AI6YR BenSUPER aguacate! #avocado
***this avocado is off a tree that NEVER BEFORE produced fruit. Someone asked us to put a rescue beehive there, and the tree is now LOADED with giant avocados. Anyway, that's why people keep asking us to put any captured swarms of bees on their property. #pollination #beekeeping
deewani@ai6yr Super amazing. I hope they gift you many in the future. I would need only 1 avocado to make salads for all. Or avocado toast for all. I like smashing them with some salt and lemon or lime and topping off homemade salads with it in lieu of dressing.
Allan Chow@ai6yr beehives are the Barry whites of avocado trees?
Paul_IPv6bees are the barry white or lionel ritchie for avocado trees :)
Coho@ai6yr
My neighbor has a huge avocado tree that doesn't produce fruit I will tell him this fact about the bees.
My neighbor has a huge avocado tree that doesn't produce fruit I will tell him this fact about the bees.
@Coho It's possible! Cross pollination required for a lot of avocado varieties. Probably need another tree nearby, however. (with bees)
Aha, here we go. You need Class A cultivars (receive pollen in morning) with Class B cultivars (distribute pollen in the morning). I don't know how you tell which is which. Typically growers put several of matching varieties in a grove.
@ai6yr
I will pass on this info to him. Maybe the guy at the nursery knows about class a and b cultivars
I will pass on this info to him. Maybe the guy at the nursery knows about class a and b cultivars
@Coho Oooh, here's a good reference from UC Riverside.
Avocado Flowering Basics
M. L. Arpaia | University of California, Riverside A. E. Fetscher | University of California, Riverside R. Hofshi | Del Rey Avocado THE FLOWER Avocado productivity is influenced by many factors and involves many steps. The critical first step, however, is the process of pollination which leads to fertilization and fruit set. Pollination occurs when pollen is deposited on a receptive stigma. This poster describes some of the considerations pertaining to avocado pollination.
Shirley Eugest@ai6yr
Beautiful avocado. Your tape has a tapeworm.
Beautiful avocado. Your tape has a tapeworm.
@EugestShirley One of the rabbits took a bite out of it, luckily, no ill effects when that happened. Dang little fluffy creatures will bite anything.
dragonfrog@ai6yr that looks like the standard kind of avocados they have in Brazil (the smaller Mexican ones are the exotic ones there). They're a little less rich and a little sweeter than the smaller ones.
The main way folks there seemed to use them is in smoothies with milk and a little sugar.
Angie@dragonfrog @ai6yr milk and sugar? I need a recipe.
Feorlen@dragonfrog @ai6yr also in Florida, although I don’t know if Hass has taken over in the decades since I lived there.
GhostOnTheHalfShellLook at the fruit on that one
So how are people handling things down south? It’s been pretty darn warm, but the worst part of this is all the trees have decided to have sex during this part of the year and the pollen load is so heavy that my head is completely stuffed up and I usually don’t have a problem with allergies.
Nomdeb@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ai6yr Just barging in here to share something that has helped my allergies tremendously, a bit gross, but here goes. My ENT doctor told me add a smidge (about 1/4 teaspoon) of baby shampoo to a nasal irrigation. It really helps to get rid of the pollen and other irritants and the goop. :) My dry cough (from postnasal drip) is greatly improved. Yes, also I'm on allergy drops now. But those will take about 6 to 12 months to kick in.
Sarah E Bourne@ai6yr Did that avocado take those bites out of the tape measure?!! 😱
Cavyherd
aburka 🫣
Okay, yes, thank you. This makes sense, now. (I've been largely ignoring the whole AI discourse, so I didn't have enough context to make the joke work.)
https://hachyderm.io/@aburka/116248304662270764