How To Start An Avocado Bonsai Tree

How do you start an avocado bonsai tree? Today, I show you my experience of my first three months of planting an avocado tree as a bonsai and caring for it.
00:00 - What Are Bonsais?
01:21 - What You’ll Need
02:33 - Planting an Avocado Bonsai
06:29 - One Month Update and Shaping The Trunk
10:58 - Three Month Update
12:12 - What Are The Next Steps?
13:49 - Key Takeaways
16:33 Closing Thoughts
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[@RuthBBrown]

Why was it so satisfying to see him fill the potting mix in. I love your videos

[@margaretcassidy7830]

Can't wait to see it in a year. Hope grows well for you.

[@eh8035]

Hi, I'm also here curious about the 1 year update, pls!

[@pumpkinplushness]

omg!!! I always wanted to see you try this!

[@eiramu]

Same!

[@adeanaargle5739]

I love this! I was thinking about doing it too…. But I can’t get a avocado to grow 😑 but I have not given up!!!! But the kitty 🐈‍⬛ watching is just the cutest 🥰❤️

[@ScottGrowsanAvocadoTree]

Keep at it, Adeana! Your time will come! (as will you eventual avocado trees). I believe in you! (and Luna is welcome in all videos but she does no always grace us with her presence!)

[@adeanaargle5739]

@@ScottGrowsanAvocadoTree it’s thanks I had two of them that actually started to grow before I moved to Arizona a year and a half ago…. Survive the movie just do it when I get here 🤷🏻‍♀️ Just they haven’t did anything yet so we’re here with fingers crossed that eventually root! 🤞🏼

[@joppemertens4525]

I'me trying this myself already but i wil start another one with these tips!

[@gayefanner731]

Yay! Scot I knew you’d enjoy bonsaiing an Avocado! I did challenge you about 6 months ago but you must have missed it somehow, you never replied. No matter you’re doing great now! I’m praying I haven’t gone one chop too far with mine, I said to it the other day if it lived I wouldn’t cut it back again this year (I’m in England) glad you’re looking at d camera now, much better than the last time I checked you out ! God bless you 🙏✝️ ✌️🇷🇺☮️🇺🇦✌️

[@gayefanner731]

Actually it was only 3mths ago, the cat pruned your avocado episode! Seems longer! ✌️

[@CandysGarden]

Can't wait to see an update with this guy in a year😮😳😍😍

[@JohnPritzlaff]

Awesome video. I've been embarking on a slightly similar quest whereby I am kind of macro-bonsaiing 4 avocados in-ground in an ultra-high-intensity arrangement here in Phoenix, Arizona, USA (USDA zone cold hardiness zone 9b). I've got a seedling fuerte, a seedling mexicola grande, a grafted zutano, and a grafted pinkerton all basically in the same hole (really it's a continuous sunken bed) with a footprint of 2 feet by 1.5 feet roughly. Below, the soil is a heavily compacted clay yet with a ton of gravel, only slightly tilled, and the "sunken raised bed" built above w/ primarily worm castings and coco coir (using the clay mixed with gravel and lava sand to create a kind of poor-man's adobe natural edging on the sides). Surrounding these 4 avocados are many other quite disparate species of tree planted nearby, many of which are being used as nurse trees to establish a mottled shade canopy for the avocados and other stuff. Hard to describe but hopefully I've used enough words to do so, as well as the right ones lol. I'm probably going to be training and pruning them very intensively as time goes on. But it might not end up being macro bonsai, not in a "traditional sense," because I know I'm going to be able to grow any of these trees very tall and narrow very quickly if I so choose. I may allow some of the avocados (I'm probably going to add more varieties, such as Thomson Red) to be bonsai or macro bonsai understory trees while encouraging others to become the canopy trees themselves. Within 1-3 feet of these avocados I also have a paulownia, a few moringa, a manila mango (gonna become a multigrafted mango), a multigrafted stone fruit cocktail tree with the best cat in the world buried underneath it, the edge of a violette de bordeaux fig bush that I may yet train into more of a tree shape, etc. I find that replicating the forest or jungle type environment is one way to have a ton of success in rapid fashion while gardening in Phoenix. In fact we actually have a lower water bill than most of our neighbors who don't garden at all, and it keeps getting lower and lower the more the vegetation fills in! (A fact which is highly counterintuitive to the vast majority of people, but which actually makes perfect sense if you really dig into the reasoning.) There are several other trees within 5-10 feet of the aforementioned avocados, including a jacaranda, a pomegranate tree with 10 trunks (only an inch between each trunk), a verawood, and an all-in-one almond. Eventually most of my trees will be multigrafted if I have my way, by the way. I know a lot of what I'm saying might sound like it makes no sense (such as ultra-high-density intercropping of trees with vastly different watering requirements) but trust me, if you give me enough time to explain (time which I don't currently have) it will make perfect sense. I have been following many of your other experimental projects and so you should take this comment as a sort of catch-all response demonstrating the in-kind enthusiasm of a kindred spirit. Love to all.

[@frostylonewolf1700]

great news 2 of my avocado seeds sprouted !

[@fhumezwet2847]

Very cool

[@Dalmatianbee]

I would love to see an update on this.

[@ScottGrowsanAvocadoTree]

Wait no longer! m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKKXdn6tec17pqM

[@lineakristensen1821]

just halfway in and I noticed your curls, wow ❤

[@ScottGrowsanAvocadoTree]

You’re too kind 🥰 💁🏼‍♀️

[@FevirlyMetzen]

Im planning doing this..ilove avocado

[@matthewwyjad]

Did you get the photo that I emailed you of my bent over avocado and how it branched out the top?

[@adrienn2668]

Hello Scott! I have a 1 year old avocado tree. My tree is tall (about 60 cm) and it has a young, growing leaves only on the top. Can you give me an advice where I prune my tree?

[@stefanocipriani4077]

Hi, I’ve grown an Avocado tree using the toothpick in glass method. I’ve just moved it into gravel and water because I want to keep it in Hydration mode. However, I want the roots to grip something to be self supporting. Is this okay to do or was the gravel a bad idea?

[@taniaeyden5715]

What do i do with my single thick long root.i cant find a pot to plant it in...its just went into longer water bottles as it grew.....

[@rosebrock3376]

What did u use to plug up the hole

[@TheDivera]

I got perlite and coconut chip but what is the third part, please ? I didn't understand.

[@dhall9212]

Third part was a regular potting compost!

[@greenpizza99]

It's been a year

[@joehalliwell9693]

Update?

[@mrjonathan5523]

Since nobody’s saying it nice hair my g

[@ScottGrowsanAvocadoTree]

Thank you!

[@glenmarchant7900]

I believe bonsai originated in China, before Japan

[@jthomasp8591]

Legend I sent you a Instagram dm