Cultural Management Topics

The California Avocado Commission works diligently to provide growers with the latest information concerning avocado cultural management best practices in an effort to help growers optimize productivity and sustainability. The articles within this library are made possible by CAC's collaborative research and outreach initiatives with leading avocado, horticultural, pest and diseases management experts around the globe.

Disease

Wildfire and wind assistance

Fire

Flowering

Freeze Protection

Fruit Size/Quality

A 4-year-old Hass tree at Pine Tree Ranch, Santa Paula, showing heat damage to several branches.

Heat

Harvesting

Irrigation

Managing Alternate Bearing

Mulching/Soil

Nutrition

Pests

Pollination

Post Harvest

Pruning

Salinity

Wind Protection

Yields/Productivity