AEPS 355-Avocado Exam || with 100% Accurate Solutions.

Maturity vs Ripeness correct answers Avocados reach maturity on the tree. Once they have reached maturity, the avocados are capable of ripening. How do you determine when to harvest avocados? correct answers Determine when to harvest based on oil content. Oil content will increase later in the season and avocados will ripen faster Why does the CA Avocado Commission test SD county first? correct answers SD county will be the first avocados to be harvested. What is the harvest release date based on? correct answers Based on maturity Selective vs Strip correct answers Selective picking is most common. Selective is when pickers pick the larger fruit to receive a higher price. Selective picking results in fewer sinks that allows remaining fruit to get larger. Strip pick at the end of the season to remove all of the fruit Clip picking correct answers When clipping fruit off the tree, pickers need to clip the pedicle. Most pickers will get the fruit off of the tree and then clip the pedicle. Pedicle on avocado is referred to as the "button" Snap picking correct answers When snap picking, grab the fruit, twist it, and pull it off the tree. There will be no pedicle, allowing the fruit to ripen faster since there is no inhibitor slowing down the ripening process. This picking method loses water faster than clip; however, the rate of fruit rot is lower. Snap picking is easier, faster, and requires less labor. Post Harvest - Ripening correct answers Ripening is dependent on which company and who the company is selling to. Avocados are extremely sensitive to ethylene. Before treating avocados with ethylene, store fruit in cold storage to reduce the production of ethylene. The production of ethylene promotes additional production of more ethylene amongst the fruit. Marketing Issues correct answers Alternate bearing - yield continues to change over time, relatively large fluctuation in the price of the fruit, and typically all avocado growers will end up on the same cycle of alternate bearing Marketing Trends correct answers Imports - avocados are imported form Mexico; there had been talk of lower quality fruit and pest control. Hass Avocado Board - $0.025/lb go towards marketing avocados; Mexican avocados were allowed to be imported into CA; increase in avocado demand -- supply fruit from all over to cover consumer demand Stem Canker/Collar Rot correct answers Comes behind root rot as one disease needed to be controlled Gradual loss of vigor unlike root rot with rapid loss Leaves retain normal size; loss of leaves is gradual Trunk and major anchoring roots are infected