Post by villanelle on Apr 5, 2020 16:49:52 GMT -5
At 5 am one night when I was still awake, I decided it was a great idea to purchase a 5' avocado tree by mail. It arrived today and I have no idea WTF to do with it. I don't garden, AT ALL.
It is a cold-hardy variety, but my plan is to keep it inside except maybe in summer. It's on our sun porch. Since it has been in the mail for a while, I watered it.
But I really have no clue--how much water and how often, do I need to feed it? It's very tall and scraggly. Can/should I pinch off new growth, or is it too late for that? (Internet-ing suggests one does this with a new plant, but this is tall enough that I doubt it is considered new.)
For now at least, I am just going to consider it a houseplant; fruit may come later (if I keep it outside; it is grafted) but isn't the priority now, and I think it may be a couple years away from that anyway.
Really, tell me anything that might be useful. I don't want to kill my poor, as-yet-unnamed tree.
It is a cold-hardy variety, but my plan is to keep it inside except maybe in summer. It's on our sun porch. Since it has been in the mail for a while, I watered it.
But I really have no clue--how much water and how often, do I need to feed it? It's very tall and scraggly. Can/should I pinch off new growth, or is it too late for that? (Internet-ing suggests one does this with a new plant, but this is tall enough that I doubt it is considered new.)
For now at least, I am just going to consider it a houseplant; fruit may come later (if I keep it outside; it is grafted) but isn't the priority now, and I think it may be a couple years away from that anyway.
Really, tell me anything that might be useful. I don't want to kill my poor, as-yet-unnamed tree.
