This one’s getting a little bigger, slowly but surely:
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That’s awesome. We have managed to keep one Mexicola avocado plant alive for a couple years here in zone eight a
I have no idea If we will ever get it to fruit, but it’s young so we have to be patient.
I was happy to see you call it tasty
I love the licorice smell of the leaves, heard you could use them in beans for flavor
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I would think that you would be able to add fruits and vegetables in later after you have accomplished your goal. The real bad carbs are white flour and sugar, in my opinion. But I’m no dietitian.
Be warned that there appear to be a number of different distinct cultivars being sold by various different nurseries as “Mexicola,” and most of them are not very good, many of them have large seeds. I’m not sure where Marta originally sourced her tree, but hers is definitely a winner. They’re tiny but one of the best tasting imo, especially when they are fully ripe and you eat them with the skin, which adds a hint of anise flavor.
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I think I lucked out because our leaves definitely have that licorice scent and Mexicola is described as having a bigger pit and less flesh, but it’s of great quality and the avocados are smaller, which is OK with me because they start turning brown after you open them so I’d rather have smaller avocados then leftover avocado turning brown.
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I heard that a lot of avocado leaves are poisonous, but not the licorice scented ones of Mexicola.
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Which one, the walnut of the pear?
Boy, you’re not kidding even if you have to get it from the store, kerrygold butter is the best butter available at stores.
I can only imagine how wonderful homemade ghee from your own cows would be.
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That’s the part that isn’t necessarily true… the Mexicolas I’ve gotten from Marta are mostly in the 50 to 80 gram range, but the seeds are mostly in the 10-15 gram range, which is a pretty good ratio for a Mexican type of avocado. I’ve seen alleged Mexicola fruit from other sources with much larger seeds and stringy flesh, so I think it could be hit or miss depending on which version of Mexicola you have.
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I have no idea. I guess I’ll have to wait and see and hope I even get any fruit, but they give a description of very high-quality flesh with a high oil content, but a smaller avocado.
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Cranberry myrtle berries.
I can’t stop picking them, even not fully ripe. Sweet with a mild but really quite pleasant perfumed/floral taste.
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More HRs today… and 3 CHE fruit on the right…
I took those to my Daughters/granddaughters place… granddaughter was napping.
My daughter tried CHE fruit for the first time. She is a fan now too… she actually said (fig) and jammyness…in her taste test report.
TNHunter
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What size is that pot? Looks like it’s holding quite a bit of fruit. I think this is the first time I’ve seen someone fruit one of those in a greenhouse.
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picked another big bowl on my non preludes, autumn brittens and jacylns and a half a small bowl of fall golds off of my 1st 3 canes with my 20 mo. old granddaughter. i was impressed. not crumbly at all but was kind of soft. had a sweet almost peachy flavor to them. Anna ate most of them. she’s getting good at only picking the ripe ones. she also found a handful of Chester blackberries once i pointed them out. she kept saying ‘‘pepere yum!’’ everytime she shoved more in her mouth. pepere is grandfather in French. she got turned around in the big raspberry patch and i had to go ‘‘save’’ her. she was too infatuated with the berries and lost sight of me. she’s the only one besides me that likes black currant strait off the bush.
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I was thinking of the Walnut, the size seems superlative, but the pear too, why not!
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There is a similarly large walnut variety called Seifersdorfer, likely somewhat smaller but with a paper-shell.
Nevertheless, I’m considering taking it to an old variety nursery and gene-pool repository. Something like this is supposed to occur in 12/100 of seedlings with the genetics common to our area and we already have the 2nd and 3rd generation.
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Hybrid lophomyrtus berry starting to colour up.
Unusual waxy flowers are emerging on the strawberry tree.
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It’s in a 7 gallon container. I am moving it to a 15 though.
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