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My avocado tree usually drops a dozen or two avocados a week for most of the year, so I've had a lot of time and examples to experiment on for storage. Once th
by kenhwang 3y ago
My avocado tree usually drops a dozen or two avocados a week for most of the year, so I've had a lot of time and examples to experiment on for storage.
Once they're off the tree, ripen at room temperature for about a week. Then transfer into the fridge in an airtight container, they usually last in the fridge for another 2 weeks.
Doing fridge first means they never ripen and just dry out before softening.
- civilitty 3y agoI would trade my third child for your avocado tree.
- defrost 3y agoHmmm, we've got a massive fig tree that produces > 4kg a day for over a month each year and a mango tree that's similarly exuberant. Sadly we're not in the child trade for tree game :-(
- civilitty 3y agoLucky! Figs are great for creating homemade energy/protein/w.e bars as the binder and mangos are great frozen as pulp for mango lassi. What about grandparents? Are you all set on grandparents? In-laws?
- defrost 3y agoWe trade figs for lamb, we make glace figs for the year, we make fig jam, the staff from the local patisserie raid the tree a few times and we get half price curry pies for the rest of the year .. The mangoes trade pretty damn well. (Not our mango tree - but same age and same rough geographic location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgBgQQXoUw8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgBgQQXoUw8 ) My father planted the tree (he was born in 1935) and does most of the bulk cooking | prep here still; he's a great grand parent, I'm a grand parent ... we're doing pretty good on extended family, thank you for the implied offer of surplus humans but they tend to be for life and not just for christmas.
- Jeff_Brown 3y agoKeep them in a bag with a banana and soon your problem child will be like the older two.
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- gnicholas 3y agoMy aunt has an avocado tree. Freshly-picked avocados ripen very differently than store-bought ones. They stay ripe for way longer, since they don't have to be picked in advance and shipped. And I say this as someone who lives in CA, where we get produce on the fresher side, in general. When I visited my aunt she gave us several avocados, and I thought, "we're never going to be able to eat these before they go bad". I was so wrong — they stayed perfect for well over a week.
- hutzlibu 3y ago"They stay ripe for way longer, since they don't have to be picked in advance and shipped" ... and since they are treated with all kinds of chemicals who mess with the ripening.
- freshpots 3y agoWhich kinds of chemicals? Why multiple? Or are they used for other purposes but affect ripening?
- hutzlibu 3y agoI am not an expert for avocados, but I suspect that they do the same as with most fruits (I worked in fruitpicking while backpacking): apart from herbicides, fungicide and pesticides, there are chemicals to block the ripening while the fruit is still on the tree, because you want to harvest all fruits at once. And then you do various things for packaging. And there were likely other purposes as well, I have forgotten now. All in all, lots of them were used, way more than I expected. So much, that I prefer organic.
- markdown 3y agoDo you water it with unicorn tears? How did you get it to produce all year round? That's unheard of.
- kenhwang 3y agoI think it's the cooler coastal climate I'm in that slows down the growth so the regular 3 month harvest period is spread across 9. It still only flowers once a year in spring like a normal tree, but by that following winter (regular harvest time), only the clusters with few siblings would have grown large enough for harvest. Then it flowers again, and then bigger family clusters reach maturity in the summer/fall. My avocado tree when I lived in a much hotter climate would drop all the fruit as soon as it started getting hot (they would dry out and wither on the tree).
- fransje26 3y agoOut of curiosity, in which climate zone are you living?