{"id":20339,"date":"2024-05-17T18:45:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T01:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/?p=20339"},"modified":"2024-05-17T18:45:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T01:45:06","slug":"cadway-avocado-fruit-a-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/cadway-avocado-fruit-a-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Cadway avocado fruit: a profile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rick Cadway hit the jackpot. In 2005, he planted a seed from a typical Hass avocado that he bought at Costco and it grew into a tree that makes world-class fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not what usually happens. Usually, when you grow an avocado tree from a seed you get a tree that makes acceptable avocados, or junk avocados, or maybe good avocados. Very rarely do you get a tree that makes world-class avocados.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(See my post, “What kind of avocado tree do you get when you plant a seed?”<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of this, it took me a while to acknowledge the quality of Cadway avocados. It was in 2021 that I first visited Rick’s yard in San Diego and he shared the avocados from his new tree with me. Since then I have eaten dozens over the course of four seasons, including some from a tree that I now have grafted in my own yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel it is time to profile this new variety, starting with the fruit alone:<\/p>\n\n\n\n