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Martin Brown wrote:
On 22/07/2015 09:55, Fran Farmer wrote:

Similarly, avocado might grow on the south coast or even
in the smokes (er, Middlesex), but the same applies.

Unless the OP plants their 12 inch avo, they will never know if the
plant will grow and fruit or if it will not.

The least bad chance is somewhere more or less frost free on the SW
coast but the summer will never be warm enough to get any fruit even if
the tree just about manages to stay alive (which I doubt).

Assuming the common one, they are functionally dioecious, need
18 Celsius to set, and take over a year for the fruit to mature,
they will go well with roast pork from the first flying pigs of the
season. Even the others take over 6 months for the fruit to mature.

Actually, I think that the tree might well survive in Torbay or
the Isles of Scilly.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.