{"id":24185,"date":"2025-09-19T15:26:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/?p=24185"},"modified":"2025-09-19T15:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:26:22","slug":"removing-avocados-to-prevent-sunburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/removing-avocados-to-prevent-sunburn\/","title":{"rendered":"Removing avocados to prevent sunburn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Right on the coast this is less important, but inland you&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather than describe which branches should be thinned and how to thin, I thought I&#8217;d show you as worked on my Lamb tree:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Removing avocados to prevent sunburn\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tVjZllENZTc?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>What if you don&#8217;t thin such branches? You&#8217;ll get sunburn of the fruit and branch, like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sunburned-Hass-limb-too-much-fruit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sunburned-Hass-limb-too-much-fruit.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24237\" style=\"width:591px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sunburned-Hass-limb-too-much-fruit.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sunburned-Hass-limb-too-much-fruit-980x735.jpg 980w, https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sunburned-Hass-limb-too-much-fruit-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1000px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sunburned branch and fruit on Hass tree where fruit was not thinned and branch was not shortened.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It takes some time to thin, but I believe that &#8212; regardless of whether you grow one avocado tree or one thousand acres of trees &#8212; the results are worth the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/supporting-the-yard-posts\/\">your support<\/a>\u00a0so I can continue making these posts (without ads!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of my Yard Posts are listed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/list-of-yard-posts\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right on the coast this is less important, but inland you&#8217;ll find it beneficial to thin the crop on certain branches of avocado trees. 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