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Layering Avocado. After having managed to layer gevuina avellana and chaenomeles japonica i am now trying to do this with the avocado. I found a small low growing branch on my young avocado tree. I clipped off all the leaves and cut a slit into the tiny stem. I wedged a piece of matchstick into the wound so it stays open. I am trying it without rooting hormon this time. The avocado is a fantastic seedling with a strong anis smell of the crushed leaves indicating mexican genetics. I am using a mixture i am trying out lately that i found on an internet video and that seems to work very well. One third washed sand, one third perlites and one third peat moss. The difficulty will be to keep the soil moist enough for a whole year and since the avocado is growing in my polytunnel i will need to regularly check on it to avoid it drying out. Small side shoot growing at the base of the stem Sideshoot with a piece of matchstick placed in the cut, put through the bottom of a plastic pot. Pot fille...

 Avocado. I am very happy to have managed to get seeds from a very cold-hardy mexican avocado variety. Described by some people as the most cold-hardy avocado Del Rio was originally found growing in the town of Del Rio in Texas and the original tree has survived a temperature of -14 Celsius (7 F) without dying back all the way to the ground. This is amazing, but make no mistake. Cold temperatures in dry texas climates undoubtedly allow for such records. As soon as you are growing in humid climates temperatures way less cold are more lethal, i think. I will try growing these and to protect them in their first years. My hope is that if they reach 2 meters and more in height they will no longer completely die back in winter even unprotected.