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Here in northern California my meyer has light crops most of the year, heaviest being around summer and early january?
Here in northern California my meyer has light crops most of the year, heaviest being around summer and early january?This is the very first fruit production of my ‘Oro Negro’ Avocado variety. I would describe it as a heavy production; I decided to get this variety because I have often heard Carlos (the Avocado Expert) favorably mention it. | (Photo Date: 05-16-2019)
Nice looking tree!
Even though I'm growing in a greenhouse before the big freeze my ON was a heavy producer. Fruit isn't up to the quality of SoCal fruits but it's still worth planting. With the freeze die back it now hosts Lamb Hass, Pinkerton, quite a few Sharwil grafts/branches and if all goes well the Jan Boyce will take. Grafted late last year it's now 7' H X 8' W.
Here's a few in March 2017 with some Meyer lemons. Apparently you folks in S. Florida start harvesting early winter. Mine weren't ready until March.
You guys can have some of my chill hours -_-yeah its an interesting case study for sure about seeing how atemoyas perform here and cherimoyas won't... my lowest temp here is about 55 degree F. its actually hilarious as i write this that there are 1000's of posts on this forum with everyone trying to grow stuff wanting the higher temps and here i am wanting the low temps! haha
Is this why i don't hear about many of you california guys growing atemoya?? cause its too cold for atemoya there? sounds like cherimoya is prime in california tho.
Atemoyas grow fine here too. Cherimoya tastes a lot better to me.
My experience with polycarbonate, wood, and tape/sealants is that water will find a way and you will have leaks you cannot avoid. Even manufactured double-pane vacuum-sealed windows leak sometimes.
First I did research on where the cold hardiest oldest trees are found and when they bear fruits. So during the fruiting season, I looked at the forecast if it is windy. If that afternoon to evening is windy, I schedule a very early morning trip to those trees and then pick up their fruits from the ground. Most of these trees are in public parks and if on private properties, some of their branches extends to the roads and so I pick up the fruits, and I ripen them, got to taste them too, and then use their seeds as rootstocks.
Now I have many cold hardy avocados grafted on to those seedling rootstocks and as they bear fruits, I use the seeds to experiment if they make excellent rootstocks. I usually started them by germinating them during the winter on potting media, and left outside. I have produced many cold hardy seedlings this way. I will have plenty to experiment from my first generation fruits.
