Avocado tree collection on New Year's Day 2024

[@BAKERSFIELD_GL]

Thanks for sharing and documenting your efforts

[@edwinreyes3998]

Love this! Always, thank you for sharing!

[@johnnysworld-backyardorchard]

Happy New Year! Your Avocado trees are handling the cold very well, thanks for sharing.

[@LoganShelton-rh3lp]

Oh man ive been trying to find your channel. Finally looking forward to your videos.

[@PeterEntwistle]

Happy New Year! Your avocados appear to be dealing with the cold incredibly well so far. Nice to see flowers forming on some of them too 👍

[@xrsjohnm]

I hope your ready for the arctic blast coming to the south in the next week or 2 heater + cover for those trees

[@bolangsarungan]

❤❤❤❤👍👍

[@growyourownavocados]

I have noticed that seedlings are generally much tougher than grafted tree when young.

[@Avo7bProject]

Yes, even though grocery-store seedlings generally come from fruit imported from southern Mexico - there is still something to be said in favor of "seed vigor". A back yard experimenter will get many seedlings unfit for a colder climate. But I still maintain the premise that "a few of the seedlings will be more cold-tolerant than others" and by raising those, it may be possible to get something interesting. If I can find the time, I should visit some farmer's markets in north/central Florida and pick up fruits from there, and try the same process. Commercial and academic research will grow out thousands of seeds to find an improved variety. But a backyard "skunkworks" project like mine, of 30 - 50 plants could still uncover something different.

[@growyourownavocados]

Hass is over 60% Mexican. I have noticed some seeds can be very strong vigorous. I just posted a video of a Hass tree in area that got hit with snow a year ago.

[@juliovelasquez5589]

Hass is 100% from Guatemala. Mexico started to export the hass in 1997.

[@growyourownavocados]

Rudolph Hass lived in Whittier, California. The mother tree was grown in La Habra Heights. As to the genetics of Hass you can find studies online. "published a genetic study concluding that the Hass avocado is a cross between Mexican (61%) and Guatemalan (39%) avocado varieties."

[@growyourownavocados]

La Habra Heights in 1935.