I live in a location that gets down to about 25 regularly each winter. Last winter we got to 17. That pretty much killed most of my young avocado trees. I have started over and now have a dozen in the ground. Many of these are very hardy. The good thing the freeze did is that it allowed me to drive around this area and find avocado trees that were only slightly damaged my last winter's cold. So I have a few varieties that should end up very cold hardy if I can just get a couple of less extreme winters to let them grow and get past their infancy which is when they have a lot less hardiness. Just let me know next year and I would be happy to send you some wood. Kern in Newman, Ca.

My Little Cado (Dwarf Haas) planted in the ground is still living. It is completely under 50% shade cloth. I planted it against a rock wall with hay bales on the other sides to protect the lower trunk from the heat and wind. It is alive and putting on new growth but it's growth rate is something less than spectacular. Still a thin and spindly looking little tree. I had a volunteer fig tree come up a foot or so from it. I'm going to let that little fig tree remain, as I fully expect the avacado tree to die this year. If anybody reading this has had success with an in ground or potted avacado tree here in Arizona (or south eastern California), I'd sure like to hear about it. Dave

Sorry, I want Jim Bacon not Bacon avocado Cuttings. Terry

@berryphile I might start blogging next years as my trees start to mature. I'm sill not getting the production from them I'm looking for. The heat here this year has been brutal and my mexicola has dropped 3/4 of its fruit. I have had it hold 40 fruit a couple years ago and this year started out with it loaded like I have never seen before, so its been disappointing. My mandarin trees didn't hold their fruit this year either and they are always productive trees. The only thing I can think of is the weather and early blooming that threw my trees off this year.