The Best Florida Avocado That No One Knows About 

I love going to Lara Farms, I’m 5 minutes away from them, they’re like family.

When you are at someone else’s property and they have a tree that you want but don’t have room for, I can hear it in your tone of voice when you ask them questions about it. Its almost accusatory, not quite. Haha 🤣 I ❤❤❤ your channel !!! Now I want to move to South Florida! (from Seattle) All my friends try to warn me about alligators and hurricanes, but I say “But MANGO TREES!!!” 😂

Here in Tampa have really enjoyed the Lula. Grandfather grew it for over 40 years until he passed. Whole family and all the neighbors loved that tree.

This is the best video for Florida avocados out there! Very informative. Thank you Paul and Julian.

This was a very good and informative video from Lara Farms. Julian should brand and market that Improved Pollock tree as a dwarf "Weeping Avacado", which sounds better than saying "leggy". I would love to grow the Improved Pollock but probably not hardy enough for my climate. I'm in Georgia zone 8a. I already have 5 varieties that are suppose to be hardy here once established ( Mexicola Grande, Brogdon, Monroe, Oro Nero and Fantastic), I've kept them in pots through the winter for 2 years now and just cover and protect them from extreme cold. I plan on espalier them the way a guy does in New Zealand. I thought maybe the Improved Pollock would be great to espalier because of it's weeping nature. Thanks for sharing. Please keep up the videos!

Happy you got the improved Pollock. Great great video. Love your videos.🥑

Love your videos, very educational, but as a 68 yr old 5th generation Miami native, my family & friends are very familiar with Catalina. "Taste before you buy" is true for all types of fruit trees not just avocados. Good advice for newcomers. We love our simmonds and choquette that way we have both summer and fall/winter fruit.

Thanks, Paul for the tour. I also enjoyed hearing the roosters in the background.

39:29 I did not know there were seedless avocados. Thanks for making this video. Such great information.

Beautiful trees, thanks you for sharing. I will definitely keep an eye on the Improved Pollock.

Here in Santa Barbara my Nabal is really loaded and I get a couple on the ground every morning. It is a delicious variety with fruit up to 2 pounds.

Well I know.I'm cuban and I love catalina avocados I also know and i have watched his videos.Thanks.

I got a big Florida avocado at the store, it was big and dark green, I put the toothpicks in it and set it In water. It grew a wonderful stem, the stem grew big leaves, I planted in a pot, it grew so fast I had to transplant in a bigger pot, I asked my landscaper to plant in my yard twenty feet out from my house, now 9 years later it has grown way over my house and screen over the pool. It had hundreds of blossoms all over the tree, then a strong wind blew them away. For the first time ever I got one BIG BEAUTIFUL avocado. It was hard, but it ripened in a few days. See my pictures?

I have tried Many many varieties and my #1 is FUERTE, #2 is Monroe and #3 is Simmonds. Most Avocadoes are GREAT tho. Californians Love AVOCADOS!

Enjoy all your videos and great information. I went to order the mixed box. No go. I live in California 😒

I ordered the improved pollock. Thanks for sharing 🙏 😎 🏖 🏝

I have an Ooh-La-La (now sold as SuperHass), and I can confirm that some of the fruits did not ripen evenly. Most however did ripen properly if allowed to fully mature on the tree. They are ready to pick once the fruit turns black all over. I'm hoping that fruit quality will improve as the tree matures, this is only the second year it has produced. I like the flavor. A November fruit, it's the closest to a Hass that I've tasted from Florida. It's probably even better than grocery store Hass. A bit larger than Hass too.

beautiful avocado trees on his farm.

Home Depot here has Catalina avocado trees, I bought one a few months ago and is growing well, I should go buy another!

Ordered the improved pollock. Thanks Paul!

Nice. Hmmm. We have some really dank amazing avocados here in Hawaii. Would love to see a national taste test between Hawaii and south Florida.

I planted a “Duke” seedling in my yard (the grafted Duke’s did not fair well in C. Florida climate) and at year 4, it has produced some fruit, but it fell off early. It has a beautiful canopy and a very anise smell in the leaves. It’s my experimental avocado.

You guys are awesome! Thanks for making these videos!

In Jamaica the fruit trees grow in the yard and also wildly. We don’t know every name for the fruit but we just eat them. Avocado for America but pears for the Caribbean. Naseberry in Jamaica 🇯🇲, saps dill o in the other islands.

When is the best time to pick Florida Hass?

You guys sound like two guys talking baseball at the bar. Beautiful, depth of passion glad I stumbled over the video. I'm 6B so I doubt I'll ever get to grow an avocado and eat from my tree. ' course if there is a tree that could work - geez let me know!

Just looked and improved pollock (aka Lara Pollock) are sold out at Lara Farms...I think I need one of these!!!

Hi Paul… what variety of avocados can be “paired” on one tree… such that A/B flowering is same time and growth habit is same/similar? You could easily double or triple your varieties of avocados and mangoes by grafting different scions with similar characteristics. This is truly what a backyard fruit grower need!

I have a maria black avocado tree that is a real dwarf and grow habits is very similar to lara pollock

We have so much varieties in the Caribbean

I agree, I’m a big fan of avocados but out of all the avocados that I’ve eaten, the Simmons are my favorite and some of them are really big.

These guys are great…

Yes Pollack is great improved or not. Lit my eyes up when I first tasted it 7 years ago and planted one.

Thank You very informative.

So good, I've watched it twice!

lol Everyone is always saying they have the best avocado or mango or whatever. But we don't all taste things the same. Taste is "in the mouth of the beholder"😅

Do he ship avacado fruit to California?

Plant good rootstock. You can graft any variety you like later on.

oh, I feel so tempted.

Pollock is one of the most popular avocado in the Caribbean or west Indies. I don't want any other type. Nothing compares to it. That one in the video is about half maybe two thirds the size of a proper Pollock. Buttery is how I describe it.

The pedestal idea for the Improved Pollock is great! I will try to find out where you are located. We were just torn to shreds by hurricane Ian. But I keep most my good trees in pots, and don’t mind getting a new one.

The first tree in video has leaf damage. Is that from lace bugs? If so does that tree lose alot of leaves due to lace bug?

The original pollock avo is flower type b. So maybe also the improved version?

I kept wanting Christofer Walken to come in and say “I gotta have more Rooster!”

I tried Seedless/none seed Avocado 🥑 in Indonesia is very good 👍

Do you have to have two different varieties of avocados for pollination? I’m wanting to plant an Oro Negro avocado here in Gainesville, Florida. Will it produce fruit with just one tree?

A year later and I paused the video and went straight over and bought a Lara improved Pollack at Larafarmsmiami 😅😊

I have the RUSSEL AVOCADO 🥑 is Huge the top part of the Avocado you can slice it in rounds an the taste 👅 is Marvelous. I got my RUSSEL FROM LARA Farms. They have QUALITY FRUIT 🍎 TREES.

now that i live here in florida i want to grow mango and avacado trees

Type A are female flowers in the morning....Type B are female flowers in the afternoon

I want that tree for sure

i'm starting a small collection of avocado trees down here in Panama, Central America. We are in the middle of the tropics so heat and humidity is prevalent... I got Catalina, Lorena (Papelillo) and some type of Hass (i guess grafted on a native avocado rootstock) that i think might work despite the heat. I'm gonna get some Choquette and probably a Simmons... I do wish to get some hass looking avocado that can fare well in tropical heat. Down here regular hass is only planted above 1,000m high, where temperature is fresh and nights chilly... I wonder if there is a way of getting that... and how would that work to get a tree from another country? it would have to be a seed most likely..i dont think aduana/migration can let a tree pass.

How do keep the squirrels from eating them?

Wish Lara Farms could ship to the USVI

What does uneven ripening mean? The fruit doesn't ripe? Or fruits ripe different times?

Pollock Avocados , are the staple of the Caribbean .

34:54 Amazing video. Avocado with Edible skin. How big is the land?

Ordered 1 thanks

5:28 Yeah sure, not looking for more fruit trees! Who do you think you’re kidding?!😂

holy mary mother of god i wish i had one of those avacado tree's

I've got a plain old regular Pollock. All my neighbors love them. Just to Big to eat more than one per day

Can I grow the improve Pollock in a pot?I live in Zone 8a

We have the Simmonds in Jamaica

What month of the Year can i order this Lara Pollock plant/tree?

I'm ready to make a nice plant haul front lara farm in the next 45 days😆🤣

It was delicious

Hey, sold out in deed! Good video👍🏼

Who does that with mangoes, send out a box with the varieties a person wants to try, I would like to try several of the Zills mango varieties?

Good videos but you're wrong about not knowing about the Catalina. Not everyone is a transplant from other states. Growing up in Miami in the 50s, 60s, & 70s, most of our family members had them in their yards.

gotta link for those pants @Julian? lol.. i need those

can I get one to grow?

Please tell me your trees survived Ian?

pollock is a type B, so the seeding should also be B

So Improved Pollock is better than Maria Black??? (BTW, Brad Spaugh who is the CA avo grower/expert on TFF says that Lamb Hass is garbage.)

I could have told you that Super Haas is a dud. Found that out 12 years ago from personal experience and thru others.

Wurtz is a dwarf avocado and likes to hang low (in comparison to Lara Polock). Mine is over 13 years old and stands at 5 feet. But its fruit is inferior to others I've had.

What kind is it the best kept secret for south Florida if you only have room for one?

We had a Cute producing tree at our home in California. It was also a very poor producer.

Any chance it will grow in Zone 8b?

No, Triumph persimmon is not South Florida. The original name for South Florida was Hudson.

"nobody" is a strong word .... just saying!

Improved Pollock avocado's are out of stock at this time.. Just visited..

Improved pollock

Reed avocados 🥑 grow low to the ground too

Dwarf holding fruit that size? All the dwarf avocados I have produce tiny sized avocados.

What are the seedless avocados called? They are small but creamy and seed is like a dime. Tons of meat!

It’s sold out now. 😢

Avacados do not grow true to seed...

I just tried to buy an improved pollock and all are sold out

Everyone is heard about that avocado