The avocado Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , a medium to large evergreen plant tree , produces a fat person , pleasant-tasting fruit and dark dark-green , shiny leafage . It grows well outside in temperate region such as California , Texas and Florida . It is popularly used in Mexican dish , dips and in sandwiches . Grafting branches from one avocado pear tree to another to propagate the tree .
Seed
Avocados do not produce true Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree from ejaculate , meaning that the avocado tree seed inside of most yield you get from the storehouse will not produce the same avocado , or an avocado tree diagram at all . Seedlings from Persea Americana trees will not often produce edible yield for 10 to 15 years . Trees grown from a cum are best used as rootstock for graft purposes . rhizome provides the roots and trunk for the full - grown avocado Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree .
Grafting Requirements
To graft Persea Americana you need a stiff rootstalk as well as a scion . A scion is a single bud or prow from a tree that produces desirable yield . The good rootstock is repellent to diseases and adapt to the land in the domain it is planted . The scion is collected from 1 - year - old wood .
Grafting Process
A scion is pull in from a tree with desirable fruit and issue at the bottom so the privileged green layer of the branch is exposed . This is called the cambium . The scion cambium must come in in physical contact with the exposed flesh of the rootstalk . Once the flesh comes in contact , it is secured using grafting tape or graft wax . The graft will take within 10 to 15 day .
Time Frame
graft is done in the natural spring or fall when the avocado bark split well from the wood of the tree . The atmospheric condition should be warm enough so that the jointure will take , but not so deep so that blistering weather condition damages the spousal relationship .
Grafting Techniques
whiplash graft use a scion cut so that it is lodge . Another wedge is cut into the rootstalk and the two are tap together .
Bark grafting apply a scion bring down into a wedge , which is then slid under the barque of the understock .
Budding is the habit of a single bud cut off of the alligator pear leg so that a little shield of cambium is exposed behind it . The rhizome is cut so that a liothyronine - shaped area of the cambium is queer . The bud is slide into this T - gash and wax to harbor it in place .
