Anyone Growing Russell Avocado?

[sc4001992]

Just curious if any member here is growng the Russell avocado. I have a grafted Wilson Popenoe avocado.

If you are growing the Russell avocado tree, and it fruits, can you post a few photos of it, would like to see how it looks, also with it cut open. I saw the photos from Carlos's website/blog, but just curious if any forum members are growing it. I'll be grafting some scion wood for someone, and they tell me the fruit tases very good.

[Avoman]

My sister has some small trees no fruit yet,I would grow it if my area wasn't soo cold

[Jack, Nipomo]

I have several small limbs on multigrafted tree.  No fruit yet.  See Carlos' comment about Russell: https://www.myavocadotrees.com/russell-avocado.html

[sc4001992]

Hi Jack, the Russell scions I'm grafting is from a large tree in Hawaii, here's the fruits from the mother tree.





This is from the one tree.

[sc4001992]

Jack,

The people in Hawaii say its excellent tasting, they give it away to all their neighbors since they get so much and can't eat all of them. There is more fruits than what I show in this photo.

I'm grafting some this week. I'm sure if I had extras people here would love to buy it. Sorry, but I don't have extras of this one.

[sc4001992]

I did review the info on Carlos's website. His fruit is shiny, skinny like a wilson long neck (popinoe). The Russell fruits I showed above is fatter, skin doesn't shine, and is creamy and very good tasting is what I hear. The tree is growing at the person's parents' house, and he has been eating the fruits for a long time and says it is a very good tasting avocado.

Carlos needs to fiind another source, his doesn't look like it to me. But, it could be that this Russell growing in Hawaii  (purchased at nursery) may be a seedling tree so that may be the reason these fruits look so much larger/fatter, and does not have that shinny green skin.

Notice that Carlos's avocado fruit is shinny green with no dots, the photos of the fruits above have small dots on the outside of the skin.

[Jack, Nipomo]

Don't remember my source, but we'll get back to the subject in a few years (hopefully).