Avocados: varieties and heat

[@bobvuu]

Thank you Greg! I appreciate your kindness in sharing your knowledge with us.

[@ganeshnaidu9592]

Lot of Love from india... Thank you for giving information about heat tolerence avocado varieties 🤝

[@kimiyemlsmallgardendream8115]

I’m so glad I just found your Chanel! Can’t wait to see what type of trees my seeds will produce!🥑

[@philipzhou8278]

My Hass got severely sunburned this summer but my Reed and Lamb looked perfect the whole time.

[@realvardhan]

Great discussion on avocados 👍 thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge 🙏 💐.

[@growyourownavocados]

Thanks Greg! A few weeks ago I was discussing how Reed, Pinkerton and Lamb do well in the bay area on your web page. Sure enough these seem to tolerate some high heat too, according to your information, perhaps that explains it. The trees that can tolerate high heat are the ones that thrive up North. Thanks, you give us Northern avocado growers a lot to think about. Just my 2 cents, for me Carmen has done very well in the heat and young Sharwil does not.

[@dadaman]

Very informative -thanks Greg!

[@turbopete7794]

Good stuff, Greg. I saw the same effects in Tustin, OC. I did see a lot of burnt fruit last week. I watered the heck out of my trees prior to and during the heat wave and they seem okay.

[@aliasmcdecoy8349]

This video was very informative, I live in Murrieta ca, And was looking to plant a couple trees and since I deal with consistent high heat and winds, this helped me tons

[@justmejus]

This is awesome! Thank you, Greg!! You guys mentioned a link to how to fight against persea mites. Can you share the link with us?

[@gregalderdotcom]

Good idea! I've now listed them in the show notes above.

[@kanagunbr]

Thanks for the presentation. I live in Southern India. its a tropical climate here. There is not much variation in temperature here. We don't have to worry about low temperature here. The Max temperature in Winter is around 85 and in summer it is 99. It rarely touches 100 for few days in a year. Is the climate good for Avocados. Especially Hass, Pinkerton and Mexicola?. I have those seedlings but are kept in pot and share so far.

[@2mustange]

This is fantastic. Watching your channel from AZ and can say tolerant heat varieties matter in our selection. With our lack of humidity growing avocados is a challenge but doable. I bought hass(west/south protected), Fuerte, and Mexicola Grande. I am doubtful the hass will survive and if not I will get a Winter Mexican to replace it as it seems to fare well against heat. AZ has the aravaipa but have not heard much on its taste so have kept away from it.

[@sonotaps]

I’m in AZ desert and Winter Mexican has been a real champ.

[@madelinkoh]

Greg, The sound from your video is very soft , not loud enough, even though I put to the max. From Malaysia

[@MetalBum]

Greg i love this. But is th ere a way you can do timestamps for us? thanks so much greg!

[@gregalderdotcom]

Very good idea. I'll do so when I can.

[@markengelbrecht3390]

Hi Greg have a Hass Pinkerton Maluma Reed Ryan and Linda trees in my Yard the Maluma is still in its first year in ground... Do you know about Ryan and Linda when to harvest?

[@gregalderdotcom]

Hi Mark, Where are you located?

[@02252013]

Hi Greg! Thank you very much for all the avocado content you put out; I've benefited greatly from your work and I really appreciate it! I'm in Los Angeles and I have a 4 foot Reed tree which got cooked during the heat wave. I watered it and mulched it but the top branches including the upper part of the stem look and feel totally dead however the lower half is still green with leaves that actually look healthy. My question is should I cut off the dead looking top branches including the stem or should I just leave it alone? I also have a Hass as well that really got cooked, it looks 90% dead however it still has green leaves interspersed even at the top so I'm hoping it will come back? I'm new to growing avocado trees and your website and videos have really inspired me. Thank you!

[@gregalderdotcom]

Hi Arthur, Thank you for the kind words. Have a look at this video about pruning and caring for a heat-damaged avocado tree that I made after the heat wave of July 2018: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4HVhayFZa5og9U From your descriptions, it sounds like your trees will recover well, especially the Reed. Look for new growth emerging in the next few weeks.

[@02252013]

@@gregalderdotcom Thank you so much Greg!! :)

[@spinnordoctor]

Hi Greg! Why did I know you were going to make a video on this 🔥😬🔥. I was about to ask you about doing one like this bc I noticed pretty big variability on the burn back at my place from latest heat wave. We got slammed up here in San Jose pretty bad with heat but I was out watering before the heat each day so we pulled through without much damage. My brother in Riverside however really got burned bad. When I was growing up my dad used to work in Ramona and I remember going up there a few times and it was hotter than hell so I know how it can get pretty damn hot in your area.

[@gregalderdotcom]

Hi Pat, When these extreme heat spikes hit and I'm out trying to save plants, that is what I hear myself asking, "Is this hell?"

[@spinnordoctor]

Greg, finally listened to your whole talk. Didn’t realize it was for CRFG until today! That’s awesome. My mom lives right down the street from Paul Thompson’s old ranch. I make a point of walking along Mango Glen every time I’m home. When you talked about Maluma I thought you meant Malama! Didn’t know they were different. There is a lady in my area growing rare avos that has Malama at least that’s what she told me on email. They have a little homestead where they grow and sell rare avos for the home hobbyist. Epicenter Nursery. I’m going to be getting a bunch of baby trees from them spring 21. They have a child from Pinkerton they are calling Palo D’oro that comes from Big Sur that looks awesome.

[@gregalderdotcom]

That's awesome! I happen to know Thomson's old Edgehill property too; some historic trees there. Malama, the Hawaiian variety, didn't do so well for me. It was a slow grower and didn't take the heat so I yanked it. I should give it another shot though. I love what they're doing at Epicenter Nursery. It's so useful that they're making rare varieties available. Be sure to keep me updated on how the new trees do for you.

[@spinnordoctor]

Greg check out latest blog post at Epicenter. I figured you had to have known about them. This spring I’m going to go all out and get every variety they have that I don’t and stuff them around my place and bring some to Vista to plant. They don’t post much but last month was was highly detailed their growing results. I’m 30 miles in from them on west slope of Diablo range so we definitely have more heat and almost no frost so I hope to have better luck with some of the B types like Fuerte, Ettinger, and Sir Prize- all of which they said was a disaster for them. I do have a pretty big and healthy Fuerte that’s about 3 years old but no flowers this past season yet. So far the type A’s I have esp Lamb and Reed are doing best for my area and Epicenter seems to like those two the most as well.

[@gregalderdotcom]

Thanks for the heads up about the Epicenter blog post. It was very informative. I especially liked their harsh-winter insurance policy perspective, which has really got me thinking about dedicating more space to cold-tolerant varieties.

[@Derek_Wong]

Thanks

[@jcs1492]

Greg, Can you do a profile on the queen avocado ?

[@gregalderdotcom]

Will do as soon as I can.

[@HassTA21]

hallo sir maybe someone can answer my question. how to make a lot of avocado bloom. thank u in advance

[@jacky3789]

Hi, I have done a lot of research of growing avocados tree, but i have not heard anyone discuss about will it be ok to plant on climate area whole year around (90F)32 - (97F) 36 Degree Celsuis. Im from malaysia, will the tree flowers and fruits in this kind of weather? will it crops many, and will the fruits grow large? thank you for the video to share avocado info.

[@gregalderdotcom]

I think you should be able to grow some type of avocado in Malaysia. I know someone growing them successfully in Thailand.

[@growyourownavocados]

My baby Queen seems very heat tolerant. Has anyone else had this experience with Queen?

[@frankyancy1347]

Thx Greg!😀

[@jamesfrederick.]

Wen it comes to growing multiple plants in one spot you obviously just have to give food enough for both... obviously

[@jamesfrederick.]

“It doesn’t matter if they eat from the same plate it matters how much food you put on the plate”

[@raider1978raider]

👊🏽💯

[@philipzhou8278]

With global warming and increasing temps in California, shouldn't people plant more heat tolerant varieties than Hass? Hass also suffers from salt burn with California irrigation water. For a backyard gardener, would rather try to grow something different than what we can cheaply buy at the supermarket.

[@gregalderdotcom]

Good points. I mostly agree, Philip. But it partly depends on many things, including where you live. Lots of people live close enough to the beach where the heat spikes never get high enough for Hass to need heat tolerance. Also, Hass can still yield very well despite having the ugly look of a moderate amount of leaf burn in fall and winter from our irrigation water. And the Hass fruit off a backyard tree is far superior to a majority of the Hass fruit available at supermarkets.

[@jimmytran9585]

👍♥️🇺🇸

[@pinball000]

I’d be disappointed with fuerte if you found your tree never flowers. It’s possible some fruit and some rarely do, even with grafts off the same tree

[@gregalderdotcom]

I think you're right about that. Some details on that phenomenon in this post: gregalder.com/yardposts/the-fuerte-avocado-tree-a-profile/

[@pinball000]

Greg Alder love the link great information. Subscribed. My fuerte hasn’t flowered yet so still hope for produce I guess. Otherwise I’ll graft onto it. From Australia ^.^