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Help keep my avacado tree alive
    #18708240 - 08/15/13 08:45 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

My daughter and I started an avacado project this year. One out if all the seeds lived.  Our plant is currently 1.5 - 2.0 ft tall and the leaf spread is ~ 1.0 - 1.5 ft wide. 

I currently have it in a black plastic container that is 1.5 foot tall. The ones u get from nuseries when u buy a tree.  We live in northern Arkansas and the winters can get cold as hell and have real hard freezes.  I can't take it inside likely, so how do I keep it alive?


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Re: Help keep my avacado tree alive [Re: Seekingtruth]
    #18708287 - 08/15/13 09:01 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

If you want to keep it, you will have to either take it inside or build a greenhouse. Avocados take a great degree of maturity before they produce, so I wouldn't expect to ever harvest avos from it. Or you could just let it go and plant something in your yard that actually grows in your climate :shrug:


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Re: Help keep my avacado tree alive [Re: nicechrisman]
    #18708524 - 08/15/13 10:36 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Lol I'm not worried about it fruiting. Just growing it for the enjoyment.  We have cherries, peaches, apples, persimmons, etc already planted and producing.


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Re: Help keep my avacado tree alive [Re: Seekingtruth]
    #18708582 - 08/15/13 10:55 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Avocados do not generally grow true to the parent plant.  That means that in about seven years when your plant starts to produce fruit, it will probably not produce nearly as much fruit and the fruit may lack quality.  It may never produce fruit at all.  Why can't you just bring it inside in the winter?  Potted plants will die from frost much more easily than plants in the ground.


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Re: Help keep my avacado tree alive [Re: SmOakland]
    #18708715 - 08/15/13 11:38 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

I'm living with my parents.  They are helping me raise my kid.  They don't want me to bring it inside.


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Re: Help keep my avacado tree alive [Re: Seekingtruth]
    #18709364 - 08/15/13 02:22 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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I'm living with my parents.  They are helping me raise my kid.  They don't want me to bring it inside.




Alright.

Plant it in the ground or bury the pot in the ground.  This is ideally done on the south side of your house, where it will get the most sun and the house can block that Canadian wind that will be the coldest.  Plant it close to the house.  Mulch the ground as much as possible.  When it gets cold, surround it with as many buckets or trash cans full of water as possible.  Water has a high specific heat, so it will provide a buffer to keep the ambient temperature above freezing (although an avocado is a truly tropical tree and might die above freezing.)  You can also look into building greenhouses.


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Re: Help keep my avacado tree alive [Re: SmOakland]
    #18709462 - 08/15/13 02:42 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

I'd be willing to build a small greenhouse just for this plant. Maybe I can research it some
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Re: Help keep my avacado tree alive [Re: Seekingtruth]
    #18710074 - 08/15/13 04:39 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Not realistic IMO


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Re: Help keep my avacado tree alive [Re: nicechrisman]
    #18710233 - 08/15/13 05:09 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

It will likely never produce fruits if you don't have another tree near by.


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Re: Help keep my avacado tree alive [Re: nicechrisman]
    #18710314 - 08/15/13 05:26 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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Not realistic IMO




Yeah, it would be silly. Lol

Also, I'm not worried about it fruiting.  Just the journey


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Re: Help keep my avacado tree alive [Re: Seekingtruth]
    #18711502 - 08/15/13 09:11 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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Not realistic IMO




Yeah, it would be silly. Lol

Also, I'm not worried about it fruiting.  Just the journey




...with no destination.


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Re: Help keep my avacado tree alive [Re: SmOakland]
    #18715012 - 08/16/13 02:49 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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nicechrisman said:
Not realistic IMO




Yeah, it would be silly. Lol

Also, I'm not worried about it fruiting.  Just the journey




...with no destination.




I also grow avocado trees just for the hell of it. They're fun and easy to grow. I train them for bonsai purposes. None of my trees have ever fruited, and I don't care if they ever do. However, they are a bit easier to manage here in Texas, though.


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Re: Help keep my avacado tree alive [Re: prismism]
    #18718852 - 08/17/13 01:17 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

I've got one in my garden (it was there when I rent the house), it was HUGE and gave me fruits every year (flower in november/december, fruits in march/may, can't really remember exactly), it died two years ago but I cut the main trunk and it grew back from earth and is now maybe 4/5m high with lots of offshots... Don't think it will fruit this year, maybe next one... I'm in south of France (between Montpellier and Nîmes), near mediterranee so climate is cool even in winter and hot in summer (31/35°C)... fruits are delicious !


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