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It will grow fine, same with grapes.

55gal of water will supply 2 x 1/2 barrel growbeds.



Theres still more room there

I'd be a bit worried growing an Avocado in anything smaller than an IBC,,,blinken big trees,.....,tip-over very likely.

After a dozen failed attemps we finally got the pit of an avacodo to sprout and send rootlets out. We used a fruit far with vitamin B in water to sprout. Once it was 2 inches high and had some leaves we moved it to the grow bed. It has been there for a month now. It is agout 6 inch high and has several leaves. It looks green and healthy. Once it gets about 18 inches high plan to movet to a dirt pot. It will have to stay in the green house as we are at 3500 feet and get down to 5 deg. F on occasion.

spirit,,,be prepared for a long wait,,Avocado grown from seed often take more than 10 years to fruit,.....,.
Also,,,did you grow 2?? One from type A and one from type B,.....,need thetwo types to get good flower fertilisation.

Thanks for the answers, nice to know I can start avocados in AP anyway. We grew grapes at my parents house, they sort of sprouted up on their own and they were very tasty. The birds loved eating them as well.

Glad to know an idea of how much the 55 gall could support. That's a lot of plants!!!

This is going to be fun!

Chaos

Avocado's are on my list as well... but I'm going to cheat and buy a fruting dwarf avocado tree.
I'll let you know how well it works when I get to that stage, it's way down the list. And shortly there after will be a dwarf lime tree.
Because you're absolutely right, 'Homemade guacamole is the best'!

you can dwarf avocado's quite well in pots so AP shouldn't be any different. my only reservation about them would be the amount of water a large tree like that would suck in AP.

Well it would only suck as much as it would in the ground. Under ideal conditions.

less the losses that you would have in the dirt

i know it'll use the same amount - big fruit tree's use a suprising amount though so you won't be able to leave the system unattended for a week. i'm pretty sure it'd suck the system dry with a couple of mature avocado trees

sounds like we need an auto top up in our AP toolkit

++1 I would suggest don't bother growing avocados from seed - unless you want the tree as an ornamental tree ONLY.
If you want to have a productive avocado tree buy a grafted one. I had several avocado trees (grown from seed)
- - absolutely useless (exept for an ornament), that's also a horticulturalists opinion!

sucking a system dry of water is very very subjective to system size timmy, a couple of barrel system yeah, jaymies 10,000 litre system no. I dont really think any AP system should be left alone for a week without at least being checked upon by someone.

Someone might steal all your water, hey C1

Has anyone tried them from seed in an AP system. I know that passion fruit does not like producing the first year but in my Auto pots I got fruit the first year. And the buggers won't stop growing.