@@jlakindd I do osmacote plus 2-3 times a year depending if I’m not lazy lol. The jacks is 25-5-15 and I have done it as much as much as everyday for short periods. Otherwise I use it every 1-2 weeks depending on whether I have time. During blooming and fruit set, I don’t use jacks at all for 2-3 months. I’ve had fruit drop in favor of vegetative growth if I add too much nitrogen. I’ve had this experience with feijoas and other fruit as well, except for citrus 😂. These days I’m trying to slow my trees down a bit and don’t use jacks too much aside from the citrus.

@@GrowsGoneWild thats good to know, i been using fish emulsion once a week, i would like to boost the growth on my young trees.

@@jlakindd I’ve dumped jacks daily for at least 3 weeks on mulberries, avocados, citrus, figs, stone fruit, and basically all my trees in pots with no issues. I wouldn’t recommend it in ground as you’d be adding a lot of salt in the soil. Maybe you could try adding more fertilizer to one tree first as a test to see how that goes.

@@GrowsGoneWild i bought the jacks 25 with the added mag and ca. i have half my avo army in ground and other half in pots. the Ones in ground, ill def start once a week and see how they respond to it

@@jlakindd nice! Good luck! I’m sure it’s a typo but jacks in the pots, not in ground 😆.

Thanks so much! So do I 🤣.

@@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!

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

@@SPARdb none of these were grown from seed actually. Figs are very easy to root from cuttings so it’s the most common way to propagate them. Also, seed grown varieties would typically not be genetic clones, either.

@@TheGreenAnt thank you bro 🙏. Everyone should grow blueberries!

@@artgarcia2340 Gary had said vermiculite is good at holding water, but it doesn’t like to let go of it. I haven’t used it much in a potting mix mostly because it is quite a bit more expensive than peat moss. So I can’t really comment. I do use straight vermiculite in a ziploc bag for starting seeds though. It works great and I get no mold issues like I used to with a paper towel. Next season I’ll run some tests with vermiculite instead of peat moss for a potting mix 👍

@@GrowsGoneWild looking forward to the video

@@Virginia-vn7ud awesome! Do you get a lot of fruit?

Lol thanks! They were in the fridge and needed to get grafted because I thought they might go bad soon 🤣.

That is a great idea. I think my latest avocados roots cooked a bit recently after I moved a planter away from it.

That’s a great idea.

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!

I wish I had the land to plant all my trees!

@@GrowsGoneWild I rent myself, but have got into the habit of burying all my large containers in ground.

@@ragnaraxelson59 oh nice. Mine survive here in pots. The ones from last year are in 15g but need to go up pretty soon.

That’s right! He’s the reason I have so many avocados 😂. I bought them from him too!

Thank you Rich! You have quite a collection yourself 😉.

@GrowsGoneWild thanks! Just beginning to learn more about avocados and lucky to have a massive rootstock to multigraft with 😅

@@RichsTopGardening that always helps!

Thank you and thanks for subbing! Sounds like a great place to be for the summer 😂

Yes of course! Appreciate you watching!

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.

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

@@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 🤔.

@@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.

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

I’m not sure on the amount actually. I hand water them and it has to be at least 3 gallons at a time. When temps get above 90 I water twice a day just to be safe. In the winter I do water much less but still everyday too unless it rains or is overcast. Once it get cold they don’t use much water or really grow.

Thanks

@@sheens9193 no problem. I just went outside and watered a tree and tried to replicate it into a 5 gallon bucket and it’s about 3 gallons 😂.

Thanks for doing the “test”. I only give mine about 1 gallon/day and they’re dry by the end of the day, maybe even by mid day for the warmer days. I use my own peat/sand/perlite 1:1:1 mix, similar to Gary’s soil. I think I’ll up the water a bit for the ones that are fully rooted in 25 gallon pots. Great looking collection, thanks again.

@@sheens9193 your mix is perfect. Same principle as Gary’s. I would definitely up the water. You can’t overwater in that soil mix. I never let any of my plants go dry if I can avoid it.

Gonna have lots of guacamole at our country music festival 🤣

@@GrowsGoneWild guac foam party + guac ladies wrasslin 😅

@@VirginiaFruitGrower 🤣🤣🤣

I hear that. Would have saved us both some heartache!

The ingredients are peat moss, pearlite, pumice, sand, and charcoal. An easy mix would just be equal parts of peat moss, pumice, and sand.

SoCal 10a. Honestly I didn’t track weather until last year and it was 38. I think it reached 32 the year before and maybe colder as we had like 20 mins of random snow. That was the first time I ever experienced snow in my area tho 😂

After I setup the plants into 5 gal pots, I just watered it everyday. I also occasionally watered with Jacks 25-5-15 water soluble fertilizer. Avocados want a lot of oxygen so a mineral based soil is best.

@@GrowsGoneWild thanks for the advice. I’ve been watering every other day. Fish fertilizer every Friday biweekly. And lemon water…. Lemon water worked really well for my mulberry and other berries. Curious to see how the avocado trees respond to it

The little orange ones from Brokaw were watered everyday. Ideally you want to up pot them to a 5 gal right away. I actually water all my plants daily.

@@GrowsGoneWilddo you have them on a drip system or hand water daily? And for how long ? Until you notice water runs out of the bottom? Sorry for all the questions if you’ve answered already in prior videos. I just discovered your channel and subbed.

@@zaria5785 oh no problem on the questions. Ask away 😂. I hand water them daily. The grow bags dry out faster than plastic containers so you might need to water less if you’re using plastic. I used to water until the water came out of the bottom. I did a recent test and it came out to about 3 gallons each watering for the 25g pots. I would honestly rather have them on drippers as it would save me so much more time, maybe some day 😂. And thank you so much for watching and subscribing!

lol no my friend made it through AI. 100 likes and I’ll sing the full version 🤣

@@GrowsGoneWild that's pretty darn slick!

@@VirginiaFruitGrower AI is craaaaazy

Request for next video, you singing the intro

@@CatchCatchFish we gonna turn this into a country music channel 🤣?

Yup. That sounds right 😂. The three I was recommended for SoCal were Jewel, Emerald, and Pink Lemonade. Pink Lemonade is the only one the critters have ignored 😂

Thanks so much and best of luck to you! I have been less strict on my mix these days depending on my needs. I am doing 1/3 peat moss, 1/3 pumice, and then either more pearlite or sand depending on whether I am focusing more on keeping the container lighter or not. I just throw in a couple scoops of charcoal, nothing too strict. I feel with the peat poss and the pumice I have the acidity and the aeration/structure and the rest can be adjusted. Which ingredients are you missing or finding hard to get?

@@GrowsGoneWild Thanks! Gary uses pumice and sand (DG I think). I found pumice but it's for construction and I don't know if the grain sizes are correct. I can't find DG at all here, and the various types of sand have different grain sizes as well. I remember AJ (the graft man) mentioning not to use "stabilized DG" and I just have no way of figuring out if the sand and rock I can get here correspond to the exact same thing. So I'm substituting with the best I can find. I'm also using coconut peat instead of peat moss, that's mostly for trying to be more sustainable (apparently bogs are important habitats while coconut peat is considered a waste product from coconut industry; I don't really know what's true but I try to do the right thing). My impression is that the coconut peat retains a lot of water while the overall mix still drains really fast (maybe too fast). It feels airy and fluffy to me, even after sitting for a while. But my trees have only sat in it for a couple of weeks so I guess it remains to be seen how they are doing 6 months, 12 months down the line!

I can see how difficult it would be without every seeing Gary’s soil! The pumice size is similar to pearlite #3. Or I believe it is 3/16 of an inch when I buy at the landscape store. The sand I use is rather fine, I have actually not looked at different sizes as they only have one kind of hand where I buy it 😂. I would just buy sand rather than DG and just make sure there is no salt in it. I have no experience with coconut pest as I only use sphagnum peat moss, but Gary has said that he does not use it as it contains tannins and decomposes too fast, from what I recall. Peat moss is better as it takes a few years to breakdown and also acidifies the soil. The sustainability can also be a controversial topic, but I haven’t looked into it too much. Please let us know how your plants do, I have never tried the coco peat but have seen others growing vegetables do well with it.

I honestly haven’t propagated much citrus. But I do see what you are talking about on the graft unions. Do these end up in failures long term? I know there are comparability issues, too, but not sure on the specifics.

@@GrowsGoneWild I have most success with rooting lime cuttings. I have seen no difference in fruit production between cuttings and grafted (on trifoliate).

@@ragnaraxelson59 interesting. I rooted a meiwa kumquat and it has been slow. But I hear kumquats are generally slow

Damn that actually sounds good 😂

Good to hear! Also amazing that you’re growing avocados in Canada 👀

@@GrowsGoneWild still experimenting and no fruit yet. My Reed flowered a ton this year, but stuck in the male state.

@@budstik still very cool. Hope you can get them to set!

I feel this g. Big fat ones 🤣

@GrowsGoneWild might need to collect them and fry them up at this point lmao 🤣

I heard they taste like crab 🤣

@GrowsGoneWild I have no idea 😅. o Only one way to find out lmao 🤣

@@VirginiaFruitGrower lol lmk 😂

They are very persistent 🤣

You bet! I’m lucky to have found his videos early on when I started gardening. I did have a dragonfruit in a pot that kept getting yellower and yellower until I changed the soil tho 😂

@@GrowsGoneWild whats your ratios in your custom potting mix? i can copy garys but im curious how you changed yours up.

@@jlakindd mine is basically the same. I have recently been using less charcoal and more pearlite as we have a shortage of pumice lol. I have been using sunshine mix at Home Depot for my peat moss because I scored some at clearance price, it has like 30% pearlite already mixed in but I’m not too sure about the exact ratios. It’s mostly more eyeballing than anything. If I up pot from 15-25 gallons and want something lighter, then I use something with less sand and more pearlite/pumice if possible. Hope that makes sense and helps 🤣

Thanks G! I considered doing a single bud, but there was not much space to work with 😂

@GrowsGoneWild dang then you would have had 60 grafts lol

@@VirginiaFruitGrower bro that’s too much 😂

@@GrowsGoneWild 🤣😂

Hello dso

Welcome dso. Let’s grow together.

Yup. You gotta mix your own 🤣

Yessir! Got a lot more coming 👍. Just water everyday 😂

Thanks! The lime had me sweatin 😂

Ah that’s too bad! It’s a fun tree to grow. Thanks for watching and have a great day, too!

I got it from Laguna Hills Nursery. They have some from time to time. They are Brokaw trees, I heard it’s possible to order directly from Brokaw but there might be a minimum amount you have order as they only sell B2B.

You are right! I don’t know what I was thinking at the time. Thought it would help to dry it out 🤣

Haha thanks. It drives me nuts seeing the birds peck a hole in every piece of fruit. They are so wasteful 😂

I’ll bet your plants look amazing 😂. Gary has been saying the same thing about potting soil for 20 years. I’m always surprised when I see growers with huge collections in SoCal don’t know about Top Pot.

@@GrowsGoneWild tell me about it they even look at you weird as if you don’t know what you are talking about 😂 My avocados look amazing as well as guavas, sumo orange, mangoes, dragon fruit, blueberries

@@moj8945 agreed! The crazy part is, you just need to buy a bag and try it and compare the difference. I have tried growing in compost and in a mineral based soil. Compost didn’t work lol. I had a dragon fruit in compost for a couple months and changed it to acid mix and it grew like 20 times its size and gave me 8 fruit in the same year 😂

@@GrowsGoneWild the good thing is nothing has died for you 😂

@@moj8945 I was lucky to see Gary’s videos pretty early in my gardening career 😂. I just had a mulberry I grafted last year die, so I’m not perfect 😂

Thanks! I’m in SoCal too, in zone 10b. 5th year in a 25 gallon is amazing and great to know that they can live that long in a pot that size. How much fruit do you think you get a year?

@@GrowsGoneWild It's been a journey my friend. You are SO right about the SOIL being the number 1 thing for container growing avocados. I'm in the process of switching out all my containers to Gary's Top Pot Soil. I've heard in a recent video that Gary's friend had 80 fruit on a 24 inch box container.

A few of my trees were oxygen deprived due to organic mixed soil and too dense of mulch layer. I went to palm tree frond mulch without the hard pieces and plan on taping a heavy duty aluminum foil around the containers this summer. I've got sunshade as well. What a learning experience. Have YET to get any avocados so far. Was using fish fertilizer once a week last year and the salt messed up the trees. Using dry granule now.

I've got 2 little cados(wurtz) , 2 kona sharwils , 1 gem , and 1 baby gwen.

@@thesearentthedroidsyourloo1880 yup, I have seen that video! The best part about using a mineral based soil is not worrying about overwatering. I’ve seen people concerned about it raining too much and that’s just such a weird concept for me, my plants love the rain 😂

Thank you. Hope they stay on 🙏

Thanks! Needs to be 10x bigger and it’d be perfect 😂

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Thank you ser 🫡

lol you get it! Thanks so much!

@@GrowsGoneWild 🙌

Thanks! First time grafting jujube so I was worried it might not take 😂

@@GrowsGoneWild you did great! Jujube is really easy if your timing is right. They make butt ugly graft unions though lol

@@VirginiaFruitGrower thanks! I started grafting last year during summer and am finding the spring timing to help a lot in my success rates.