If you’re planting avocado trees, one of the most important things to understand is pollination. While many avocado varieties can produce fruit on their own, planting two different types—Type A and Type B—can significantly improve your results.
🌸 How Avocado Flowering Works
Avocado trees have a unique flowering system. Each variety is either Type A or Type B, and their flowers open at different times of the day:
- Type A: Female in the morning, male in the afternoon
- Type B: Female in the afternoon, male the next morning
Because of this timing, planting both types nearby allows for better cross-pollination, which leads to:
✔️ Higher fruit set
✔️ Larger harvests
✔️ More consistent production year after year
🌱 Best Avocado Pairings
Here are some excellent combinations using popular varieties:
Reliable Combinations
- Simmonds (A) + Monroe (B)
- Choquette (A) + Monroe (B)
- Day (A) + Bacon (B)
Premium Flavor Pairings
- Hass (A) + Oro Negro (B)
- Lamb Hass (A) + Oro Negro (B)
- Ooh La La / Super Hass (A) + Fuerte (B)
Cold-Hardy Options (Great for Central Florida)
- Mexicola Grande (A) + Brogdon (B)
- Fantastic (A) + Bacon (B)
- Winter Mexican (A) + Brogdon (B)
Small Yard / Container Friendly
- Wurtz (A) + Bacon (B)
- Wurtz (A) + Fuerte (B)
🌿 Pairing Options by Variety
To help you choose, here are recommended pairings for each variety:
- Mexicola Grande (A): Brogdon, Bacon, Fuerte
- Bacon (B): Simmonds, Wurtz, Hass
- Choquette (A): Monroe, Bacon, Fuerte
- Monroe (B): Simmonds, Choquette, Day
- Hass (A): Oro Negro, Fuerte, Bacon
- Simmonds (A): Monroe, Bacon, Brogdon
- Winter Mexican (A): Brogdon, Bacon
- Ooh La La (A): Oro Negro, Fuerte, Bacon
- Russell (A): Fuerte, Bacon, Monroe
- Wurtz (A): Bacon, Fuerte, Brogdon
- Lamb Hass (A): Oro Negro, Fuerte, Bacon
- Lula (A): Monroe, Bacon, Brogdon
- Doni (A): Bacon, Fuerte
- Black Princess (A): Oro Negro, Bacon, Fuerte
- Fuerte (B): Hass, Wurtz, Simmonds
- Oro Negro (B): Hass, Lamb Hass, Day
- Anise (A): Bacon, Fuerte
- Day (A): Bacon, Oro Negro, Fuerte
- Fantastic (A): Bacon, Brogdon
- Nishikawa (B): Hass, Simmonds, Wurtz
- Nesbitt (A): Bacon, Fuerte, Monroe
- Brogdon (B): Mexicola Grande, Simmonds, Wurtz
- Thompson Red (A): Bacon, Fuerte
- Marcus Pumpkin (A): Bacon, Fuerte, Monroe
