Hi from Ft Walton beach.. Currently have a 3 year old bacon, and 3 year old Lila.. Bacon suffered damage in 22, but survived and has grown back nicely, this years cold damaged some leaves but thats it. My Lila has never had so much as a brown leaf, including its very first year. That plant is tough. Just added a Hall, and a winter Mexican. I grow all quite a few bananas, citrus, peaches, apples, pineapple guava etc.. Glad i found your channel. Cheers.
Hello mate I grow some avocados of Mexican genetics in the north of Spain some clues help to identify the original genetics of an avocado tree For example, the shape, size, thickness of the leaf and its smell Mexican genetics usually have slightly smaller and rounded leaves, they are also usually thicker, and rigid, almost as if they were bay leaves, and especially if the pinches smell of anise, licorice or sasafrol Do you have a sectional photo of the fruit? the thickness of the skin also gives data, Mexicans usually have thin, smooth and edible skin the shape and size of the seed is usually large and somewhat egg-shaped or elongated the peduncle of the fruit in the Mexican is not as thick and with nodes like yours that is more typical of Guatemalan genetics Did your tree grow from seed? If so, it may be a bit hybrid and have some mix of origins, although it is quite Mexican. It has a lot of genetics of Mexican Creole varieties, it could be close to "Puebla" What is a Creole variety the date the fruit ripens also gives clues, my mexican bears its first ripe fruit at the end of August, yours seem to turn black a little earlier the weight and size of the fruit also gives clues all the best
Hey from Niceville! Amazing Avocado 🥑 tree! Glad I found your channel. Newbie here. I have a 5 ft: Lila, Joey and Fantastic Avocado 🥑 trees. Keep the videos coming!
Give me a subscription. I'm going to start posting more. My only advice is to protect these trees in the first two years in ground or at minimum until the trunk is 4 inches diameter. Otherwise it will die back to ground or close to it. Most "cold hardy" avocados on my property died, with only a few that died back to just above the graft. I did not protect so learned my lesson.
@@xrsjohnm I'll do a video when my new avocados get delivered - I have 30 gallon Poncho and Fantastic on the way. My Lila, Fantastic, Florida Hass, and 1 of my Brogdons died all the way to just above the graft. Everything else died or came back below the graft. That includes my other Brogdon, Day, Taylor, Mexicola, Lula, Winter Mexican, and Bacon. It was truly an experiment to test the cold hardiness. I feel like if you protect these trees until the trunk gets thicker (4 inches or so) they'll do okay in the future.
I have cold hardy, joey, lila, mexicola, fantastic, poncho, bacon, Jim bacon, Oro negro, day, that have been through 2-3 yrs of frost to 25 degrees and this yr snow and hail, never prltected, I'm in 9b the leaves just get browned, on some but they regrow the leaves but no tip burn or trunk damage, but my reed, holiday Pinkerton got few some black tips the gwen, lamb hass, sharwil, wurtz, ettinger, zutano, Palo d oro, pinkerton, super hass, edranol, oranges, tangerines, tangelos, grapefruit none to minimal damage
They turn black when fully mature. Lila and Fantastic do not turn black. I have not seen or tried the fruit yet as I just met the owner in the last week. I will try and get a picture of the inside of the fruit. There will be no fruit this year because of the sub 20 degree F temps caused all the flowers to fall.
Some cultivars that turn black with smooth skin in Florida are mexicola, mexicola grande, Brogdon, Joey, May. Unless u see a graft mark on the tree it's prob a seedling.
He bought it from a local nursery that has since gone out of business, which makes me think it was definitely a named variety. Unfortunately there won't be any fruit this year because the flowers froze off in the December freeze. I will see if he has any other close up pictures/videos of the fruit.
