Here are some Oro Negro avocados I picked off my tree, it’s first year holding fruit to maturity. Previous years it would flower and form pellet sized fruits but they would abort for some reason. Some tasting notes: the seed seems large to me vs flesh, the flesh is kinda firmer than a typical hass, whereas this definitely tastes like a hybrid it’s slightly more flavorful than typical store bought florida avocado but with less oil flavor than a hass, I tasted some sweetness while also some salty boiled egg yolk just eating it straight up plain with a spoon. Gonna make some guacamole tomorrow when the stores open back up.
Merry Christmas,
-Joe
Are you growing any other avocados? If so, can you comment on them? I've grown Simmonds and Wurtz, and eaten a lot of Choquettes from a friend's tree. For a late fall/early winter avocado Wurtz is a little lacking in flavor, but clean fruit and productive little tree. Simmonds is good for an August avocado--you have to eat it alone to appreciate the flavor, a nice contrast to mangos at that time of year when you have a breakfast of fruit. Choquette is decent in flavor, but nothing like a California Hass or Fuerte--beautiful fruit, seemed to be heavy but alternate bearing. It gets better the longer it stays on the tree. I've eaten Lula, too, and find the flavor better than the above three, but the fruit has a tendency to get scab. Lula trees get large and spreading. My neighbor is growing an avocado that appears to be a Lula seedling with outstanding flavor, but the tree is a skyscraper--tallest avocado tree I've seen!
