Can somebody tell me how soon after you graft and Avocado tree does it fruit? a friend gave me this 5 ft tree, 4ft after the graft don't know how long ago it was grafted I hope some day to be picking and doing guacamole from my tree, but how long untill it fruits...

Ramon

It also depends from which part of the parent tree does the scionwood come from. Big mistake is if you take the grafting material from the young vigorous water sprouts, it will take a long time for the graft to produce fruit. It is going to remember that it is juvenile.

Also if you obtain scionwood from a younger tree, it would be the same time to fruit as a seedling tree.

thanks Joe, the tree was brought to me from central Mexico the state of Michoacan Avocado Capital of Mexico, I will just have to hope that they did the right thing since they have a neverending suply of budwood and hope to see fruit some day

Ramon

Ramon, if they did the right thing, you can have fruits the very next season, provided, there are suitable pollinators nearby. Avocadoes are partially self fruitful if they become a huge tree because the other branches will have some differences when it comes to pollen shedding and stigma being receptive which could make self-pollination possible.

In younger trees, while they flower, they may not pollinate by themselves because the flowers are more synchronized within a small tree and so it could be that when the pollens are shedding, their stigmas are not receptive and vice versa. So you need another type that does the opposite so that when pollens are shedding, some stigmas are receptive. The pollination is time of day dependent and you would need two types to have better pollination. The two common types are Type A and Type B group. You need a Type B for your Hass avocado which is a type A.

Examples of Type B avocadoes:
Avis
Bacon
Balboa
Beebe
Beta
Booth-7
Booth-8
Brodgon
Clifton
Colin V33
Edranol
Ettinger
Frazer
Fuerte
H222
Hall
Hardee
Hashimoto
Hellen
Horshim
HX-73
Iriet
Irving
Jim
JJ12
Kampong
Kona Sharwil
L137
LL1
Loretta
Lyon
Marcus
Marvel
Mc Donald
Miguel
Monroe
NA251
Nabal
Nimlioh
Nirody
Nobel
Northrup
Nowels
Orco
Pollock
Sharwil
Sir Prize
SS23
T142
T2
T205
T387
Teague
TEX756
Tonnage
Tower-2
TX753
Walter Hole
Whitsell
Zutano

Examples of Type A avocadoes:
3-1-1
Anaheim
Ardith
Black Prince
Brookslate
Carlsbad
Creamhart
Choquette
DD17
Dickinson
Don Gillogly
Donnie
Dupuis
Esther
Gem
Gil
Gordo
Green Gold
Gwen
H287A
H287U
H679
H696
Harvest
Hass
Hayes
Hazzard
Holiday
HX-48
J241
Jan Boyce
Julia
L141
L28
Lamb Hass
Little Cado
LL13
Lula
Lypps
Mayo
Mexicola
Mexicola Grande
Meya
MS9
NA37
Nadir
NB86
Nesbitt
NN10
NN63
NO6A
P78
Pinkerton
PT37
Puebla
Reed
Rincon
Ruehle
Russell
Simmonds
Stewart
T181
T32
T362
Taylor
Topatopa
Tx531
Waldin
Werte
Wurtz (little cado)
XX3 (Holiday)

thanks once again Joe, I did know about the type A, B, I have friends that have only one tree and they do get a lot of fruit but they are big tree so that might explain the pollination since I not planting the tree for comercial production I would be happy with the fruit it gives maybe when it gets a little bigger and gets enough branches to experiment i will try and graft a type B in to the same tree, I know they do get to be very big trees is it possible to keep it say 15-20 ft by pruning??? thanks for you're reply Joe

Ramon