Avocado Scion Wood

[Keala Grower]

Hello All,

I have 8 types of Hawaiian avocados trees on my farm here on Kauai and we are looking into selling scion wood. I am aware that many of these avocado types will not grow very well in places like California but I was curious what the market is like in places like Florida where the climate is similar to here. We have had success with grafting scion from our own trees and I'd love to be able to share these with interested growers.

Have any of you had success in selling pieces of scion wood on places like Etsy? We are working on establishing our own website to list our products but I am just trying to get a sense of the market for this product. If anyone has any insight into this market or advice on where to sell I'd love to hear from you.

Thanks.

[spaugh]

You could list them here people will buy.  Can you post a list of varieties?

Etsy is a good place also to offer them.  Why not just go for it?  What do you have to lose? 

[johnb51]

Carlos (CTMIAMI) trialed about a dozen different Hawaiian varieties in Homestead, FL, and to my knowledge there wasn't a single one he recommended for HIS area.  Outside of Homestead might be different.

[Squam256]

We’ve fruited Nishikawa and Malama here. Both are excellent. We have a San Miguel with fruit on it for the first time.

Nishikawa has fruited successfully in other parts of Florida (particularly southwest Florida). I think the Hawaiian cultivars deserve more trial here and there’s probably a market for their budwood.

[buddy roo]

You could list them here people will buy.  Can you post a list of varieties?

Etsy is a good place also to offer them.  Why not just go for it?  What do you have to lose?

Hi Brad I just got a Jamaican cherry from them, what I thought was a 4" pot turned out to be a 1" plug no visible roots around the plug, badly wilted when it arrived dead now there ph# is no good and they do not respond to there on line comments.

[spaugh]

You could list them here people will buy.  Can you post a list of varieties?

Etsy is a good place also to offer them.  Why not just go for it?  What do you have to lose?

Hi Brad I just got a Jamaican cherry from them, what I thought was a 4" pot turned out to be a 1" plug no visible roots around the plug, badly wilted when it arrived dead now there ph# is no good and they do not respond to there on line comments.

That sucks, leave a bad comment on the seller. 

I bought half a dozen or more lychee trees off etsy, they all came in good and are still going.  Its all about what the sellers do.  Sounds like yours was a tissue culture.  Tissue cultures suck bad in my opinion...