Sad Avocado Trees

in HiveGarden6 days ago (edited)

I have been slack with landscaping my property and putting in the trees and gardens that I want. That means people around us are often trying to encourage and support some progress...in their own way. Sometimes that is not ideal and in this latest instance it’s turned into a bit of a cluster. It started out with my well meaning in-laws offering my wife some young avocado trees that needed to be removed (I think) from a friends house. I didn’t get asked or even consulted, just told they were being transplanted to our place...it was happening and “Don’t worry”. Shit, don’t you just love married life? I pick my battles and this wasn't going to be one of them...


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I was originally planning to put a garden along that back fence because it gets full sun and would be a great spot for a vegetable garden...but forget those plans. I did object at one point that avocados were a more tropical plant (we are temperate) and I later found out they don’t like clay soil (which we have) plus need plenty of protection (which we don't have)...and the best time to transplant them is spring or early summer (not winter). Yeh, nah, don’t worry about all that. She’ll be right mate! That’s typical Aussie slang there. I am being facetious, sorry…

Anyway, about 24 hours after they got put in the ground (while I was out for the day) we got absolutely smashed with wind. To their credit the avocado trees didn’t blow over, but they looked pretty sick after a couple of days and now today, about 10 days later they look like they’re in pretty bad shape if not already dead. I’m trying not to be an asshole about the whole situation but a part of me can’t help but giggle a little bit. However, I know my wife wants them there and my eldest kid loves avocados so she’s excited too and thus I have been making a bit of effort to keep them alive. I’ve kept them watered but not sure what else can be done.

Someone suggested we cut them back. Winter has just started and I do that with my chilli plants around this time. The chilli plants always look like pretty dead sticks over winter but then come back super healthy in the spring. Any suggestions from my Hive people?

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I recommend you remove the leaves and urgently add molasses or sugar around the stem, and you can even spray the entire plant, so it absorbs energy. Regards...

I had a avocado tree too, grown from a seed, died for the heat as it needed like daily water in summer and we are not even in the tropics... Beside the climate not good there, as you said plant them on winter is meh... You do this in spring... They look dead to me now

I don't expect avocados to do well in Vancouver weather either. I am sticking with blueberries & strawberries. I'm experimenting with a 'Kiwi' fruit but that is really another fruit that appears like a tiny 'kiwi' fruit.

Pity avocados. I'm surprised that trees this big can still be transplanted. I don't have much idea how to deal with newly transplanted plants survival in cold places as we are a tropical country.

Can windbreaks or thermal mass help them? Or maybe mulching? If their stems are still green and firm, they are more likely to survive. I just hope they survive.

Although I am actively involved in gardening
I can say that I have no luck with avocados. Something is not right with it and it always dries out.
Probably the wrong climate in Europe is not right for it, the soil is
Try pruning, maybe you can save it, I have managed to save some other species so that I can save them.

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Don't think there's quite much you can do.

Wrong climate, wrong soil, wrong season, the tree is fighting a losing battle here.

That’s messed up, but I totally get it. I wish I could help, but that help looks like it might already be too late.

Married life is really full of surprises, and sometimes we need to be flexible and pick our battles wisely 😅

you're right , do not try to run without knowing to walk, avocado tree is lovely but fussy.

Maybe more watering will do. But it looks dead thou. As a lover of avocado I feel sad 😢