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Before I had my own avocado trees, I picked fruit from the trees of others (and usually I asked first). I had learned the locations of trees of different varieties and in which season each tasted good so that I could find avocados to eat all year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, I asked avocado farmers why we consumers could only get poor-quality Hass avocados from Chile or Mexico in stores in Southern California during the winter. I was eating delicious Bacon and Fuerte avocados from local trees at this same time. Their answers related to marketing and handling efficiencies and sounded convoluted and disingenuous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The point now is, before I started planting my own avocado trees I knew that it was possible to get a year-round harvest. Local avocado farmers simply weren\u2019t giving it to us. Since then I have discovered the challenges involved in actually achieving this year-round harvest in a single yard. Choosing the right varieties is only one of the challenges. And I hope that by writing this post I can help you overcome those challenges and live the dream of being able to pick excellent avocados from trees in your own yard every day of the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Others\u2019 variety recommendations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Choosing the right varieties is where the quest for year-round avocados must begin. Luckily, California avocado growers and researchers have considered this topic for a hundred years, and the varietal recommendations of some are still worth mentioning today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frank Koch wrote on page 50 of his Avocado Grower\u2019s Handbook<\/em>, published in 1983, that a mix of Hass, Reed, and Pinkerton would permit harvest year-round. Pinkerton was a new variety in 1983. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crop load on a mature Pinkerton.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Five years later, Gray Martin and Bob Bergh<\/a> of U.C. Riverside, also suggested Hass, Reed, and Pinkerton, but they added the recently released Gwen variety as an alternative to the Hass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The seasons of these varieties are roughly winter into spring for Pinkerton; spring into summer for Hass and Gwen, and summer into fall for Reed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gwen came from U.C. Riverside\u2019s avocado breeding program, and over the past three decades a couple more worthy varieties have been developed, patented, and released. Mary Lu Arpaia, current director of the avocado breeding program, suggested in a talk on varieties in 2018<\/a> that growers consider GEM as an alternative to Hass (and Gwen) for the spring into summer window. For summer into fall, Arpaia suggested trying Reed or Lamb. GEM and Lamb are both products of U.C. Riverside\u2019s avocado breeding program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GEM and Hass avocados.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But what about for the late fall and winter? \u201cWe don\u2019t really have anything for November-December,\u201d Arpaia said. \u201cFuerte is good in December and January, if you want to take a gamble.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Fall Gap<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I have written about before<\/a>, there is often a window of time that occurs as early as September or as late as December in most of Southern California, depending on the weather, where good avocados are in short supply. This gap, which I have come to think of as The Fall Gap, comes after the late varieties like Reed and Lamb are mostly finished but before the early varieties like Fuerte (and then Pinkerton) are up to par.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not that there are no avocado varieties that fill this gap. Mexicola, Mexicola Grande, and Stewart are varieties which mature around this time and whose taste I enjoy. The problem is that they are not all-around as good as the varieties recommended above, in my opinion. In short, Mexicola is thin-skinned and very small, and Mexicola Grande and Stewart are also thin-skinned, have a short harvest season, and are occasionally stringy. The thin skin of these varieties makes the fruit prone to cracking and to chewing by animals. They are not bad varieties, that’s for sure; I just don\u2019t think they\u2019re on the same level as the others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stewart avocados.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mexicola avocado.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mexicola Grande, originally called 3-1-1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Best varieties for each season<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here is a list of the varieties that have been recommended above for each season, and with which I agree:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winter<\/strong> — Fuerte, Pinkerton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spring<\/strong> — Hass, GEM, Gwen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summer<\/strong> — Reed, Lamb<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fall?<\/strong> — Mexicola? Mexicola Grande? Stewart?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve listed the varieties in the order in which they mature. For example, Fuerte is mature before Pinkerton; Fuerte at the beginning of winter, and Pinkerton toward the end of winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Here are my profiles of the Pinkerton<\/a>, Fuerte<\/a>, Hass<\/a>, GEM<\/a>, Reed<\/a> and Lamb<\/a> <\/a>avocado trees.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Here are my video profiles of the Mexicola<\/a>, Mexicola Grande<\/a>, and Stewart<\/a> varieties.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other varieties for each season<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, we know that there are many other good varieties of avocados beyond those listed above, such as: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winter<\/strong> — Bacon, Sir-Prize<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spring<\/strong> — Sharwil, Jan Boyce, Edranol<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summer<\/strong> — Nabal<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These varieties are also listed in order of maturity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The list could go on much longer, but I\u2019ll leave it at that because these varieties are ones that I have enough personal experience with to say that they\u2019re worth growing even though they wouldn\u2019t be my first choices in their respective seasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Winter avocados (from left to right): Fuerte, Sirprize, Pinkerton.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A or B flower type?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The characteristics that I most desire in an avocado variety growing in my yard include eating quality of the fruit, productivity of the tree, and the length of the harvest season. All of the varieties in the “best” list taste excellent, have a long harvest season, and are highly productive — with one exception: Fuerte. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember what Mary Lu Arpaia said? \u201cFuerte is good in December and January, if you want to take a gamble<\/em>.\u201d The main gamble in Fuerte is its unpredictable fruitfulness. In part, this is related to its being a B-flower type. Avocado varieties are of two flower types — A or B — and it has been observed in California since almost the beginning that A-type varieties fruit more reliably overall. (See more on this from a paper by Peter A. Peterson.<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jan Boyce is an A-type avocado variety, but Sir-Prize, Bacon, Sharwil, and Nabal are Bs. These Bs can produce well; I\u2019ve seen loaded trees of all of these varieties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My brother climbs an old, productive Bacon tree to harvest and toss avocados down . . .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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. . . to the kids below.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

However, because of the behavior of B-type varieties, their fruitset is more influenced by the weather and whether they\u2019ll produce well in your yard is less predictable. In my yard, as one example, A types outproduce B types on average. One probably exists, but I\u2019ve never seen a yard with multiple varieties of avocados where the story is different. So I\u2019d choose an A type over a B type, all other things being equal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wrote a post a few years ago titled, \u201cWhat\u2019s the best kind of avocado to grow?\u201d<\/a> There I chose, in order, Hass, Reed, and Fuerte. But I\u2019m here tempted to prefer Pinkerton over Fuerte for the winter window solely based on productivity. Fuerte tastes better, to me, but Pinkerton produces more. Such a trade-off! I\u2019ll leave the choice up to you. (And I\u2019ll keep both trees in my own yard, if that\u2019s okay.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Are three or four trees enough: alternate bearing?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So can you choose one variety per season and expect to get a year-round harvest? Realistically, probably not, not in sufficient quantity year in and year out. Individual avocado trees have more or less fruit each year, and sometimes the fluctuation is so extreme that a tree will be barren for a year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, if you really want to ensure that there are great avocados to be picked from your yard all year long, every year, you ought to have two trees for each season, and ideally the two trees would be different varieties. Most likely, even if one is having an \u201coff\u201d year, the other will have some fruit on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve seen this work out in my own yard. For the summer harvest, I have both Reed and Lamb. In the summer of 2018, the Lamb had an off year, but the Reed held a good crop. Then they reversed this past summer of 2019, and the Reed had an off year while the Lamb had plenty of fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lamb avocados, summer 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Two varieties for each season would make for six trees total if you weren\u2019t adding fall varieties like Mexicola and Stewart. My personal choice of six, as my experience stands now, would be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winter<\/strong> — Fuerte, Pinkerton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spring<\/strong> — Hass, Gwen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summer<\/strong> — Reed, Lamb<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unless I had lots of land, I wouldn\u2019t bother with Mexicola, Mexicola Grande, or Stewart for fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mature trees have longest harvest seasons<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once an avocado tree of any variety reaches a certain size, where it is capable of carrying at least one hundred avocados (that might be a tree that is roughly 12-feet tall), the harvest season becomes longer than in prior years. It is because there are more flowers on the tree each spring, and the bloom season lasts longer, and the avocados are of slightly different ages, and there are so many avocados that it takes you longer to eat through them. All of a sudden, your Lamb still has avocados that taste good deep into fall, even winter<\/a>, and your Fuerte already has some fruit that tastes good in December. Thus, The Fall Gap becomes a mere crack, even imperceptible. It\u2019s not as big a void as it was when your trees were young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not to mention the habit of \u201coff bloom\u201d that is common in certain varieties in certain locations, such as with Carmen. When avocado trees behave in this way, the harvest season becomes even more spread out for a single tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carmen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And varieties such as Pinkerton and Fuerte frequently have fits of early bloom, which means they might have a few fruit that mature far earlier than their main crop. For example, here is early bloom that I noticed on a Fuerte tree in San Clemente just yesterday, October 3:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fuerte early bloom, October 3.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Girdling<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are other methods of managing the natural alternate bearing of avocado trees besides just planting multiple varieties for each season. Some commercial growers routinely girdle their trees in order to manipulate flowering. Here is a link to a video of a commercial grower in Ventura County who girdles his trees in order to harness and manipulate their tendency to alternate bear. Through girdling (cutting into the bark), he stimulates half of each tree to flower and fruit heavily while encouraging the other half to be barren so that each year each tree has half of a fruit load. Watch this video of Paul Nurre<\/a> on his girdling techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Hass avocado tree that has been girdled for many years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Only space for two varieties?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If my yard could only fit two avocado trees — and remember that avocado trees don’t have to reach 30-feet tall<\/a> — I would choose a Hass and a Reed, which wouldn’t quite cover the year but would get close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My Hass avocado tree, kept to 15 feet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Reed and Hass avocados.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Come to think of it, before I had my own avocado trees I used to pick from a yard that wasn’t big but had a beautiful pair of trees, a Hass and a Reed. There were excellent avocados ready to pick from those trees most months of the year. And then the house sold and the new owners cut down the trees and poured a slab so they could park their RV in the backyard. Is my schadenfreude wrong, as I imagine them complaining that the avocados they buy in the store so often have poor taste and rotten spots inside?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More about avocado varieties<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hungry for more information about more avocado varieties? Check out these resources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a variety list with descriptions based on trees at the South Coast Field Station avocado variety collection in Irvine<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a list with descriptions of commercial varieties from Gary Bender’s <\/a>Avocado Production in California<\/a><\/em> (see page 30).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a list of avocado varieties with descriptions and photos from U.C. Riverside<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You might also like to read my posts:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growing avocados in Southern California<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where to buy an avocado tree<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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