The last three years we have had cold springs and this really hurts the avocado's. Honey Bees do not come out to pollinate when it's 58 degrees and below. The last few years the only tree out of my ten plus that had avocado's was the REED avocado. This one blossoms in May and one I would suggest buying it if you live in Laguna Hills. Gary from Laguna Nursery in Tustin has them in sleeves for $36 dollars--it's a high quality brand from a commercial nursery. I have grafted a Reed from its mother and I will see if it takes--but it's much easier to buy one. Grafting is great but it also takes time to grow a fruiting tree. If you buy a sleeve it will take another two years for fruit. Grafting is about equal time if you have a healthy root stock to graft on. But growing avocado's takes years and a lot of fertilizer and water. Full sun is needed along with mulch and I find steer manure works well for nitrogen. I have tracked the temperatures and there is data on this as well from weather sites and reports. This year all the trees had blossoms but so far no avocado's. Also lack of Honey bees; two of my known neighbors who had hives have stopped raising them. One because of too close proximity to the horse trail and another because they became difficult near the chickens. I have also written to the city asking them to consider dedicated space for Honey bees. Philadelphia, Pa does this as do other cities. WE can too if we can find a space, a commercial grower might be interested as well and if we have some land to do this. The plight of Honey bees is well documented and as a city we can do something about this. We can write to the city asking for any way they might consider doing something about our lack of bees. A joint effort might work. So another alternative is to raise bumble bees. Bumble bees will come out at 50 degrees and above. I will be making a nest for them. They are solitary bees for the most part and never attack. So this is my new plan. I do have a mason bee hive but so far it's still empty. In my yard I do have three types of bees, Carpenter, Honey and Bumble bee. Also very important are butterflies and moths they pollinate as well--even flies will pollinate. So using chemicals of any kind in your yard and on your trees will stop pollination. So don't spray ever on blossoms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Rov9YG1Mw Weather change is here folks and we have to adapt to it unfortunately. In my yard I have cactus fruit up to stone fruit, tropical and even bananas but it appears we are colder than normal now. The Papayas also died and this will be another year of poor banana output. But the cherries might be good. So we must plant diversity and hope for the best. At least we got our rain!!!!!! Everything you do helps in our quest for flowers and fruit. If you only grow flowers you help the bees and help your neighbors!!! We can all do something for our environment one plant at a time!!!!