The Tropical Fruit Forum

One other thing to condsider is when planting young avocado trees is its important to start with good trees that wont need staking or will need minimal staking.  Thats a big advantage to growing your own trees from seed.  You can direct sow them or plant in pots and transplant.  But your trees if left out in the elements will never need to be staked.  Or only minimal corrective staking.  If you buy 100 trees from trade wind, you will have to stake every one of them and probably need multiple stakes to get them to stand up properly.  Their trees are really weak and lanky and will require a lot of labor to correct.  Trust me on this that is much nicer to start with strong trees that dont require a lot of corrective staking and pruning.  When you have to do 100 trees, it will be a ton of labor spent on correcting trees that were bad from the start.  If you want to see some pics of trade wind trees I can take some tomorrow.  If you are patient, getting seeds or seedlings and grafting will save you a lot of money and your trees will start out on the right foot also.  Just something to consider.  These are things you figure out the hard way after planting lots of trees from various nurseries and growing and grafting your own.  Ive got about 70 avocado trees and wish I had known a lot of these things before I started.

Ive bought trade wind trees and they are ok, they are lanky twigs but of course they will grow fine once they get going. 

You can get much nicer trees at clausons in san diego for 18$ each.  I dont know if they will have 100 trees to sell, maybe hass trees.  You can call them, but those are 5 gal trees in grow bags in DG.  Much bigger rootstock and tree than the mail order trees.  They are heavy like a brick though. 

Theres also Atkins nursery in san diego county that quoted me 3$ each for zutano rootstocks in small grow bags also.  You could call them as well but neither of those places are going to send you trees.  You could drive them back I guess but it might not be worth it.

I will have a lot of bacon seeds if you are interested.  They will be ready in december and make great rootstocks.  The trees are super vigorous.

Whatever you decide, good luck with it and keep us updated.

Zutano seems to be a fine rootstock.  You might be able to order 100 zutano seeds in bags from brokaw for cheap.  I would go with those.  Clonal rootstock can be more salt tolerant(doesnt matter for you) or more root rot resistant. 

I would try and contact brokaw and tell them what you are doing and what your soil and rainfall is like and see what they say.

You should plant seeds and graft your own trees.  Otherwise you probably need to contact brokaw nursery for a large order.  Thats who 4 winds buys from.