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Avocado Update – Week 2

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Remember the amazing synchronous dichogamy that is the begatting strategy of avocados? No? Go here.

I figured if the girl bee workers had done their job, some of the ovaries of these avocado blossoms would be swollen.

Before:

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And indeed. After

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Sacrificing a future, creamy fleshed avocado, I dissected a bloom. And about the size of two pinheads was the result:

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For science. Is this the tiniest avocado you’ve ever seen?

Stay tuned.

 

 

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