I bought 3 Days a couple years ago for 1/2 price and planted them in raised beds. One had a single fruit that I looked at many times before finally picking it. I kept waiting for critters to get to it before maturity. The taste was good to me. I regret that I don't know the rootstock on these. All 3 get some leaf damage when exposed briefly to 28 degrees, and 25 degrees would be bad. Without special cold protection, they will not make it. They are plastic wrapped even as we type. A year ago we got a brief exposure to 14 degrees. The 3 were protected with a circular wire fence around each that was filled with dry leaves and then plastic wrapped to keep out rain and wind. They were uncovered after several weeks and were OK.

http://www.youtube.com/user/DaveWilsonTrees Dave Wilson is very good with lots of educational youtube videos. His nursery is in Modesto California. His basic theme is to get a lot of different fruit trees, plant close together, prune and prune. Or get say 3-4 different apple trees. Whole idea is to get fruit for many months. Keep many smaller fruit trees instead of a few big ones. He gets to sell more trees too :) Here is a link that might be useful: Dave Wilson- high density fruit trees for your back yard

Greetings all, Would it be possible for someone to give me an idea of what type of avocado this might be, based on its shape/color/size/etc? My grandmother has had a tree for a few decades (it's very large now) and it produces these nice smooth-skinned avocados that get fairly large (I have big hands). They're usually ripe in the fall, around October, and I'm not sure whether the tree has A or B type flowers. The color when ripe is also very similar to in the picture as well, if that helps. Thanks in advance! :D Edit: One reason I ask is because the small avocado tree that we've had planted at home for a few years is finally holding a fruit this year, and I'm thinking about trying to graft a scion from one of my grandmother's trees (she has two, but one must be an alternate bearer because it hardly ever fruits) onto my tree at home so that I have the benefit of multiple fruit types, potentially extended seasons, as well as helping my trees original avocados get pollinated. The baby fruit on mine is red, if that stands out to anyone as a particular variety.....

Here's another couple of pictures of the other flowering plant that I think is the same type. Satiny textured leaves that reflex under. One stem has two flowers, while the other stem has one flower. A rosy shade.