Avocado tree
By Tasteyg
- 11 Jan, 2009
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hi tracy thanks for your message i wish that we could grow avocados here but it is so cold -5 c here! tanyamaria
11 Jan, 2009
I grew one from the stone in the middle once, but it didn't get this big!
13 Jan, 2009
I'd say it's a good 50 ft tall, Gilli.
Sorry that you can't grow these Tanya :( They do not like it very cold. We had a pretty cold winter a couple of years ago and a lot of premature fruit dropped.
Gillian- The seed sprouts pretty quickly, but it takes many years to get a tree this big. I'd say this tree is between 40-50 years old. I think that you have to graft avacodo trees to get them to produce fruit.
19 Jan, 2009
WHAT! ok this photo answers the question in your previous avacado photo! Amazing I had no idea they grew that big! I wonder how far I can make mine go over here. I guess mine will just remain a pot plant with no fruit. Avacados are soooooo expensive over here, my god, if I had your tree in my garden could make a fortune selling them out the front!! :-) mind you I dont do too bad with the big walnuts from our walnut tree.
29 Jan, 2009
How do you pick the avocados - its such a long way up?
16 Mar, 2009
I don't pick the avocados. Jeff's brother climbs a large ladder and uses a poll-pruner that has a fruit picking basket attached.
16 Mar, 2009
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Wow. I didn't realise they got so big.
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