The heat was overwhelming (60 consecutive tropical nights, hosepipe ban, more than 100 towns in France had no drinking water). I have to plant them in a line of north to south. Many thanks in advance for your help and advice! It is only slightly pebbled with yellowish bumps, much smaller than the ones found on a Hass. I hope to hear more updates from you. Of course, they dont understand the function of that leaf litter. We just planted our fifth haas (never say die) but when we popped it out of the pot it had white minerals all on the roots and already has a black ominous patch on the trunk- just from being watered on our deck from the hose for several months. In fact I find that Pinkerton here is actually better than down South and in fact better than Hass. I dont think youll regret a Hass/Bacon pair unless you dont like the milder taste of Bacon. Watering. Funny thing is that Hass was once an outsider. Reed, Thats said, I learnt a lot))), At first I wanted to plant a Hass(A-type) and a Fuerte (B-type), because some people said they pollinise well each other (I read several articles about avocado pollination, though I still dont understant how an A-variety can complement a B-variety, if they do not flower during the same months?! I love my Hass. Daily 11 Avocado. Bacon grows somewhat vertically, but it is likely to grow faster than the GEM. I think youre absolutely right not to share more about this tree. Blossom Type: B Fruit Shape: Clavate Skin Color Unripe: Green Skin Color Ripe: Green Skin Thickness: Medium Average Fruit Weight oz: 10 to 18 %Ratio Seed/Skin/Flesh: 9:12:79 Click on image to enlarge Additional Information: Popular in Australia. (This is June 22, 2019.) Do you like its eating qualities about as well as Sharwil? The key difference is that Florida avocados contain a lot less fat. About the winter/spring varieties that you mentioned: I dont know how much heat Wurtz can handle. And if you dont care about getting lots of fruit, then Holiday is a fine choice; it also naturally grows more like a shrub, which might look appropriate in a pot. That sounds like a nice combination of trees, and it sounds like theyre growing very well. However, apart from my own garden, I do some gardening in my parish churchs park, also in Nice. Ive been told that landfills in other counties offer similar products. Hass beats almost everyone at the length of its harvest season. This is great news that you found and planted so many trees in Portugal! In Europe, I can buy: But I have to emphasize that this is just secondhand information. Thanks Greg. My trees are young now, but Im a few years I will ask for your location and send you a barrel of all my varieties. Wish Maddocks was open on the weekend so i could check it out. Thanks, Keith. Ive never bought from Clausen but have heard good results from a friend who has bought avocado trees there. that is why I decided to find out by growing two trees and to report on them. Make sure that you water the tree every day to retain the moisture, and remove it to an area that still gets sunlight during cold weather moths, but is protected from frosts and freezes (a large sunny room is perfect). Thanks. I am thinking Dusa for Hass (everyone says that Hass avocado grafted on Dusa is more productive than on Duke 7) But I have no idea about Reed, because no scientific study mentions Reed (I guess this is because it is not a commercial variety anymore). Unfortunately, people here seldom grow avocados, it is just not in our culture which is strange, because people do eat avocados a lot, and you find them in every supermarket. A Florida avocado has the same kind of fats but in much lower quantities. CA avocados like Lamb Hass don't do well in FL and vice versa. Historic photo of Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Hass in front of an avocado tree For commercial purposes the fruits are picked while unripe and ripened after harvesting. If either gets too tall for your picking needs, just give it a haircut! Ill do it again this summer to figure out where not to plant less heat tolerant plants. It means a lot to me! Avocados don't ripen while hanging on the tree. Edranol, Ettinger, Hass, Sharwil and Zutano were mid-season flowerers. In case you didnt know, Im also in Ramona. It seems that I should have bought the first Ettinger I saw five years ago. It will be in the first week of October. They must look at my yard and think its disgusting! Atkins has a bunch of other varieties that you never see around. 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Learn how you can support The Yard Posts here. They call it Standard or 4 mulch. Eli mentions that hes swamped with GEM orders, and that he had to save one for me since I contacted him in February because hes completely out of GEM right now. Its single disadvantage is its black color, which has been associated in the minds of the public with poor quality fruits, wrote, Then why isnt Fuerte my top choice? So surprised I bought one to see how well it works as a hedge as you mentioned in another article. Black on trunk and brown leaves suggest sunburn and lack of water. Im in Ramona, which calls itself the Valley of the Sun, and its not too different here. TREE SIZES. If I only have space for one avocado tree, could I graft several varieties to this one tree, or is this not recommended? Nice work! Ive never had a tree-matured Reed. Im in Van Nuys, which is Sunset Zone 18. americana) Greg The Reed is only two years old and have not harvested any fruit yet. By 1991, Sharwil was finally cleared for export and shipments were. But keep this in mind: each of these three varieties is capable of producing a hundred avocados on a tree thats less than 15-feet tall even if its not close to an opposite-type tree. Then why isnt Fuerte my top choice? Most of the other retail nurseries buy from the same wholesale growers (La Verne and Durling). Its season should complement the GEM well, and the growing pattern shouldnt be too intrusive. In Point Loma/Sunset Cliffs, just make sure the trees arent stressed from lack of water and you should prevent whatever fruitlet drop is possible to prevent. Robert. Avocado flowers are cross-pollinated which means that developing independent genetic lines is difficult. Oval-shaped and dark-green in color, the Choquette avocado originated in Florida and is a mix of two different types - Guatemalan and West Indian. Kona Sharwil Avocado. By black sand I meant sandy loom. 'Wilma' cold-hardy avocado fruits weigh up to six ounces (182g). The fruit is tasty, but not that tasty. This has happened before when a local avocado grower put a video of a seedling with huge avocados up on YouTube. Hi Greg, The Different Types According To Region Of Origin Horticulturally, avocados are classified into three categories, based on the regions of their origin. (Compare that to many peaches, which cant hold their mature fruit for more than a couple weeks!). Really, grafted avocado trees can kill themselves by fruiting too much too soon. All I can say is wow! Full sun I grew up in the San Gabriel Valley. Great article Greg! Ps. Zutano, This is how your year in avocados could look. Give your avocado tree about 15 feet of space from other trees and plants. You could try a different variety, but I doubt that would significantly change your results. The Reed avocado variety is a chance seedling of Nabal, selected by James Reed in California in 1948. Thanks for the kind words. They will always stay true to who they are (unlike Hass, who with one whiff of heat or pressure shapeshift quicker than a Harry Potter character). Better now than never. I will order the combination you recommended. Thanks really enjoy your posts! North American market for . Youve spurred me to finally post on some portion of the topic at least. BTW Thank you for the great info youve published. Let me get things together on my side before I share too much about the Lamorinda tree. Sharwils harvest season compared to Reed will likely be more similar to Hass at your location. Or, just to be on the safe side (in case Dusa doesnt function well in our soil) have one Dusa and one Duke 7? I really appreciate reading your expert advice and opinion about your experiences. As a matter of fact, choosing the varieties was just the beginning)))) Your description makes the tree and its fruit sound very appealing. Just so you and other readers know, my yard is in inland San Diego County near the town of Ramona. Sixty percent shade cloth over the trees can work as long as its only over the top (not wrapping the entire tree) and more than a few inches higher than the tree (not almost touching the top leaves). Now, less fat might sound good, but the fats found in Hass avocados are very healthy. B types might not open many flowers as female in your cool spring conditions. I would like a dwarf variety to keep in a large pot on a deck about 4 miles from the San Diego Coast. A single, 25-foot Hass tree will give you a few hundred avocados in a good year, but a tree kept pruned to 10 or 15 feet would give you fewer. The elderly couples yard suddenly became an internet sensation and these people kept getting surprise visitors in their front yard until they asked people to take videos of their tree off of YouTube and started turning visitors away. They have both Reed and Hass, both Duke 7 and Dusa. Medium sized, pear-shaped fruit has an excellent creamy, flesh. We may have an improved Fuerte. GEM trees are a bit hard to come by, unfortunately. I have records of the bloom seasons of all of my trees, and Id be happy to share about specific varieties. Ive seen high-density plantings get crowded after the first few years and then the yield is reduced and the grove is impenetrable jungle. We made and wholesaled guacamole on Kauai, Hawaii for 10 years. They grow great but just dont produce as much fruit. Thanks so much in advance 7 years ago. These are varieties that take a long time to get big enough to be useful as shade trees compared to other varieties. But Ill let you know how they grow. We might be on to something. 1 year old Pinkerton on unknown seedling Thanks for all of these wonderful updates. Thanks for the feedback. I would think that arctic blasts during winter will be your main limiting factor. Was looking at Sir Prize, your article leans toward Haas, stay with Haas? maybe you missed my question on May 2, 2020 or I missed your reply, with 3 citrus trees and room for one avocado on the central coast of California, Cayucos. Results and timelines of grafted avocados. The second time I tried in on avocado toast and to my surprise it tasted even more like Fuerte. Fruits are of high market quality due to its exceptional flavor, high oil content and small seed. I am looking for something to pair with Hass for extended season and help in pollination. It's the plant hormone ethylene, which occurs . I enjoy hearing your feedback on Holiday. So, I want versions that handle topping well or are naturally small. Where do you guys find Reeds in San Diego? Also my grandfather said growing up in Los Angeles they had Mcarthur avocados, Have you ever heard of them? I finally managed to buy 1 Hass (on Duke 7) in a local nursery in June 2022 (they sell avocado trees only in May-June). If your Reed is on Dusa and its doing well so far, then I would get those other trees on Dusa too. Hi Greg, Yes, before asking you about the rootstocks, I checked if there was anything about avocado rootstocks on The Yard Posts! We have/had four avo trees planted next to each other. Thank you for your great thoughts on Avos! The global Hass Avocado market is projected to reach USD million by 2028 from an estimated USD million in 2022, at a CAGR of Percent during 2023 and 2028. This is so fun! I live on the edge here in the San Fernando Valley when it comes to frost (and heat) so in addition to my Reed I have planted Sir Prize, Stewart, and Mexicola as cooler weather backups. In August I managed to order more avocado trees directly from Brokaw (Spain). I have a spreadsheet of many varieties and their seasons and how they all align based on flower type. I think we do have tomato phytophthora. And if I couldnt find a Fuerte, Id substitute a Pinkerton. 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