Giant Avocado fruits

[Avoman]

 I would post a video of your tree on YouTube showing each grafted branch , Jeff in Modesto has a branch of cannonball setting fruit but the strange thing is the shape of fruit is diff than the original mother tree , perhaps cause he's in such a hot climate I'm not sure why, he prob be picking first fruit on that tree in next few months.

[Avoman]

 I guess Julie Frink has sometime called party time but I don't know how big ? Epicenter I think said their queen did not produce well on coast but they are close to ocean , cannonball loves coast climate.

[Avoman]

 Also I think epicenter is now doing something called Panama Cannonball avo but it is unrelated to Cannonball.

[sc4001992]

Shane, when the Cannonball starts having fruits, I will be posting the fruits as it grows and matures. It is starting to take off, I'm cutting some other grafted branches (Seedless Krueger, Russell, Marcus Pumpkin) that are in the way of its sunshine. All my grafts are growing well, even the newly grafted Santa Clara Gold. I will need to check with Julie, she didn't mention that large fruit variety to me. She does have Queen and Daily 11 on her trees. She usually has connections so she can get a lot of new ones.

I do make sure any scions I put on my one large avocado tree is clean. If I see any funny growth, leaves or symptoms on a graft, I cut it off and get rid of it, never wait until it effects the rest of my tree. I did have one incident with a loquat I got from a trade, it almost killed back half my tree but it has recovered since.

Lucky for me my 20 yr old rootstock avocado seedling tree is from a Hawaiin giant avocado fruit (4lb) that I ate and planted the seed. It is a super vigorous tree and probably immune to many virus or bugs, it grows so fast, maybe 15ft every year. So far the most vigorous of my grafted avocado is the HI Russell photo shown above.

[sc4001992]

I was just messaging Epicenter, I haven't heard of that one. I was trying to get a few scions of their Bird avenue variety.

[Avoman]

The tree at epicenter that Julie calls Party Time is still small I asked them about scions off it and said too small yet , in a video they described the fruit as large and round but I don't know if large means 1 pound or what.

[Avoman]

Kaz your avo tree grows 15 feet a year ?that's extremely fast , you must have super good soil and that seed is a great rootstock , I would love to get seeds that grow that fast and do so well, and good idea to cut back others and give canball graft some sunlight otherwise I wonder if it might grow a lot slower. I did get a big black Johnson graft to set fruit this year and the graft was only a little over a year  old I posted the vid on YouTube it's under user name rareavotrees to watch any of my vids.

[sc4001992]

Ok, I will need to checkout your video, thanks.

My old Hawaiian rootstock tree (got fruit at HI fruit stand) is super vigorous, the bad thing is it took 18 years before it had the first fruits, so I completely top worked the tree with all my other varieties. So, the rootstock won't have any fruits since every branch has a different variety grafted on it.

Another interesting note on the avo varieties I graft on it, some varieties like the Marcus Pumpkin from Dan's huge tree (35ft) that was grafted had red leaves when the scions grew out. My 2 HI seedlings do have the red fresh leaves when it put out new leaves each year.

I just got another new variety coming my way so it will be added to my multi-grafted tree. Someone mentioned on the forum that Bird Avenue is a good variety as far as Epicenter reviews, so I got it now. Even my one Santa Clara Gold I grafted on this rootstock is growing about 2 ft since I grafted this year.

[sc4001992]

Shane, I think it's my soil since all my fruit trees grow crazy big. My loquat with the 113varieties have branches that I call supergrowth because when the branch on my rootstock Big Jim splits to multiple, it has about 10 or more new branches instead of your normal 2-3 branch split. Also my white sapote trees I have had fruits that have huge clusters (18 fruits on my cluster) and it looks like a grape or loquat fruit pinnacle. I'll find my Smathers white sapote fruit photo I just took last week and show you how these trees have so many fruits, I should sell my soil.

[ScottR]

kaz, sounds like you came onto and amazing rootstock good find! And super soil wow, that's a special thing to have.

[Avoman]

I would kill for that great of soil you have, I hope your yard is very big, yes SC gold and Bird Ave are great choices and I'm getting some of thoses myself, some love Sharwil but not sure it would do well in my area.

[FruitFool]

Anaheim avocado I bought from a Fallbrook farm stand.
This wasn’t even largest one they had.

[sc4001992]

That Anaheim avocado is a nice big one. Let us know what it tastes like. Hass

[MinMin]

is the Jala avocado available in the states?. It's a giant Australian variety that was released commercially in the last 2 years. Supposed to be of excellent quality.

[sc4001992]

I have never heard of the Jala avocado. How large does it get?

[dorian]

Picked a Catalina today at 947.7g (~2.1lb). I need to let it ripen on the counter for a few days. I have plenty more hanging on the tree around the same size.

[johnb51]

Simmonds on a dinner plate. 1 lb. 9.7 oz.

[sc4001992]

Wow, both of those fruits are large, looking good.

How do you like the taste of the fruits?

[dorian]

How do you like the taste of the fruits?

The Catalina is good for slicing, to use in salads, avocado toast, with some rice and beans. It's on the lighter taste though, lower oil content, so not as good for guacamole. Good for feeding a family, it takes us a couple of days to go through one fruit I prefer the taste of Sharwil to Catalina as it's more rich. I'm adding more grafts of it to balance out the production on the tree.

[johnb51]

Simmonds is also not a high-oil avocado.  The flavor and texture are still good, considering they're a late summer avocado.  Ideally, I would have left this one on the tree a few more weeks, and I've been told they can hang until October, which improves the eating quality.  Perhaps Dupuis and Pollock are better as summer avocados, but then they may not hang as long on the tree.

[spaugh]

The tree at epicenter that Julie calls Party Time is still small I asked them about scions off it and said too small yet , in a video they described the fruit as large and round but I don't know if large means 1 pound or what.

I grew that one.  Fruit were about a pound.  Nothing special flavor wise, not worth growing. 

[sc4001992]

Ok, good to hear your feedback guys on your Simmons and Catalina. If my giant HI Russell ever shows the real size fruits that the kids showed me that is growing in their parents' home in Oahu, then I will share some scions maybe next year. They say the fruit is yellow flesh and very good. I hope that is true since one fruit can feed a family for a few days.

Thanks Brad, then I won't look for that one. I hope the Bird Avenue I just got will be a good tasting variety.

[Avoman]

I hear good things about Bird Ave , Greg does a taste test on you tube not hughe but taste is high quality

[sc4001992]

Yes, I heard Bird Ave was very good tasting and a friend wanted to graft one so I got scions for him and myself. Since I put it on my large HI rootstock tree is should grow fast. MY Seedless Krueger scions I grafted on this tree is taking over the entire tree, grew maybe 5 ft since I grafted it. Only other variety that grew this fast was the HI Russell scions from Oahu, you can see how large those fruits will get.

It must be my rootstock tree since I cut back the Duke branches on this tree more than half way to graft union and it grew right back, touching my  house again so I need to cut it back (just 3 months ago).

Looks like the Cannonball graft is about 2-3 ft tall now and long branches.

[Avoman]

I grafted some cannonball close to same time you did mine are slow only 10 inches yours are growing way faster 2-3 times as fast that's great.