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| About the Author ak Karachi, Pakistan 11th November 2011 10:43pm #UserID: 6111 Posts: 3 View All ak's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Brendan says... Hi ak, Have a look at this. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Determine_the_sex_of_an_avocado_tree Now the 'B' type is the female, and the 'A' type is the male. I know this sounds like voodoo, but mum showed me this over 50 years ago, and it works. | About the Author Brendan Mackay, Q 12th November 2011 9:25am #UserID: 1947 Posts: 1722 View All Brendan's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author ak Karachi, Pakistan 15th November 2011 10:53pm #UserID: 6111 Posts: 3 View All ak's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Brendan Mackay, Q 16th November 2011 7:26am #UserID: 1947 Posts: 1722 View All Brendan's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Grant says... Works with a piece of cotton and a needle too on animals and people of questionable gender ;-). Our vet showed us this. We thought he was having a laugh but as long as you have a reasonably steady hand it DOES work. Must have something to do with the differing magnetic fields on Mars and Venus. LOL! | About the Author 16th November 2011 7:46am #UserID: 0 Posts: View All 's Edible Fruit Trees |
Julie says... I have no idea how this works either, but have been using it for about 30 years to determine gender and viability of seeds. Viable seeds the weight goes around - non-viable it goes back and forth. It doesn't matter what you use, any small weight on a cord that will swing when you hold it steady. | About the Author Julie Roleystone WA 16th November 2011 9:21pm #UserID: 154 Posts: 1842 View All Julie's Edible Fruit Trees |
| About the Author PhilTyalgum5 Murwillumbah 16th November 2011 9:33pm #UserID: 6135 Posts: 8 View All PhilTyalgum5's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Julie Roleystone WA 17th November 2011 8:00pm #UserID: 154 Posts: 1842 View All Julie's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author mezz Phillip Island 23rd February 2013 8:28am #UserID: 7751 Posts: 1 View All mezz's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Speedy says... Olives have bisexual flowers, so they're both. so do Avocados thing with avocados is that they have two typer of flowering sequences in 'A type' Avocado trees the flower opens in the morning of the first day for a few hours and is funtionally female (can receive pollen) then closes It then opens on the afternoon of day 2 and the stamens release their pollen for insects to transfer it to a female flower (opening on it's first day) so pollen has to havd been on an insect overnught for effective pollination. In 'Type B' Avocaco trees, the flowers open in the afternoon of the first day and the female parts are active. and the male parts are active on the morning of the second day. so, if you have a tree of each type there will be male and female parts of flowers working at the same time and better chance of a good fruit set. thats why two Avocado trees (an A and a B type) planted in close proximity will yeild more than twice as much as one tree in isolation. some trees eg. almonds, plums etc. need another tre to cross pollinate because of inbiult self-incompatibilities. they still have fully functional bisexual flowers. Hazelnuts and pecans are monoecious and have seperate male and female flowers on the same plant, but still set better with a few individuals with which to exchange pollen, so still not separate M & F trees. some conifers eg. Junipers are dioecious Carobs are generally M or F Date palms are Male or female | About the Author Speedy Nthn Vic. 25th February 2013 1:42am #UserID: 2305 Posts: 250 View All Speedy's Edible Fruit Trees |