Successful Avocado Grafts and What We Did to Make Our Trees Survive the Freeze of 2022
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Get your avocados at: www.guacfarm.com
Join me on a springtime morning walk around our avocado farm. See how our grafts are progressing and how the mangos and avocados survived the freeze of 2022.
Ohh that's how you sead plant but always get good fruit. That's so cool
I live your passion bro may God bless you an your family greeting from the Caribbean TRInidad y Tobago
thanks Dev!
Superwow that's touching; doing it for your generation; your little boy. Wise to see far.....
thx
Man, it makes me so happy to see people like you making videos about the things you love and sharing that knowledge with us! I hope to some day have some land to grow food too. Thanks for the inspiration 🤙
You have a really good goal Ryan. I hope you achieve it! and thank you for your positive comment.
Great video as usual Tom 😊
thank you Mwika!
Great seeing you once again !
Thanks Wayne. I haven't been having many vid ideas lately
I like your Channel I always watch your videos
Ali, thank you, I really appreciate that.
Omg I love this video! Tommy was an awesome helper
oh yeah. such a help when I don't have to think about the camera
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for pushing me to try some grafts. I just grafted 7 Marcus and 3 Monroe avocados this last weekend. Had a lot of fun. Not as easy as it looks. Even if I only get a couple to take, I will be beyond happy. So, kudos to you, sir!
I can't wait to hear how they did
@@SleepyLizard Don't worry. I'm not going to be replacing Jorge and his wife anytime soon as grafting master of the world.
@@MasterKenfucius hahahahahah, true
Great interesting video, loved seeing my grandson with his Dad..
thanks grandpa
You can really tell when someone loves what they do. Good on you guys! And I never knew about the alternating flowers, truly amazing!
Thanks for the banter fellow planter 🤣
I am really appreciate that you explain details about farm of your.thank you
You're welcome waiphyo
That’s amazing!!! I love that they came back after frost!!! Love your videos thank you!!! You inspire me!!!
Thanks Godschild. Do you live somewhere where you can grow stuff?
I can tell you love doing what you're doing! It amazes me how much your son has grown over the last few years. I'm running out of videos to watch I haven't watched from your channel.
Speaking of frosts, today, the temperatures got up to -4 degrees C or 25,5 degrees F. Sooooo cold. But tonight, we're execting the temperatures to get down to 10 degrees Farenheit.
The buds are getting bigger. I haven't watered my avocado tree for 9 days and it hasn't wilted yet. It's getting a little thirsty though. It's showing signs of growth (I know I said that many times). Finally, after 4 months of being stunted, it's actually starting to grow.
The browning on the leaves gets bigger whenever my avocado tree is thirsty or dehydrated. Weird.
The soil is strange, it smells so sweet a few days after I water my tree, sometimes sour right after watering, sometimes smells like coffee even. There are sooooo many roots deep in the soil or below the rootstock. Whenever I try to dig a hole deep with my finger I end up breaking a root or two. And these roots are pale, yellow or white and are pretty thick. They smell when squeezed. I dig to see how are the roots. The roots near the surface feel dry and are woody, but many of them are alive from the inside. Now, there are worms in the soil. There are no more fungus gnat larvae, or way less than before. The soil is dense deep. Whenever I reach that deep layer, the soil smells earthy and good. The shalow soil smells more sour or sweet. The our smell and maybe even the sweet smell attract fungus gnats.
wow, you've gone through the whole catalogue. 🤣
I really enjoyed watching your upload!
Thank you Nature Walks.
Good to see that all avocado flowers survived the frost!
Can you imagine? I've never seen frost here in 25 years. How you guys doing?
@@SleepyLizard let's hope the next freeze will be after another 25 years!
We're good, thanks and good to see that you're good as well!
@@SleepyLizard i wonder can the top part survive Super cold climate like MN , wanna give it try igf you send some cuttings.
@@elimen6331 Eli, unfortunately it's way to cold in MN in the wintertime.
Very informative I really salute you, have learnt a lot by following your videos
Thanks Jack. Do you have a favorite tropical fruit?
Another great video. Watching your videos sent me to my local Co-op farm store that also has a nursery. Bought me my first avocado tree. Its called a Fantastic avocado. Because I live on the edge of zone 8 and 9 in Alabama I figured it would be best to start with that one.
I also bough a couple oh Hass avo. at the store and followed your simple recipe to make Guacamole, it was great. Thx.
Hopefully my Hass seed will sprout so I can try my hand at grafting a cutting of my Fantastic to it.
Keep on doing these great videos.
yes! Jody, messages like yours make me so happy. Thank you for the encouragement.
love your videos sleepy. one day my jaboticaba farm will be vast!!
yum! My jaboticaba is just putting out them little fuzzy flowers right now. can't wait for the fruit.
Good, love your avocado good video! Bravo 👏🏻
thank you
Tom, I just love it when a plan comes together like this😀
I agree.
your place is really amazing, I wish if I lived near to even something like that just a garden would be more than enough, I will spend my days just growing plants and taking care of them instead of sitting in front of computers :(
its the best
Great vlog! Didn't know Avocado trees are so picky. The flowering and bearing Avocado fruit flavor(desirable).
Thanks Don. How you been?
I love your philosophy on nature. Keep it up!
Thanks Randill
Tom, I absolutely love this video! New knowledge gained and philosophizing! Magnificent! Love those Sapodillas (Naseberries). Teach Tommy well, he seems to have a knack for the business! Take care!
Thanks Doug. Lemme know when you're coming back down south. mangos won't be long now.
@@SleepyLizard Definitely will let you know when I am heading down to your area!
You always make me happy when I see your videos. Thank you for that. Love mamey. I only saw round mamey in PR so I don't know if this is a different variety and taste the same.
Rosa, I grow the Key West variety which is pretty round and the Magana which looks more like a football and is larger.
I from Thailand
Hi Thoj
If GOD who created it all doesn't fascinate you then you are not paying attention! 😅 Same creator designed human, plants etc He knew exactly what he was doing. So amazing how each avocado seed has its own DNA (like you said in another video) just how God created us! ❤ Handprint of GOD is all around us. But many aren't paying attention! Love your videos!! Learning so much.
thanks for the support Barb!
Great vlog! One of my favorite fruit is Sapodilla (Chico). Just got back from Thailand and Sapodilla was in my list to eat. Luckily one of the local was kind enough to bring me a kilo of fresh ripe Chico. Just like the way I tasted when I was a child... sweet like sugar cane and the sweet smell. 😋
yeah and I meant to use the word Chico in the vid but I forgot. so delicious
I'm still watching all your videos but I pretty much ran out of comments 😂🤭
That''s hilarious!
We call sapodilla naseberry in Jamaica.
I just learned that earlier this week. They call it Chico in California.
Hi do you remember me I’m 13 your videos are epic
Of course I remember you! I always enjoy reading your comments.
Bought a box of your avocados, planted one of the seeds, now how can I get my hands on one of those clipping for my two foot avocado tree? :)
Hi Rick, such great news that your tree sprouted. I can't sell any trees or cuttings online right now. I'm regrowing stock so I can reopen the online nursery next year. sorry about that.
Thanks for all your videos on Avocados.
I have a 4 year old avocado tree that I’m growing inside a pot from seed and it’s now flowering. Is that norma?
Yep! Totally normal. Look for little fruit on a few weeks.
Si hi to tom, from Indonesia
Hi Mateus!
Nice information
I believe an avocado flower opened as male will open as male only the next day if it survives. You mean to say the other flower open as female that afternoon? I think they always open as female first. Correct me if I am wrong.
Hi Couvana, Avocado flowers are both male and female. this vid explains it: ua-cam.com/video/tGToJYUkWMU/v-deo.html
I have an avocado tree, producing flowers and fruit for the first time this year from a seed planted 5 years ago, no grafts. Would grafting still be viable on a roughly 10’ tall avocado tree if the fruit turn out to be not so great?
Pardon me--not the expert you want but you certainly can add branches onto other branches or directly on the trunk.
@@Mrbfgray Thank you, I may try this then regardless of if the tree produces good fruit, as a backup or experiment if nothing else. Excited to see how everything tastes in October!
Rob, yes what Bo says is perfect. You can graft and let some branches grow from seed. you'll get two varieties of avocado that way. hedge your bets.
Check his grafting vids they are about everything you need to know and enjoyable as always.
I'm novice too, only made one successful graft, on a citrus then broke it by unwrapping too soon or too roughly. lol. (didn't need to be unwrapped but I was impatient to see results)
I just learned from Tom's graft workers-- split the root stock end *slightly off center* for inserting fruit stock wedge, guessing that's so there is wider range of cambium cross-section to intersect.
Do you have cutting for sale again?! I’d love to buy some, please and thanks!!!
I do not. sorry about that.
I already have a little avocado tree growing in a pot, but I don't want to cut it. Can I put a graft from another avocado tree on the side without cutting the tree.
I watched probably 15 of your videos today and subscribed. You’re a very good teacher! In one of those videos, you planted a potted avocado tree into the ground replacing a tree that wasn’t doing well. During the video you said your Florida soil was thin with rock underneath. That’s exactly what we have here in Puerto Rico where we just retired to. So, couple of questions: 1. Do the trees manage to grow roots down through crevices in the rock, or do I need to bust rock to create a larger hole and fill with dirt? 2. After growing the tree in a pot in partial sun - partial shade, for a couple of years can I plant it in the ground in full sunlight which is really SUNNY down here???
Terry, wow, what a great way to start of my day! Thank you for your encouraging words! The trees grow their roots straight through the rock and they tend to send out a lot of roots along the surface. Also a lot of people around here plant in a trench. They run a long trench line then plant the trees and fill with dirt. Also some people will dig a wide ring around the hole to break up the limestone. It's heavy equipment work...too much to do with a pick.
As for question number 2, if it's avocado you can put in full sunlight. If it's another type of tree it depends. for example guanoabana likes shade but a mature mango can handle full sun.
dear sleepy lizard, there are ancient hebrew stories how a dad told his son to cut off some loopy weird grape vines that got sticky to each other and he didnt listen to him
Later they found out the best grapes grew there, where two trees got combined
I guess also different coltures have similar stories
We dont invent anything, we just learn from nature and his infinite wisdome
Actually i saw once two soft branches of lavender got grafted to each other so cute haha
If you graft/grow a Type A tree, could you also graft a Type B limb to aid pollination and fruit production?
If you only have one tree..
yep. in fact I have a bunch of them in the works
Sapodillas are like eating brown sugar in fruit form. I didnt' know you could eat the skins. Maybe that's why it gets sandy.
Ken, some varieties you can eat the skin and others you cannot.
@@SleepyLizard I don't eat skins, so nothing changed for me. :) But thanks for the tip!
your boy is so handsome, he must get his looks from his mother😏🤭
he definitely does
Also something that I’m noticing, you’re not too concerned with the host tree/grafted stem being crooked. Can you share how or why this is not a concern for you? I’m wondering if trees would auto-align themselves or do you do some form of bracing later on in the tree’s life?
yep! we tie them to a stick and they grow straight.
@@SleepyLizard Do you get OCD when it comes to getting the plants straight, or does it have to be just generally straight and it doesn’t have to be like the Washington monument straight?
Nightfire, tend to be a "good enough is good enough" kind of person so I don't really try to get them perfectly straight. really just support them so they grow upward until they can take things over for themselves.
Hi am James mbote of bees and nature care farm,my avocado trees have started flowering in the year 2022/06 but the fruit dropped all of them,what could be the reason thanks.
that happens sometimes early on. You can try spraying with copper anti fungal once per month once the flowers start. See if that helps
I have a 4' grafted Hass tree can I graft a limb off the Hasseven if it's not producing tree yet to a young stock or does it have a to be a producing grafted Hass tree to do so. Or do you gave a video or answer for this question Tom. Ty sir
as long as you're sure the tree is grafted you can take a cutting and graft it onto a seedling.
I grew an avocado tree from seed from a bacon avocado 2 years ago and its now 6 feet tall, and it sprouted with several stems. I'm pretty sure it is polyembrionoc because the leaves look the exact same as the parent plant and it had many stems. And when are your trees in stock?
Hi Michael, I'm not sure when I'll be selling trees again.
I enjoy every one of your videos. They are professional and informative. Feeling excited to start practicing. Do you export grafted plants or bud wood (scion)?
Thank you Michael. I appreciate you comment! I can't export to other countries. I'm too small an operation to have all the inspections and paperwork it takes to ship international. sorry about that.
Ok I understand. My son live in Georgia but I'm not sure how far you are away from him that I could ask him to come by & buy a few from you. Where in Florida are you located?
@@michaelchristie3707 oof. we are all the way down at the bottom of the state 7 hours from the FL GA line
@@SleepyLizard Ok. Thanks much.
When are you going to have avocados for sale ?
Hi Santiago, our early varieties start in July.
Quick question I got a dwarf cado avocado tree grafted can I grow it on a planter if so what size recommended will be good for the dwarf tree any info will help thanks.
Lupillo, You should always use the biggest possible container. The bigger the better. Also even though it was advertised as a dwarf your tree will grown large and require pruning. Best of luck with the tree!
Thanks you so much for fast reply and the information. ✌️
Will you be selling on your website?
Jolly, Thank you for asking and yes. Thing is my stuff is seasonal so sometimes I have inventory and sometimes I don't. I try to sell avocados steady from July to January but some years we run out easier than others. And with the trees its' a matter of how many I can grow before they sell out.
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Sir suppose I use a seed from a small fruit and I graft a stem from a different tree which produces big fruits what type of fruits am I going to be having fro that grafted plant?
Hi Andrew, you will get what came from the graft you cut. Essentially youre planting a tree inside a tree.
Thank you sir
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Well behaved avocado 🥑 lol
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