Each varietal type has its own distinct characteristics in the following areas:
- Taste (nutty to light)
- Flesh texture (buttery to watery)
- Blossom type (A or B)
- Seed size.
- Skin/peel color when ripe (green to purplish black)
- Fruit shape (round to obovate)
- Peel characteristics (thick and bumpy to thin and smooth)
How can you tell if an avocado tree is evergreen?
The avocado leaves are glossy and can stay on the tree for up to three years. The leaves of Mexican avocado trees have an anise-like odor when crushed. Look for a densely foliaged, semi-evergreen tree that’s fast-growing and tall--up to 80 feet in height at maturity--to identify the avocado tree.
How do you know when an avocado is ready to pick?
Avocados have to be harvested by hand, so pick your avocados at the right time – the longer the fruit stays on the tree, the richer the taste. Your Avocados will darken when it’s time to pick. And your Avocado Trees are a sort of storage unit for your delicious fruit, too.
How big do avocado trees get?
Growing Habits: One of the smaller avocado varieties, naturally maxing out tree height around 15 feet. Can be pruned and maintained smaller as well. Cold-Hardy to: 30°F
What are the different types of avocado trees?
Joey, Bacon, Opal (aka Lila), Pryor (aka Fantastic), Mexicola Grande, Wilma (Brazos Belle), and Brogdon. Each of these avocado varieties is described more below, including the temperatures they’re known to be tolerant of.
Is my avocado tree type A or B?
"A flowers" are female (receptive to pollen) in the morning and male (shedding pollen) in the afternoon. "B flowers" are male (shedding pollen) in the morning and female (receptive to pollen) in the afternoon. For the most part, avocado cultivars have only A flowers or only B flowers.
Which avocado trees are type A?
Type A avocado trees produce avocados that are dark green, with thick, bumpy skin. Hass is a type A avocado, and other Type As resemble a Hass avocado. In fact, many other Type As are descended from the Hass avocado.
Are there different types of avocado trees?
There are, in fact, three main types of avocado: Mexican, Guatemalan and West Indian, with the avocados most commonly found around the world being Fuerte and Hass.
What is the difference between a male and female avocado tree?
The flower has both female and male organs, but they don't function at the same time. Each flower is female when it first opens. That is, its stigma will receive pollen from other avocado flowers, but its stamens (male organs) do not shed pollen at this first opening.
Do I need 2 avocado trees to produce fruit?
Pollination Avocado Trees are self-fertile, so you don't have to have another tree for fruit.
Is Hass type A or B?
Hass avocado trees are type A, meaning that they flower from February through May. When the flowers first open in the morning, they are female until they close in the afternoon. The following afternoon, they reopen as pollen-producing male flowers. So, Hass avocado trees can be categorized as somewhat self-pollinating.
How do you identify Hass avocados?
Each varietal type has its own distinct characteristics in the following areas:Taste (nutty to light)Flesh texture (buttery to watery)Blossom type (A or B)Seed size.Skin/peel color when ripe (green to purplish black)Fruit shape (round to obovate)Peel characteristics (thick and bumpy to thin and smooth)
What is the difference between an avocado and a Hass avocado?
Hass avocados have a higher oil percentage (usually around 18 percent) making the texture more creamy, and is therefore considered as the preferred variety. Indian avocados on the other hand have a lower oil percentage (around 12 percent) making the texture slightly less creamy but a little more nutty in flavour.
Which avocados are Type B?
B type varieties include:Shepard.Fuerte.Sharwil.Edranol.Ettinger.Zutano.
How many years does it take for an avocado tree to produce fruit?
three to four yearsWhether you start from seed or a nursery-grown tree, one essential for success is patience. Plant a tree, and you'll wait three to four years for fruit. Start with a seed, you may wait 13 years or more. Even so, there's something special about homegrown avocados that make them worth the wait.
Do you need two avocado trees to cross pollinate?
In general, on a single tree all the open flowers will be synchronised. That means they will be all functionally male or all functionally female. The avocado pollen of one tree is compatible with itself and quite capable of pollinating its own flowers — known as self-pollination.
How many times a year does an avocado tree bear fruit?
How many fruit will a mature tree produce in one year? It is possible for an avocado tree to produce 200 to 300 fruit per tree once it is about 5-7 years of age. The avocado tree, however, alternates bearing. This means that the tree may produce a large crop one year, and then produce a small crop the following year.
What race is Hass avocado?
Of the many known varieties, they fall into three broad categories based on whether they are of the Mexican, Guatemalan or West Indian races of Persea americana, the avocado specie and the crosses that occur between these races. For example, ‘Hass' has the thick skin of the Guatemalan but turns black like a Mexican.
Why are California varieties not common?
West Indian race varieties are not common here because of their generally lower cold tolerance.
Semi-Dwarf Avocado Tree
This variety grows up to 30 feet tall. Its fruit is larger than the dwarf variety.
Hass Avocado Tree
Hass is the most popular variety of avocado trees in California. Widely considered to be one of the best overall avocado varieties, this cultivar grows up to 100 feet tall.
Fuerte Avocado Tree
Fuerte is another popular variety of avocado trees. It grows up to 120 feet tall. Its fruit weighs up to 200 pounds.
Mexican Avocado Tree
Mexican is another popular variety of this tree that can be grown in quite cool climates. They also grow up as much as 130 feet tall!
Black Turtlehead Avocado Tree
Black turtlehead is yet another popular variety of avocado trees that are grown across the tropics. This tree grows up as much as 160 feet tall.
Yellow Pear Avocado Tree
Yellow pear is another popular variety of avocados. It grows up to 180 feet tall in some of the biggest examples!
Brown Turkey Avocado Tree
Brown turkey avocado trees are native to Central America and Mexico. They grow well in warm climates, such as Florida.
What is the difference between a B type and an A type tree?
The difference is that the A type trees have flowers that will open as females in the morning one day, close in the afternoon, then open the next afternoon as male and then close in the evening. The B type trees are reversed, in that they open as male in the morning and female the next afternoon.
When do Fuerte trees ripen?
The benefit is that they ripen during the winter months when Hass is done, so having one of them wouldn’t be a complete waste. Of course, if you have the room, the Fuerte is one of the best tasting B type trees, but it’s alternate bearing.
How long does it take for a tree to wither?
In the afternoon they swap. Once a flower completes this two day process and it hasn’t been pollinated, it will wither and fall of the tree, usually within 1-3 days.
Do avocado trees pollinate?
But for now I can tell you about their characteristics: Most avocado trees are self-pollinating here in California, however you will ABSOLUTELY get more fruit if you have at least one tree of each type in your home orchard. Every avocado tree has flowers that are perfect–that is, they are both male and female.
How long does it take for an avocado tree to ripen?
And your Avocado Trees are a sort of storage unit for your delicious fruit, too. When you’re ready to harvest, pick and wait around three to seven days for your fruit to ripen off the branch.
What is the girdler on an avocado tree?
Avocado Tree Girdler:This adult snout beetle attacks younger trees, especially those measuring up to six inches in diameter at ground level. You should examine your Avocado Trees twice a year for these insects, which burrow into the tree – look for the reddish frass extruded by the larvae, in particular.
Why are my avocado leaves turning brown?
Spider Mites:Florida Avocados are particularly susceptible to the red mite, which feasts on the upper leaves and the leaves’ veins. You’ll see your leaves turn brown after a spider mite infestation and also see evidence of the mites’ casts. If you can see six or more mites per leaf, spray your tree with insecticide.
What causes avocados to rot?
It causes black or brownish circular depressions on the fruit which rapidly spread and cause the fruit to rot. It’s treat with applications of anthracnose-approved fungicide.
How to keep avocados from catching root rot?
Also, ensure the containers you use for planting have drainage holes to keep your plants from catching root rot. And dispose of any standing water in your containers’ saucers to avoid fungal growth on your Avocado Trees.
How much space do you need to plant avocado trees?
Outdoor Planting. Keep in mind that if you’re planting multiple trees outdoors, you must leave approximately 5 to 8 feet of space between your trees and other structures. Once you’re ready to plant your Avocado Trees, dig a hole that is two to three times wider and deeper than the shipped container.
What to use on avocado trees to kill fungus?
Ensure that you always use a fungicide, A zoxystrobin or copper spray approved by the EPA to treat diseases on your Avocado Trees. Furthermore, you must follow the directions exactly and remove dead orinfected material from the tree – don’t use any of this material for compost.
