The California Avocado Society will be putting on a seminar about pollination of avocados on February 10 in Oxnard, Ventura County. It is from 9 AM to 11 AM and can be attended in person or via Zoom.
Inaki Hormaza is one of the world’s top experts on avocado pollination. Hormaza is based at the Institute of Subtropical and Mediterranean Horticulture in Spain, where the climate has much in common with California. His presentation: “Optimizing pollination of avocados.”
Hamutahl Cohen is a University of California Cooperative Extension advisor based in Ventura, and she will present on “Identifying non-bee pollinators in Ventura and what practices promote them.” In other words, there are many flies and other insects besides bees that pollinate avocado flowers. What are they? And how can we encourage them to proliferate in our yards and on our farms?
Marllon Soares is a researcher at UC Riverside. He will present about his studies on “Artificial pollination.” This is where pollen is gathered from avocado flowers and then applied to other avocado flowers by hand or drone or other device.
Interesting and practical stuff!
See the California Avocado Society’s page here for more information about the seminar.
Also see these posts that I’ve written related to the above topics:
“What are the best avocado pollination conditions?”
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