Too funny! People often ask how I get hard to germinate seeds to grow? My reply: "Forget about them! Leave them alone!" Thanks, brother! You ROCK 😃🥑🌞🌿

Right on! That’s your TED Talk right there. Thank you. Great energy, delivery and message. Love it! 🥑🥑🥑

GREAT VIDEO SLEEPY LIZARD. I'M SOMEWHAT NORTH OF YOU IN NEW HANOVER COUNTY IN WILMINGTON, NC. I HAVE A GRAFTED HYBRID AVOCADO TREE THAT'S ACTUALLY BEEN GROWING FOR TWO SEASONS NOW. I'M IN GROW ZONE 8a HERE. I APPRECIATE ALL INFO U GIVE.🙏🇺🇸❤️✌️

I have not heard someone else talk about the law of diminishing marginal returns since I took economics in college back in the early 90s. I apply it when talking about eating foods. The first slice of cake tastes great but with each additional slice you eat the level of satisfaction you get decreases.

More wisdom from the orchard. Terrific advice for sure, again a great chat.

Hi! If I knew you were coming up for my KZfaq choice I would’ve put on my Sleepy Lizard Tank Shirt 😅Hope all’s well your way TY 4 the info.

The avocado oracle. Love the message. Keep spreading the advice and good vibes, Tom!

Avocado seeds make for a fantastic bit of guerrilla gardening. Chuck a seed some place that gets a bit of shade and some water. I know of 2 avocados and a date that have somehow germinated at the retirement village near me.

great message! sending this to my grandson!

Leaving things alone also lets the mushrooms work their magic. This is a core tenet of permaculture to not over work. Man you are an inspiration.

Tom, remember when I said that I’m from Mozambique and I planted avocados? I got to the point that I got lazy and I started planting the entire avocados. I just let them getting over ripped and planted them. The fruit itself becomes all the nutrients needed, all inside the skin. Try it. Buried 80% and ripped. Constantly moist soil. Just remember folks, as long as there’s sun light… or artificial.

Love the way you break down these videos brother

thank you!! Love your video.

I revisit to refresh me memory....fert details n such. Diminishing returns a crucial concept.

I great video and enthusiasm! It encourages me to rethink my 21 mango trees. I’ve been so frustrated because a few 1g and 3gallon haven’t shown any growth this year. Probably adapting to my high ph soil.

I gave my friend a Choquette seed from an avocado I bought from Guac Farms. It's growing in a glass. He thinks he'll have big, delicious avocados next summer. I haven't told him the bad news yet. I'm so mean. 😅

Avocado Lives Matter 😉

Wow powerful advise here from Kilimanjaro Tanzania!!!!

Tom you're great 👍 person i really injoy watching your videos as like you always smiling on your face and wonderful voice that you had and also the same time you are providing information about avacado tree's and others I just want to say you are great and hard working dude which is great to have wonderful wonderful 👍👌😊🤠♥️

Love this Mr avocado dude 😍

I am a great fan of the S.T.U.N. method of growing things. Strategic Total Utter Neglect

Can you make a video about why some (grafted) trees get destroyed by natural elements once put into place? Example: I planted two young, grafted Hass about 8 meters apart. One thrives despite some attacks, the other one got attacked, turned black and died. I appreciate your thoughts.

My little religious name is not doing too much, but in the home growing 20 Avocado like you my friend. I like you,!!

Thank you for your videos and your passion! 🌳♥️I have been experimenting with growing avocados too. I notice they get tall before putting out leaves. Should one cut back to encourage branching or just leave it be?

Love you videos🎉!

You do so good vidoes! A bot of good vidoes

hi I follow you from italy! Your video are amazing !! The young avocado plants love direct sun o the shadow?

Great video Tom. I've got three seeds but no where to really grow them. Apartments are really small, not enough light. I thought about starting one just to see how far I could get it but knowing I'd have to eventually give up would be to hard. See ya on the next one

I went looking to see what i can different for my 4 ft tree. then i came across this video. now i know what to do . just let it be like i have been. but i do need to repot my tree. kinda nervous because i love my little tree, very spiritual. my tree is in a pot with other plants lol. spider plant and aloe all in one pot, 2 by 2 pot . next mission repot yo a 4 by 4 pot ?

Zone 3 in Canada……. grew some seedlings over winter. but the did not like it outside in the spring/summer. growing great again once inside the house now that it’s freezing out……. Are avacados semi sun?

Cost/Benefit is applicable to many life situations. Thank you for the reminder. Question - when will the Simmonds Avos be available for order? I just received a box of Monroes. Can't wait to try them. Thanks!!

Aloha, we live on Kauai, HI & recentely moved into a new cottage that has an avocado tree on the property. Although the tree looks very unhealthy, it has a white extra crusty bark, I see some of these crusty pieces have fallen off on the grass that I've noticed. The poor tree is sparse, mostly looks like branches with a few leaves. It gets plenty of water & sunlight. Can you help me try to save this sick avocado tree. Mahalo from Kauai..

Let the plant grow! Smart lesson

Can you show us how to cut a scion as well as transport the scion from like, your parents home. How long you can wait before you graft out and how to graft it. Please. I want to graft a scion, but my family has trees in San Diego and I'm in a Vegas.

Toooo much of anything ain't good for ya baby,hahahaha. Bill😅

I prefer grafted avocados plantS those seeds can be used as rootstocks

No, I have never played classical (or any) music to my plants. My voice is their music lol 😆

Cool❤

Johnny Appleseed would pat you on the back with a smile!

i get one growing from 100% worms poop broda !! cheers my friend @Tommy boy love to family too !!

i want to try pruning avocadoes i'm just not sure when or how to do it

that what I am doing in all my fruit trees. I need to ask you if I need to import Monroe with Choquette to be A & B from US to Australia how much will cost by us $> thank wonderful Man.

1:47 mins "These trees want to grow!" Reminds me of this movie clip from the Lorax kzfaq.info/get/bejne/erume7JkmM_FqJs.html So don't graft (5:55 mins) that or so poorly neglected seedling, let it grow!!! Take a 1 in 10,000 chance that it will taste good in 15 years. Edit: My 13 year old daughter wants you to name him Jerry and insists that you let him live free!!!

If you wanna fuss with your trees and plants...get a lot of trees and plants! That way you always have something to do on some plant. Haha

I'm in zone 6. My grafted dwarf avocado trees are in 22" pots in front of windows. How much does the room temperature factor in? Help me be successful :)

Is it possible to graft two different varieties of avocado in the same tree? (One flower type A and the other, flower type B) Would it work? If it worked, would the one steel the force from another, due to the fruits having different picking times? Just some thoughts...

I have to ask you a question! I was gifted a Tiny Avocado Tree about 15 or 16 years ago and no I never grafted it I was just happy to grow it because my old friend who’s no longer with us said it would give avocados. Well here I am almost 16 years later and it’s so healthy and vigorous but I never see flowers like I do here on KZfaq… it stayed in a big 25 gallon pot for maybe it’s first 6 or 7 years then one day my mom put it in the ground because I had moved out. Still this tree grows in my back yard… I just started giving it fertilizer again and it didn’t drop its leafs this winter… and is now pushing new leafs. What am I doing wrong because when growing usually less is more… but can I get this thing to flower or must I graft and I know there’s 2 different kinds of avocados… do I need to identify if it’s type A or B?

Thanks Tom, If we cannot find fertilizer 6-6-6... Can we use 14-14-14 instead? But with lesser quantity and longer intervals (3x a year?) or (2x a year?)

hell yea

Hello from birmingham, Alabama. I started growing a seed in a cup of water. The bottom 1st little root started to peek threw. And it was starting to grow sideways...SO I CLIPPED IT😬. It's now been about 7 months and were I clipped the root turned brown stopped growing and now I have tiny SLOW growing little bean sprout looking peices trying to grow INSIDE of the seed not on the root growth.(root growth in non existence). The seed itself has 1000000% split down the middle. 1side of separated seed is halfway brown but doesn't look completely dead. And the 1st main root still hasn't grown back and is still brown. SO my question is. DO I need to throw it out and start over. Did I stunt the 1st initial root by clipping it bc it won't grow and is brown? - But the brown root is trying to grow lil bean sprout things INSIDE the split seed.Since being clipped at the 1st root NOTHING has grown down, root wise. And seed is in 2 pieces held together by green stem in middle that's growing outwards inside the seed and NOT downwards. Is it a lost cause.?? 7 months and the root isn't growing bc I clipped it 3 months in. -- Srry for the paragraph. I just don't wanna waiste if there's any chance of rehab. THANKS FOR ALL YOUR KNOWLEDGE.!!! Bless you and your family .

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200 trees ...still going...i agree.

Your wife is going to be upset when she finds out where one of ther glass cups went for 75 days. Now, in all seriousness, one of my pits sprouted two stems. I didn't know avocados could be multiembrionic. So, what do I do? Snap one off or turn that into a double-graft?

You forgot air. Avocado trees need air to grow too!

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