Anybody grow avocados?

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.

My brother in law has a grove in McAllen, Texas. Man they are good. But it's probably a 40 year old orchard. Think it's too wet around here.

I'm not. He bought a large tract of land from the Hunt brothers for development. It was all avocados and he has kept a lot intact.

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.

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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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Crawfish?

you can buy grafted cuttings...thats the only reliable way to get fruit. a tree grown from seed might fruit one day, it might not. if it does fruit, it might produce good fruit, or it might not.

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grafted cuttings

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Correct answer.

I have a three yr old Joey avacado. It's holding onto some buds so, I'm hopeful. Also have two i planted from seeds. neither of those have budded at all. Just a wait and see game.