5yo. I left it without enough light and a pot too small for 2/3 of these years. I put it outside in the garden in spring and summer. Just got in inside for the winter.
It's doing much better since I've added a light during the winter.
Hi all, I do believe this tree is about a year and a half old. It has done a LOT of growing this summer, and two branches have appeared in the last month. It has had some fungus gnats living in the soil which I thought I had dealt with. But the new shoots seem to have been nibbled on. Now winter is coming, so I don’t expect much new growth.
I kept this avocado tree outdoors for about 5 months as we had a long summer, and it did very well.
I have a little bit of pruning to the lower leaves. Can anyone tell me what’s been eating it? How can I care for this avocado tree properly?
Thank you in advance!
Background: The seed is from store bought avocado I planted 6 years ago. I grafted it with bacon avocado back in April 2024. It has been living in a pot and never in the ground.
Location Melbourne Australia
Running an Etsy shop means I spend way too much time looking at shipping costs and even more time looking at plants in my workshop. Decided I want an avocado tree out back near the vegetable beds. Got the home improvement bug bad this spring. Here's the thing though. I don't want a decorative houseplant that sits there for six years doing nothing. I want fruit. Actually want to harvest something off it eventually, not just stare at leaves.
The local nursery has grafted Hass trees for about forty bucks. Grown from a known producer so they fruit faster and stay smaller, which works for my yard setup. Growing from a pit is free and kind of fun, but I keep reading it takes a decade minimum and the fruit might be garbage. Or it might be amazing. Total gamble.
My woodworking brain says just buy the grafted one. You get what you pay for, stop overthinking it. But the gardening side of me wants to try the seed route just to see what happens. Any of you done both and can compare? Did the grafted tree actually produce fast like they claim? Did your seed grown tree ever give you decent fruit? Trying to figure out if the seed route is a waste of time or actually worth the patience. Just my 2 cents.
The first 2 pictures was 11 months ago that I posted here on different account, and now after 11 months all the roostock got thicker and more durable. However it didn't really grow taller and wider that much since on November 2025 I heavily prune for the upcoming super typhoon. Im hoping after 2 years its going to fruit, I'll do more update soon
The old post: https://www.reddit.com/r/avocado/s/ae5GtvLpMA