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- Cut back avocado regularly for bushy growth
- Why is pruning so important?
- Cut back avocado properly
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- Tips & Tricks
Cut back avocado regularly for bushy growth
Avocado trees can be up to 40 meters high, if they are allowed, and are therefore typical representatives of their tropical homeland. For practical reasons, plantation trees - like our local fruit trees - are cut to a maximum of 15 meters. Of course, home-grown avocados should not be so high, otherwise they will blow up any frames for living rooms and greenhouses. We'll show you how to cut back an avocado properly.
Why is pruning so important?
In fact, you do not have to cut back your avocado. However, the spatial space in homes - especially in height - but very limited, also avocado plants tend to shoot high in the air and hardly branching at a young age. Therefore, it is advisable to cut the top of the avocado to make more lateral shoots and make the plant bushier - instead of just growing it to a pencil-thin stem with a few leaves. When you concretely cut your plant, it is entirely up to you and your taste. Cutback is basically possible at any height, just as you would like to grow your plant.
Cut back avocado properly
To cut back your avocado, all you need is a pair of nail scissors or, if you have, a pair of scissors. So you simply snap off the top of the plant with the top leaves. Then spray the remaining leaves of your avocado with room-warm water. It's best to combine pruning the plant with repotting it into a larger pot, usually at the end of winter. Very young plants do not yet have to be cut, this is necessary only from an age of about three months or older. The timing chosen will also depend on how high your avocado is to be.
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You do not need to throw away the cut tip of your avocado - instead, you can grow a new tree from this clone.