8/29/2023 0 Comments Avocado fruit![]() ![]() If the skin shrivels near the stem end, then it is immature. Ripening (the softening of the flesh inside) sometimes only takes a couple days but can take a couple weeks. Pick the biggest fruit on the tree, and especially a big fruit whose skin is dull, not glossy, and see how it ripens. Through trial and error, we figured out the season for picking that tree’s fruit (and we later concluded that the tree was an old variety called Nabal). Some years ago, a friend moved into a house that was shaded by an enormous avocado tree with large round fruit that had shell-like skin but whose varietal name no one told him. (Small fruit is always released for picking at later dates compared to big fruit.) This gives us an idea of the order of maturity and harvests of different varieties, as well as the amount of time between the seasons of each variety for example, the Lamb season starts more than six months after the Fuerte season.īut what if you don’t know which kind of avocado tree you’re picking from. ![]() For example, the CDFA allows the picking of the biggest Fuerte fruit starting on October 27, and then big Hass fruit one month later on November 28, while big Lamb fruit can’t be picked until May 8. These dates can be used by us backyard growers as guides for when to harvest. (Reed’s dates are announced later than the others. The varieties they list are (in order of harvest): Bacon, Fuerte, Zutano, Hass, Pinkerton, GEM, Gwen, Lamb, and Reed. They issue maturity release dates each year. You might also be interested in knowing that the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Avocado Inspection Program controls when commercial farmers can pick and sell their fruit. When I picked it, the fruit was totally black. In other words, the tree had bloomed in perhaps February and the little fruitlet began to grow, and then it hung on the tree for almost two years after that. I have picked good-tasting fruit from a Hass tree in Carpinteria in November - not the first November, but the second November. When fruit from your tree will taste best to you might be on the front end or back end of the months listed.Īlso keep in mind that it’s slightly warmer the farther south you go in California, so if you live in San Diego your avocados will mature a little earlier in the year than if you live in Santa Barbara. Just keep in mind that any chart should only be used as a rough guide. It shows the eating seasons of 27 avocado varieties. That said, if you know which kind of avocado tree you have, then there are reference charts you can use to give you a general sense of a variety’s harvest season.Īnother such chart is this one by Julie Frink, based on observations in Irvine, Orange County, California. There is no simple or correct answer to my grandpa’s question. Further, from March or April they’ll taste wonderful. They’ve tasted acceptable, but I know that from February they’ll taste good, so I said February. But it’s true that I’ve been picking one every now and then from my Hass tree since November. My grandpa once asked me when to start picking fruit from his Hass avocado tree. ![]()
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