21 year old Hass avocado not holding fruitlets. (forum)
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John, Melbourne starts with ...
I have a 21 year old Hass avocado seedling growing in the ground in Melbourne:
- at 17 years old it flowered for the first time but did not set fruit,
- at 19 years old I cinctured it,
- later that year and again the following year (years 19 & 20) it produced a mass of flowers (thousands), lots of fruitlets, and for the first time 1 mature avocado,
- in winter this year (year 21) I cinctured it again,
- this spring / summer it again produced thousands of flowers and hundreds of fruitlets,
- and as in the previous years within a couple of weeks all fruitlets bar 1 have dropped off.
The tree looks very healthy, has received ample rain watering, it is in an area protected from wind, has not had heat stress, and would have been about 5 metres tall if I hadn't trimmed it to a manageable height after this year's failed fruit set.
Can anyone suggest any ways to make the fruitlets hold and develop to maturity, or is this a lost cause?
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Time: 26th December 2025 8:19pm
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