March 10, 2014: I went to Lara Nursery at SW 200 ST in the Redlands. He has 3 trees and Julian mentioned he finds the flavor of this fruit very nice, nutty, remind it him of almonds. Most of the fruit in the trees had droped, so this fruit will have to be picked by March 1. He gave me a fruit, picture in the album with today's date. Full of scab, really bad. I'm not sure how this will mature but I will give it a tray. This tree probably needs to be sprayed 4-5 in the season to get clean fruit. Encouraging is the fact that Lara does not spray, so I hope with a couple of sprays it will suppress the fungus. Lara Nursery has grafted trees for sale. .
http://www.larafarms.com/March 16, 2014: The fruit given to me by Lara, ripped on Friday the 15, I had it today. What a pleasant surprise. A lot better than expected taking into consideration the exterior of the fruit. The fruit weight in at 21.3 oz, the seed at 4.9 and the skin at 3.5 oz. About 12.5 oz of pure creamy avocado. The seed although large, was king of flat, so there is meat on top and bottom. I would not grow it because of seed size. The texture was creamy, remind it me of a Catalina, or Oro Negro. Very good flavor. Hits of canistel. No dark fibers of streaks inside, no fibers, all softness and buttery, The fruit peels very well, the skin is thick, probably a good quality to prevent the scab from damaging the inside. The thick skin was not an impediment to feel the readiness of the fruit or to cause peeling problems, it peeled very easily.
I would prefer this fruit over Supermarket chain, 7-8 oz Hass
Yes flavor wise!!. None of the exterior damage got inside the fruit. This is probably not a commercial variety. It did ripen 5 days after it was picked, not a good quality for a commercial fruit, probably good for a home environment where you could have fruit in January, February and first week of March. It really does not matter if you spray it or not, the scab has no effect on fruit quality. Dr. Richard Campbell was correct in his assessment that this is a good alternative for late fruit for the home.
I have top worked a tree and will experiment spraying the tree, and feeding it to see if we can get cleaner and larger fruit. You can follow it in my web
http://www.myavocadotrees.com/kampong-2-avocado.html