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New and Old Citrus and Avocado Guides

Citrus Information

Dr. Robert McNeil, emeritus professor of the Fruit Science Department at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, taught citriculture and avoculture there for many years.  He has made his citrus notes available on our website - https://ucanr.edu/sites/default/files/2025-07/mc%20neil%20citrus%20guide_1.pdf . His avocado guide can be found at: http://www.avocadosource.com/books/mcneilrobert2024.pdf

Other sources of information for the two crops can be found below.

Citrus pest management

Grafton-Cardwell, E. E., J. G. Morse, N. V. O'Connell, P. A. Phillips, C. E. Kallsen, and D. R. Haviland, 2003.  UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines: Citrus.  ANR Publication 3441.  http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/selectnewpest.citrus.html

 

Integrated Pest Management for Citrus—3rd Edition

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Publication Number: 3303 

Copyright Date: 2012 

Length: 270 pp. 

ISBN-13: 978-1-60107-696-0 

https://anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/Details.aspx?itemNo=3303

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Citrus Production Manual

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Publication Number: 3539 

Copyright Date: 2014 

Length: 433 pp. 

ISBN-13: 978-1-60107-840-7 

Author: L. Ferguson, E. Grafton-Cardwell 

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Avocado Pest Management – UC IPM

https://ipm.ucanr.edu/agriculture/avocado/#gsc.tab=0

 

Integrated Pest Management for Avocados 

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Publication Number: 3503 

Propagating Avocados: Principles and Techniques of Nursery and Field Grafting 

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This extensively illustrated leaflet offers methods of propagation, along with step-by-step instructions on current grafting techniques.

Publication Number: 21461 

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