One of the better ‘home garden advantage’ avocados. From time to time a home garden seedling will be superior to Hass in the early part of the Hass season. And that is the case here.
Picked 18 September, it was ripe on the 25th. So roughly a week.
This fruit is better than Hass at this time of year (early Spring), oily, rich, but not as nutty as Hass.
The flesh is between soft/firm, and the very thin skin peels OK (ish).
It has some fibers, albeit they are not particularly intrusive. Like many thin skinned-green fruit, it develops black spotting of the exterior skin when ripe. These spots don’t intrude into the flesh, at least in this season, they are cosmetic.
The fruit (so far) vary quite a bit in size, from about 150 grams to about 290 grams. The seed size varies from small (as illustrated above) to large in larger fruit sizes (below).
It is a Gwen seedling. The pollen parent, as usual, is unknown.
Like Gwen itself, the tree is ‘temperamental’, soaking up nitrogen without greening up satisfactorily. To be fair, I can’t discount the beginning of Phytopthora infection. But it does have the virtue of not being excessively vigorous.
It seems to be an ‘A’ flowering type, and at this point it has a long flowering period, starting with a modest winter flowering, and, like Carmen Hass, setting a few winter-set fruit.
It remains to be seen whether or not it will fruit well in the longer term.
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Avocado Gene Expression, Climate, and Society 