that is really cool. time to save some pennies for an avocado tree.
If you want a grafted avocado tree, go to www.toptropicals.com. In Washington, you will need to keep it in a pot to protect in the winter.
Last I looked they were close to a buck each here in Eastern Washington.We had avos on our property in SoCal. They take quite a few years(7 years +/-) to start producing fruit. Many of the varieties need a pollinator, such as Haas. So when you have a seed from a store bought avo, you are getting a cross between a haas and a maybe a fuerte. Some day, you could get fruit from that seed, or not. Or, the quality could be poor. This why they graft avos. They find a quality producing tree and take clippings off of it and graft the clippings to a seedling of unknown quality and/or disease tolerant root stock- same as most other fruit trees, roses, etc. I had a 50% success rate at grafting... not bad fore a beginner, IMO
With you being in Wash, you will need a very large, movable box by time they start producing quantity. Freeze is brutal on them. They can tolerate freeze better if the air is moving.
BTW, Last week I was in San Diego, Ca and the market had them at 4/$1.00 We ate lots of guacamole with our tacos :drool
-Brian
We had avos on our property in SoCal. They take quite a few years(7 years +/-) to start producing fruit. Many of the varieties need a pollinator, such as Haas. So when you have a seed from a store bought avo, you are getting a cross between a haas and a maybe a fuerte. Some day, you could get fruit from that seed, or not. Or, the quality could be poor. This why they graft avos. They find a quality producing tree and take clippings off of it and graft the clippings to a seedling of unknown quality and/or disease tolerant root stock- same as most other fruit trees, roses, etc. I had a 50% success rate at grafting... not bad fore a beginner, IMO
With you being in Wash, you will need a very large, movable box by time they start producing quantity. Freeze is brutal on them. They can tolerate freeze better if the air is moving.
BTW, Last week I was in San Diego, Ca and the market had them at 4/$1.00 We ate lots of guacamole with our tacos :drool
-Brian
Got it. Thanks for the explanation.An avocado tree has both male and female parts of their flowers. If I remember correctly the A type the male part is active in the morning and then around noon it will close up and not be active. Then about an hour or so later the female part of the flower will be active until sunset. So if an insect landed on the flower in the morning and then a couple hours later landed again with the pollen still on it it could germinate the flower.
The B type is the opposite where the female part is active in the morning... And so on. It could be the other way around but that's basically it.
So you want both types where insects can go back and forth to get a good germination rate.