Most Avocado flowers don't end up as fruit

One of the craziest most interesting things I've learnt ever, is how the avocado tree actually works.

Most assume that all flowers on the trees eventually turn into fruit but it's not what happens and it's rare to see the avocado that I'm showing you in the picture and the video.

The avocado tree produces a ton, and I mean a ton of flowers. Out of the thousands, only a few make it to the end goal of completing the full pollination process.

It's almost like how the semen of a man works except it's not as intense as that.

The massive amount of flowers that don't make it to the end goal, don't make it because the tree has to prioritize the amount of resources it has available in the environment its been planted in, over the vision of bearing more fruits.

If there's more resources available throughout the process of bearing fruits, it'll bear more fruits, if not, then the opposite happens. And most of the times, it's the former that happens which is why I had to say, the tree I'm showing you is a rare case of the farmer paying very close attention to the tree and giving it every thing it needs to be this productive.

Each tree has a limit on amount of water and nutrients that they can get from the soil that will support the ovary to successfully complete the goal of small flower turning into the bigger fruit.

If the tree supports all ovary, the tree can really die when the fruits are ready to be collected, and the branches will snap under all the weight, it just wasn't strong enough.

To save itself from dying, the tree does some shedding. The tree will cutoff all the resources of the small green pods that are growing and will let them fall down to the ground.

Seeing so many green, and even large fruits on a tree is a signal of a specific set of environmental factors. The soil is definitely nutrient rich and water was always available and even the busy pollinators during the pollination window obviously helped support the growth of many flowers surviving the process and turning fully into the fruit. Without all of these conditions it really is rare to see this.

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