The delivery was fast and all the trees are in good condition.
I’m very happy with these trees
Good looking tree! Can’t wait for fruit!
I am glad that Everglades provides so many varieties of avocado trees.
The plant I received, however, does not look too healthy.
The plant is dropping leaves. I think it got cold freeze during transportation.
I hope it will survive at the end.
My tree arrived looking better than I expected, and well packed. It arrived with flowers, and a couple of smaller than pea sized avocados on it. Of course, once I planted it, the flowers and avocados died, then I cut all other potential flowers off, so that the tree could focus on rooting, and overall survival. The trunk/limbs were thicker than expected, seemingly able to support the weight of a few avocados. A few of the leaves have dropped off, but I should be snacking on my home grown avocados next year for sure!
From my experience with avocado trees freezing, the leaves falling off and the stems exposed to the extreme Southern here in the Rio Grande Valley, I painted the trunk of this tree with a 50/50 mix of indoor white latex paint/water and rigged a temporary 40% shade cloth a couple of feet above the tree and down on the southern side. At 5 ft tall, the tree is impressive in size but considering it was shipped in a three gallon pot with no roots visible, it had obviously been grown in a larger medium with the roots trimmed. The hole for it was dug twice the size of the pot and and the soil mixed with peat moss, aged compost and aged horse manure. The soil here is sandy loam, so I watered it deeply every other day for the first week and twice a week the following week. It seems to be recovering fine and we're looking forward to a good, cold hardy tree.
