The CA hass that I planted in my neighbor's yard does absolutely horribly -- zero fruits have grown to maturity in roughly 5 years. It's also very chlorotic, which is very unusual for avocado trees, since they normally do very well on high ph soil.
I have a Pinkerton that I planted in another yard. It's growing quite well, nice and green. It produced a couple of fruits this year. But, they were near the ground, and the yard crew mashed them both up with their friendly string trimmers. So, I'll have to wait for next year to try. CA grown pinkerton avocadoes are exceedingly delicious, but I've never tried a FL grown one.
The only cado that I personally think is worth growing here in South FL is the FL Hass. Of approx 50 fruit trees in my yard, there's only one avocado tree, and it's a FL hass. For those of you who can manage to eat west indian watercadoes, I guess you have choices. But I can't stand to eat them unless they are prepared and so heavily spiced up that I can't tell what I'm eating (ie, in guacamole).
I had a russell planted in my yard, which was supposed to be a high quality west indian watercado. But I thought the fruit was terrible. After 3 seasons of gross fruit, I nixed it and put a longan in its place.
I suppose I"m a little biased though, growing up in the middle of tens of thousands of acres of hass avocado groves and a stone's throw from the Calavo packing house. I can eat hass avocadoes like peanuts.
Looks like the CA hass season finally ended -- sams club just started selling hass from chile. It's always sad when the CA hass season winds down :-(.