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climates without frost and little wind. otherwise, the fruits will drop sporadically from the tree, and due to their climateric nature, ripen asynchronously, causing a decrease in yield. additionally, due to the long four to six years period it takes for avocados to propagate, commercial orchards use grafted
variety, with over one million metric tons produced annually. propagation and rootstocks while an avocado propagated by seed can bear fruit, it takes four to six years to do so, and the offspring is unlikely to resemble the parent cultivar in fruit quality. thus, commercial orchards are planted using grafted...
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