I Planted 2 Avocado Trees 8 Years Ago & All I Get Is Small Bitter Fruit. How Long B 4 I Get Some Good Fruit?
|
Ads By CbproAds |
I planted 2 hass avocado trees 8 years ago. They grew like weeds but all I get is a bunch of small, bitter tasting fruit. How long do I have to wait until the trees put out good fruit? I don’t need a lot of guesses about how I feeding or careing for my trees, I’ve been doing by the book. I just need someone with avocado growing experience to tell me when I can expect to get eatable fruit? Thanks.
- I Planted 2 Avocado Trees 8 Years Ago & All I Get Is Small Bitter Fruit. How Long B 4 I Get Some Good Fruit?
- Will My Avocado Tree Ever Bear Fruit If I Grew It From A Pit Of An Avocado From The Market?
- “Fruit Tree Care And Production Primer” (Kindle Edition)
- Name Of A Fruit?
- How Can I Buy A Wild Persimmon Tree That Is Ready To Fruit?
MASTER GARDENER TO THE RESCUE.
Let me guess, you planted them yourself from the pits of avocados you ate? Right? What you have are some very nice looking, fast growing avocado trees. but you have root stock, the hass you thought you were growing. hate to say it, but you just waisted 8 years of your like.
i had 104 fuerete trees and they wore my butt out. especially since i don’t like eating avocados. contact me via answers and i’ll send you all the info you need to get you off in the right direction. it’s not to late to get you started this season. i can have you eating your own hass in 3 to 4 years if you start now.
Have you been fertilizing your tree? Do you water often?
go to home depot and buy a soil tester. the best one is a meter gauge with to 10 inch probes you stab in the ground. this is to check your pH level. if you start adding gypsum or lime etc. without doing this you can cause worse problems.gypsum and hydrated lime are used to adjust pH level. after you have pH balanced (it is easy) then get a good citrus/avocado fertilizer or feed. also if the foliage is to thin, and most are at this age, when the new leaves start producing, pinch the very end ones off on most os the Branch’s. this promotes leaf growth further back on the branch, creating more foliage and shade to protect tree from heat stroke. they are very susceptible to this, if sun beats on trunk heavily.
http://www.avocado.org/about/
Ever heard of grafting?
While an avocado propagated by seed can bear fruit, it will take 4-6 years to do so, and the offspring is unlikely to resemble the parent cultivar in fruit quality. Thus, commercial orchards are planted using grafted trees and rootstocks. Rootstocks are propagated by seed (seedling rootstocks) and also layering (clonal rootstocks). After about 1 year of growing the young plants in a greenhouse, they are ready to be grafted. Terminal and lateral grafting is normally used. The scion cultivar will then grow for another 6-12 months before the tree is ready to be sold.
Either poor soil conditions or poor plants. You should have gotten good fruit by now. Sweetening the ground with lime may help, I said MAY help. Also, I don’t think they are getting enough water by the size of production.