.
🤣
Sleepy Lizard is my idea of Heaven❤
it's very nice in this part of the world
When you graft do you choose a certain seed to be root stock or just grab one from the compost pile?
Awesome channel🤙
for avocado we go with whatever seeds we have
Love your videos
Thank you
Beautiful avocado, guacamole would be nice
it sure would especially from the Apmay
Very informative. I hope you have some of the Jamaican varieties.
do you mean "pears" 😁
@@SleepyLizard Yes. You know we call it "pear" in Jamaica. There are a few varieties there. I remember the purple skin ones, the long ones, some smaller ones that are round. A slice or 2 is a must side dish with every meal when in season.
What I learned today: All my exes are essentially identical to my great-grandmother. 😉
they are not lactose intolerant
The giant avocados are daily selling in Thailand markets
tell us about your mangos
Boy, I really feel lucky that I have fruit within the first four or five years. And loads of it on the branches that you told me to shake. I hope they taste good. Now can you air layer? Avocado trees.
you can air layer but we prefer to graft and get a taproot. Congratulations on the self pollinated tree!
i just ordered Lara Purple, Ronnie and Apmay, do you know what of those 3 is gonna be the biggest and the smallest one? also do you know if they are Type A or B?
I do not. you'll have to reach out to Lara Farms for that answer
I grew a seedling and was expecting to wait 15 years for it to fruit. So, I ring-barked the tree to graft another known variety, however I did not cut the top of the seed plant off. The graft failed and at five years of age the plant grown from seed flowered and fruited. It seems if you put a seed grown avocado under stress it produces years earlier than expected.
10 years is the average
I didn't know those tiny avocados existed until I moved from the Caribbean to the United States. They are only as big as the seed in the avocados in the Caribbean.😂
And in all honesty Hass avocados just taste so so to me, perhaps I'm just spoiled. Hello Google
I think we all have a soft spot for the foods we grew up with.
Thanks for the content- I sure do love avocados. Being that I live in a colder area, I decided to try some smaller tree varieties in containers. I got Joey/Lila/Fantastic in 3g pots. I did not repot and cared for them as I do my containers of citrus. Within a couple of months, they had all died back to just above the graft - and eventually died completely. I repeated this the following year and the same thing happened. I grow hundreds of plants in containers, including loquat/citrus/ palms / cherimoya/ feijoa / passion fruit - all outdoors in summer and greenhouse in winter. I have never had such a dismal failure as with avocados.
I thought you might be the one to ask - do you have any thoughts on my experience?
yes, avocados root systems need a lot of room. you gotta up pot.
Hey Sleepy. Great video. Hey what do you use to pause videos
did you mean to ask what I use to edit videos? iMovie
@SleepyLizard Yeah I was just looking for a Bluetooth device for Android phone to pause a video. Want to send for advise. Thanks Tom
I have many kinds of avocados y my food forest. I am trying to preserve the old avocados . People are just planting hass and fuerte to sell them.
what varieties do you have?
The great great grandma was my grandma
that's why you have so many cousins but you are all very similar
Good information
I appreciate the comment.
Where can i purchase mature grafting shoots to graft into my new avocado plants
www.guacfarm.com
These 2 varieties are available here in South Africa but are not found in the market, they are mostly found in Venda and Tzaneen, they are not easy to find .
do you grow mangos there?
@@SleepyLizard yes!
Your joke on "Grandma Slept With The Milk Man". That is exactly what happened to my dad, His ex-wife slept with the milk/bread man and my dad divorced her. Five years later he met my mother and adopted me & 3 of my brothers. He is the best father I could ask for. My dad is the love of my life. I have already place my order with Lara Farm for 2 Apmay avocado trees for next year.
you are going to love the Apmay
You making me hungry
I ate so much avocado yesterday
So where can i buy the seeds to plant to make the purple avocados? Do you sell them? Or are they only sold as created trees? I've never grown one but i do love avocados.
they are only sold as created trees. in fact if you plant the seed from the purple avocado you might not get a purple avocado.
@@SleepyLizard so I'll need to buy a tree then attach the purple avocado sticks to it? That seems like everything you did but I don't have any avocado trees yet. What kind should I grow first before adding the purple to it? I didn't quite understand your video as I'm really new to wanting to do this.
@@SleepyLizard ok, I just watched another one of your videos and got it all explained. I appreciate all your info. Thank you
Come and listen
yeah!
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Hey, I have a question, my grandpa's mango tree is flowering despite the tree not being at the expected time of the year that it should be flowering, we've experienced a very hot weather, followed by a storm and a lot of rain, for almost 1 day, a few hours ago I saw a flower on the road, have you ever experienced something like this before?
all the time. If we walk my grove right now we'll probably find a mango tree flowering. they'll just drop the flowers or if it produces little fruit they'll drop
@@SleepyLizard Ohhh so that's normal! Thanks for answering my question.
Wow exciting indeed! So April whoa oh yeah!! Too bad about the wait ha yeah can chaotic grafting to mature trees speed discovery wow I hope so🥑♾️
grafting seedlings to mature trees must not work often BUT if it worked ~10% of the time still huge savings from time2market perspective of new avocado variety discovery!?
yep
you gotta calculate the opportunity cost. at 10% success rate then 5 or six more years for the market to catch on you're looking at 12 - 15 years you coulda been grafting and selling known varieites. It's a very low return endeavor.
@@SleepyLizard whoa lottery guacamole or something indeed yeah it could be amazing situation for indefinite avocado civilizations of future OR big 0🤯
Are you guys still selling hass avocado grafts? Matter of fact are you still selling avocado grafts in general?
we sell the cuttings not the trees but we don't have the Hass variety
now that I know how I got that cousin...
You have a lot of cousins
Saw you on the news last night about the invasive beetle that's destroying the avocado trees
oh yeah they came out a few weeks ago to record us taking out a damaged tree. I hope it was informational.
@@SleepyLizard it was they also uploaded the video to UA-cam as well
found it, thanks!
Can bees 🐝 travel from America to South Africa to polinate my trees with Florida avocado pollen until I discover an unknown variety on my trees grown from seedlings? I'm asking this because we don't have Florida varieties here in my country.
that would be a long journey
@@SleepyLizard okay 👍 thanks Thom! ❤
Does anyone know, whereto these AVOZILLA Avocados disappeared? I bought one of these about 10 years ago in Europe and it was a great Avocado. Never seen it again. Never heard anything about it again. ...
they only make up 5% of the avocado market. The other 95% is the Hass. I sell them these big ones at www.guacfarm.com. Variety depends on time of year.
This is actually awesome video because - it seems there are aint enough videos explaining simply to simple guys like me how to make new varieties and the reasons behind. I live in israel and my dream is to provide a genetic abondence of tropical fruits to those who wish. I do not have formal education, but through time i developed a little theory that trees are like humans - a variety dont want to be planted alone, it wants to have sex with another variety. A species dont want to grow alone - he wants different trees, shrubs and herbecious near him. If a variety have sex with a tree from seedling - theyll develope strong seeds with awesome genetics, if not for food then for graft
Correct
Donnie is Paul neison favorite avocado. 😂
I had a customer specifically request a Donnie yesterday
I'm surprised by all I've learned here about avocados! I'm from the Caribbean and I think we mostly just grow them from seeds & whatever they produce get eaten! 😅
you might be surprised at how many of the trees you think are from seed are actually grafted. People from the Caribbean are very skilled fruit growers.
@@SleepyLizard That's very true, my grandfather was a very skilled farmer! They probably very well were grafted & I just never noticed!
Is there a good avocado that fruits in san francisco, california?
yes, cold hardy. Hass, fuerte, mexicola, oro negro
julian the sniperr
he has a good eye
Tom is using a $$$$100.00 word.😮😂 heterozygous adjective
having two different alleles of a particular gene or genes.
"the genetic study showed two heterozygous variants"
yes I don't like using big words.
Here in the Philippine we have one variety which is seedless..
wow. how does it taste?
@@SleepyLizard, I have no idea because I never tried to eat that avocado..... It is called domingo's heirloom avocado. Developed by Domingo Umali, a public school teacher. With no formal training in agriculture, he taught himself grafting and through countless ffailures over decades he finally came up with the perfect avocado...
Why is this guy Tom, up in the middle of the night, posting content? Doesn't he need to go to bed?
remember, out where I live the internet is so damn slow it takes hours to upload a vid. 😴
That variety of very thin skin is Native to Mexico.........Aguacates from Mexico.
so delicious
wait is that the same julian from lara farms? that's super ocol
yes
Unfortunately😪 , the only variety that is commonly grown here is , .. The Hass
yes it's 95% of the avocados grown in the world.
Why are there no edible skins on the market?
Hass makes up 95% of the avocado market. As far as I can tell I'm the only one trying to market other varieties
@SleepyLizard the thin would make it difficult for transport, but as the skin is the most nutritious,it should be promoted locally.
Hmmmm... University Tropical Research Center that is 1/2 a mile South from your house... if you see some missing scions from that avocado... it wasn't me. Could you put a little flag next to it? To make sure they don't cut it down, of course.
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Love those things but can't hardly eat them anymore. Great source of potassium but when your liver doesn't get rid of excess potassium anymore, they're an awful source of potassium. lol
I was not aware that was an issue.
Very laughable! I enjoyed watching the vid the whole way through.
thanks for watching the whole vid
Purple bottleneck
sounds delicious
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Why you not replying? Am I commenting too much?
I've grown a tad weary of our game. As I've told you, subtlety was your strength. sometimes less is more