Growing up we had an big old avocado tree in our backyard in Auckland New Zealand. A branch was cut (probably around 12 foot tall) and put the stump in the compost heap standing up at the back of the section. 2 years later it started growing avos! 😊

@tariekcotterell8710

3 ай бұрын

Same! 😊

@haxmaster6718

21 күн бұрын

Do you still live there?

I’ve had my two in a water mixture for 5-6 months now. So far both look good with new leaf growth. I wish that I could include pictures.

@abdelhak_13

Ай бұрын

Are they alive yet? Have you been able to successfully transplant them? You can always use your community tab to share photos on your own account, if you want to of course.

I think it would be an interesting community video idea if you got a bunch of people to try this and record it like the avocado seed video

Great video. I’ve always been interested in trying this as well, I think I’ll give it a shot next I prune my avocados!

@ScottGrowsanAvocadoTree

Жыл бұрын

Good luck! I'd love to know how you get on :)

My cutting in dirt did the same thing. My cutting (node at the bottom of the stalk) is doing fine in water. Its producing leaves but Im not getting visible roots yet but its thriving!

25% is actually amazing considering you made a ton of mistakes lol... on cuttings, remove most leaves to limit moisture loss... bury multiple nodes as that's where more roots grow from... and that black on the successful one looks like you may have kept it in high humidity for too long after it rooted.

I would love to try this.

You should take all the leaves off. they will dry the stem out as there is no roots to replace the water lost to evaporation.

This explains why I couldn't really find any information or literature on propagating avocado trees. It's pretty much impossible.

@adriandiaz-cabrera1733

9 ай бұрын

It's not impossible.

New subscriber here, just did the cutting to propagate my avocado today. I'm very hopeful.

@irjayjay

10 ай бұрын

Any news? Did it work?

Nice try, good luck on the next one😊😊

@ScottGrowsanAvocadoTree

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Candy! :)

I tried once, it actually started to get small leaves after 2 months behind inside, in a shade and humide place (it was pruned, leaves removed). Then died because of fertilizer 🤦‍♂️ my bad

@ScottGrowsanAvocadoTree

Жыл бұрын

They aren't very resilient!

im growing my own avocado and something strange happend it died but it dint grow a stem at all so im studiying them and i think your a great guy

I think the cutting failed due to a lack of sufficient energy stores in the cutting ( it's a very soft and small cutting ) and and since there are no roots , a lack of any uptake of nutrition for any further growth as the nutrients in the cutting would likely have run out by the time the bud formed and there was not enough left for any root growth .

Hay scott i am new to the process and am trying to start a tree fore my mother as a gift from my kid and have a question. If i graft a cutting from a type A and B onto a young tree with multiple branches can it cross pollinate and produce its own fruit?

@ScottGrowsanAvocadoTree

Жыл бұрын

Great question - I've not found many examples of people doing it, but I know people do it with other fruit trees fairly regularly. I don't see why it shouldn't work! (I haven't tried it myself)

I always start seeds from favorite tasting ones.

@RocketPipeTV

11 күн бұрын

Avocados are not true to seed, so if they produce fruit in 10+ years, you’ll get an avocado, but not the one you ate 10 years earlier. Could still be good.

Funny I’m trying this too, the wind ripped out a top of mine.

Why you think the tree from seed is more viable than the one from cuttings rooted? I would love to hear your take on the subject matter please.

Can i cut the roots that are coming out under out of the seed?

Use pure perlite and water from the bottom with root hormones?

The avocado I grew from a seed became tall and spindly, then the leaves started turning brown and dying. Today I took three cuttings from my ugly tree…I have no idea how they will turn out, but-nothing ventured, nothing gained!

@Sara-hp2qp

3 ай бұрын

How did it go?

@wayneu1233

3 ай бұрын

@@Sara-hp2qp thank you for remembering! It went badly! None of the cuttings survived, and I just don’t want to start all over again.

@Sara-hp2qp

3 ай бұрын

@@wayneu1233 ❤

Here's my advice to propagate basically any plant through cuttings (I'm highlighting only the ones I felt you might've missed) 1. Albeit you gave a chisel cut to the cuttings, you would probably had more success by injuring the cambium (i.e. removing a significant piece of bark where you dipped in the rooting hormones) 2. Whenever you take a cutting, you're supposed to remove off the inflorescence and cut the leaves into half or pluck off all the leaves barring just top few so as to minimise as much transpiration as possible). 3. Tender shoots are more sensitive to chemical composition of rooting hormones, hence softwood cuttings in avocado are more prone to failure than hardwood cuttings. 4. The potting mix was too soggy. This brought the moulds on the only surviving cutting. 5. Potted cuttings were removed from tote too late. The cuttings need to acclimatize, hence you slowly and gradually expose them to the lack of much humidity which they will experience outside tote ecosystem, in real environments. (Additionally try to water propagate the cuttings, the observations might surprise you.) Goodluck :-)

You should try this with water. I really want to try and propagate a cutting in water but I’m scared 😂

heyy I know I am kinda late to the party but I want to propagate a top cutting, this cutting is reletavely important because its the only part of my 2meter tall plant thats putting out branches but sadly it has reached my celing. Can I put it after cutting it into water for the time beeing? So that it will put out roots

Did you try it again?

What about take a cutting and tape it to a different tree. If you know what I'm trying to say. Please let me know.

@ScottGrowsanAvocadoTree

Жыл бұрын

Grafting! I haven't given it much of a try yet, but I will be in the coming year or so :)

@margaretcassidy7830

Жыл бұрын

What kind of tree would you try it on? I would like to try it my self. Do think it would work? Think I know what I would need to do it. What would you use.? Plastic wrap would be one thing right. Hope you don't mine if I ask for some help? I've seen it being done.

Cant you put a pruned cutting in water instead of soil, that could get roots as well right?

@zenvinyard4050

Жыл бұрын

I recommend trying to place the cuttings in water (propped with some "scaffolding" so the sensitive cut doesn't touch the container). I've been attempting this method for two weeks now and it seems like it's growing roots above the cut. When it'll grow sufficient roots I will transfer it to a pot with dirt and hope for the best.

@Stuwhoutje

Жыл бұрын

@@zenvinyard4050 sounds amazing!

@rondamylove9995

Жыл бұрын

@@zenvinyard4050 Any update? We're about to lose our old delicious avo tree, and I'd love to save as many cuttings as possible to grow more of this delicious PR avo.

@zenvinyard4050

Жыл бұрын

​@@rondamylove9995 I'm sorry to hear about your tree :( In the end, my experiment failed, but I only had one shot with that specific avocado (I performed it only a little while after the seed sprouted and grew some leaves just to see what would happen). I still believe it's possible to propagate avocados from cuttings since there were new roots and it looked very healthy. I can only blame myself for not taking care to change the water in its cup daily and transferring it to some dirt when the roots seemed capable enough (I was actually relocating abroad at the time). I would recommend trying to propagate your tree with as many cuttings as possible. Keep the cuttings long enough so you can trim them again if the tips of the cutting start to look rotted in the water. I would avoid any "magic" methods like those rooting hormones, go natural and just keep it clean. Good luck!

@rondamylove9995

Жыл бұрын

@@zenvinyard4050 good advice! Thank you!

I have also started propagating avocados by using cuttings. But my cuttings are little different from yours.

@ScottGrowsanAvocadoTree

6 ай бұрын

I hope they go well!

you probably watered it too much. Still good video

Background music is irritating and unnecessary.

I 've had various bad experiencies rooting avocado. As rooting hormones I've used comercial hormones, aloe vera, honey, with no success. I've used air layering with soil and with water, no success. Some people used onion as rooting hormone and succeded.

I think you used a shoot that was too tender, if it is mature or semi-ripe. results improve And if the cutting is of Mexican genetics, better, because it is more susceptible to emitting roots.

Growing up we had an big old avocado tree in our backyard in Auckland New Zealand. A branch was cut (probably around 12 foot tall) and put the stump in the compost heap standing up at the back of the section. 2 years later it started growing avos! 😊