Great video REM, wow, your trees are looking great! Bummer on the two Reeds, last year, the squirrels got to my Reeds and didn't even get to try any. Thanks for sharing!
I just had my first UFO attack my Reed avocados. I have yet to have any fruit loss to UFO's. We have 3 squirrels, one of them finally got brave enough to make the jump from the fence to the tree.
Mine are brave, I see them carrying avocados. I have not been able to catch them, I've caught a couple of birds though. The good thing is you have fruit.
Sorry to hear about your UfO problem. Ive been terrified of losing the 8 Reeds I have been babying for almost a year to my resident rats, so I surrounded the tree with rat traps since the fruit got to the size of tennis balls. I believe im up to about eight rats since the watch began! The fruit is full size about the size of soft balls now. Fingers crossed they make it to harvest season.
Hi REM, I’ve eaten Reeds from my trees due to winter pruning in Winter and they can be edible. By spring they are all definitely edible. I’ve been busy trapping. This past week 3 possums and a skunk. I Trap regularly and even with as many trees as I have I lose virtually no fruit due to pests.
Hi professor, yeah it's time to get busy with the trapping. I need to leave it overnight to soak. One of my Reeds feel good already, I don't know how long it's been sitting on the ground. We'll see....
Maybe, when the temperatures are right, it's possible to get both male and female flowers and they look different and the colors are a little different too.
My Pinkerton has been massively flowering since October, still is, and has some fruits the size of hens eggs. So far looks like a stellar year for flowering and bees.
Sorry to hear about your Reeds, they might be ok. Last year my Reeds started dropping May 1st and the seed was growing inside so they were ready. I hope yours taste good. Man your trees are really flowering. My trees are a bit behind yours, some are just starting to flower. My Zutano, Bacon, and Pinkerton are full of flowers that just started opening maybe a couple of weeks ago. The Hass I bought from you is flowering too, this is its first year flowering.
I hope they taste good but if not than on to next year's. The battle continues. Some of mine are just starting so just a little behind but we should have a great year for fruit with all the rain we got this year.
Please shoot a video when you cut that Maluma avo, I am just wondering if yours won't have lots of strings in them... I have bad luck of getting ones with strings, I blame the farmer since I buy them.
I have the same problem with possums and squirells downing my Reed avocados. This year I have most the Reed avocados in stainless steel mesh bags and they are not getting bothered. The bags are kinda of pricey though, about $40 for 25 of them. Good thing they're reusable.
I don't know how avocado orchards do it because there's no way you can wrap every fruit up. I've considered buying those also, especially for my prized varieties. Thanks for watching!
This is a follow up to my post. The stainless steel mesh bags do not work. The rats bite the avocados through the bags a suck the avocado back out through the mesh. I didn't think it was possible but I guess it is.
@@MrEdwinhardesty that's crazy and good to know. I guess if there's a will there's a way. Hopefully you can get so much fruit that sparing one or two is not that big of a deal.
@@AvocadoTalk, unfortunately on my Hass tree this year, it was more like the rats got 20 and I got 20. And they made me pick them earlier than I wanted to.
I'm thinking those Reeds dropped, and a critter tried to get into one while on the ground. The tree probably decided for you, since it has flowers coming.
Totally possible, we did have some rains and winds of late. Got it right in time, I was on vacation and just got back today to find them. Good luck on your avocado journey. Thanks for watching!
Will you still eat them if they rippen? Even with the bite marks... Curious because I almost want to try the ones that the UFO's got to on my end. I did find my only Don Gillogly on the floor with half the top chewed off. I ended up cutting it in half, removing the seed for a future root stock, and placing it in a location where I might catch the critter in the act. I might get lucky trapping it.
