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Originally Posted by Betty
I'm going to plant an avocado in the yard of the house we buy. Avocados are just too yummy and too expensive. Guacamole. yum.
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Make it 2. I've always heard it's hard to get an Avocado tree to pollinate, and I just looked up why. It seems that the flowers go through a cycle where on 1 day, the male reproductive bits are active, and on the next day the female bits are. So if you have one tree, the odds of pollination are low and rely on a few of the flowers to be a little out of sync on that cycle. So more than likely you'll end up with a million flowers (literally), but only a handful of actual avocados. If you have 2 trees (ideally 2 slightly different but compatible varieties with differing cycles), there's a greater likelihood that some of the flowers will be out of sync.