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re: Anybody grow avocados?
Posted on 3/23/17 at 10:07 pm to Cosmo
Posted on 3/23/17 at 10:07 pm to Cosmo
You really need a green house. It gets too hot in the summer in Louisiana, and too cold in the winter. They also can be killed by too much rain or not enough. Very delicate, finicky plants. Also, they don't produce fruit for the first 10 years. My mom had tried for years to plant avocado pits to grow plants with little success. She had a few treelings that had lived for over 2 years that were wiped out by the August floods.
Posted on 3/24/17 at 11:38 am to kingbob
I live in Metairie close to the Lake and have a six-year-old Haas avocado tree in my backyard. While neither the rain nor the temperature has ever threatened it, the adage regarding delays in production is accurate. Mine has yet to produce a single fruit.
I also grew two additional Haas trees from the seed – very easy procedure. Pit the avocado; peel the skin from the pit; stake with toothpicks and drape into a mason jar such that half of the seed is immersed in water (pointed end up). In a couple of months, roots will form down into the jar and a stem will grow out of the top. Trim the stem when it reaches six inches, then transport into soil when roots fill the jar and the stem and leaves appear hearty enough to sustain outdoors (judgment call).
I’m hopeful the trees will produce one day, but if not, they are attractive in the yard. God speed.
I also grew two additional Haas trees from the seed – very easy procedure. Pit the avocado; peel the skin from the pit; stake with toothpicks and drape into a mason jar such that half of the seed is immersed in water (pointed end up). In a couple of months, roots will form down into the jar and a stem will grow out of the top. Trim the stem when it reaches six inches, then transport into soil when roots fill the jar and the stem and leaves appear hearty enough to sustain outdoors (judgment call).
I’m hopeful the trees will produce one day, but if not, they are attractive in the yard. God speed.
Posted on 3/24/17 at 1:07 pm to kingbob
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It gets too hot in the summer in Louisiana, and too cold in the winter. They also can be killed by too much rain or not enough. Very delicate
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