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Do avocado trees fruit in California?

I know that there needs to be a male and female tree for them to produce fruit, but does anyone know if the climate in California permits it? Thank you!

PS. I live in San Rafael...

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    They grow great in San Diego which is the avacado capital of...the US...or something. They are very sensitive to cold weather, though. Any prolong temp of freezing, 32 degrees, will kill the tree branches, or even the whole tree. I don't think that they would grow very well anywhere north of los angeles.

  • 1 decade ago

    There's a highway outside of San Diego called the Avacado Highway, so assume in Sothern California the climate is good!

  • 1 decade ago

    So. Ca. is the primary source of Haas avacados. If citrus grows where you are avacado will too. Grew up in San Diego county. Hate to mow lawns where there are avacado trees though.

  • 1 decade ago

    Here on the California's Central Coast, avocado orchards are plentiful and it is an important agricultural crop. They cannot take a hard freeze, however.

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  • 1 decade ago

    It most certainly does. I've tasted some scrumptous avacados while painting a house in the central valley, where I live.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes in southern California they will fruit abundanly.

    Source(s): My Exes back yard
  • booboo
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Yes, I know they fruit in So. Cal. but I don't know if it is warm enough up here.

    We had a big one in our backyard growing up but it blew over in a storm before we could see if it would produce any avocados! (We're in Sonoma County.)

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    go to any nursery in your area they should have a variety of a selection for you to choose from.

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