Hi guys,
We have a Winter Mexican variety we purchased in a 3gal container back in late December 2018. Haven’t done anything to it really besides potting up. It’s currently residing in a 30-40gal air pruning pot and growing like crazy. The problem is, we’ve let some of the branches get out of control and it has a strange growing habit. As you can see from the pics it’s lopsided. Much stronger growth on one side of the tree. It has two branches down really low and one of them clearly dominated. Also the central leader kinked and turned to one side at some point. This thing grows wild like an octopus. We want it to remain healthy and vigorous, but balance it out a bit. Not sure if we should prune off those low branches, cut them back a bit or just leave it be to do it’s thing..
And should we be tipping when branches reach a certain length or what is common practice with Avocados?
We’re pretty good with managing mangos, but not so much avocado obviously. It was doing so well we didn’t want to interrupt it’s rapid growth and now we sort of have a mess on our hands.
Little guy 12/30/2108
Low branching. One clearly dominated.
Path of dominant lower branch
Clearly lopsided growth
Central leader went haywire. Have to keep it pulled upright with the nursery tie tape.
What do you guys think we should do with this thing?
Thanks in advance!