Cold Hardy Avocados
 
Avocados
are considered a tropical fruit, grown commercially in California,
Mexico, and extreme south Florida near Homestead. However, varieties
discovered in the mountains of Mexico have considerable cold resistance,
and will survive temperatures into the mid teens to low 20s, especially if grown in a
protected location. At the University of Florida campus, as every
agriculture student remembers, there was a medium sized dark-skinned
avocado (known as 'Gainesville') that ripened every year next to Hume
Library (where we all studied), and was sought after by both the
students in the know and squirrels!
We
grow a number of varieties of cold hardy Avocados, that are adapted to Zones
8-10, from coastal SC to TX! Make sure you plant them on the south face of a building, or
underneath overhead canopy, much like protecting citrus. Placing freeze
cloth over them during hard freezes also helps protect them. Another
helpful technique is to mulch the plant above the graft union, so that
it protects the rootstock and the graft from cold air (soil is warmer
than air).
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