Grafted Avocado Tree Live Plant – Super Hass, Persea americana, 3 Gallon Pot

Overview

Experience the joy of harvesting your own gourmet avocados with the grafted avocado tree live plant. This exceptional tree, a premium Persea americana live plant, is often referred to as ‘Super Hass’ due to its superior taste and texture. Our vigorous young trees arrive carefully nurtured in a 3 Gallon Pot, ready to establish themselves in your garden or a larger container. This avocado variety is celebrated for its rich, creamy flesh and exceptional, buttery flavor, making it a favorite among avocado connoisseurs. This variety offers significant improvement over classic types, promising abundant yields of medium-to-large fruits with distinctive pebbly, dark-green skin that ripens to a deep black. Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or new to growing avocado at home, this tree provides a rewarding and delicious experience. The grafted nature ensures you receive a plant with desirable characteristics, including earlier fruiting and disease resistance, compared to seed-grown trees. This particular variety offers a consistently high-quality harvest, perfect for fresh consumption, salads, toast, or crafting the perfect guacamole. Discover the pleasure of nurturing your own fruit-bearing tree and enjoying its succulent bounty.

Key Benefits

The grafted avocado tree live plant offers a multitude of benefits for the home gardener, combining aesthetic appeal with bountiful harvests. Its vigorous growth and delicious fruit make it a standout choice for any edible landscape, ensuring a rewarding experience for anyone interested in growing avocado at home.

• Exceptional Flavor and Texture: Enjoy avocados with a rich, creamy, and buttery taste that surpasses many common varieties. The flesh is smooth, dense, and deliciously nutty, perfect for a wide range of culinary uses. This premium Persea americana live plant delivers a gourmet experience directly from your garden.
• High Productivity: This Super Hass variety is known for its abundant yields of medium-to-large fruits, ensuring a generous harvest for your family and friends. You’ll be amazed at the quantity and quality of avocados this tree produces.
• Grafted Quality: Our grafted avocado tree live plant ensures quicker fruiting, disease resistance, and true-to-type fruit characteristics, offering a more reliable and successful growing experience. This means you’ll enjoy fresh avocados sooner and with greater confidence.
• Vigorous and Compact Growth: This tree exhibits vigorous growth while maintaining a compact habit, making it ideal for both in-ground planting and cultivation in large containers, even for those with limited space. This makes growing avocado at home accessible to more gardeners.
• Long Storage Life: The fruits boast an excellent storage life, allowing you to enjoy your harvest over an extended period. This feature adds to the convenience and value of your harvest.
• Culinary Versatility: The superior quality of this avocado makes it perfect for everything from simple avocado toast and vibrant salads to gourmet guacamole and other sophisticated dishes. It’s a true chef’s delight.
• Subtropical Adaptation: Thrives in warm, subtropical climates, making it an excellent choice for southern regions of the US, ensuring optimal growth and fruit production for your Persea americana live plant.

Plant Care & Growing Tips

Caring for your grafted avocado tree live plant involves providing the right conditions to ensure healthy growth and abundant fruiting. This tree prefers warm, subtropical environments and specific care to flourish. For optimal growth, plant your tree in a location that receives full sun, meaning at least 6-8 hours of direct sunlight per day. If growing indoors or in a greenhouse, ensure it receives ample bright light. Protection from strong winds is also beneficial, especially for young trees. When it comes to soil, well-draining, slightly acidic to neutral soil (pH 6.0-7.0) is ideal. Amend heavy clay soils with organic matter like compost or perlite to improve drainage. Avoid waterlogged conditions, as avocados are highly susceptible to root rot. Proper avocado tree care is essential for success.

Watering is crucial, particularly during dry spells and for newly planted trees. Water deeply and regularly, allowing the top few inches of soil to dry out slightly between waterings. Reduce watering frequency in cooler months or during periods of dormancy. Fertilize your avocado tree live plant with a balanced, slow-release fertilizer specifically formulated for citrus or avocado trees, following the product’s instructions. Young trees benefit from more frequent, lighter applications. Pruning should focus on shaping the tree, removing dead or diseased branches, and encouraging a strong scaffold. Protect young trees from frost by covering them or bringing container-grown plants indoors if temperatures are expected to drop below freezing. Understanding proper avocado tree care will lead to a healthy, productive tree when growing avocado at home.

Size & Details

This offering is for one grafted avocado tree live plant, a premium Persea americana live plant, specifically a grafted variety. Your tree will arrive established in a sturdy 3 Gallon Pot, ensuring a well-developed root system ready for planting. The exact height will vary depending on the growing season and nursery stock, but typically ranges from 2-4 feet tall at the time of shipment, representing a mature young tree. This variety is known for its vigorous yet moderately compact growth habit, making it suitable for both in-ground cultivation in larger landscapes and successful container gardening on patios or in greenhouses. When mature, in ideal conditions, a grafted avocado tree can reach heights of 15-20 feet, though regular pruning can maintain a smaller, more manageable size. Expect fruit production to begin within 2-4 years from planting, as this is a grafted specimen designed for earlier yields. This tree is an excellent choice for those interested in growing avocado at home, especially with the superior characteristics of a Super Hass avocado plant, and enjoying fresh, high-quality fruit.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Q: How big does this avocado tree live plant get? A: In ideal conditions, this grafted avocado tree can reach 15-20 feet tall. However, its vigorous yet compact growth habit makes it suitable for container growing and can be maintained at a smaller size with regular pruning, which is a key part of good avocado tree care.
• Q: What size pot does it come in? A: The Persea americana live plant is shipped in a sturdy 3 Gallon Pot, providing a good start for its root development and allowing for immediate planting or repotting into a larger container.
• Q: Is this an indoor or outdoor plant? A: This grafted avocado tree live plant thrives outdoors in warm, subtropical climates (USDA Zones 9-11). In colder regions, it can be grown in a large container and brought indoors during winter or cultivated in a greenhouse.
• Q: How much sunlight does it need? A: This tree requires full sun, meaning at least 6-8 hours of direct sunlight per day, to produce the best fruit yields. Ensure it’s in a bright location if grown indoors to support successful growing avocado at home.
• Q: Is this plant easy to care for? A: While avocados require specific conditions like well-draining soil and consistent watering, the grafted nature of this Super Hass avocado plant makes it more reliable and easier to establish than seed-grown varieties. With proper avocado tree care, it’s a rewarding plant for home growers.
• Q: What condition will it arrive in? A: Your grafted avocado tree live plant will arrive as a healthy, live plant in its 3 Gallon Pot, carefully packaged to ensure its safety during transit. We recommend unpacking and watering it upon arrival to begin its new life in your garden.
• Q: How long until it produces fruit? A: As a grafted tree, this avocado can begin producing fruit within 2-4 years of planting, significantly faster than trees grown from seed, offering quicker rewards for your efforts in growing avocado at home.
• Q: What’s the best way to ensure fruit production when growing avocado at home? A: Provide consistent full sun, well-draining soil, regular watering, and appropriate fertilization. Protecting it from extreme cold and strong winds will also help encourage fruiting for your Persea americana live plant.
• Q: Can I grow this avocado in a large pot on my patio? A: Yes, the compact growth habit of this variety makes it an excellent candidate for container growing on a patio, provided the pot is large enough (e.g., 20-30 gallons) and moved indoors during cold weather.
• Q: What is a Super Hass avocado? A: A Super Hass avocado plant is another common name for this avocado variety, indicating its superior qualities and resemblance to the popular Hass variety, but with enhanced characteristics like flavor and productivity.