Avocado Trees 

These awesome fruit trees can be grown indoors or outdoors. For indoor growing pinch back to keep plants tight or grow the Little Cado. We sell READY TO FRUIT or fruit bearing trees. Prices listed are for mature ready to fruit #5 nursery pots, big plants, but not huge. We also have huge sizes for certain varieties. You will not be waiting 1 or 3 years for some little sapling to start making fruit.

Grow your own Avocados in a hot sunny planter bed or in a large container.  The Little Cado is perfect for small areas. Avocados are among the most tasty nutritious fruits that you can grow, and fresher is better. All the rage for the Don Gillogly Avocado tree. This is a great plant for indoor growing in any place where a green thumb is present.

Avocado Fruit and Flowering

Getting Avocado trees to develop fruit is a little more complicated than some other fruit trees. In short you need to plant an A and B variety. If you live an area where there are numerous other Avocado trees in other yards this may not be necessary. However don't be surprised if results are poor, since your neighbors may have mostly planted the same popular variety as you. - Chris   

THE FLOWER

Avocado productivity is influenced by many factors and involves many steps.
The avocado’s flowering behavior is unusual in many ways. The mature tree can produce in excess of a million flowers during the flowering period. The flowers occur in panicles of several dozens or hundreds of flowers. There are two different types of avocado inflorescences: determinate and indeterminate (see Figure 1). In a determinate inflorescence the tip of the shoot that bears the flowers will end in a flower. Indeterminate inflorescences, which tend to be more common in our environment, terminate with a vegetative bud.

Since there are hundreds of flowers on an avocado tree at any one time the actual situation in the field as shown here (Figure 5). The arrows denote the movement of pollen between the complementary flower types.

WHAT ARE THE PRACTICAL RAMIFICATIONS?

Table 1 lists some of the common varieties and their flower type. The avocado’s flowering behavior is believed to promote cross-pollination since the male and female phases of an individual flower occur at different times. It is believed that the inter planting of complementary flower types can boost fruit set and therefore yield by making pollen available.

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