My Edible Fruit Trees: South American Trees WA

Black Sapote

Planted: 2008

Height 1.5 metres

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Organic Status:Organic

Pawpaw - Bisexual and Female (Seedling) ^7/10

Comments: -

These trees have been grown from seeds taken of fruits from the market.  I used long bisexual fruits.  I renew these plants every few years.  They are quick growing and productive but the winter wind in Perth make them bold in winter.  They come back in Spring though and the fruits are nice in Spring and Summer.  I now keep both bisexual and female plants.  The female is gigantic with about 20 side branches!  I thought they were meant to be single stemmed.

Fruiting Months January, February, March, November, December

Planted: 2008

Height 4 metres

Fruit Harvest: 20 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 18 Months From Seed

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting, Winter, Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Avocado - Bacon (B) (Grafted) ^8/10

Planted: 2013

Height 2 metres

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Avocado - Bacon (B) (Grafted)

Planted: 2009

Water Given in: Spring

Avocado - Bacon (B) (Grafted)

Comments: -

Tried but died

Avocado - Bacon (B)

Planted: 2008

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 5 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Hass

Organic Status:Organic

Avocado - Bacon (B)

Avocado - Fuerte (B) (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: - It's a Type B and easy to grow. It flowers a bit too early in our cooler climate so fruit set is not great and a few are cocktail avocados. I planted it for cross pollinating our Type A's - but it tends to flower a bit earlier than all of them. 
It is a very vigorous and spreading tree, be warned. This pic is ours at 4yrs old.
Sand improvement is really important here, for strong healthy growth and good fruiting. I use plenty of Clay Plus, fine coir and a good quality compost (make sure the compost pH is not alkaline before adding it) and lots of mulchy things - even large pieces of our fire wood/logs, half buried under the canopy and drip line, as avocados have shallow feeder roots that need protecting. Their leaf litter stays where it falls and I use a complete fertiliser that has trace elements/minerals added.
It's important that their topsoil remains moist in our summers - so this can mean watering daily in a heatwave. Drainage is not an issue in our deep sands, which is a bonus for avocados, being prone to root rots due to "wet feet" 

Fruiting Months October and November

Planted: 2015

Height 5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 30% in

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Balanced Organic Acid lovers, little and often, alternating with slow release organic chook manure pellets.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Avocado - Hass (A) (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - Had a radical prune as was too tall & had been butchered by the horse. 

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Avocado - Hass (A)

Avocado - Hass (A)

Avocado - Hass (A) ^8/10

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 20 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Bacon

Organic Status:Organic

Avocado - Hass (A)

Avocado - Hass (A)

Avocado - Hass (A) (Grafted) ^3/10

Planted: 2009

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Compost

When I Fertilise: Winter

Organic Status:Organic

Avocado - Hass (A) (Grafted)

Planted: 2008

Height 1.2 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Avocado - Reed (A)

Avocado - Reed (A) (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - I love this tree - the fruit is amazing and even better if you let them hang on the tree for an extra month or two. Buttery, nutty, creamy and huge. A lovely handsome tree - very vigorous and fruits prolifically. Highly recommend and tolerates cool weather no problems here.
We harvest ours from Christmas onwards. Our fruits won First Prize at one of the country Ag shows last season too.
They grow well in our sand that has been improved with the clay plus, fine coir, compost and lots of OM - which makes the rich organic loam that they particularly need to thrive.

Planted: 2014

Height 5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pruned By: 30% in

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Balanced Acid lovers alternating with slow release organic chook maure pellets, Little and often

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Question: I am wondering if Reed is self fertile perhaps? I have seen a large tree, grown in isolation, producing heaps of fruit?

Avocado - Reed (A) (Grafted)

Comments: -

tried but died

Avocado - Reed (A) (Grafted) ^9/10

Fruiting Months January, February, March

Planted: 2012

Height 2 metres

First Fruited: 5 Years from purchase in pot

Avocado - Reed Seedling (Seedling) ^2/10

Comments: -

taste of fruit

Fruiting Months November

Planted: 2005

Height 18 Feet

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 3

Fruit Harvest: 50 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2009 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Organic Status:Organic

Question:

how big does the avocado tree grows in w.a

Black Sapote (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: - Great looking tree that has finally after 20 years begun to give fruit and wow what a great taste, all my friends and family love the taste too

Fruiting Months January, November, December

Planted: 2010

Height 5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 15 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Black Sapote

Black Sapote ^10/10

Comments: -

I worried about my sapote at first and molly coddled it for a while but it is doing quiet well so far, I have it protected with shade cloth in the chook yard, so the chooks are keeping weeds and bugs at bay, the only worry I have is the heat and the wind, (it can get very hot and windy here), it is watered by reticulation daily and mulched well.

Planted: 2008

Height 4 Feet

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: animal manure

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control:

chooks

Organic Status:Organic