This video shows how to successfully plant avocado trees in areas containing clay soil. Root rot disease and poor soil drainage is the number 1 reason why avocados fail and die but this method helps considerably to get your tree off to a good start and turn into a great producing avocado fruit tree! Enjoy 🙂
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I have a grafted avocado in a pot and was going to do the ultimate sin by planting in a clay death trap. Good million dollar info. Thanks.
What an amazing amount of very useful information. It changed my ideas of how to grow avos pretty much completely.
Hi, may i know what is the best temperature to grow avocodo tree? Im from malaysia, the climate here is hot, humid and rainy, and around 32-36 degree celcius throughout the year. may i know is the climate suitable for avocados tree to grow? and which type of avocado varieties suit the environment here.
Big mistake watering the trunk of the tree. Has it survived?
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This was helpful
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Any chance of doing a update on your avocado trees that are above ground? Thanks for your time.
;-; triggered trauma from trying and failing miserably to grow my little cado tree T-T
Thank you for this info, now I know how I should adapt my growing method for next time
Can you put weed matt (or a plastic barrier) between the top soil and clay soil to stop the root from getting into it?
I am guessing you know avocados are not true to seed…so by growing from seed (not grafted), you will not know what your avocado will taste like once it bears fruit.
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Growing an avocado tree has been something I’ve wanted to do for years but am clueless about gardening in general. I live in Tasmania (north west) and have been reading up on information of how/what to do but admittedly I find it incredibly intimidating. If anyone has had any insights or tips for an avocado tree in Tassie I would very much appreciate any info you may share.
Hey , i have a question my friend is is growing an avo from seed , but there is a problem… its been 10 weeks and the avo sprouted but leave are white. What can she do. Its currently sitting in a water (common way seen on yt).
Hi Mark – I have been learning a lot about gardening from you over the last few months. I am planning to plant an Avocado tree (I am in Sydney). I have kensington mango, lemon, lime guava and other trees in my back yard. This video has been most useful in understanding the dos and don'ts on planting an avocado tree. Thanks a lot. Any suggestion on what variety I should plant (I want it to grow no more than 3 metres).
What is the best mix for avocados to fill the above-ground planters with?
Your avocado tree die because you added chicken manure. It’s misleading people that watch and follow
A good tip from the RHS; when digging a hole in clay make sure it is a square shape and not round
@Self Sufficient Me – The timing on me seeing this video was perfect to address a problem I just had with one of my avocado seedlings. I just wish I had run across it about 8 months ago.
The best growing of the five avocado trees I first planted just had one of the two main stems die off from what appears to be root rot. The problem seems to be that the fill dirt my wife bought a couple of years before we were married to raise the grade of her land where we live was almost 100% clay and rocks highway construction fill. Rainy season just ended (I live upcountry in Thailand), so the tree had spent the last 4 – 5 months with its feet soaked due to the near daily heavy rains. The mail order nursery I bought the trees from swore that they were grafted varieties, but it turned out they were grown from seed. The foliage is nice, so I want to save the tree, if I can. Even if it never bears fruit or the fruit isn't good, the foliage is perfect for the part of the yard where the tree is planted. Another video on treating root rot suggested digging down 20 – 25 cm, replacing the soil and mixing in gypsum to discourage fungus. The video also suggest that for clay soils, plastic pipe could be buried radiating out from the planting hole to serve as a drain to let water accumulating in the clay soil escape to avoid the water bowl effect around the roots. I hope it works, but if not, I won't consider it a great loss since the uncertainty is so great about ever getting edible fruit from the tree.
My wife recently obtained adjoining lot that does not have fill. It used to be part of a farm, but has not been used for farming for several decades and nothing has been grown there except volunteer trees, weeds, and grasses. In your video, you said that avocado trees are sensitive to having their roots disturbed by replanting after they've started to grow. Considering the heavy clay soil and rock on the house lot and the farm soil on the adjoining lot, would it be worth the risk to transplant the four avocado trees that I still have planted in the clay soil? They are all from the same original lot of avocado trees I bought. About 4 months ago I bought 3 small grafted avocado trees and planted them on the adjoining lot.
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I followed your advice to the tee. I did this with an avocado about two months old. Everything’s going well. Thank you so much. Phil from San Diego
Perhaps building a small hill and plant avocado along the slope would probably work.
So avo is hard to grow?
Avoid snall eating tomatoes
Fantastic failures my friend thanks so much . You have answered most of my questions for this summer .
I also just got told to remove all flowers for the first 3 years .
I thing if you dig a pit, you should make a rubble drain then fill in with your soil of choice before planting your avocado…
Love see update on these I'm UK I have 2 x 2 year old cold hardy Mexicola negro avocados -11 hardy there going in a big greenhouse tho.
Can u do update please
Danny
My 4 raised Ground Avos are going reasonably in Melbourne even with 6 month cold / cool winters — I have 1 in a 45gallon root pruner – a Wurtz doing well in 200lt grow bag 4 others growing in 100lt grow bags – a Bacon in 250lt pot – after 10y my feeling is they dont like pots.
Ive saved the 100lt and 250lt using Phytophera fungicides and last year employed antirot injection that saved them finally – i even used the syringes on my 4mt x 4mt Lamb Hass and it does looke even better – If you can SEE THRU your tree you have some form of root rot.