Small Avocados

This season seems to be the year of the small avocado.

I have convinced most of my farmers market friends, that small is beautiful, and it takes great skill to grow the small avocados on my trees.

It turns out that two years of drought conditions will do it, as evidenced in this article excerpt from RNZ Country Life 5 Feb 2021.

" In the Bay of Plenty the avocado harvest is very close to the end. A number of small pack-houses have closed and there's just a late tail of supply, mainly heading to Australia where the market's been reasonably buoyant.  A grower and pack-house owner who has been in the business almost 40 years says this season, trees produced the smallest fruit he's ever known. He says that's the result of two winter droughts and last year's biting summer drought.  The fruit's tasting great at the moment - it always does at the end of the season when it's mature and buttery. He says the local market will be well supplied possibly until May - people have been harvesting any larger fruit which will leave smaller fruit on the trees to size-up. "