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Re: Your favorite local seedling Avocado?
« Reply #175 on: June 08, 2014, 06:01:24 AM »
Picked these up from an elderly couple at the market last week. Very large size (over 6 inch average size) and lots of flesh. Not the most meaty or oily texture, but it has a great flavour with a hint of sweetness. Beautiful fruit too, even ripening etc. I'm trying to find the owners to try to graft one up. I'd like to eat one every other day at this time of year.. They said it was grown from seed years ago.






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Re: Your favorite local seedling Avocado?
« Reply #176 on: June 11, 2014, 10:56:31 PM »
A La Habra landmark, San Jose avocado, West Indian Race. This is a summer 3 pound cannon ball avocado with a rich creamy flavor, similar to Holiday, large tree 40'and super producer. This one beat Catalina in taste and it's about the same size. Perfect tree for Miami with a high oil content.  I will cut one open in august.





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Re: Your favorite local seedling Avocado?
« Reply #177 on: June 11, 2014, 11:42:31 PM »
JF,

Great pictures, its making me drool just looking at them. You have access to budwood?
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Re: Your favorite local seedling Avocado?
« Reply #178 on: June 11, 2014, 11:58:35 PM »
JF,


Great pictures, its making me drool just looking at them. You have access to budwood?

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They are excellent. I will give you budwood before you leave to Florida.

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Re: Your favorite local seedling Avocado?
« Reply #179 on: June 12, 2014, 12:02:55 AM »
JF,


Great pictures, its making me drool just looking at them. You have access to budwood?

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They are excellent. I will give you budwood before you leave to Florida.

JF,

Your very generous with that offer, thanks.
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Re: Your favorite local seedling Avocado?
« Reply #180 on: July 04, 2014, 04:58:47 PM »
Carlos,

just wondering if your Kimber tree produced flowers this year?

the mother tree near me is loaded with fruits....I think they'll hold on the tree again until late Jan, early Feb.

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Re: Your favorite local seedling Avocado?
« Reply #181 on: July 04, 2014, 07:21:57 PM »
No did not only a few no fruit set. Typical of trees during first flowering after top working. Do expect some next year.
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Re: Your favorite local seedling Avocado?
« Reply #182 on: January 05, 2015, 05:10:11 PM »
the Kimber avocado is pumping out a big crop...i got one of the larger fruits (some are even bigger way up in the canopy)...looks like they will hold right until early Feb...not bad if you ask me....I don't see any other avocados with fruit on them in my area.

here are some pics of the fruit...it had fallen out of the tree, but I cut off the bad portion, and put the rest in the fridge...let's see how long it lasts without turning doo-doo brown.








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Re: Your favorite local seedling Avocado?
« Reply #183 on: January 05, 2015, 10:46:00 PM »
Cool round shape of the Kimber!
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« Reply #184 on: January 05, 2015, 11:15:55 PM »
Gott 8) 8)a have scion wood :o

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Re: Your favorite local seedling Avocado?
« Reply #185 on: January 08, 2015, 09:43:14 PM »
after 3 days in the fridge...not looking too bad...only a few soft spots where the fruit was rubbed by the plastic bag.

I'll make guac out of it tomorrow.  :D



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Re: Your favorite local seedling Avocado?
« Reply #186 on: February 18, 2015, 07:09:18 PM »
Kimber avocado is still holding fruits in mid February!  It's proving to be a decent late season fruit!
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Re: Your favorite local seedling Avocado?
« Reply #187 on: February 18, 2015, 07:34:29 PM »
My Kimber  tree is a decent size, did not set fruit last year but should set some fruit this year is about 12 ft tall. We'll see how it does here in Homestead.
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Re: Your favorite local seedling Avocado?
« Reply #188 on: February 18, 2015, 07:40:42 PM »
My Kimber  tree is a decent size, did not set fruit last year but should set some fruit this year is about 12 ft tall. We'll see how it does here in Homestead.

Carlos,

thanks for the update, I hope it turns out to be a winner for you.

I will let you know how long the fruit holds on the tree this year.

This year there are some monster fruits.
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Re: Your favorite local seedling Avocado?
« Reply #189 on: February 18, 2015, 10:21:19 PM »
This is how most of these trees that hold late fruit work. If you let them all drop off the tree will probably not even flower next year. If it does is a winner. Even for your area if it holds fruit to March 1.
Some people  with trees like that will pick 1/2 leave some branches clean to allow then to recuperate and set fruit the following year.
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Re: Your favorite local seedling Avocado?
« Reply #190 on: February 19, 2015, 05:19:09 PM »
Stopped by the Kimber tree today. Looks real good has some open flowers and a lot of flowers buds on the way. Looks promesing.





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Re: Your favorite local seedling Avocado?
« Reply #191 on: February 19, 2015, 05:42:56 PM »
hahaha Carlos,

your Kimber tree is almost as big as the mother tree!!!

Wow...nice job growing...you are in avocado paradise.

thanks for sharing pics, please let me know if you get some fruits to set.

(i'm going to call mr Kimber to see if there are any fruits hanging on the tree still...and if so, how they handle this cold weather)

If I remember correctly the Kimber is a bit more sensitive than the typical avocado seedlings I see around central FL...I'll be curious to see what damage occurs if it goes down to 29F.
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Re: Your favorite local seedling Avocado?
« Reply #192 on: February 19, 2015, 10:16:50 PM »
In the picture above to the left is a Queen, to the right another local seedling both grafted before the Kimber and the Kimber is 4-5 ft taller.  Seems a bit suseptible here to soft scale and the subsequent sooty mold
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Re: Your favorite local seedling Avocado?
« Reply #193 on: February 27, 2015, 01:51:16 PM »
Kimber still holding fruits!  the last of them will be gone by early March.





 
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« Reply #194 on: February 27, 2015, 04:37:04 PM »
If they leave the fruit until they drop I wonder if it will even flower and set a new crop this year. That is the true measure for a late variety.
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Re: Your favorite local seedling Avocado?
« Reply #195 on: February 27, 2015, 05:41:09 PM »
If they leave the fruit until they drop I wonder if it will even flower and set a new crop this year. That is the true measure for a late variety.

Carlos,

that's what happened last year...and the crop this year was just as big..if not bigger...nobody maintains the tree, or picks the fruits...they all fall...

Mr. Kimber is not the owner of the tree, he just lives near it.
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Re: Your favorite local seedling Avocado?
« Reply #196 on: March 06, 2015, 08:26:29 PM »
Guerra avocado from Guantanamo Cuba( second generation of Ismael seedling) is easily the best avo I have had this year. This one went up against California Sir Prize, Hawaii Sharwil  and Hass. It has a firm buttery texture with very high oil context. This West Indian avocado should be commercially propagated it's better than any winter variety I've tasted.

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FJ is this what I call Ismael 2?
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« Reply #197 on: March 26, 2015, 08:56:58 PM »
Here is Ismael 2 the best avocado I've had this year. This West Indian/Guatemala avocado is much more nutty and creamier than the first generation( Ismael 1)






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Re: Your favorite local seedling Avocado?
« Reply #198 on: March 26, 2015, 09:00:07 PM »
looks excellent JF.

Is Carlos growing this already?  It would be nice to know how it does in FL, and how it handles the cold.
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Re: Your favorite local seedling Avocado?
« Reply #199 on: March 26, 2015, 09:03:46 PM »
looks excellent JF.

Is Carlos growing this already?  It would be nice to know how it does in FL, and how it handles the cold.

I've distributed budwood to Miami it should be a winner, no problem. Seedling from Guantanamo Cuba breaded here in Orange California.