When can you graft an avocado tree?

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Grafting an avocado tree involves two stages: taking the scion wood, the branch from the parent tree used to graft onto another tree for propagation, and then grafting onto the rootstock.

The scion wood should be cut in late winter or early spring when your tree is dormant. Your tree should not be in active growth - before budburst in the Spring. This is absolutely crucial to the success of any grafting you do from these scions.

Our community expert @Noelle says avocados are best grafted in spring to early summer when the sap is flowing well, the scion wood is flexible and the graft or bud will "take" fairly quickly. Don't graft or bud in autumn or winter when rootstock and scion are both more mature wood. At colder times of the year, a graft will sit there and could, in fact, rot before it has a chance to take.

Here is a handy guide on the care and cultivation of Avocado trees: How to grow and care for an avocado tree. - EricL