Title: Size and Height of Full-Grown Avocado Trees
Meta description: Avocado trees grow large, but you can grow smaller ones by pruning or planting a dwarf variety. Click here for details on avocado tree size and height.
Most types of avocado tree naturally grow to a large size and height. Because of their large size, avocado trees need plenty of room around them to thrive and produce fruit. However, there are two ways of growing smaller avocado trees.
--The Natural Size of Avocado Trees
How big a [link u=full-grown-avocado-tree]fully grown avocado tree[/link] becomes depends on several factors. These include:
• The variety of avocado: Some varieties grow bigger than others.
• The type of rootstock: One variety …show more content…
Pruning is done in winter or early spring by selectively removing or cutting back branches.
However, the amount of fruit an avocado tree produces is directly affected by how many leaves it has, so pruning must be done carefully, regularly, and at the right time of year in order to keep the tree growing vigorously while also keeping it to a smaller size.
Pruning trees to keep them smaller also makes fruit harvesting easier.
--Planting a Dwarf Avocado Variety
There are [link u=types-of-avocados]many varieties[/link] of avocado, but only one is a true dwarf variety: the Wurtz, or Little Cado type.
Little Cado is a hybrid of Mexican and Guatemalan varieties of avocado and naturally only grows to about to about 10 feet (3.1 m) in height. While it is small in size, Little Cado avocado variety produces abundant amounts of fruit when grown in optimum conditions, and grafted trees can produce fruit in only a few years.
Little Cado can be grown outdoors in the ground, and it is also a variety suitable for [link u=indoor-avocado-tree]growing in containers[/link] in a sunny location in the house or in a greenhouse.