RSS FeedThe key to profitability is producing consistent avocado crop sizes year after year. In order to do so, a grower must use proactive cultural management techniques to balance shoot growth, fruiting and root growth — balancing the three simultaneous growth cycles. Ideally, an avocado tree should produce a similar crop each year. But avocado trees have a tendency to adopt an alternate bearing cycle — an on-crop/off-crop cycle across two years that results in a large crop of small avocados in one year, followed by small crop of large avocados the next year.
Once started, an alternate bearing cycle can be self-perp...