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Avocado Trees
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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
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Avocado varieties and flowering types.
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"A" Varieties
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"B" Varieties
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Hass
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Bacon
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Gwen
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Ettinger
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Lamb Hass
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Fuerte
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Pinkerton
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Sharwil
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Reed
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Sir Prize
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GEM
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Walter Hole
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Harvest
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Zutano
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Marvel
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Nobel
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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.
The avocado is also unusual in that the timing of the male and
female phases differs among varieties. There are two flowering types, referred
to as "A" and "B" flower types. "A" varieties open
as female on the morning of the first day. The flower closes in late morning or
early afternoon. The flower will remain closed until the afternoon of the second
day when it opens as male. "B" varieties open as female on the
afternoon of the first day, close in late afternoon and re-open in the male
phase the following morning. See Figure 4 for a diagrammatic representation.
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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Table 1. Avocado varieties and flowering types.
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"A" Varieties
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"B" Varieties
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Hass
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Bacon
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Gwen
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Ettinger
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Lamb Hass
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Fuerte
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Pinkerton
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Sharwil
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Reed
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Sir Prize
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GEM
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Walter Hole
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Harvest
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Zutano
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Marvel
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Nobel
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| Note: Varieties in italics are from the UC Breeding
Program and are currently under evaluation. |
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