Re: avocados
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- Subject: Re: avocados
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- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 20:57:22 EDT
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In a message dated 10/15/98 12:13:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
Meconella@aol.com (Janet) writes:
> You only need one tree. My favorite variety to grow is Hass. (Fuerte is
> also
> a good old variety but tends to bear well every other year.) When ripe it
> has
> a dark pebbled skin and creamy rich nutty-tasting flesh. It is essential
to
> grow a grafted tree. One from seed will give you a rank growing tree that
> will take years to fruit and the fruit will be incredibly inferior.
The fact that seedlings do not come true to variety should tip you off,
Janet, that cross pollination is taking place.
Research shows that some varieties are self fertile, but are incapable of
self pollination. They require pollinators, such as honeybees, so the first
requirement should be to make sure that bees are abundant.
Other research with Fuerte showed as much as 50% increase in production
when cross pollinated.
You can access the pollination "Bible" for research up to 1976 on bees and
pollination at:
http://www.airoot.com/beeculture/book/index.html
Just remember that the info from that time is skewed by the fact that wild
pollinators were plentiful at that time, and, in many areas, are becoming
scarce today.
Pollinator@aol.com Dave Green Hemingway, SC USA
The Pollination Scene: http://users.aol.com/pollinator/polpage1.html
The Pollination Home Page: http://www.pollinator.com
Jan's Sweetness and Light Shop (Varietal Honeys and Beeswax Candles)
http://users.aol.com/SweetnessL/sweetlit.htm
