All about avocado pollination

All about avocado pollination

My avocado trees are in bloom. I can’t help but meander the yard at every chance to see which trees have male or female flowers, to identify insects that are visiting the flowers, to check for fruitlets forming, and so on. It’s a show with new episodes arriving daily....
Can you mulch avocado trees too much?

Can you mulch avocado trees too much?

Can you mulch avocado trees too much? I’m sure you can, but I’ve never seen such a thing. And I’ve seen trees surrounded by deeeeeeep wood chips, like these on John Schoustra’s farm in Somis, Ventura County: The evidence of the beautiful leaves...
Carmen avocado tree: a profile

Carmen avocado tree: a profile

Last October, I had the chance to visit the oldest Carmen avocado tree in the USA, and I thought I would come away with a better understanding of the variety. The tree had a metal USDA tag still attached to it, from when it was held in quarantine after the budwood had...
Transplanting fruit trees in Southern California

Transplanting fruit trees in Southern California

Yes, you can move a fruit tree that you planted in the wrong spot last year. (I’ve done it.) Yes, you can move a fruit tree that you planted in your current yard to the yard at your new house. (I’ve done it.) I feel like I can give you tips on doing this successfully...
Cocktail grapefruit tree: a profile

Cocktail grapefruit tree: a profile

My neighbor had a citrus tree that she called a grapefruit, but it made curious fruit: it was the size and shape of a grapefruit but the rind was golden yellow, unlike any grapefruit I’d seen, and the flavor was so sweet that it tasted artificial. How could this be a...
Avocados have brown skin? Here’s why

Avocados have brown skin? Here’s why

The spring of 2023 in California was abnormally cool, making avocado thrips abnormally populous. Thrips are tiny insects that chew on avocado fruit as the fruit is small, and this chewing becomes brown scarring. The thrips damage can result in large patches that some...
How Brad grew his avocado grove

How Brad grew his avocado grove

You and I, we go to the nursery and buy our avocado trees. Not Brad. He is so well-rounded in avocado growing skills and knowledge that he has developed a new grove of hundreds of avocado trees from scratch. Starting from seed Brad planted over 200 avocado seeds,...

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