2024

Natural Honey Products

Beekeeping is an important foundation for an efficient avocado production. Beehives in the avocado farm are important for avocado flower pollination by honey bees. Avocado trees need lots of bees to pollinate all the flowers. If the bees don't always do a good job of pollination, fruit crops can be poor. Avocado trees may have hundreds of thousands of flowers, but for some reason like wind, lack of enough water, enough fertilizer and with support good pollination with support of bees, not many of them will produce fruit.

Avocados have an unusual system of flowering to prevent self-pollination. Each tree can be almost covered by hundreds of Thousands of tiny flowers – look at the flowers one day and they may be female, but the next day the same flowers will be male. The timing of this change is different in different avocado cultivars. In some cultivars, a flower opens in the morning as a female with a stigma, and then closes at about midday. It reopens in the afternoon of the next day, but this time as a male with pollen. The flower closes in the evening and stays closed. In other cultivars, flowering is the other way round – flowers open in the afternoon as female, close, then reopen the next morning as male.