Why do my healthy full grown avocado trees produce almost no fruit?
Dorothy
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Why dont Pomegranates grown from seed seem to fruit?
Comments (11)What the rabbit said - they'll fruit, eventually. All named varieties of pomegranates(and virtually all fruits, for that matter) were just seedlings at some point in time. They just grew through their juvenile period and reached fruiting age before someone selected them for their fruit quality. Most pomegranate varieties are propagated from cuttings - it's a form of...cloning(gasp!) that's been practiced for thousands of years. Hybrids? No, so far as I'm aware, they're all the same species, Punica granatum. Just because someone might cross pollenate, say, Wonderful with Parfianka, the resulting seedlings are NOT hybrids - just seedlings with two named-variety parents. Will all of the resulting seedlings produce top quality fruits? No, but some will have a 'genetic advantage' in that arena and may express desirable traits inherited from both parents. Human involvement in plant breeding and selection is not inherently 'evil'. wizzard, seed-grown avocados WILL fruit - if you provide them the proper growing conditions and allow sufficient time for them to reach fruiting age; fruit quality(as with most seed-grown fruit) will largely be unpredictable....See Morefig trees not fruiting, but healthy...
Comments (14)Georgia_Jack, thanks! I'd love to take you up on that and it'd be fun to meet a local gardener who's interested in fruit :) Most of my gardening buddies are flower people or perhaps have veggie gardens but that's it. Why don't more people love fruit trees? I think the problem with my fig trees is that the tree canopy was growing too high and had started to shade the fig bushes. I just had a bunch of trees cut down (though it hardly made a dent in the forest) and little baby figs have already started to form. I'm also trying that pinching business so we'll see. And fertilizer, I got 'em good with leaf mould and a healthy pine needle mulch. If they don't get serious about figging I'm gonna fig them! So get busy trees!...See MoreFirst year my Brodgon Avocado produced
Comments (8)Actually most citrus hybrids are polyembryonic and grow true from seed (tangerines, tangelos, etc.) If people want to experiment with seedling cado's or mango's in search of the next great variety or just want an ornamental tree that's fine, but don't make your PRIMARY dooryard fruit trees seedling trees. And especially don't wait 7 years for it for to fruit & then complain you're "surprised" it doesn't taste as good or the same as the parent fruit - most of the time it won't taste as good as the parent fruit. If he had planted a $35 grafted tree 7 years ago as I would have recommended he would be eating delicious fruit now and the tree would have already more than paid for itself and given him fruit sooner. Also big difference between experimenting with vegetable seeds & tree seeds. A tomato or squash seed doesn't take 7 years to determine if it will produce good fruit or take up as much space in the meantime. The goal is to educate others and prevent them from making the same mistakes as others, not in helping to perpetuate them....See MoreWhy my mango trees produce very small fruit?
Comments (5)Its roughly 10f colder in day temps and 6f colder in night temps in winter- Dec and Jan. And mine took last years heavy rains. So,once they get going there is a good chance for long term. But as low water needy as they might be once they are tree's..young plants need to be kept hydrated in our long California summers. I water 3 x a week by hose. If you have them on drip or irrigation even better and easier. I like to fertilize when I see it starting to flush in late spring or early summer. No point is fertilizing in the cool months. Best to use a mild ratio. Or very light on the lawn fertilizers since I see them planted in lawns every now and then....See MoreM
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