Avocados

We have a beautiful mature avocado tree on our property that we moved to 3 years ago. The first year, it produced tons of the most amazing, delicious avocados, unlike any that I have tasted anywhere else. Last year it produced some fruit but they never matured, and ended up falling off the tree with the wind. This year, nothing, not a single avocado. Anyone have any ideas what the cause of this could be? I'm on Crete and we are having increasingly extreme weather events here, so wondering if this could be the cause? My other thought is that the tree has 2 suckers that have turned into full on trees, but didn't produce fruit in that 1st year we were here. Could these 2 suckers be competing with or taking energy from the main tree? Should they be cut down?

Hey Dareios,
our avocado tree in Andalucia produces every year, although the years differ.

Ours never ripen on the tree. You pick them and then wait till they get ripe. Or did you mean they dropped off the tree before reaching "maturity"?

What I do know about avocado is that they need lots of water. Like tons of it. No problem where I am, we have all year running rivers that feed the irrigation. Did you water your tree? Did it rain enough?

Did the tree flower? Was it raining while it did? Or did you have a sand storm? We often have Kalima, desert sand, come in around that time of year (March). And if that gets on the flowers they wont be able to be pollinated.

I don't think the suckers should be a problem. Unless they are from under the graft line. Many avocado trees here get seriously cut back and benefit from the new growth.

Do you know what variety you have?
Can you post some photo of the tree (and best case the fruit also, cut in half)?