Avocado Cuttings

[connda]

Is there anywhere in Chiang Mai or Northern Thailand area where I can get a couple of avocado cuttings.

I'm not trying to start a farm or anything like that. I'd just like to grow 1 or 2 trees that have a better than average chance of producing fruit.

Thanks!

[CMMCB]

We grew one from the stone. Seem to remember you stick a few pins in it round the middle and use those to suspend it half in half out of water until the stone cracks, roots grow down into the water and the seedling grows up. Not sure when's the best point to transfer to soil. Chok dee.

[DeaconJohn]

Try Kamthieng Market behind Tesco Lotus on the superhighway.

They have an excellent selection of fruit trees in all sizes.

My wife planted two avocado seedlings about five months ago and they are doing very well, but not growing as fast as several mangos that she planted at the same time.

[connda]

We grew one from the stone. Seem to remember you stick a few pins in it round the middle and use those to suspend it half in half out of water until the stone cracks, roots grow down into the water and the seedling grows up. Not sure when's the best point to transfer to soil. Chok dee.

Thanks. However, I've read that those started from stones almost never produce fruit. Just using logic here, but I'm thinking it might have to do with pollination. With no other trees around, your tree's flowers will never be pollinated, so no fruit. But if you graft another trees branch onto the one you grew from a stone, you have different genetics on the same tree, and pollination can occur. Just guessing here. I'm definitely not a farmer Lol.

[connda]

Try Kamthieng Market behind Tesco Lotus on the superhighway.

They have an excellent selection of fruit trees in all sizes.

My wife planted two avocado seedlings about five months ago and they are doing very well, but not growing as fast as several mangos that she planted at the same time.

Thanks. I talked with the wife and we're headed to Chiang Mai this weekend. I'll check out the market to see if I can score a couple of seedlings. Quicker than starting from a stone and hopefully they have the types that are grown in this part of Thailand.

But, I still think obtaining some cuttings is beneficial, at least from what I've read on the Farming Forum. So it would still be nice to know of a place where I can obtain a couple of cuttings to graft on the trees after they have taken root and had a season to grow.

[xen]

If you want a good avocardo tree that bears fruit in the minimum of time then buy a grafted tree . if you buy two , each a different variety, you can extended the time that the avocardos are available to you and you will be assured of getting the quality of avocardo you like. There are some very poor avocardos on the market and most of them will be from seedlings , (altho i have also seen some good fruit come from seedlings too ), so spend a little more money and get a grafted tree.

I understand some of the agricultural research stations may be a good source to try .

[SundayAfternoon]

Please let us know if you find any. I'd be interested in growing one too (though it takes about 5 years to get fruit I've been told! Can I wait that long! And will I still be in this house in 5 years?) I wince everytime I look at the price of avacadoes in Rimping, and cry when I get one home with bruised thumb marks all over it!

[Iamemjay]

I have a number of varieties here, both the Thai ones and ones I brought from Australia. You are welcome to come and take as many cuttings as you like. I live at Fang - send me a private message if you want to come and we'll work out details.

I must say that I have made numerous attempts to graft the Aussie (Hass, Fuerte, Pinkerton, Williams) varieties onto Thai rootstock and have never succeeded. Maybe the explanation is that the Thai ones are the Mexican derived stream but the Aussie/US ones are the Guatamalan/West Indies derived steam (although I do see evidence of hybridisation of Thai varieties with Hass).

With seedlings (ie grown from the seed) there is generally a 7 to 10 year wait for fruit and only a 50% chance of fruiting, but most trees in Thailand are grown this way. (However I must add that my Fuerte seedling fruited after only 3 years.)

Grafted trees generally fruit after 5 years with a 70 to 80% chance but they are often difficult to buy and are comparatively expensive.

[luther]

Please let us know if you find any. I'd be interested in growing one too (though it takes about 5 years to get fruit I've been told! Can I wait that long! And will I still be in this house in 5 years?) I wince everytime I look at the price of avacadoes in Rimping, and cry when I get one home with bruised thumb marks all over it!

Follow the street the runs from the stupa in front of the American embassy. Head away from the river obviously. Not far along there is a vegetable and fruti market inside a cavernous garage area. During avocado season, you can buy a bag of avocado (small ones) for 60 baht and sometimes even less, enough to make quacamole for 12 people.

[SundayAfternoon]

Thanks for the tip @luther. Much appreciated!

[xen]

Please let us know if you find any. I'd be interested in growing one too (though it takes about 5 years to get fruit I've been told! Can I wait that long! And will I still be in this house in 5 years?) I wince everytime I look at the price of avacadoes in Rimping, and cry when I get one home with bruised thumb marks all over it!

sorry if the anology offends but i fail to understand why people cannot feel the firmness of a avocardo like they would feel the firmness of a woman's breasts. A nice gentle touch instead of bruising roughness. The way i see people in the markets testing an avocardo it is little wonder they get nothing in bed unless the pay over inflated prices for it and this equally applies to women too,

Slightly off topic, but i too hate spending good money on damaged avocardos,

[WinnieTheKhwai]

^ I have the same with women's breasts.

[connda]

Please let us know if you find any. I'd be interested in growing one too (though it takes about 5 years to get fruit I've been told! Can I wait that long! And will I still be in this house in 5 years?) I wince everytime I look at the price of avacadoes in Rimping, and cry when I get one home with bruised thumb marks all over it!

Follow the street the runs from the stupa in front of the American embassy. Head away from the river obviously. Not far along there is a vegetable and fruti market inside a cavernous garage area. During avocado season, you can buy a bag of avocado (small ones) for 60 baht and sometimes even less, enough to make quacamole for 12 people.

I'm going to venture a silly question Lol, but when is avocado season?

[xen]

Please let us know if you find any. I'd be interested in growing one too (though it takes about 5 years to get fruit I've been told! Can I wait that long! And will I still be in this house in 5 years?) I wince everytime I look at the price of avacadoes in Rimping, and cry when I get one home with bruised thumb marks all over it!

Follow the street the runs from the stupa in front of the American embassy. Head away from the river obviously. Not far along there is a vegetable and fruti market inside a cavernous garage area. During avocado season, you can buy a bag of avocado (small ones) for 60 baht and sometimes even less, enough to make quacamole for 12 people.

I'm going to venture a silly question Lol, but when is avocado season?

Depends on the variety but if you buy a couple different varieties of grafted avocado you can harvest avos for a few months.

[STUDMEYER]

I purchased 5 ripe good condition avocados at the Sunday market this evening for 30 baht. The price was 50 baht per kilo. I could not believe my eyes. The previous best price I saw was actually at Rimping for 25 baht each but it took 1-2 weeks for the avocados to ripen on my counter top.

Rgs

SM

[elektrified]

Please let us know if you find any. I'd be interested in growing one too (though it takes about 5 years to get fruit I've been told! Can I wait that long! And will I still be in this house in 5 years?) I wince everytime I look at the price of avacadoes in Rimping, and cry when I get one home with bruised thumb marks all over it!

Follow the street the runs from the stupa in front of the American embassy. Head away from the river obviously. Not far along there is a vegetable and fruti market inside a cavernous garage area. During avocado season, you can buy a bag of avocado (small ones) for 60 baht and sometimes even less, enough to make quacamole for 12 people.

For a while a farang was supplying the lady who is the main avocado seller there. One type he supplied was out of this world! We would go one time each year when she took delivery of 100 kg and buy about 5 kg of those avocados. She would sell out in 3-4 days. Then one day the farang stopped supplying her and that was the end of it. The lady seller showed me the invoice one time as it was written in English and asked me if I could tell her the name of the type of avocado as she had many customers who wanted only those avocados. But the guy had such poor handwriting that I could not read his writing.

Rimping has some good ones but at crazy prices like 59 Baht each (compared to 40-50 Baht/kilo from the market).

[akampa]

oh I wish they were 59 baht saw some today at Rimping 1 small avo 90baht they also had the Thai grown at 29baht each.