Please help ID this avocado

[CA Hockey]

At a recent crfg meeting, I received budwood from an avocado seedling tree that reportedly makes excellent large avocados in Riverside. I have quite a few (albeit junior) trees and wasn't looking to experiment but figured what the heck. As a bonus, the person who brought the wood also gave me an avocado from said tree. Attached is a picture. I'll update the post when it ripens and I try it but does anyone have an idea of what variety it is or may have come from? The donor told me it came from a seedling tree on an avocado farm. He didn't know too much else about it but there are fuerte trees on that farm (this is obviously not a fuerte avocado).

Any help is appreciated!

K

[spaugh]

Looks pretty similar to bacon and fuerte.  Awfully shinny though.  May need more time on the tree.

[CA Hockey]

Seemed to me it was much heftier, longer, and wider in the belly than fuerte and overall bigger than bacon. Maybe the pictures for size comparison aren't that great but I tried to show that it is nearly as long as a banana and more than twice as big as a store-bought haas avocado (the little black one on the side). Seemed much bigger than a large haas or lamb. About as wide around as a large reed but taller than a Pinkerton.

K

[spaugh]

I can see it is a large fruit.  Bacons do get that large.  I pulled several bacons and fuertes that size off my trees last month.

The shape and skin look like a large bacon.  If you have photos of the tree it could help also.  Bacon trees make really big clusters of flowers.  And very aggressive avocado weed tree.

I would guess bacon genetics but of course it could be anything if its a seedling. 

[EJO8]

If it is a seedling then it is its own variety so it would not be possible to ID

[CA Hockey]

I realize the seedling could be anything but trying to figure out rough heritage. 😀 Didn't know bacon could get large.

K

[spaugh]

It looks almost exactly like the bacons I picked.  Yes they do get very large.  Most you see at the farmers market are quite small.  Minte were about 1.5  - 2lbs.  And well, they were Bacon avocados.  Not great but not bad.

I regret not taking photos of the ones that came off my tree.  They are all gone now but the tree is blooming and there should be more for next year. 

[CA Hockey]

Well. we tried it today. It's definitely Bacon or bacon-ish (if truly a seedling). Sadly not one of varieties that we (large family of 9) enjoy, so that's a resounding no on whether or not to graft it.

Looking forward to the crfg scion exchanges coming up this weekend. San Diego and OC.

-K