Hass Avocado

 
Hass Avocado, need no introduction. It's the King of Avocado. 95% of the global commercially planted Avocado is Hass.

Hass had some other big advantages over other avocado. The trees grow vigorously, are easy to propagate and produce an impressive amount of fruit by only the second or third season. They have a longer harvest season than other avocados and, perhaps most importantly, the Hass's thicker skin makes it superior to handle and ship long distances.

Hass avocados have a pebbly skin that ripens from green to deep purple or nearly black, and they can vary in size from 140 gm to 340 gm. Although the skin is thick, it is relatively easy to peel. The flesh closest to the skin is pale green, and as it nears the medium-sized central stone it develops a yellow undertone. The flesh is soft, creamy, and barely fibrous, with good oil content. The flavor is rich and nutty with a slightly sweet finish.

The Hass avocado tree is a desirable fast-growing tree that produces high-quality, rough-skinned fruit with a long shelf life. Hass avocado trees are medium, spreading, evergreen trees that reaches 12 M in height and 11 M wide.

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Progress Of Avocado & Jackfruit February 2014.

February, being the shortest month, leave much to be done. I had only about 16 days in our farm for this month. The weather is also bringing heavy rain with super hot afternoon and very cold nights, which disrupted our schedule.

Bagged all the previously germinated seeds from December / January.

Prepared Avocado seedling and transfer all of them into poly bags. Managed to collect more quality seeds. Preparing to germinate them to create more rootstock.

Managed to collect these seeds when I was about to give up. The scions are for grafting the 10 plants.

 Organize the grafted Avocados. Shutting down my ICU as shall be away for a month. Shifting back all my patients to the nursery for logistic reason. Shall have to make more drainage holes on the bags.

"Amulance" awaiting.

These grafts had 'taken' but the scions are dying from the top.

Snipped off the died parts and re-seal with wax.

Didn't do a good job, a small edge was not sealed properly, causing the scion to dry further. It's a goner.

Thank you, at least I got 1.

Was thinking there may be other methods of cloning. Considering air layering and cuttings. As the fruiting trees is large, I feel that it's rather difficult to do air layering. Also my previous experience wasn't good. Fear of heights and falling (ladder on soft ground) is also another factor. Only found a handful of article on propagation Avocado through cuttings. Successful rate are pretty low, but I think may be worthwhile to try. As at the moment after grafting 10 plants, I don't have anymore graft-able rootstock. Shall try to slot in after all my schedule, if not then on April.

Harvested a Jackfruit from our mother tree of J31, estimated to be about 10 ~ 12 kg. Feed back is that the fruit doesn't taste good. Fibrous, not crunchy and not sweet enough. Even though am using it to practice, am deciding to stop cloning it. Have about 50 trees of J31 and J29.

The 4 J33 Tekam Yellow is still too young to contribute scion. So far only managed to clone 2. I feel the scion is too young and do not process the reserve to 'take'. Shall let them grow for the time being and access them again in April. The surviving CJ3 and  J35 Mastura (made a mistake of labeling this as J37) is struggling but after patience care I think they shall survive.

CJ3 and Mastura, shall be transferring back to the nursery.

Manage to graft some Jackfruit using scions from a neighbor's tree.

Grafted Artocarpus.

On the Mango, there was this plant that refuse to bud even though it had 'took'. Gave it a bend to force it to bud. Yes, it bud 3 days later.

Force a bend, to force a bud.

Bud begin to grow 3 days later. New leafs has appeared by now.

Another 7 days latter.

Mango, scions were taken from our plantation, We have 2 fruiting trees, 1 Apple Mango and a Philippine Mango, Manila Super Sweet.

Manila Super Sweet, size of this unripe fruit is about 7 ~ 8 inches. 

Sent in 50 Soursop, 13 Mango, 9 Avocado and 12 non grafted Jackfruit from CML and 18 grafted Jackfruit for field planting.

On Transit, awaiting field planting.

Managed to organize the nursery before I go. My prized procession, Jackfruit.

Artocarpus Cultivar CJ3, Mastura & Tekam Yellow.

I had left the best spot in the nursery for the Pomegranate, and S. Avocados. This spot has 70% shaded morning sun and 90% shaded afternoon sun.

Pomegranate, #Avocado Anna, Betty & Cat.

 Prepared some seedling of Soursop.

Soursop Seedlings.

Rootstock for Mango & Jackfruit.

 More seeds to germinate #Avocado.

Avocado rootstock, waiting for it to grow to graft-able size.

It's a pretty exhaustive trip, as after the long Chinese New Year holodays, I came back and started on a relax pace. As my leaving date draw nearer, I need to do more to complete my nursery. Did all I could for this trip and thank you for the progress made. Leaving for home in the morning, then off to vacation in Turkey with my lovely wife.

More Varieties Of Jackfruit Artocapus.

While searching for more varieties of Jackfruit, I came across the EVIARC Sweet. They claim to be the sweetest Jackfruit. Regional Integrated Agricultural Research Center (RIARC) in Abuyog had developed a variety EVIARC Sweet. It has a fruit size of approximately 12 Kg, golden yellow, taste and aroma far more superior than all the rest, with a sugar content of 25.14 brix, the international measurement of sweetness based on total soluble solids. This is extremely sweet compare to the sweetest of the normal sweet Jackfruits of between 16 ~ 19 brix. Now, how to get my hands on this for trial here. May need to travel to the Philippines again.

Reproduced from the website of Department Of Agriculture, The Philippines.

Closer to the home front, managed to sort out 2 trees that has great fruits characteristic. This friend use to sell out all his jackfruit every time. He has about 6 trees and were planted on a ridge one side to the hill and the other side a drop to the small river. He claims that the biggest fruit that he had was a whopping 50 kg. Pay him a visit and check out his trees. The location is very good for the trees. Nutrients from the hill, water from the river. The only problem is that humidity is rather high. The tree that has the sweetest / largest fruit show signs of branch breaking due to the weight of the fruits. Another tree has the most fruits but not as sweet. Requested some scion from these 2 trees. Had them grafted. In order to show my gratitude, I promised him a graft of each in return. He wants to sent it back to his village. I had had bought his fruit before, golden yellow, sweet and crunchy. Still this shall be an interim period, until the Tekam Yellow can produce quality scions.

Tree A, still couldn't manage to identify the variety yet. Tree A according to my neighbor bears the most fruits, reasonable large size. The rest of the trees no longer fruit. The leafs are wavy, fan like, no tip.

Tree P, according to my neighbor bears the biggest & sweetes fruits, reasonable large size. Biggest that he got was 50 kg. The leafs are wavy, oblong, with tip.

1 fruit awaiting to ripe. Top branch broke due to over weight.

The seeds that I germinated from CML Trading Honey jeckfruit. Am planting these without grafting, have 11 of them that has elongated leafs, wavy with tip. There are no baby leafs like a normal Jackfruit.

11 of them with elongated leafs. Have about 3 more that I left in the Nursery as they have very slow growth.

 

Only a couple (3) has the normal baby leafs

Appreciate help on identifying these Jackfruits, Thank you.