What does avocado taste like? Where is the right place to plant?

Avocado is a popular fruit in recent years, the peel is relatively hard, the meat is delicate, there are larger stones, the color is matcha green, looks very fresh. However, not everyone can accept the taste of avocado. So let's see what avocado tastes like. Where to grow it?

What does avocado taste like?

Avocado flesh texture delicate, delicious taste, cheese-like, walnut flavor. Fresh eating method is somewhat special, to cut the fruit into two halves, take out the tennis-sized seeds, pulp mixed with salt, curry, pepper and other spices, will become authentic cold dish. If the pulp is used as an ingredient to make high-grade avocado ice cream, it can be compared with ordinary ice cream. Eating fresh avocado fruit can really appreciate the unique fruit flavor, but also can obtain rich nutrition.

Compared with ordinary fruits, avocado pulp fat content is as high as 30%, 20~200 times that of bananas, 40~400 times that of apples, so there is a "tree butter" reputation, comparable to butter. Most of the fat it contains is unsaturated fatty acid (that is, less cholesterol), which is easily digested and absorbed, and its digestibility reaches 93%, which is more suitable for the elderly and infirm to recuperate. In addition, avocado also has high protein, high energy and low sugar characteristics. It is also known as "fruit".

2) Where is the fruit grown?

Avocado is a tropical fruit, so it requires more sunlight and water in some parts of life. Therefore, in today's fruit growing areas, it is generally not grown in China, because sometimes the temperature in China is very high, so it is not good to grow this kind of fruit. During the fruit growth period, there is at least a portion of the day exposed to the sun, and at least 8 hours of the day, all of which are exposed to the sun. Without enough sunlight, plants will struggle to survive, so they won't produce any more fruit.

1. Covering

Avocado is a fruit tree that grows in tropical rain forest conditions and competitive sunlight. The environment of high temperature and humidity makes it grow rapidly, and if environmental conditions are not available, it will grow slowly. Therefore, foreign avocado cultivation emphasizes growing grass or planting green manure near the plant in the early stage, and covering a large amount of soil near the rhizosphere. By covering to increase the organic matter of the topsoil, a rainforest rhizosphere environment similar to that of the original place is formed to stabilize the rhizosphere ecological conditions and promote the reproduction of microorganisms that can inhibit root rot activities. Therefore, it is particularly important to carry out tree tray saplings from the young tree stage to the tree itself before the formation of the cover layer through deciduous leaves and the occurrence of root rot. It starts to cover in winter, adds thickness in spring, and forms a good cover in summer. The rhizosphere mulch can also reduce evaporation of soil moisture, alleviate the damage of dry heat to avocado, reduce soil temperature in summer and increase soil temperature in winter, increase soil organic matter, reduce weeds and prevent soil erosion on sloping land. However, in rainy season, it is necessary to prevent the soil from being too wet.

2. Drainage water

Avocado is evergreen all year round. It needs to keep the rhizosphere soil moist all year round. It is very sensitive to soil drought. Once there is water shortage, the physiological function is blocked, the tree vigor is weak, resulting in deciduous fruit and reduced cold resistance in winter. Therefore, it is necessary to irrigate properly during drought. It is important to keep soil moisture from fruiting to fruit ripening. If the first month of fruiting is affected by drought, the young fruit will fall off seriously. In Hainan Island, the dry and hot weather in April and May caused avocado fruit to drop seriously. Therefore, if it is sunny for 10~20 days, the soil of the garden begins to crack, it should be irrigated in time; the rainfall is lower than transpiration and evaporation for a long time, and irrigation should also be supplemented. However, irrigation should be just right, both sufficient and avoid excessive, generally wet soil is appropriate, if too wet, will aggravate root rot, but also reduce the content of fruit soluble solids. It is best to use sprinkler irrigation or drip irrigation, flood irrigation may cause root rot, drip irrigation can save 50%~60%. If drought leaves begin to curl, crown spraying can also be carried out. Pay attention to drainage in rainy season, especially in flat orchards.

3. Fertilization

1~4 years after avocado planting, avocado high yield and high quality cultivation laying the foundation of the period, should be rational fertilization, promote rapid growth of young trees. A sign of a lack of fat in butter trees is heavy defoliation and withered branches. The rational fertilization of avocado young trees and fruiting trees should be determined according to soil fertility, age, plant growth or growth and fruiting conditions. Nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and other complete fertilizers are generally applied in a balanced manner, and it is best to guide fertilization through nutrient analysis of soil and leaves. Red soil slopes in South China are deficient in organic matter, available K and P, so more attention should be paid to the application of K and P fertilizers.

The root system of avocado young trees is easily damaged by nitrogen fertilizer, and more nitrogen fertilizer is easy to make branches and leaves grow excessively, delaying fruit bearing, so attention should be paid to nitrogen fertilizer application. In foreign countries, pure nitrogen was applied to each plant from 110 to 450g per year, increasing year by year with age, half of which was organic fertilizer as nitrogen source. A small amount should be applied frequently in the first year after planting. In frosty areas, nitrogen fertilizer should be stopped in autumn and winter, and phosphorus and potassium fertilizers should be applied more to avoid cold damage to winter shoots. Calcium superphosphate is 900g per plant per year. Potassium sulfate was applied 1.8~ 2.2 kg per plant per year.