[scottmandue]

The tree usually gives fruit every other year but has not in the last three years. The house and tree has been in the family for about thirty years and the tree was mature when my brother bought the house. It has very strange fruit, large round and hard, the size and shape of grapefruit. I have automatic sprinklers so it gets watered three time a week in summer. Typically it buds, flowers, the old leaves turn brown and fall off while new leaves and fruit grow out. The last three years all the buds fall off so we get no fruit. I am not sure what the best pruning procedure is, I just cut off the dead branches ever few years but someone told my dad we should leave them on.

Can anyone help me with the care and feeding of an old avocado tree?

Thanks,
Scott