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How does one differentiate between a male and a female avocado? [the oneliners here are endless ]
The avocado flower has both functional male and female organs. The male floral organ, which produces pollen, is comprised of the anthers and stamens. The female floral organ is comprised of the stigma (which receives the pollen), style and the ovary.
IMHO those Florida avocados, large as they are, do not have anywhere near the flavor of Hass. They are huge, and look so inviting, but do not have the same fat content. They are widely available here but I never buy them.
Here's some pics of an avocado orchard about 3 blocks from my place. Note the soil is sandy, and this is an arid climate about 15 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. Winter temperatures rarely drop below 40F at night, summer afternoon high temps often in the 90s but rarely above 100F on the hottest days of the year. Nights in summer usually cool to mid 60s F.
We had fires in our area about two months ago that burned through most of the avocado groves pictured here. I went jogging by the area yesterday, looks like over half the tree pictured here got badly burned, they are all brown now. Same thing happened in the Fallbrook area in San Diego county, largest avocado growing area in the US. I guess we'll be seeing lots of avocados from Mexico in the next few years, they have a huge production of them in Uruapan, Michoacan. If there are enough left over for export to the US, they have a chance to earn a lot of gold for their greens.
Cil I was in north FL on a visit last week and saw some local FL avocados at the Piggly Wiggly. Didn't buy any cause I was just doing the motel and rental car deal, so I didn't have all kinds of things to prepare with them. I would have guessed that the humidity in FL creates a much different avocado that the ones from CA or other dryer mediterranean climates.
Sidenote to Cil, I visited Port St Joe and Applachicola area, liked it a lot. Cape San Blas was fantastic, one of the nicest beaches I've ever been to in the US.
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I agree about the beaches--I've seen many a beach, and those were the finest I've experienced.
Now about that Piggly Wiggly...
The avacados grown from seed do not fruit, unfortunatly. The California Hass is the GREATEST one of all. I lived in FL for 7 years and they are not nearly as good, some being really terrible. Here in the zones of 10 and 11 dry-summer sub-tropical (meditterrean) is where they really are at home. Arguably, the king of all tropical fruit. Love and peace to all of you in the new year!
-Don Los Angeles
Would'nt be so bad waiting a few years for the fruits but you need both a male and a female tree to reproduce? how on earth can you tell which is which?
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