Avocado From Bud To Fruit

by Jay Milo

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Avocado From Bud To Fruit

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Jay Milo

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The avocado is a tree native to Mexico and Central America, classified as a flowering plant , Avocado or alligator pear also refers to the fruit, botanically a large berry that contains a single seed. In this garden we had help from a couple of busy bees, each day going from flower to flower.The flowers have both female and male organs, but they don't function at the same time. Each flower is female when it first opens. That is, its stigma will receive pollen from other avocado flowers, but its stamens (male organs) do not shed pollen at this first opening.The first or female stage remains open for only 2 or 3 hours. The flower then closes and remains closed the rest of the day and that night. The following day it opens again. But now the stigma will no longer receive pollen. Instead, the flower is now shedding pollen. That is, each flower is female at its first opening, male at its second. After being open several hours the second day, the flower closes again, this time for good. If it had been successfully pollinated at the first opening, and if other conditions are right, it will develop into a delicious fruit.Due to some unseasonal winds lots of the flowers and buds were lost, but there seem to be enough developing to give a decent crop this year. This is the first year of fruiting.

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April 17th, 2014

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