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Posted By: Deborah L. Avocados and Citrus - January 23rd, 2007 at 01:38 AM
Wow, are we ever gonna pay big bucks for avocados and citrus this year.
Our growers here are devastated by the effects of the cold weather on our groves.
I wonder how Art's avocados are doing?
Posted By: tkhooper Re: Avocados and Citrus - January 23rd, 2007 at 12:36 PM
I know I was amazed to see the old style avocado's in the store for 10 for a 1.00. It was amazing. Needless to say I got several lol. But the price had already doubled on the clementine oranges.
Posted By: Deborah L. Re: Avocados and Citrus - January 25th, 2007 at 02:57 AM
TK, what's an "old style" avocado?
Do you mean a Hass, the blackish pebbly one?
The Hass is my favorite.
Posted By: tkhooper Re: Avocados and Citrus - January 25th, 2007 at 01:15 PM
yep the black pebbly one. It would actually get soft when it was ripe. They are so much easier to choose.
Posted By: Deborah L. Re: Avocados and Citrus - January 26th, 2007 at 02:58 AM
All avocados but the Hass seem bland and "thin tasting" to me.
If I ever get an avocado tree, it'll definitely be a Hass.
Just curious, TK, why do you call the Hass "old style"?
Posted By: art Re: Avocados and Citrus - January 29th, 2007 at 11:16 PM
Deborah
i believe i was one of the lucky ones. all of my avocados are doing fine.the panickles are growing on all of them.i did lose one of my grafts,but i sort of expected it.i also lost my one and only mango tree.
deborah your talking of getting a hass. did you know that the gwen, which are the ones that i have, are hass grafts? i believe they are just as tasty.
Posted By: Deborah L. Re: Avocados and Citrus - January 30th, 2007 at 12:12 AM
Hi Art-good to see you.
I'm glad your trees are doing well.
Do you bag them against frost?
I still haven't purchased my tree.
Posted By: art Re: Avocados and Citrus - January 31st, 2007 at 01:29 AM
Hi Deborah,
we only had 2 days below freezing here. one nite was 29 the following nite was 28 and all of my trees survived,with the exception of my mango,which im not sure of yet.altogether i have 5 naval oranges 3 valencia oranges 1 lime 1 lemon 2 tangerine 6 loquot
4 apricot 3 peach 3 avocado 5 fig 1 plum and my hopeful mango.and 9 assorted grafts.i didn't cover any of them,but i did water them the day before.
maybe thats what saved them.
by the way one of my gwen grafts still has about 7 avocados from last feb.i'll wait 3or 4 more months before i pick them.
i hope you get yours soon.just think, you could be enjoying avocados by now.
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