Right on the coast this is less important, but inland you’ll find it beneficial to thin the crop on certain branches of avocado trees. By inland, I mean roughly five miles or farther from the water, and by thin, I mean remove some of the avocados.
Rather than describe which branches should be thinned and how to thin, I thought I’d show you as worked on my Lamb tree:
What if you don’t thin such branches? You’ll get sunburn of the fruit and branch, like this:
But if you thin, then all the fruit on the tree will size up better and be at full quality, and the limb will continue growing and producing at full capacity into the future.
It takes some time to thin, but I believe that — regardless of whether you grow one avocado tree or one thousand acres of trees — the results are worth the time.
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I got about 1/4 inch in Simi Valley. Sure wish I had planted some seeds like you did!