That tree is totally stressed out...probably from lack of water. It will take weeks to slowly recover. Don't waterlog the pot....but keep the soil moist. Provide moderate sunlight. Those leaves will probably all shed.

The thing is I've been adequately watering it for a while. I am hoping that the ground was just too hard to absorb the water and that now the roots will receive more. Thanks for your post.

Hard to tell the difference on an avo if too much or too little water.

They look the same. Make sure your pot has excellent drainage. Add perlite.

chopping the soil more than likely stressed the roots. It may take 60 days to recover from the shock.

Appreciate the comments. The tree has looked like this basically from the beginning, through my initial extreme under watering phase through to gradually watering it 2-3 times per week for the past few months. Chopping up the soil was just done recently and still no significant change in appearance for better or worse. Anyway still growing fine and we'll just keep on keeping on.

I have a tree about the same size but with more branches. a lot of my leaves are dropping off while they are freshly green. I am in Canada and my plant is in my sunroom. I was told not to water it too much in the winter months