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Quote from: FV Fruit Freak on December 15, 2020, 05:51:49 PMWhat causes avocados to be “watery”? I have a 5 or 6 year old Haas and last season half the avocados were delicious and the other half were watery.Now that's interesting. I thought only Florida avocados were watery, or immature avocados.
What causes avocados to be “watery”? I have a 5 or 6 year old Haas and last season half the avocados were delicious and the other half were watery.
Hello, I am new to the forum. I planted a Holiday avocado four years ago and I noticed fruit on the tree for the first time two months ago. The tree was pretty much left alone with drip irrigation and ignored for the last few years. I don’t know when the first fruit set on the tree. I have about 5 avocados total on the tree and I would hate to pick any if it’s not ready. Based on what I read, if it’s this year’s fruit then it’s not ready and I should wait but I truly do not know if these are from last year. Can you look at the pictures and tell me if it’s ready to harvest? Thanks!
Any guess as to why some leaves on one of my avocado trees looks so odd? The one on the left.
Quote from: blackmountain on December 22, 2020, 10:35:19 PMAny guess as to why some leaves on one of my avocado trees looks so odd? The one on the left. 10 days and no ideas??
Looks like my Zutano is starting to get flower buds here in Northern California. Given I's only 4' tall and doesn't need to pollinate anything, should I break the flowers off and (supposedly) let the energy go toward growth instead of fruit production?Thanks!
My 'Mexicola Grande' (grafted) started initiating its buds last week. Hope that it will finally give me some fruit this season.It has been in the ground since March '17 and flowered in '18 but gave me no fruit. In '19 it bloomed profusely but set only one fruit which fell off and spoiled on the ground before we had noticed it. Then it skipped flowering in '20 completely!
Do you do any kind of hand pollinating? Does it form fruitlets (like the one below) and then drop them, or did the flowers just drop without any pollination? It could be a pollination issue if you only have one tree. Often bees don't like avocados as much as other stuff and depending on climate there may not be a lot of male/female phase overlap.
Plenty of bees were working my avocado, so that prolly wasn't the reason for no fruit. The flowerss just eventually dropped and no fruitlets ever formed. "Mexicola Grande' is purported to be self fertile which is one of the reasons that I chose it, another being that it is very cold hardy.This plant may just've been too young, immature or not yet fully-enough established to set and hold any fruit.Paul M.==
Under cooler conditions, the flowering story becomes more complicated. Extensive investigations into the effect of temperature on flowering of avocados have been carried out (Ish-Am and Eisikowitch 1991, Sedgley and Annells 1981, Sedgley and Grant 1933, Sedgley and Alexander 1983). Cold temperatures alter the flowering cycle by delaying the normal opening and closing routine of the avocado flower, extending the overall period of flowering, delaying the release of pollen, slowing pollen tube growth and reducing the number of flowers open on a given day.The delaying effect to type B varieties is so pronounced at low temperatures that the functionally female stage was often not recorded. This has a dual effect:If there are few functionally female flowers then the cropping potential of the type B varieties will be severely affected.Delaying of flower opening has been recorded to result in the peak pollen release period occurring during the night (Sedgley and Annells 1981).