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  Re: Avocados         


Author: len garden
Date: Mar 22, 2007 13:18

g'day karen,

having 'a' & 'b' trees not totally necessary as all trees will bare
male and female flowers at some stage of their fruiting cycle, having
the 2 of certain varities extends your fruiting season ie.,. when the
'a' tree has its female flowers the 'b' tree has its male flowers and
visa verca.

some varieties don't need 'a' or 'b' ever.

the only thing with a seedling tree is how long before it fruits could
take up to 14 years maybe? but the other side and i avhe heard both
stories you have no guarantee that the tree will fruit to form or even
fruit at all, or at best it may give very poor quality fruit.

if yo realy like avacado's and most of us do the best advice is go buy
a grafted tree and if you are short on garden space seek a variety
where 'a' & 'b' plays no part, or just buy one or the other you will
get fruit. grafted trees as i know it fruit with in 5 to 7 years i had
one fruit in 3 years that may be variety specific?

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  Re: Avocados         


Author: tuckermor
Date: Mar 22, 2007 08:08

It's not as simple as male and female; it's A and B types, and sometimes
people will say that doesn't matter. Here are a couple of places to look for
info to get you started. Lots more if you look on Google.

http://www.californiaavocadosociety.org/pages/growing/growing.html
http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/avocado.html

This is what the CRFG (California Rare Fruit Growers) Fact Sheet about
Avocadoes says:
"Flowers: Avocado flowers appear in January - March before the first
seasonal growth, in terminal panicles of 200...
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  Re: Another newbie with questions         


Author: kdsexton
Date: Mar 21, 2007 16:47

On 21 Mar 2007 09:42:06 GMT, Kay Lancaster hub.fern.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>3. Cherries are difficult in this part of the country. They are also
>>>very slow growing. It will be quite a few years before you find out
>>>what your seedlings will do.
>>
>> I had someone tell...
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  Re: Another newbie with questions         


Author: kdsexton
Date: Mar 21, 2007 16:46

On 21 Mar 2007 09:42:06 GMT, Kay Lancaster hub.fern.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>3. Cherries are difficult in this part of the country. They are also
>>>very slow growing. It will be quite a few years before you find out
>>>what your seedlings will do.
>>
>> I had someone tell...
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  Re: Another newbie with questions         


Author: Kay Lancaster
Date: Mar 21, 2007 02:42

>>
>>3. Cherries are difficult in this part of the country. They are also
>>very slow growing. It will be quite a few years before you find out
>>what your seedlings will do.
>
> I had someone tell me that Ranier cherries are so hybrid, that my pits
> probably won't take. Are there any reputable places online to buy
> fruit trees?

Plenty of reputable places... but it would really be useful to you, I
suspect, to get lists of species and cultivars suitable for your area.
I just took a quick look at the gardening section of the Clemson
extension website... lots of fruit tree suggestions for SC, but no
cherries... which strongly suggests to me that your success with
Raniers would be, um, limited. You'll also need a second cherry cultivar
to cross-pollinate Raniers... off hand, Bing and Lapin are what I
recall.

A couple of sites for you:
http://hgic.clemson.edu/
http://davesgarden.com/gwd/
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