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Avocado talk 6/18
« on: June 17, 2018, 10:28:57 PM »
For anyone interested I’ll be giving a talk about avocados to the martin county Master Gardeners at the Blake Library in Stuart, starting around 6:00pm tomorrow, June 18th.

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Re: Avocado talk 6/18
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2018, 05:00:55 PM »
When are you going to start shipping avocados? I need a source in Florida that ships and has a good choice of varieties.
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Re: Avocado talk 6/18
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2018, 07:52:16 PM »
What varieties do you recommend for South Florida?  I have Oro Negro and Simmonds, which are both good.  Oro Negro is a little more flavorful.  I also have a Wurtz tree, which has 5 avocados this year for the first time.  Additionally I've eaten Choquette and Lula, which are both good, Lula being the more flavorful.
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Re: Avocado talk 6/18
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2018, 10:08:54 PM »
When are you going to start shipping avocados? I need a source in Florida that ships and has a good choice of varieties.

The avocados haven’t been prolific enough to ship much (certainly weren’t last year, did ship some in 2016). We’ll see how much we have available this year. I don’t typically advertise them for sale.

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Re: Avocado talk 6/18
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2018, 10:11:50 PM »
What varieties do you recommend for South Florida?  I have Oro Negro and Simmonds, which are both good.  Oro Negro is a little more flavorful.  I also have a Wurtz tree, which has 5 avocados this year for the first time.  Additionally I've eaten Choquette and Lula, which are both good, Lula being the more flavorful.

You have some good ones now which I spoke about (Lula, choquette, Simmonds ), hopefully you’ve had better luck with Oro Negro than many others.

A few other varieties I discussed were Brogden, Day, Catalina, Monroe, bacon and the hass derivatives.