Hand pollination methods should be described providing infor-mation not only about pollen management (time of collection,viability, storage in the orchard, application, etc.) during the pro-cess but also about the capacity of the stigma to support pollenadhesion and pollen germination at the moment of pollen applica-tion; this is especially important in species such as avocado withprotogynous dichogamy where often crosses involving genotypesof different flower type are performed.