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swimmer5555
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Best Avocado Variety to plant
Anyone know the best avocado variety to plant I am settling on a Lamb Hass right now.
), but my climate is just too cold. I did start an avocado plant from a pit from a store-bought avocado, though. -
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I came across a really great wbpage on avocado varieties.... Now WHERE was it??? ...be back in a flash! 
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https://www.ucavo.ucr.edu/AvocadoVarieties/AvocadoVarieties.html
(The one you mentioned isn't on their list, is it, Lorax?)
Do come back and let us know your thoughts/conclusions. Are you planting in your garden? You must be located where you can grow them? I'm mostly limited to dreaming and growing them in containers for fun, so I just keep growing avocados from seeds.
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https://www.ucavo.ucr.edu/AvocadoVarieties/AvocadoVarieties.html(The one you mentioned isn't on their list, is it, Lorax?)
Do come back and let us know your thoughts/conclusions. Are you planting in your garden? You must be located where you can grow them? I'm mostly limited to dreaming and growing them in containers for fun, so I just keep growing avocados from seeds.
[img]https://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll272/applesbucket/Image8272.jpg[/img]
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lorax
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It does appear that Sto. Domingo Reds aren't there, but neither are a number of the cultivars that I grow/buy/eat down here.
For sheer flavour, nothing beats the Sto. Domingo, but for volume, there's a type called Emeralds that can weigh up to about 3 lbs each with small pits and yellowish flesh - they're sold as "party" avocados because one will make a whole snotload of dip or easily enough slices to accompany about 20 bowls of Locro de Queso (a hearty cheese and potato soup that is always eaten with a generous slice of avocado floated on top).
For sheer flavour, nothing beats the Sto. Domingo, but for volume, there's a type called Emeralds that can weigh up to about 3 lbs each with small pits and yellowish flesh - they're sold as "party" avocados because one will make a whole snotload of dip or easily enough slices to accompany about 20 bowls of Locro de Queso (a hearty cheese and potato soup that is always eaten with a generous slice of avocado floated on top).
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lorax
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Garden5 - the yeild for a mature avocado tree in full production is close to 500 lbs a year.
Blah, I got my Sto. Domingo Red from a friend as a gift, and my Esmeraldas was a scion that I grafted onto roots from a random pit - everything I've mentioned are local cultivars to such an extent that I haven't even seen them in Colombia or Peru. I can't send live plant material at the moment (there are several complex and difficult to source permits that I don't have), but if you ask [url=https://www.ecuagenera.com]Ecuagenera[/url] nicely, they might be willing to source and sell you scions.
Blah, I got my Sto. Domingo Red from a friend as a gift, and my Esmeraldas was a scion that I grafted onto roots from a random pit - everything I've mentioned are local cultivars to such an extent that I haven't even seen them in Colombia or Peru. I can't send live plant material at the moment (there are several complex and difficult to source permits that I don't have), but if you ask [url=https://www.ecuagenera.com]Ecuagenera[/url] nicely, they might be willing to source and sell you scions.
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I would love to get a piece of your scion wood if your offering. Can you mail it?lorax wrote:Garden5 - the yeild for a mature avocado tree in full production is close to 500 lbs a year.
Blah, I got my Sto. Domingo Red from a friend as a gift, and my Esmeraldas was a scion that I grafted onto roots from a random pit - everything I've mentioned are local cultivars to such an extent that I haven't even seen them in Colombia or Peru. I can't send live plant material at the moment (there are several complex and difficult to source permits that I don't have), but if you ask nicely, they might be willing to source and sell you scions.