Cold Hardy Avocado on Fast Growing Trees Nursery

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*Height Includes Root System

Growing Zones: 4-11 patio / 8-11 outdoors

Mature Height:	15-20 ft.
Mature Width:	5-8 ft.
Growth/Year:	3-4 ft.
Sunlight:	Full - Partial
Soil Conditions:	Adaptable
Drought Tolerance:	Fair
Botanical Name:	Persea americana
Does not ship to:	AZ

These plants are so convenient! They look great on patios, and you just bring them in your home during the winter. You get a lifetime supply of healthy avocados that you can use for guacamole, salads, or just as a snack!

Cold Hardy Avocado Trees are the Perfect Patio Plant, growing indoors or out.

They reportedly withstand temperatures down to 18F. In colder states, you can bring them in for the winter where they will continue to grow and produce fruit. Just place them near a sunny window and they'll become your favorite houseplant.

You get a lot of Avocados to eat and share. A commercial orchard tree can produce 1,200 avocados annually. Even compact patio trees can produce a hefty harvest.

This Cold Hardy variety is the most popular variety because they are heavy producers... easily grown… and produce delicious fruit. Not only do you get a lot of fruit... but the Cold Hardy Avocado variety gives you avocados that are up to 25% larger.

Not only that, but Cold Hardy avocados are black... which are said to be much healthier than typical green ones.

You'll pick from April to October... that means you'll enjoy fresh avocados for half the year.

You'll be amazed at how much flavor tree ripened avocados have. Supermarket avocados are picked when they are hard and green… then cooled until you buy them. They still have weeks or months until ripening.

Last summer I took my eldest son on a mission trip to El Salvador. He ate sliced avocados with almost every meal. He loved them. When we got back to the states he wouldn't touch them.

I asked friends who grew up in Costa Rica if there was a different way I should prepare them for my son. They said that US supermarket avocados have no flavor and they won't buy them. They only eat ones that are tree ripened, because there is such a huge difference in taste.

Avocados are a Nutritional Super-food. It's the only fruit that has monounsaturated fat. This is the good fat that is reported to boost your good cholesterol (HDL) and lower bad cholesterol (LDL). Avocados are high in vitamin C and extremely high in fiber and protein.

If you grow your tree in a container, it will stay about 5-7 feet tall. Small enough to move indoors and big enough to give you a lot of fruit. Trees planted outdoors grow from 20-30 feet tall.

Cold Hardy Avocados are self-pollinating, meaning only one tree is needed to produce fruit. However,you will get heavier production with a second tree as a cross pollinator.

Fast Growing Trees Nursery sends you the highest quality avocado trees, ready to produce abundantly. They will sell out, so go ahead and place your order while they are still available.

Your Cold Hardy Avocado can be planted any time of year!

We try to avoid plants being in transit over the weekend. Packages are typically shipped within 2-3 weeks. You will receive a tracking email from FedEx when your order goes into their system.

Most products are shipped throughout the year unless specified as “Spring” or “Fall” Delivery. On rare occasions, we will delay shipping if we see severe weather forecasts for your area or ours or if we encounter other unusual issues. If you do have a delayed item, we would be happy to send your other items sooner at your request.

If you would like to postpone or reschedule your ship date, just call us and we can send your plants out at a more convenient time for you.

If you are sending plants as a gift or need them quicker than normal, we encourage you to place your order by phone at 888-504-2001.

Sorry cannot ship to AZ.

Amount of Order	Shipping Charge
Less than $15	$5.95
$15.00-$23.99	$8.95
$24.00-$39.99	$11.95
$40.00-$59.99	$13.95
$60.00-$79.99	$18.95
$80.00-$98.99	$21.95
$99+	Apx. 17%

It's Easy to Plant your Cold Hardy Avocado
	Step 1 - Dig Your Hole Select a site with full to partial sun and moist or well drained soil for your Cold Hardy Avocado. If you're planting a hedge, mark out a visual guide by placing stakes five to six feet apart and looping string around them. Plant the trees where the stakes are and they'll grow together to make a dense privacy screen. First, dig each hole so that it is just shallower than the root ball and at least twice the width. Then loosen the soil in the planting hole so the roots can easily break through. Use your shovel or try dragging the points of a pitch fork along the sides and bottom of the hole.
	Step 2 - Place Your Tree Next, separate the roots of your Cold Hardy Avocado gently with your fingers and position them downward in the hole. The top of the root flare, where the roots end and the trunk begins, should be about an inch above the surrounding soil. Then make sure the tree is exactly vertical in the hole. To make it just right, use a level.
	Step 3 - Backfill Your Hole As you backfill the hole, apply water to remove air pockets. Remove debris like stones and grass and completely break up any dirt clumps. Water your Cold Hardy Avocado again after the transplant is complete. To help retain some of that moisture, it's recommended that you place mulch around each tree to a depth of 2"-3" up to but not touching the trunk. Organic mulches such as wood chips or pine needles also help to better soil structure as they decompose.

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Most useful customer reviews (Cold Hardy Avocado Reviews):

By: Michelene Westbrook

I can't wait to harvest my own avacados!

By: Patti

Avocado tree arrived yesterday in NY and it was very well shipped and protected during transit. Took it out of the huge box and it was beautiful, even has an avocado growing on it about the size of a grape. Very green, soil was damp and it was potted, not bare-rooted. I am very impressed with this company and 7 foot tree exceeded my expectations, very green and healthy. I'm going to buy another !

By: Don K.

This customer purchased the item at our site.

This is my first purchase from this site and I have to say, I am very impressed! The tree arrived very well protected in it's heavy duty box. The foliage is just fantastic, very few leaves came off. It was supposed to be a 5-7' tree but when it finally straightened out, it is over 12' tall! I will definitly be returning to this site to buy all my trees!!

By: Elizabeth Smith

2011- I bought my Cold Hardy Avocado Tree this summer, when it arrived it was packaged in a heavy box. I was really impressed when i slid it out of the box. It was at least 7 feet tall. Beautiful tree!! I live in the south and i Potted it and took it in my house when it got down to 45 degrees. Now it is December and it is full of blooms and doing great. Every day it is doing something different. love my Cold Hardy Avocado tree.

By: Lé Harper

They forgot to tell one thing about this tree. It is beautiful. Like Japanese garden beautiful. Love it, Love it, Love it.

By: Bill

I bought the tree in April. I read that the first two years are critical in regards to tolerating the heat, so I built a burlap covering for it to help protect it from the sun. It didn't grow much due to that, but I took the cover off a couple of weeks ago since it is now cooling down, and have since seen growth. I will wrap the base in a heavy wrapping of burlap for any freezes that come along. I live in the Greater New Orleans area and avocado trees are not common here, so I am determined to do what I can to make this succeed. I will let you know how it goes.

By: Keren

I bought ought the Cold Hardy Avocado tree mid-summer, so was not expecting a flowering this year. But this morning I looked and I have flowers (in September). I will definitely have guacamole next year! I live in the DC area, and this cold hardy version is great!

By: William Runyon Jr.

When I received my tree it was covered with a light gray dust. I thought it was odd, but just wiped it off. The dust returned again and again and I would wipe it off again and again. It still seemed healthy and I hadn't considered that I may have received a diseased tree, so I guess I was slow to realize that there was something more serious happening. Gradually the leaves began to wrinkle, turn brown, and develop lesions. I quickly went out and got an anti-fungal spray. After a couple weeks of application things stabilized.

Since then the tree has thrived, producing new, healthy little branches and glossy leaves. I'm excited to see it begin producing in a couple years. For now, it's just a lovely little tree.

By: Tonya Hall

This is one of many trees I have gotten from Fast-Growing-Trees. This is the only place I will buy trees from. The trees are always the size that are promest. The trees and bushes all grow well and their care is easy. Don't let the price of other trees on-line stores lure you in, you will only get sickly twigs from those people.All of the 5 trees and 3 bushes are alive and well in my yard. LOVE THESE TREES.

By: Lydia Jenkins

I have the avocado plant in a pot. I had it in doors for about a month but it didn't look good so I brought it outside. It is doing much better. We have had draught and temperatures in the 100s for most of the summer and the plant is still doing great. I have new growth coming up from the bottom of the plant and it looks very healthy. Every plant or tree purchased from Fast-Growing-Trees this year has made it through this tough summer and look much better than anything else in the yard with the exception of the peach trees I planted.

By: John Salmons

The tree is growing well and is healthy in spite of extended drought and very hot temperatures.

By: Cheryl Graeve

My tree arrived very well packaged. Great care appears to be taken to ensure your plant arrives unharmed. For the most part the tree looked healthy except there was some spots on a number of leaves and some other stuff on the back of some of the leaves. I am unfamiliar with fruit tree diseases so I took pictures of the leaves the very next day and email a copy to Fast Growing Trees for some advice. I figured since the problem was there when the tree arrived that they should offer some assistance. To my dismay, I never even received a response to my email. The tree continues to have the issue but also continues to have new growth. I have treated the tree with a fruit tree spray that is suppose to treat disease and pests. The organic spray used initially didn't work so I went with something else. Hopefully it will work so that whatever it is doesn't kill the tree.

By: Jill Olsen

I wanted 2 small trees for my patio so when I saw I could have fresh avocados and the size tree I wanted.. yahoo! I put them in large pots on my patio and they are covered in new leaves. I kept them watered daily for the first month or so, then cut back to now 3 months later I water them weekly and they are doing great. So excited to see avocados next summer!?!

By: Robert Travale

I had some apprehensions about what the condition of the tree would be after shipping. When it arrived it was fine. I wasn't able to plant it for a couple weeks. After planting it took about a month to see any growth then it took off and is doing well.

By: Maureen

Its healthy looking, to date no flowers, or fruit, until then its2 star.

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