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rooting avocados by cuttings

 
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my name is Irakli, i'm from Republic of Georgia and i have strange questions ))
one of the propagation methods is rooting avocado cuttings but how does it work? I mean it will grow like a seedling tree (fruiting after 10 years lets say) or like a grafted tree (will fruit after 3-4 years)? what about size ? will it grow like like seedling tree more then 10 m or grafted size 2.5 m

My second question is, can I make scion wood (scions which are usually used for grafting) rooting ?

and the final and most important question is : How many years take to fruit avocado tree if i'll root scion from 2 year old grafted tree (but not yet fruiting) ??


Thank you in advance
 
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I have not tried to do this with avocados. However, with other trees the rooted cutting is biologically the same age as the parent tree. If the parent tree is old enough to bloom, rooted cuttings will bloom as soon as the new tree feels strong enough. The size depends also on the size of the parent tree. If the scion was grafted to a dwarfing rootstock, the scion still has the inherent genetics of a full sized tree.

So if your parent tree is 2 years old and not yet fruiting, my understanding is that you will get a biological two year old tree which is not ready to fruit yet. It will eventually be as large as the parent of the scion, so if the parent tree was 10 meters then the new tree will eventually be 10 meters. Add two years to its age to determine approximately when the new tree will fruit based on the expected fruiting age of the parent variety.
 
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