With help from the USDA, Herrera imported almond budwood from Italy and France three years ago. Isidro Pena, of Pena's Pecan Nursery, provided peach seedling rootstock for grafting the almond budwood. The trees were planted at the Fabian Garcia Research Center. But now we have about six trees established, and we're monitoring to see whether they actually bloom later and produce acceptable crops. Almond trees generally can be harvested by the third year.
Full production is reached by the seventh year.