Duke Avocados. Very creamy, clean, no strings, ultra thin skin that you can bite into and eat. No need to peel off. And unlike most avocados when opened, the Duke Avocados don’t brown easily! Very good and tasty especially for avocado toast. Avocado Flavor is milder but creamier than Hass and I like it.
The Duke Avocados are really big this year. Normally they’re only half this size! I posted the wonderful story about this very cold hardy avocado in my earlier posting.
I will be using the seeds as rootstocks for my cold hardy, boron and salt tolerant, and root rot resistant avocados.
For me, I think that the best way to induce their cold hardiness is to plant them outside in October. They won’t sprout until early spring. And only those induced to be cold hardy would sprout, and might be due to epigenetics. The ones that I germinate inside the house, they really don’t seem to be as cold hardy. So I now plant the seeds outside.
I really wanted their seeds to be used as rootstocks so I mark my calendar and go great distances to get them. I have proven that from a few years of my experimentations, they’re really among the best rootstocks to use, especially for our area where we have salt problems, freezing temperatures and root rot. If you want very good and very cold hardy avocados, these are the best to use, better than all of the big box stores avocados. Of course, I now have seeds of Aravaipa and Brazos Belle and would test them side by side too!
Brazos Belle and Duke. Although they’re ready a couple of weeks ago, I left them on the tree until the winds shook them off.
