With National Avocado Day coming up on July 31 ... Originating in Central and South America, farmers planted the first avocado trees in the U.S. in the mid-1800s. Over the next century, avocados ...

Avocado trees prefer warmth—60 to 85 degrees—and ... but the fridge trick can widen the one-day window of ripe perfection by three days or more. While it's possible to freeze in chunks ...

They require six to eight hours of direct sunlight a day with moderate temperatures to flower properly for cross-pollination and develop fruit.' If your avocado tree is growing somewhere shady ...

In the morning, the blooms of Type A avocado tree are female but by late afternoon, they switch to male. By contrast, Type B varieties begin the day as male flowers and then change over to female ...

While the Trump administration has threatened tariffs on a spate of Mexican goods, avocados have so far been spared.

An odd quirk of the avocado, Persea americana ... sex organs from operating on the same day. Among two large categories of cultivated strains, group A trees bear flowers that are functionally ...

“Within a couple of thousand years they were clearly managing their avocado trees,” said VanDerwarker. “We see the fruits getting larger and the rinds are getting thicker. They were doing ...