“Super” avocado trees

“Super” avocado trees

A “super” avocado tree is one that make lots of fruit, more fruit year-after-year than other trees of the same variety in a particular grove. The most important question is why a tree is super. And secondly, can you make a copies of it? (I want one in my...
Avocado tree clones itself

Avocado tree clones itself

Unlike many other fruit trees, avocados are hard to root. Rooting is where you cut a branch off a tree and stick it partly in the ground or a container so that the cut branch will form roots where it is buried. It’s a way of copying, or cloning, a tree. Try this...
Mistakes staking and tying avocado trees

Mistakes staking and tying avocado trees

Strong Santa Ana winds blew through my yard yesterday, which revealed whether my young avocado trees had proper support. I shot video for you: A few related posts: “How to plant and stake avocado trees” “Training young avocado trees” Thanks for...
Fires, Farms, and being Neighbors

Fires, Farms, and being Neighbors

Do you remember my interview with John Schoustra? He is – I thought about this for a while to make sure I wasn’t forgetting anyone or exaggerating – the most innovative, open-minded, and experimental avocado farmer I know. (Please refresh your memory by checking this...
Reed avocado high-density grove

Reed avocado high-density grove

In 2018, I first visited this grove of Reed avocados. The trees had been planted ten feet apart. In avocado-world parlance, they call that “high density” planting. Traditional tree spacing is more like twenty feet apart. But then the farmer further added a...

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