A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2006 avacado questions

Thanks for the site art but this isnt on the underside of the leaves,it startes on the top sides with no signs of black on the backs then the black spots dry out turn brown and the leaf curls and dies. I recently tried just ordinary soap and water while I havent seen any more of the black spots I do have some leaves that appeared to have been scorched by the procedure. Is that a normal reaction? I used perhaps half a teaspoon of soap in half a gallon of water.

SNOWWOLF,
there are so many diseases on avocados thar it;s hard to tell,here are a few sites that might help.

Basic Entomology
Problem Diagnosis for Avocados
Western plant Diagnostics
also you might try Florida Agriculture Commissioner
take a few of the leaves to them and they will diagnose them. the service is free. i hope you can save your tree.

Thanks art. Will keep you posted on how its doing.

PAR,
i'm trying to send you a photo.

Art,

Now that picture I can see. Thanks for making the effort to post the picture. That's a nice tree. I see you've got it planted in the ground. Is that the 7' tree that produced 400 avocados, and how old was that tree? What's the white coating on the trunk?

I have to keep mine in a pot because I live in zone 5. My tallest tree is over 15" tall, and it's under a year old. I'll try to post some picture later.

Art, that's a beautiful tree !
I'm thinking of getting that Googly-something, a dwarf, from Park's soon.
They say its parent is a Hass. Hass is my favorite.

Beautiful tree art, are those clusters the flowers?

SNOWWOLF.
yes those are the flowers. ths first fruit from this tree was when i had the tree in a 30 gal. trash can,
last year.the avocados in this picture are still on the tree. the tree today is less than 5 ft tall. the fruit from this year is still small and there are only about 30 avocados.the tree is only 4 yrs old and its a gwen.





here is a better picture of the tree

Deborah.
if i was buying an avocado tree,i would go to the following site.more variety and more information,
the "sir prize" sounds very interesting.study them all closely before you decide.
Good Luck
GrowQuest
see my photos on SNOWWOLF

Beautiful, had never seen the flowers on one before, and it looks like some half way decent fruit

PAR Gardener,
sorry i'm so late to respond.the tree that had the
400 avocados is the father to the one in the photo
and is about 1foot taller.the one in the photo gave
me about 39 avocados.but it's about 4 yrs old.it was in a tub until feb of this year.i just picked the last 2 avocados last week.the trunk has been painted white with latex paint to prevent sun burn.i will send a photo of the tree that had the 400 avocados as soon as i develop them.send me a photo of yours.

I am not able to see the video on the link above, and want to prune my trees.

I grew them from seed last year.

The one is from a large avocado and it's over 12 foot in a pot! Do I prune off the TOP of the tree?

Coriander123

coriander,
a 12 foot tree in a pot? WOW!!
and only 1 year old? unbelievable.
what are you feeding this tree?
i would most certainly cut the top off.