Reed Avocado Guatemalan B flower
The Reed appears to have a history in South Florida. It is listed in the shipping schedule of fruit with picking commencing in December and ending in January. Pine Island Nursery has it listed in their Avocado Viewer.
Commercial production has been ruled out but there may be room for this on the home garden.
A tree was top worked December 2013
November 30, 2013: On the 2014-2015 picking schedule the Reed has been removed. The tree top worked 11 months ago is doing very well and I'm hoping to see some fruit next year.
March 3, 2015: The tree was grafted 15 months ago. It is quite small compared to others. It is definitely a late flowering tree. Only few open flowers in a branch towards the base. Seem that the tree is pushing something not sure if flowers.
May 16, 2015: The tree set 6-8 fruit. Not bad for a slow growing tree on its first flowering. Fruit is small seems like a late fruit. The record indicate that harvesting of Reed in Florida was a December to January event. Let's home we can taste it this year.
August 6, 2015: Decided to update this tree since a lot of people are curious on how this Reed Avocado grows here. There are 4-5 fruits hanging in the tree. It does grow slowly. Seems to be getting crowed by its neighbors. The fruit is growing well. According to the picture above it gets to 4 inches tall. The fruit I have in my hands taken today is like 3 inches, it may be on tract for year's end
August 28, 2015: The fruit keeps growing slowly the tree also is a slow grower
September 19, 2015: All is well the fruit still hanging and growing slowly. Is not a big tree it is compact and a slow grower. I'm surprised that in the last 5 weeks of heat and rain they have not grown much. .That to some extend if favorable. See only 3 fruits.
December 12, 2015: The tree is holding about 5 fruits. Seems to be holding them well. I will pick one at the end of December.
January 4, 2016: All the fruit was in the ground. This tree is not holding fruit as long as a Monroe so I see no point in continue to cover the tree.
October 29, 2018: Tree is holding little fruit under a dozen. Not sure why I did not cut it down in 2016. Will let it go one more season.
January 16, 2022: I have this Reed tree since 2013. In the last few years never paid much attention to it because by the end of December all the fruit was in the ground and before December the fruit was small and not reach it best maturity.
This year seems to be different. The tree has 40-50 fruit, it is holding them well, the fruit is continuing to grow. I picked one in early January and allow it to ripen in the counter. These are the attached pictures. Very clean an acceptable taste.
The only explanation I have is that we had a cooler November, allowing the tree to make a transition without dropping the fruit.
I wonder if anyone else is growing it in Florida?
Commercial production has been ruled out but there may be room for this on the home garden.
A tree was top worked December 2013
November 30, 2013: On the 2014-2015 picking schedule the Reed has been removed. The tree top worked 11 months ago is doing very well and I'm hoping to see some fruit next year.
March 3, 2015: The tree was grafted 15 months ago. It is quite small compared to others. It is definitely a late flowering tree. Only few open flowers in a branch towards the base. Seem that the tree is pushing something not sure if flowers.
May 16, 2015: The tree set 6-8 fruit. Not bad for a slow growing tree on its first flowering. Fruit is small seems like a late fruit. The record indicate that harvesting of Reed in Florida was a December to January event. Let's home we can taste it this year.
August 6, 2015: Decided to update this tree since a lot of people are curious on how this Reed Avocado grows here. There are 4-5 fruits hanging in the tree. It does grow slowly. Seems to be getting crowed by its neighbors. The fruit is growing well. According to the picture above it gets to 4 inches tall. The fruit I have in my hands taken today is like 3 inches, it may be on tract for year's end
August 28, 2015: The fruit keeps growing slowly the tree also is a slow grower
September 19, 2015: All is well the fruit still hanging and growing slowly. Is not a big tree it is compact and a slow grower. I'm surprised that in the last 5 weeks of heat and rain they have not grown much. .That to some extend if favorable. See only 3 fruits.
December 12, 2015: The tree is holding about 5 fruits. Seems to be holding them well. I will pick one at the end of December.
January 4, 2016: All the fruit was in the ground. This tree is not holding fruit as long as a Monroe so I see no point in continue to cover the tree.
October 29, 2018: Tree is holding little fruit under a dozen. Not sure why I did not cut it down in 2016. Will let it go one more season.
January 16, 2022: I have this Reed tree since 2013. In the last few years never paid much attention to it because by the end of December all the fruit was in the ground and before December the fruit was small and not reach it best maturity.
This year seems to be different. The tree has 40-50 fruit, it is holding them well, the fruit is continuing to grow. I picked one in early January and allow it to ripen in the counter. These are the attached pictures. Very clean an acceptable taste.
The only explanation I have is that we had a cooler November, allowing the tree to make a transition without dropping the fruit.
I wonder if anyone else is growing it in Florida?
