Finding specific rare varieties / avocado question

[Vorguen]

I was hearing it was pretty hard to send a cutting in the mail, but what about a cutting thats already been rooted? if not, how do people go about obtaining the more difficult to find fruit varieties to grow? you cant just get a seed... since we know what happens and I don't know any local growers or where I would have to find a place that would grow some of the stuff like Pitayas, Lychees, etc that I know are rarer trees and can probably make it here..

Any idea? This stuff confuses me still lol

also apparently no avocado seed from grocery store avocados will ever produce fruit from that tree according to a local horticulture specialist I asked O_O, applestar is growing avocados at the moment hopefully she sees this too lol

I guess I'm wondering I'd have to buy one from a nursery or graft it on a rootstock..


or is it possible to find seeds true to parent?


also, I went to an old lady's house who had a mature avocado tree in her backyard, it must have been 788583284290 feet tall lol

[applestar]

apparently no avocado seed from grocery store avocados will ever produce fruit from that tree according to a local horticulture specialist I asked O_O, applestar is growing avocados at the moment hopefully she sees this too lol

Ah, but living in an area where growing avocados for fruit production is tricky at best, my interest in avocado and other fruiting plants grown from seeds is mostly to satisfy, well, curiosity and sense of horticultural adventure. If they ever fruit at all, it would be a bonus, and should by some miracle they turn out to be halfway decent to eat, that's just icing on the cake.

[Vorguen]

are you growing them on the ground? the avocado tree I saw must have been as tall as a mature oak tree O_O

[Vorguen]

also how would I go about growing rare plants? :O

[applestar]

I think you might want to learn to grow plants in general first.

[Kisal]

also how would I go about growing rare plants? :O

Every plant species has its own, individual cultivation requirements. Sometimes, plants that belong to the same genus have the same, or closely similar, needs, but that isn't always the case.

My suggestion is that you research each species of plant you want to grow, and use the scientific/binomial name of the species to do your research, rather than the common name. Oftentimes, plants that are completely different and totally unrelated, and which require different care, are known by the same common name.

[Vorguen]

lol applestar

thats what my wife is for, she's the experienced one... I'm just the obsessed one

she's been growing plants her whole life, I'm just starting

also how would I go about growing rare plants? :O

Every plant species has its own, individual cultivation requirements. Sometimes, plants that belong to the same genus have the same, or closely similar, needs, but that isn't always the case.

My suggestion is that you research each species of plant you want to grow, and use the scientific/binomial name of the species to do your research, rather than the common name. Oftentimes, plants that are completely different and totally unrelated, and which require different care, are known by the same common name.

ah! good idea I'll definitely be trying this