Welcome to the culmination of our planning phase! With your land prepared, your irrigation system set up, your orchard mapped, your soil tested, and your varieties chosen, the final strategic step is creating the Final Orchard Map to ensure maximum yield.
This step is all about optimizing nature through intelligent placement.
Understanding Avocado Flowering Types: Type A and Type B
Avocado plants exhibit a unique flowering characteristic, which requires cross-pollination to maximize fruit set. Varieties are categorized into two types:
- Type A: When the male flower opens, the female flower of a Type B plant opens.
- Type B: When the female flower of a Type A plant opens, the male flower of a Type B plant opens.
Why Both Are Essential: By having both Type A and Type B varieties in your field, you ensure that male and female flowers are open at the same time on opposite types. This facilitates cross-pollination by honey bees, dramatically increasing your fruit set and, consequently, your total yield.
When you choose your varieties from a specialist like Indo Israel Avocado, they will recommend both a Type A and a Type B variety to guarantee this crucial cross-pollination.
Strategic Plant Placement on Your Final Map
Once your varieties are finalized, you must place them strategically on your orchard map. The goal is to intersperse the two types to maximize the chances of successful pollination across the entire field.
In large-scale orchards, a common pattern is to place one or two rows of a Type B plant after every eight rows of a Type A plant.
Our New Orchard Strategy: To ensure robust cross-pollination for our 1000-plant field, we adopted a tighter ratio:
- Four rows of a Type A variety
- Followed by one row of a Type B variety
- Followed by another four rows of Type A
This pattern is repeated throughout the orchard, ensuring that the Type B line is flanked by Type A lines on both sides, which significantly increases the likelihood of cross-pollination.
The Final Step: Confirmation
Once your final orchard map is complete and you have determined the exact placement of every Type A and Type B plant, you are done with the planning!
The only step left is to confirm your plant order with the Indo Israel Avocado nursery and complete the payment. Everything is now set and ready for planting!
Next Steps and Resources
Note that planting the Avocado Orchard is just the beginning. It is also crucial that we manage the plants well in order to maximize our yield and profits. For that, Avocado plant nutrition and fertigation becomes the most important thing to master.
If you are interested in learning how to correctly interpret your soil, leaf, and water tests to create an effective fertigation schedule, we have an Indo-Israel Avocado Fertigation Course to help you achieve the kind of rapid growth we’ve seen in our 2-year-old orchard.
Stay tuned for our next episode as we continue our journey on How to Plant 1000 Avocado Plants!
