What's for Dinner?

[Ghoulish Delight]

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.

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.