This week I’m marking trees for top-working to another variety.   This block has about 1900 Gem trees and no pollenizers.  Pollenizers are varieties we use as pollen donors to our  trees that grow fruit.  The ratio of production trees and pollenizer density is the subject of a lot of debate.  This is why people will tell you “you need two avocados trees”.  While you don’t NEED them…in many locations having pollenizers is critical to getting a good fruit set. 

At the time we planted this block there was almost no research on Gems & pollenizers.  Production numbers have been lower than we expect and so we are going back through to graft these other varieties into the block.   Using older research on hass for the best planting configuration, we are making our best educated guess.  It will be 3-4 years before we know if we made the right decision or not.

Grafting update:  trees are marked, pruned & whitewashed to protect them from sunburn.  Next up is actually doing the graft.  Then we wait 3-4 years and hope we were right. 🤞

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Exciting times ahead! Can't wait to see the results of all this hard work and patience. Good luck with the grafting process, fingers crossed for a successful outcome in a few years! 🌱🌳