i have been told to restore these two avocado trees to health (by my daughter).
they have been thru’ heat and water stress and are throwing out new shoots along the stem.
i was wondering if anyone has grown avos successfully and could give me some hints.

G’day Pepe.
Sure does look stressed. Poor liddle fella.
Snip those top leaves off and let it reshoot.
Keep it out of hot winds.
Keep the pot out of the sun, they like cool roots. Maybe make a brick ‘box’ or something around the pot to keep it cool and mulch it as well.
Afterrnoon shade from about 3pm might help too.
Water it if it looks stressed but ensure the pot drains freely. Don’t sit it in a saucer, it’ll die if the roots are wet for 48hrs.

Longy said:

G’day Pepe.
Sure does look stressed. Poor liddle fella.
Snip those top leaves off and let it reshoot.
Keep it out of hot winds.
Keep the pot out of the sun, they like cool roots. Maybe make a brick ‘box’ or something around the pot to keep it cool and mulch it as well.
Afterrnoon shade from about 3pm might help too.
Water it if it looks stressed but ensure the pot drains freely. Don’t sit it in a saucer, it’ll die if the roots are wet for 48hrs.

thanks longy.
all either done or easy to do – snipping the top might wait until i can see what is happening.
thanks again.

if these plants are grown from seed from supermarket avocados, they may not come true to type, or fruit well at all…..so hope you’re not going to devote a large amount of garden space to grow them for fruit.
they look like they’re about due for re-potting into larger pots….at which time you could incorporate up to 50% coir into fresh potting mix, which will thereafter be always pretty easy to wet when watering. pure potting mix (mostly bark) becomes hard to wet sometimes.
i would also give them a well diluted seaweed solution, for a bit of pick-up.

aquarium said:

if these plants are grown from seed from supermarket avocados, they may not come true to type, or fruit well at all…..so hope you’re not going to devote a large amount of garden space to grow them for fruit.
they look like they’re about due for re-potting into larger pots….at which time you could incorporate up to 50% coir into fresh potting mix, which will thereafter be always pretty easy to wet when watering. pure potting mix (mostly bark) becomes hard to wet sometimes.
i would also give them a well diluted seaweed solution, for a bit of pick-up.

seedlings from a grower – so properly grafted specimens.
i have just repotted in coir mix and seaweeded.
also i have chopped off one plants leaves as longy suggested yesterday.

one avo survived the other one didn’t.