First year fruiting....
Avocados are very vigorously growing trees. I planted this Hass from the seed of fruit I purchased at the local produce stand that had been grown in Peru . The tree is four years old. On the first year I cut it way back but it didn't pay any attention at all to pruning. It's now three stories tall easily. Covered with blossoms this year.
Some fruits are appearing although it still might be a little too young to actually produce full grown avocados.
It seems there are both male and female blossoms. The male blossoms appear first in the morning which can make pollination a little tricky. Since the male blossoms close when the female blossoms are opening in the afternoon.
It's pretty much the first year so I'm eager to see what happens.
I guess the only way to store avocados is by freezing them after they have been mashed to a guacamole texture. This seems to be the recommended way to store. I haven't tried it yet but it seems odd to me. Because wouldn't the avocado be a little weird when it was defrosted? Like wilted lettuce or something? They have a lot of oil so maybe it really does work to freeze them. Maybe slices could be frozen. I plan to pretty much give them to friends and neighbors. I really do love to do that as a gesture of love and appreciation. But if there are a lot of fruits, there are five trees in all, I will want to store some of them for later.
You certainly cannot dehydrate avocado. I tried. No way. There is something in the avocado that makes it turn incredibly bitter if it is heated. The slices were picture perfect but the bitterness was terrible.
This is wonderful, @jiva34. Thank you for sharing your avocado growth adventure. I am inspired to try my hand at growing one as well. I look forward to more of your thorough and thoughtful content and seeing how my own tree comes along. Keep up the great work! Steem on.
Thanks. Keep us posted on your progress. It's not at all difficult. At least I haven't run into any. Actually my brother a few years ago planted an avocado from seed. But he lived i n Boston. So he had the tree growing in his living room. I was a full tree touching the ceiling. don't know if produced any fruits. But it took up his whole living room. Like the trees you see growing in malls sometimes.
Congrats! That's awesome! I wasn't successful with my one avocado tree, unfortunately.
What happened? This is Southern Florida. Just point a seed at the ground and it sprouts roots.
I neglected it and it didn't rain for months. I read that you shouldn't water avocados much during the winter months here, but I didn't water it at all and I think that killed it. (I'm a dork)
No love. It left :>( Try again, If at first you don't succeed... It could have been other things too. They get bugs that love their leaves.
Much luck on your future blooms!
Thank you. It's great to have a lot of them, then I can give them away.
nice garden, thanks for sharing
Hi, nice picture your tree looks great, we have a lot of avocados here in costa Rica , i think that the best way to store them, is to harvest them a little bit early,while they're still not ripe, they hold up for up to a week before they're ready.
I would love to have an avocado tree. Maybe one day. :)
Thank you for sharing! Here in Ohio, we don't have avocado trees. It is interesting to be able to see types of life that I've never seen before. Also, the pictures in you're post are excellent quality. They are also scientifically accurate. Keep up the good work.