Now that I have 20 avocado trees in my landscape (16 different varieties) I am getting a lot of inquiries regarding when I’m going to start having a bumper crop of avocados for my closest friends, family and others.
So I have gone back into my records as to when I planted all of my avocado trees and found the following:
2 mature avocado trees 5+ years old
5 avocado trees planted in 2017
6 avocado trees planted in 2018
7 avocado trees planted in 2019.
From everything I’ve read, if you plant a healthy grafted avocado tree, it takes anywhere from two to four years before you start getting any fruit from it. So the 13 avocado trees I planted in 2018 and 2019 are not yet old enough to start producing. Sorry, as I am as impatient as anyone.
Of the five avocado trees I planted in the summer of 2017, three have actually started to produce. My Choquette avocado tree only has six avocados on it, my Oro Negro avocado tree only has seven avocados on it and my Simmonds avocado tree only had one avocado on it. These three are pictured below.
But wait till next year!
Choquette
Oro Negro
Simmonds
I am still pretty happy with those results to have the majority of my two-year-old avocado trees producing even if only modestly.
Of my two mature avocado trees, my Lula already produced over the summer and my Hass avocado tree is producing now. I would say that although I call them mature, they are probably only five or six years old and still have a great deal of growth and production to come. Photos of each are featured below.
Lula
Hass
So yes, even I am still buying avocados at Lucky's or Earth Fare, at least for the next year or so. I’ll let everyone know when the bumper crops start coming in. I can’t wait to start trying the different varieties.
Let me know if any of you have questions or if you want some pointers on planting an avocado tree or two of your own.
Thomas D. Marks, Esquire
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