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How many people do you know with a temperate greenhouse large enough to accommodate an avocado tree and the patience to wait till it is mature enough to fruit, not to mention the sunshine needed to ripen them to a decent level of tastiness?
just a thought are they expensive because its a very limited market
There's a video (above) of an indian chap who's growing GEM avocados in his gardenin california. It has 40 to 50 avocados on it ! You might need to prune it back after it's fruited and bring it indoors forthe winter.... or... improve the insulation on your green house and figureout an efficient way of keeping it warm-er during the winter months.(I'd welcome any bright ideas on that)
Quote from: playground on September 25, 2016, 22:52:34There's a video (above) of an indian chap who's growing GEM avocados in his gardenin california. It has 40 to 50 avocados on it ! You might need to prune it back after it's fruited and bring it indoors forthe winter.... or... improve the insulation on your green house and figureout an efficient way of keeping it warm-er during the winter months.(I'd welcome any bright ideas on that)The problem is not just warmth, but our light levels at our latitudes, so different from India and California. Providing the right temperature is fairly straightforward, providing the right light levels would require growing lamps in addition to heat. I am not an expert in avocados, but if it was as easy as placing a shorter growing variety near a window during winter, then it would probably have been done already by some savvy gardener.But I would be happy to revise this opinion (and it is just an opinion, based on what happens with other fruit and veg during our winter light levels). Wish you good luck with this project.