i am growing a variety of different grafted avocado trees (mostly Mexican) - Lila, Fantastics, Joeys, Ponchos, Brazos Belle, Mexicola Grande, Brogdon and another tree which was supposed to be Brazos Belle but i believe the nursery mislabeled it and it’s some other variety. They are all young trees 2-3 years old. They all flowered earlier this year and the two Fantastics had fruit form but they aborted them earlier in the season. My Lila had maybe 7 or 8 and aborted a few but 3 have held on and 1 fell off recently. I think it needed to be on the tree for at least another month or two. but i let it soften up for 3 days and tried it before it was fully ripe, it had black pitted spots so i knew i had to eat it soon. the skin is smooth and very thin, i didn’t eat it though, not sure if this variety has edible skin, but the flesh was fatty and
creamy (though not fully ripe) like a Hass avocado. also, unlike the grocery store avocados, the skin doesn’t turn all black, it stays mostly green when it is ripe. this is the tiniest avocado i have ever seen. it’s so cute.
i know Lilas are supposed to be smaller than the grocery store avocados. i’m sure the fruit will get much bigger when it’s mature. this little thing was less than 3 inches. i guess i will save the seed to plant.
mid August i was able to harvest two more Lilas, closer to normal size, i wanted to keep them on the tree longer but they were getting black spots on them, mostly seed, little flesh, but tasted very similar to hass, they should be bigger when this tree gets older
I would love that! You might also find other people interested in seeds if you offered them for sale here, people ask me for seeds all the time, but we always need more in the project. I started about 160 seeds last year and distributed more than half of those trees already (the rest were potted up to distribute next spring), but only have about 40 seeds starting so far this fall.
Keep in mind that seed shape/size is actually determined by the seed DNA and therefore can be influenced a lot by the pollen parent. The flesh and skin are all seed parent DNA, but the seed shape can even have subtle effects on fruit shape (pointy seeds can cause more of a neck to form, for example).
