Avocados holding fruits in containers! - Summer update

1 month has passed since our last update and the avocados are now done flowering. Temperatures have reached the mid 90s and we have quite a few fruits holding on the trees. Come take a look at the progress. We are growing the following varities:
Reed
Stewart
Pinkerton
Sir Prize
Sharwil
Gem
Don Gillogly
A more in depth video of my collection can be seen in this video: • Growing avocados longt...
We are in Southern California in zone 10A.

[@SpYucaipaSoCal]

I like the tour and updates. I just purchased some 5 and 15 gallons. 7 different strains. It gets cold here I’m in 9b Yucaipa. Lived here for 20+ years. Never thought I could grow them hear. Was talking to my neighbor and he has 4 Hass that he planted as 5 gallon stock. He said he covers them when its real cold and has some frost damage. But nothing serious yet.

[@GrowsGoneWild]

Thanks so much! Wow 7 different ones 👀. That’s impressive! It’s a good sign if your neighbor is having success. Best of luck to your trees!

[@VirginiaFruitGrower]

Avocado 🥑 Fest 2024 woohoo 🙌

[@GrowsGoneWild]

Gonna have lots of guacamole at our country music festival 🤣

[@VirginiaFruitGrower]

@@GrowsGoneWild guac foam party + guac ladies wrasslin 😅

[@GrowsGoneWild]

@@VirginiaFruitGrower 🤣🤣🤣

[@econ0003]

That Stuart tree is a monster. What kind of rootstock is it growing on?

[@GrowsGoneWild]

Yeah it’s ridiculous. It’s just a zutano seedling from Brokaw that won the genetic lottery 🤣. All those first trees in grow bags are the same age.

[@econ0003]

@@GrowsGoneWild that is amazing. It seems to be outperforming the clonal rootstock you have. Have you thought about propagating the rootstock on that tree?

[@GrowsGoneWild]

@@econ0003 yes it is definitely outperforming the clonal, but I did bare-root one so it’s not completely a fair comparison. But I don’t think it would be as vigorous as the Stewart, either way. I have given a little thought to cloning it as rootstock but there are no suckers and I’m not ready to chop it down 🤣. Maybe a tissue culture person could figure something out 🤔.

[@econ0003]

@@GrowsGoneWild I don't blame you for not wanting to do anything drastic to trigger suckers. Hopefully it will produce some suckers on its own.

[@GrowsGoneWild]

@@econ0003 yup, will keep an eye on it!

[@Avo7bProject]

Based on all the advice I've read, a 20 gallon or better container is needed for a tree to have enough root volume to hold fruit. I would not put much faith in the peanut-sized fruits. Once fruits get to the range of golf ball to egg size, you can let expectations increase.

[@GrowsGoneWild]

@@Avo7bProject these are in 25g containers with the exception of sir prize, which is in a 20g. Have some bigger fruit dropping but still a good amount holding. Will be fun to see how many stay on to maturity!

[@GrowsGoneWild]

@@Avo7bProject actually I remembered the 15g ones lol. You’re right. Almost all the small fruitlets have dropped!