Avocado Tree

My understanding is that the cold will kill them before they produce. I saw it talked about recently, I think on here...

My parents tried many times with avacado trees and never were able to keep it alive

When I lived in Houma it was front page news when some dudes avocado tree made fruit.

It only took the tree like 20+ years...

Not to hijack, but would a coconut tree produce here? Had a co-worker swear up and down it would.

You have to have more than one for them to crosspolinate. And just protect them in the winter. I have one now about seven feet tall 2 1/2 yrs old working on my second tree now let y'all know in a couple yrs if they produce.

I've read you need 2 trees, and these suckers get HUGE. My uncle had some when he lived in Miami. They produced tons of avacados.

I just bought one and planted it in a wine barrel in Napa. Apparently you need two trees, because the male and females portions of the flowers mature at different times, to avoid self-pollination, dichogamous or something like that. So i will need another tree.

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makes sense

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Yes and no. That is true, as growing fruit takes a lot of the trees nutrients, but if it is putting on fruit in the first place then it is established enough to do so. Also when you plant a new tree, a lot of the time the shock of being planted and not being established will make it drop it's fruit, so if it can't support its own fruit, it will rid itself and no need for you to do so. Lastly, I plant fruit trees to get fruit, so I'm not throwing it away once it's capable of producing. Especially in a situation like this, if I wait 15 years for avacados, I'll be damned if I'm gonna throw some of them away or stop it from producing when it's time.

Now on the wholesale grower side, it could be of value to help the tree grow quicker for sale, but we still don't do it because the amount of extra growth you get for the time spent keeping them clean isn't worth it either. With all the fertilize out today, there is no reason the tree can't be healthy enough to grow fruit once it's mature enough to produce.

Negative. A few more than normal.

I said yes and no to the makes sense part. A tree doesnt fruit until it's ready and mature enough so they can grow fruit fine the first year. Not as well as later in life but one more year doesnt help much and removing the first years fruit wont help near as much as fertilize and water and maintaining a healthy tree.

But what do I know about growing trees.