Reduce your labor and increase how many Avocados you can harvest per hour. Ken Love, Executive Director of the HTFG explains how to prune Avocado trees to keep them low for ease and efficiency in harvesting.
How do you feel about nursery stakes? Over the past month or so I have gotten about 11 different varieties and planted them in my back. From 5gal to 25gal. One thing I noticed is they are extremely dependent on the stake and I don’t like that. I removed the stakes and gave them a hard prune so they could stand on their own. People have said I should have just left it for 3-5 years until they are so big they no longer need it. For some reason that doesn’t seem like good advice to me. What are your thoughts?
One word of caution: lower hanging branches give the trunk shade. Ditto for upper branches. Hawaii may be more benign, but in places like California, sunburn on your green branches and even on your fruit is an issue. Over-pruning can be detrimental. I like the idea of keeping the tree short, though. Some avos just want to reach for the sky, and you'll be pruning a heck of a lot to prevent too much vertical growth.
I am in Cal too. I usually just try to remove or cut back a branch or two in the winter. I agree on the skirt. I used to cut low branches which weren't doing anything but now I leave them to shade the roots.
Hi I was wondering if you know what this rust going in avocado trees In kainaliu area lately. Looks like small black sticky bugs and leaves are all turning yellow and brown....
scion is a detached living portion of a plant which can be used for grafting onto another avocado plant to gain the use of the other trees growth, A two for one sale.
