Went shopping today; could not resist posting.

 

First; at the mall in Korat, then at home, in the garden.

 

 

 

Edited March 29, 20179 yr by soidog2
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Soidog, do you happen to know what variety they are? And yours?

99 ฿ per fruit is a handsome price for the seller/supermarket, not so good for the avocado lovers. 

villa goes from 79-99

 

theyre nearly always rock hard or rotting and stringy

10 hours ago, djayz said:

Soidog, do you happen to know what variety they are? And yours?

99 ฿ per fruit is a handsome price for the seller/supermarket, not so good for the avocado lovers. 

New Zealand ones look and taste like Hass; Mine (the pictured ones) are Booth 7; yellow inside, good texture, round seed.

I plan to graft about 40 trees this year. Here they are waiting patiently until the conditions are right (under guidance from Soidog2)...

 

 

I have my own mature tree which currently has small fruit but I don't know what variety it is yet. I will post pictures when the fruit is larger and hopefully someone can identify it. If Soidog2's kind offer from last year still stands, I'd love to graft some scions from other known varieties onto my rootstock.

 

Regarding fruit, my missus will be selling commercially this season as she has access to another ten trees of various varieties. PM me if you are interested in purchasing fruit.

That would be interesting Falang. Hoping to see you graft works around here.

We had a little bit of rain.

Generally speaking, grafting season, depending on variety and how vigorously is growing, should happen in Jan/Feb/March. Later on it will be hard to find suitable scions with buds ready to shoot.

 

8 hours ago, soidog2 said:

We had a little bit of rain.

Generally speaking, grafting season, depending on variety and how vigorously is growing, should happen in Jan/Feb/March. Later on it will be hard to find suitable scions with buds ready to shoot.

 

What beauties! 

They have been growing, and while we're at it, some figs too.

Some Petersons (first photo) are ready to pick. Second photo, Booth 7.

Enjoy

 

Some of yesterday's pickings; these are Booth 7 & Pollock, dry, creamy with light nuttiness flavor, very nice eating.v

Here on the market they sell the same 2, big one is booth and smaller is pollock i guess? They were from pakchong.

 

90 baht a kg, last try for me...if no good i'll only buy from new zealand.

 

 

Opposite, bigger is pollock.

 

There is nothing wrong with Thai avocado; except for the people growing it. They have no concept of how avocado ripens; therefore they pick it way too early, it becomes watery and tastes like crap.

Avocado matures but does not ripen on the tree, it does not uniformly mature; in a single tree you may have three or more different maturing seasons. Selective picking is a must.

Mature avocado ripens three or four days after picking, if you need to wait weeks after buying or picking something is wrong.

 

 

Saturday and sunday you can buy many grafted avocadotree's in impact muang thong in BKK.

 

I tasted pollack and it was a nice one...

 

Didn't buy any though, have enough...the shop is from pakchong in a corner of the hall.

Some inspiration for when your avocados ripen.

On 11/1/2017 at 2:17 PM, ExpatOilWorker said:

Some inspiration for when your avocados ripen.

 

Nice, definitely inspirational.

We have been doing that and a lot of this:

 

Preparing:

 

Edited November 2, 20178 yr by soidog2

2 hours ago, soidog2 said:

Nice, definitely inspirational.

We have been doing that and a lot of this:

 

Preparing:

 

Stop it the both of you! I'm starving!! ?

 

Great ideas there lads. Sure beats my avocado with a pinch of salt. 

On 11/2/2017 at 11:50 PM, djayz said:

Stop it the both of you! I'm starving!! ?

 

Great ideas there lads. Sure beats my avocado with a pinch of salt. 

Stop?? We are just warming op to the season.

 

32 minutes ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

Stop?? We are just warming op to the season.

 

Looks delicious! 

Our season is ending, only a few left on the trees.

One Peterson flowered for the second time and set fruit, next season is starting early.