Wow Marcelle... you got an avocado tree for $2.00 and you're getting
sacks-full? (sackfulls?) Avocados are on sale today 99=A2 (thanks to the
list for teaching me how to do the cent sign!) each for just a small
one. I never acquired a real love for them beyond guacamole (and my
recipe is just to mix with medium hot salsa and some lemon or lime
juice)... But I did think it would be cool to try to grow them. I'd
have to overwinter inside, of course.
How long did it take for the tree to bear fruit? How big is it?
Peg
Marcelle B.D.
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 1:54 AM
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Subject: Re: hardy lettuce
Peg,
Mwah-ha-ha! Never overlook a chance to rub it in. :-)
I'm so happy with this tree. It's a Target end of the year $2.00 special
and this is the first time it's loaded with fruit. I brought a big sack
of avocados to the local fire station and they were thrilled.
Still can't grow peonies for nuttin' though. (sigh)
Marcelle
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Oh, you have an avacoda bonsai? I have grown them from pits
until they got too big to move. Maybe I'll start over again. It would
probably not bear fruit tho. :-(. My dream house is going to be 2 plus
stories high (with an elevator) and includes a big sunroom/greenhouse
on the south side. I would grow banana plants, avacodas, etc. It
doesn't cost anything to dream.
ann
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Ya, I grew some from pits... but I didn't figure they'd ever bear fruit.
That's why I'm curious about Marcelle's.
Peg
B. Mullikin
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:15 PM
To: GARDENS@LSV.UKY.EDU
Subject: Re: Avocado was RE: hardy lettuce
Oh, you have an avacoda bonsai? I have grown them from pits
until they got too big to move. Maybe I'll start over again. It would
probably not bear fruit tho. :-(. My dream house is going to be 2 plus
stories high (with an elevator) and includes a big sunroom/greenhouse
on the south side. I would grow banana plants, avacodas, etc. It
doesn't cost anything to dream.
ann
think@francomm.com
> Wow Marcelle... you got an avocado tree for $2.00 and you're getting
> sacks-full? (sackfulls?) Avocados are on sale today 99=A2 (thanks to =
the
special
> and this is the first time it's loaded with fruit. I brought a big
sack
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A garden is never so good as it will be next year.
~~Thomas Cooper
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A garden is never so good as it will be next year.
~~Thomas Cooper
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Hmmmm. Sounds like a tree has to get pretty big before it will fruit. On
the other hand, I have a Bird of Paradise I started from seed in the
early 1990s, which now flowers regularly. We move it to the porch in
summer, and dining room in winter. My husband hates it because he walks
into the leaves a lot and it drips gooey stuff on the floor.
He'd probably like an avocado tree though... unless they drip gooey
stuff? But would I have to let my Bird of Paradise go and have the
Avocado in its place? Such a dilemma.
Maybe I'll just go back to plan "A" and grow one from a pit. Sounds like
eventually it might set fruit... just unpredictable fruit... haha. In
the meantime, I'd have lots of time to figure out where to put it in the
winter.
Thanks for the insight, Marcelle.
Peg in RI
Marcelle B.D.
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 1:23 PM
To: GARDENS@LSV.UKY.EDU
Subject: Re: Avocado was RE: hardy lettuce
Peg,
Your recipe for guacamole sounds good. I add a little lemon or lime,
onion, tomato and that's about it.
Yeah, pretty much sackfuls if paper bags are considered sacks. Right now
there are 5 ripening on top of the microwave and a basket of 18 just
sitting. Should bring some to the neighbors. There are a whole lot more
ready for picking but you just leave them on the tree for storage and
pick about a week before you need them. They ripen off the tree. I think
it's been in for 3 years and has fruited before but not like this. It's
been pruned (or whacked) into a big shrub, maybe 8' x 8', instead of a
tree shape. It's a Hass so it wants to grow tall and will need need
yearly whacking. All in all, a good $2.00 investment.
I have another avocado in a large pot. It's a year and a half old and
has one fruit hanging on it. It's a Don Gillogly, supposed to be a dwarf
and able to grow well in a pot. We'll see. Also supposed to fruit twice
a year. There's info about it here:
http://www.rogersgardens.com/miniavocado.asp
I was a sucker for there sales pitch.
Marcelle
Peg's Verizon Mail wrote:
> Wow Marcelle... you got an avocado tree for $2.00 and you're getting
> sacks-full? (sackfulls?) Avocados are on sale today 99=A2 (thanks to =
the
special
*********************************************
A garden is never so good as it will be next year.
~~Thomas Cooper
*********************************************
*********************************************
A garden is never so good as it will be next year.
~~Thomas Cooper
*********************************************
Peg,
Your recipe for guacamole sounds good. I add a little lemon or lime, onion, tomato and that's about it.
Yeah, pretty much sackfuls if paper bags are considered sacks. Right now there are 5 ripening on top of the microwave and a basket of 18 just sitting. Should bring some to the neighbors. There are a whole lot more ready for picking but you just leave them on the tree for storage and pick about a week before you need them. They ripen off the tree. I think it's been in for 3 years and has fruited before but not like this. It's been pruned (or whacked) into a big shrub, maybe 8' x 8', instead of a tree shape. It's a Hass so it wants to grow tall and will need need yearly whacking. All in all, a good $2.00 investment.
I have another avocado in a large pot. It's a year and a half old and has one fruit hanging on it. It's a Don Gillogly, supposed to be a dwarf and able to grow well in a pot. We'll see. Also supposed to fruit twice a year. There's info about it here:
http://www.rogersgardens.com/miniavocado.asp
I was a sucker for there sales pitch.
Marcelle
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My reply is way out of time but...
I have grown many avocadoe trees from the pip, all anyone needs is
two cocktail sticks broken in two and pressed in to the avocadoe seed at
the base ....... then leave it in a sunny window in a glass of water..
It might take a bit of patience but eventually they will crack open and a
sprout will emerge then is the time to plant in soil, keeping still very
moist and watered.
It is fun to have in your window and to wait for it to emerge.
..but if you can find a tree already grown
for two dollars why waste time.. :)
My trees are now four storeys high.
and bear delicious fruit , nothing like the supermarket bought avocados
pear, it is obvious that they must pick them when they are unripe to
journey, unfortunately like all fruit you buy in shops.
though your avocadoes in the shops sound very cheap,
we pay around 3 dollars a kilo here.
I think anyone can grow them, they said here it was impossible here in
Italy but we have been down to minus 14C and our trees are still doing
well, of course we have warm summers.
The only thing the first two years they seem to need to be protected
and could die down ... don't give up hope or dig them up all of ours
resurrected again and are from a second sprouting.
Our trees took about eight and ten years to bear fruit but my husband
says if we had covered them in winter we might of had fruit sooner.Of
course when you buy fruit from a supermarket you don't know the name
but the dwarf ones sound very interesting, what size fruit do they bear ?
Jenny in Italy
Wow Marcelle... you got an avocado tree for $2.00 and you're getting
sacks-full? (sackfulls?) Avocados are on sale today 99=A2 (thanks to the
list for teaching me how to do the cent sign!) each for just a small
one. I never acquired a real love for them beyond guacamole (and my
recipe is just to mix with medium hot salsa and some lemon or lime
juice)... But I did think it would be cool to try to grow them. I'd
have to overwinter inside, of course.
How long did it take for the tree to bear fruit? How big is it?
Peg
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A garden is never so good as it will be next year.
~~Thomas Cooper
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