Posts from May 2023

When you look at an avocado tree, you can see three two-year cycles simultaneously. The tree is concurrently:

• Developing the current year's (year one) fruit and providing nutrients and resources that mature the fruit for harvest.
• Supporting the needs of the year two fruit set that will be harvested the following year.
• Producing new shoots and buds that will produce either vegetative or floral buds for the year three harvest.

This means that branches in one part of the avocado growth cycle are competing for resources (nutrients, water, sun) with branches in other parts of the cycle. When a portion of the avocado tree is actively growing — it acts as a "sink" for the raw materials. In other words, that portion of the tree draws the lion's share of the available resources. Because an avocado tree only has so many resources to offer, the tree will adapt in order to preserve itself — dropping leaves, dropping fruit or minimizing ne...

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