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Avocado injuries a thing of the past?
- fuzzfactor 9y agoWe always had a few of these on the same tree where the normal size was about half as big as a bowling pin and had seeds almost as large as a whole Mexican avocado. Never knew about "avocado hand" but were careful to avoid "avocado head" when harvesting the not-so-low-hanging specimens. When you drop a full-size one from 2 or 3 stories high, you really need to look out below or it could hit hard enough to cause unconsciousness or worse. Interestingly, this is one of the species that has separate male and female versions. With only a single landscape plant (no orchard) there must have been a male somewhere nearby, that owner might not have even known their tree was an avocado to begin with. If a hurricane or high winds came up while flowering in the early summer, there go the flowers and you got little to no fruit that year.