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How to Manage Pests
UC Pest Management Guidelines
Avocado
Manipulating Cultural Practices and Growing Conditions
(Reviewed 1/07,
updated 1/07)
In this Guideline:
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Cultural practices and growing conditions can be
manipulated (X) in an IPM program to help prevent and control
avocado pests and disorders and improve fruit yield.
| Pest or Problem |
Cultural
Practices and Growing Conditions |
| Ant control |
Border vegetation management |
Dust control |
Fertilization |
Irrigation amount and frequency |
Irrigation water quality |
Harvest methods and timing |
Mulching |
Pruning |
Rootstock certified pathogen-free |
Rootstock cultivar |
Sanitation |
Scion cultivar |
Site selection |
Soil preparation |
Water placement, irrigation method |
| Diseases |
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| Armillaria root rot |
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| avocado black streak |
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| bacterial canker |
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| Dothiorella canker |
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| fruit rots |
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| Phytophthora canker, crown rot |
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| Phytophthora root rot |
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| sunblotch |
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| Verticillium wilt |
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| Disorders |
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| aeration, root asphyxiation |
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| frost tolerance |
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| nutrient disorders |
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| poor drainage |
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| salinity |
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| sunburn |
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| Invertebrates |
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| avocado brown mite |
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| avocado thrips |
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| caterpillars |
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| glassy-winged sharpshooter |
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| greenhouse thrips |
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| Homoptera |
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| persea mite |
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| pests of young trees only |
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| sixspotted mite |
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| Other |
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| vertebrates |
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| water contamination, soil loss |
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| weeds |
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UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines: Avocado
UC ANR Publication 3436
General Information
Acknowledgment for contributions to General Horticultural information:
M. L. Arpaia, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside
M. L. Bianchi, UC Cooperative Extension, San Luis Obispo County
C. J. Lovatt, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside
P. Mauk, UC Cooperative Extension, Riverside County
G. W. Witney, California Avocado Commission, Irvine, CA
Acknowledgment for contributions to Vertebrates:
R. E. Marsh (emeritus), Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, UC Davis
T. P. Salmon, UC Cooperative Extension, San Diego County
R. O. Baker, California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, CA
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