by Greg Alder | Jan 7, 2022 | Avocados |
What’s that little pickle hanging on my avocado tree? That’s not a pickle; that’s a cuke: an avocado fruit that developed without a seed inside. It’s growing on a type of avocado tree called Ettinger, and here is what a normal Ettinger avocado...
by Greg Alder | Dec 10, 2021 | Avocados |
See my other avocado variety profiles HERE All of my Yard Posts are HERE ShareClick to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new...
by Greg Alder | Dec 3, 2021 | Avocados, Misc |
The new year’s calendar is designed and being printed! This 2022 avocado calendar includes some changes and additions: Section on how to plant an avocado tree correctlyAll new photosWeeks starting on Sunday (instead of Monday, as last year)Extra information for...
by Greg Alder | Dec 2, 2021 | Avocados |
Here is a video showing characteristics of the Mexicola Grande variety of avocado tree (originally known as ‘3-1-1’): And here is a video showing characteristics of the Mexicola Grande variety of avocado fruit: All of my avocado variety profiles are listed...
by Greg Alder | Nov 5, 2021 | Avocados, Soil |
In 2018, I visited the largest organic avocado farm in California. It’s those hills in the photo above — they’re covered with hundreds of acres of avocado trees. And I felt vindicated when I saw that they care for the soil under their trees in essentially...
by Greg Alder | Oct 29, 2021 | Avocados |
The best thing you can do when planting an avocado tree in poor soil is to plant on a mound. How? Why? We’ll get there, but first: What is poor soil? For avocados, poor soil is soil that is not deep or has slow drainage or has high clay content. Not deep means less...
by Greg Alder | Oct 1, 2021 | Avocados |
Six minutes of video profiling the Nabal avocado tree: Coming soon is a full, written profile of this variety. All of my avocado variety profiles are HERE All of my Yard Posts are HERE ShareClick to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest...
by Greg Alder | Sep 3, 2021 | Avocados |
Breaking up is hard to do, but sometimes you’ve got to give up on an avocado tree. Last week, I gave up on three. I’ll show you which and I’ll tell you why. Little GEM with gopher damage The first was the GEM shown above, which hadn’t even been...
by Greg Alder | Jul 23, 2021 | Avocados |
In the spring you see flowers on your avocado tree that soon become green fruitlets. Wonderful! Your tree is making avocados! Then they start dropping. What did you do wrong? Why is this happening? When will it end? How many are going to fall? Why avocados drop:...
by Greg Alder | Jun 25, 2021 | Avocados |
It’s exciting to see a small avocado tree flower and set fruit. But should you allow it? My rule of thumb is to remove all avocados from a tree until it’s nearly as tall as me. What this means is that if you’ve recently planted an avocado tree from a...
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