Hello from Zone 9A! - Page 2

nanamama · 08-17-2016, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by bre

Try putting the avocado with tooth picks thru the top, so its balanced on a glass of water. Make sure the water doesn't touch the tooth picks. I have a pic. Have a look

Hm, I have a similar setup! I also have two in soil atm. Hopefully something happens soon!

nanamama · 08-17-2016, 09:56 PM

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Originally Posted by sputinc7

FYI .. Avocados grown from seed take 12-15 years to bear fruit, whereas ones that are grafted only take 5-6, or so I have read.

Just read up on this, too. Seed grown trees aren't guaranteed to produce fruit at all. I could wait 12-15 years and still have zilch.

Nothing to graft from either. Perhaps I'll put the avos on the back burner!

bre · 08-18-2016, 01:31 AM

Patience. If you don't succeed the first time, try again. I have been wanting to grow a banana plant for a long time but without success. I won't give up though.

sputinc7 · 08-18-2016, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by nanamama

Just read up on this, too. Seed grown trees aren't guaranteed to produce fruit at all. I could wait 12-15 years and still have zilch.

Nothing to graft from either. Perhaps I'll put the avos on the back burner!

You could buy a grafted tree.

bre · 08-18-2016, 12:17 PM

yes I could. I don't think I could buy one in the uk. Or can I?.

sputinc7 · 08-18-2016, 12:23 PM

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grow-Your-A...s=avocado+tree

You might ask if it was planted as a seed or grafted as it doesn't say.

Search google and ask before you buy.

Snarkie · 08-18-2016, 12:47 PM

When I was living in San Diego, everybody with an avocado tree in their yard had a frigging guacamole stand set up alongside the driveway.

bre · 08-18-2016, 12:53 PM

I have just found this online.
The reason why bananas cannot be grafted, as suggested by Anthony Whyte (15 February, p 24), can be found in the Royal Horticultural Society’s new book, Science in the Garden: the scientific basis of horticultural practice (Blackwell Publishing, £19.99).

For a graft to unite, the root stock and the piece of shoot to be attached to it must both possess cambial tissue, a thin layer of cells inside the vascular bundles that divide to create a successful union. Monocotyledonous plants (bananas, palm trees, lilies, grasses and so on) do not possess a cambium, however, and grafts are therefore very difficult to achieve.

If successful, the two cut surfaces must be held permanently together by tying or taping, which in all likelihood would further increase the chance of disease.

London, UK

HMelendez · 10-16-2016, 06:18 PM

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