Exotic Avocado Varieties You Can Grow at Home 

Can't thank you enough because you've made me plant over 800 avocado trees in Nigeria. Just love u the more each time you upload new video Appreciate u man!

I don't live in an area where I can grow my own avocados or buy yours, but I still find myself watching every single one of your videos! I just like to watch them when I'm stressed or tired and it always makes me feel better. Greetings from Germany!

I was raised on avocados being prepared as dessert: add lime juice and sugar cane sugar while mashing it into a cream. Variants with any citrus and honey and mash it. Variant with blending it at high speed with milk. All delicious.

*Omg, every 🥑 you open is perfect, you are the Avocado Whisperer!* 😋

My Uncle Ernie passed away about 10 years ago, but he used to sell the avocados that he grew at his house at his grocery store in the Keys. They were the biggest avocados that Ive ever seen in my life. They weighed 2.5 to 3 pounds. They were shaped like a cross between a Russell and a Monroe. Monroe is the name of the county that the Keys are in, so maybe that's how they got that name (just speculation). They were a beautiful yellow color inside. The tree had fruit from July to August. My uncle told me that it produced fruit every other year. To me, they blow Haas avocados out of the water. I would eat the whole avocado. I scored the flesh and put some Vegesal, paprika, and lemon juice on it. Now I live in Texas and we rent. I don't have a place I'd grow trees. Im stuck with Haas and Fuertes, LOL Thank you for all your informative and very interesting videos. Ill keep you in mind when and if Im ever able to get some trees. Thanks!

Well professor Tom, I have advised before that you have a knack for explaining a subject and specifically Avocados! This episode was exceptional in both quality of content and presentation! Magnificent!! Masterpiece!! I thoroughly enjoyed this episode! The enthusiasm is catching! One of the best episodes!

A better world through avocados, I love that.

Great video, well done. I own the property that (as I was told by previous owner) has the original Nesbitt avocado trees. The "Grandfather Nesbitt" made it through Hurricane Andrew but Wilma did it in sad to say. The "Grandmother Nesbitt" still sits outside our porch and is loaded this year. Took 6500 pounds of Donnies to packing house in the past few weeks and Nesbitts will start Monday.

Man, you have really taught me so much about Avo varieties...

Kid time we cut the avo in half, removed the seed, scored it into squares, added a bit of soy sauce, and spoon ate it, right out of the rind. You could also turn it inside out, like a sun burst. Ate mangoes that way.

For all of my adult life I saw POLLOCK avocado referred to as CATALINA avocados. I have even recently seen the Pollock labeled as Catalina. So hard to keep up but learning about them is about as much fun as eating them. And, yes, I do like the more watery and herbacious "FLORIDA AVOCADOS."

I did not know there were more than 900 types of avocados and now I'm so happy I have found this video

I’ve never seen such beautiful perfect avocados… I’m so inspired to plant some avocados

I love these videos, i have never seen most of these avocados but previous videos have convinced me to grow them. I'm in canada and now have two 1 and half year old avocado trees in containers. Dont know it they'll ever fruit but they look cool. Thank you for sharing all this information with us!

Folks like you make a city, state and nation stable self reliant and secure. Thankyou for sharing this info! We lose so much diversity as millions or billions live their entire lives never having a clue about the massive variety available if we just got away from the monoculture and could appreciate the bounty permaculture has to offer and the importance of protecting and bringing back our soil.

Hi, i know it's irrelevant to you but seeing your garden and that of another Vlogger over RU-vid, I've been growing just a lot of things, veggies, salads, green, fruits, herbs, in my garden, i don't have to be bothered by the inflation here in India 🇮🇳 Thank you very much for inspiring me.

I have no idea these exist. Thank you for sharing. Now I really want to try em.

I have purchased Donnie’s and Russell from you; both are fantastic! I will be ordering another batch of Russell before they are gone!!!!

I live in Los Angeles, I put a zutano and Russell trees together and amazing a lot of flowers like never before showing on both trees different months

I have a farm in the middle of the desert and I'm sure avocados won't grow here but I still watching all of your videos. Love them all

I live on avocado's and green onions. 😮 so I'm in HEAVEN just looking at them 😊

I started growing my avocado seeds and they are now 12 inches taller!From Philippines 😊😊🌍🇵🇭🥑🥑🥑

I love ❤️ your videos thank you 😊 so much.

One of my dreams is to walk in that heavenly garden with you one day. hoping for that day I wish you the best in your health❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Lara Farms has Ronnie to fill your Feb-April gap, should contact them to be sure, but that’s what their website says. And Tropical acres farm sells budwood from it

Love you delivery and the amount of information you got. Thanks for your video

Tom the way you describe all of you Avocados is like a Mother describing her Baby.. You my man, are THE AVOCADO KING! Cheers! I love Avocados too I got to try the Russell on the next batch! When will they be available?

Good morning. Your message is very very good. I have planted avocado tree 🌲 in Jamaica 🇯🇲 it was about two feet tall but it dies went I came back to the UK 🇬🇧. Planing to go back so I will be 🌱 planting again. Thank you for your videos. 🌱👍🏿🙏🏾

Yes ..now I Ve learned from u ..Russel type of my avocado ....tnx

Agree app named after famipy apot of avocados great for your heapth

Your channel got me into growing an avocado and a mango plant :) Hardiness is ok as I live in zone 11a. Greetings from the Mediterranean island of Malta.

Yes! He do good videos! Love from Russia

Great video Tom. But watching you eat those delicious fruit makes me avocado green with envy.. lol. I was trying to hold out until Choquette season but now I don't know. LoL.

Im not sure of the name but here in Queensland Australia we get a round like a large baseball, light green, buttery and so much flavour it kicks hass out of the park. 😋 Not found in supermarkets only from backyard growers.

Thanks

plenty of them here in the philippines..at the place of my mother..plenty of exotic fruits..

Wow thank you

I have an apple orchard in zone 4 and I breed tomatoes. I love to geek out on tomato and apple varieties, so this is right up my alley! I would gladly try all 900 cultivars. Lol. The Hass are too oily, imo. The only fresh I had was at a farmer's market in Kauai . It was amazing.

Wow fascinating video, learned a lot Thank You !

It’s great how you explain things in such detail !

I love avocados… from India

I have about six plants from seed just grafted one, but I’m definitely gonna have to buy some Sion’s from you especially the way you talk about that Simmons variety. I’m in California there’s nothing like growing your own food. Love your channel.

When I lived in Honolulu the ovacado trees I seen were like the Russel you showed. The trees are giant at least 40’w 50’T. So was the fruit. In fact so big that at first I didn’t know what it was. Unfortunately I can’t grow any fruit trees around here

🇺🇸 Love your video! Checking your website. Thanks!

I love watching your videos. If you ever visit San Diego we should collab on a grafting video or any type of avocado video. I also visit Florida from time to time

Good, so veri good videos! Love from Afghanistan!

Oh my God im replay ur you tube I loved yours simmonds too... Oh im sad I don't have thats variety but it looks like our hong ngoc avocados from vietnam very drying n having orange beautiful meat you must try

👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️900 varieties of avocados.

Awesome video and thank you very much for making my day! 👍😀

you should have a tv show...you got it...

You do so so good so good videoes! Love it too

Somehow the green flesh perimeter is extra attractive. Firm...I lk the idea of Simons fruit.

I've been watching your videos. And I'm starting to get avocado fever. Now every avocado I buy. I've been saving the seed and gonna grow some of them seeds. Eventually I will be ordering them cuttings from your site. To try and grow my own trees.

Yes, good videos

I do remember those avocados in Brazil: green ones, long necks, purple ones, huge ones with 1kg+ !!! Exceptional ! But they eaat as fruit , with sugar and milk, and not as vegetables in salads !

Love seeing your videos because I love avocados and I would love to try some of your varieties I’d love to know every month which avocado 🥑 you have and how many avocados 🥑 come in a box 📦 and price 😊 would like to try the big avocados and the one that shaped like a 🍐 🥑 Thanks 😊

What a pleasure watching your videos! We have a beautiful avocado tree in our backyard, that produces absolutely beautiful fruit! I can’t tell you what type, because I don’t know, but will get pictures next time , and hopefully find out! Watching from Perth, Western Australia!

Good, so veri good videos! Love from India!

oh man! i have a couple grafted aguacates (small ones)... but i definetely want to try growing 2 or 3 seedlings and see in 7-10 years if i'm lucky enough to have the next "big thing" in avocado varieties... maybe creating the perfect soil (like terra preta soils) with some biochar on it and different types of compost with crushed rocks like basalt... would definetely help create something craaazyyyyy

Those that look like bananas are most intriguing.. 😀

Thank you!

Dude, this is amazing! I didn't know there were so many different types of avacados!

I grow many varieties of avocado and what you’re saying is absolutely true but I can tell you used to be a salesman, at least you’re a trustworthy one !

Yes I know we have hundreds of variates in Jamaica, brown, green and black and they are HUGH.. and every yard have a avocado tree too.

I love your video. Thank you!

I thought avacados have less fat than fish meat. But it is not dirty to eat three or four when you can. Victory!!!💪

If I love the Hass taste. What variety would you think taste most like Hass? I’m just south of Orlando area but am in a microclimate. I have an Oro Negro growing but it’s so small, it’s a few years before it will fruit. I’ve never tasted an Oro so we will see. But I’m looking for another variety that will give me that rich Hass taste. You are correct. A smile is contagious which is why I love your videos.

18:05 For 1 second there I thought that was a bottle of tequila and I was really ready to have my mind blown.

The avocado that you call Russell it was grown in Puerto Rico in which case they used to call it a guiro 🥑 Avocado now there is a plant in which they used to make a musical instrument that is called a guiro in which you dry it up take the seeds out and make lines into it and scrape with a fork and make music and make and also water containers in which case it has the same shape as the Russell Avocado.

Fantastic video once again ! Will order soon !!!!

Love these videos!

Unbelievable 😮

I like this part very much...

Good, so very good videos! Lov from Russia!

I love your videos, and I would like to give you an idea for a future video/ series. Perhaps it would be cool to See how fast will an avocado grow and produce with multiple (3-4) rootstocks compared to one with a single rootstock. I saw a video on a 3 year old avocado with something like 10 rootstocks and that thing was as tall as a building. Very easy to find on RU-vid. Perhaps there is a merit to adding more rootstocks for quicker growth and a more drought resistant plant. Thanks again for your content.

they can def fruit in tropical areas cause its steaming hot in those places

Good stuff man, well I just learned i might’ve bought and Donnie? I checked the tag this morning and I could barely see a ‘donn” sorta blurry I thought the plant was sold originally to Donald trump or Daniel. The lil tree was aside among some other citruses and it was the only one in the whole place. I wanna think I got lucky, regardless I had a good feeling when I saw it some sort of connection I sensed so it was meant. Now I found your channel cause of Donnie, see ? Thank you for the informative approach you’ve angled. I like the format you have developed and I am only on my fourth video of yours and really enjoying the content. Thanks again. Ps: 1994 orlando arena, last I saw JG I see u are a fan.

What varieties to plant, to have year round avos? Of course has to be in a tropical zone. Taste, production, and hardiness, to be condidered.

Wonder if I can grow Donny n Simmons, sounds likely. I turn green w envy from thunderstorm sound from here in typically desert farther N. Commifornia. (zone 9a) Your energy and enthusiasm are crucial. Well done as always. Only learned several yrs ago avos were even possible here, double/triple planted expecting to lose half, young in winter modest frost....didn't happen, spaced very close but most are somewhere between doing well and thriving. 1st crop on ONE tree seems to be holding, it dropped the few fruit it had last season on hot day w/o enough water, STILL one of my smaller trees tho,1.5" trunk. *Mexicola Grande is reaching for the moon* , 3" trunk starting from 1/2" but no fruit yet. (just a 1/2 acre professional home owner :D)

I have 3 seed (Haas) growing in y pot/bowl. Who knew, just threw them out in my pot that I gather leftovers. One started 2 weeks later about month ago. Just left the others in the pot and yesterday, I found them growing. Dang, I have been trying for 50 years. I want to grow an Avocado in a pot so Incase our weather happens to change, I can bring it in the house. (84790 Zip) Can a Russel do well in a pot or Donny? Simmons? I would like to try graphing, ya think this old lady can succeed? Absolutely !!!!

But my Monroe haven't bear fruit yet...I learned a lot from u ...4 things to remember ehe tnx

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I have a one if a kind avocado grown from an unknw seed 15 yrs ago. Large fruit with small seed, nutty favor. So amazing. I son cut it down, saved many shhots and was able to graft it to a hass. Looks healthy. Should I let both grow, or cut off the hass.

You can pick Pinkertons from December to April.

I was like "Eat it, eat it, eat it!" 😂😂😂❤

For what it's worth--GreenDreams in Florida has some of these varieties for mail order, I've had good results with them on previous few orders. Avos for around $70 to $90 (1 or 3 gallon) plus shipping, about to order Choquette, Lula and maybe Joey (type B which I don't have many of) or a Russell. For my modest farther N. Cali, zone 9a home collection.

15:52 next to where I’m living someone planted a seed and the tree is huge, as of last week it dropped fruit. The fruit is like a simons and the skin is like a haas. I have never had an avocado like this, I have been saving seeds and I’m going to germinate them and graft the parent to to it.

I'm from Phil.....I 4 trees planted. But only Russel ..bear flower this January......tnx I have given her fertilizet

Great show, Very interesting well explained. Sounds Very yummy. I got little be of land . How much to post a Simmons sed to New Zealand

I don't have nesbit, donnie,...than simmonds i have but i think different with yours

I eat Hass but I also love the Russel. Like an aquired taste

What one will grow I. Zone 8B someone selling said I can grow Wilson Popenoe avocado. What one would you suggest. (I don't want to bring it in the 2m of winter)

Do you sell and ship graphing avocado or mango, I live on North jersey

Wooww mantap

What are the varieties do you recommend for Tropical regions of Kerala, India?

at like 40 degree celsius

Man I just bought a grafted avocado tree from my uncle, don’t know the variety however I’m in a 9b hardiness zone and I really hope to be as happy as you are once it starts to produce fruit❤ it’s about 8-10 feet tall in a pot right now but will likely plant it in soil once it gets warmer, any advice?

Thank You very much for explain detail oh I have question... How many meter asl elevation you plant... Becoz you plant mix all these variety... Like catalina, russell then choquette... In one place... Is that ok.. Still buttery? Not to high meter elevation?

Great videos! Have you planted a Russell avocado seed directly in the soil? I so, how deep? Thanks!

I want to grow avocado trees!! How would one get a cutting if they don't know anyone with an avocado tree? I would love to have one of each of yours! I want to try them all 😁