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Avacados are going off in Kihei!

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Real Estate Agent with Maui Earth Realty LLC

I have a friend who has the most awesome avo tree here in Maui Meadows, each year around this time, it produces the the most amazing avocado's.  The fruit is almost perfectly round, is from 4"-7" across, and is not stringy or lumpy.  We usually get 2 large bowls of guacamole from each one, or several avocado sandwiches.  I hope to graft this tree someday, as it is not a variety that I've found in the stores and it has been grown using organic gardening methods.  It seems like the typical avocado sold in the big supermarket on Maui are the Sharwill or the Hass (shipped from the mainland).  Often in the health food stores I find Maui grown avocados of different varieties.

                                                 

Here's a picture of todays avocado.  I did a little research and found that avocados is native to Mexico, Central America and South America,  the earliest proof of it's existence is  from the 8th century.  (an Avocado was buried with a mummy.)  they have long been known as aphrodisiacs even though there is no scientific evidence of this.  The milky substance from the seed turns red when exposed to air, the Conquistadors used this substance as an ink, and there are still documents today that were written with this ink. The first avocado tree in America was planted by a Florida Judge in 1833. Avocado trees need another avocado tree to cross pollinate and produce fruit  in 1-3 years, a healthy tree can produce for 200 years!  Maui is a great place for growing healthy avocado trees.

Auntie Judy's sweet avacado

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Comments (8)

Georgie Hunter R(S) 58089
Hawai'i Life Real Estate Brokers - Haiku, HI
Maui Real Estate sales and lifestyle info

Hi Karen!

That guacamole sounds good.  Our tree is going off right now too.  Don't you love it?

aloha - Georgie

Oct 21, 2007 05:42 PM
Donna Oehler
Realty Executives Platinum - Palmdale, CA
A.V. Foreclosure Specialist

I do not believe I have ever seen such large avocados! Whenever I think of Hawaii I think of Pineapples - not avocado's. Looks like the only thing missiong is a cold margarita or a bottle of Corona!

Oct 21, 2007 05:56 PM
Todd and Danielle Millar
Glenn Simon Inc. - Edmonton, AB
Nineteen years of excellence!
I cannot believe the size of that avocado! The first avocado I ever picked off a tree was in Honduras. it was delicious but not 1/4 that size.
Oct 21, 2007 06:18 PM
Karen Willliamson
Maui Earth Realty LLC - Kihei, HI
Wailea Hawaii real estate

Hey Georgie!  Hope you're doing well,  ya, gotta love avo season. I had a tree for about 15 yrs, it never fruited very well, I finally took it out then I realized it may not have been getting cross pollinated, but I am ready to plant this variety. (our neighbor has one, so I think ours would do better now.) 

Do you know what variety you have?

Aloha, Karen

Oct 21, 2007 07:35 PM
Mary McGraw
GLREA - Rockford, MI
2015: Solar Energy Is Still A Simple Machine!
Karen - I LOVE guacamole! I wish we could grow the fruit in Michigan! I have found a specialty mexican shop here that sells the best guacamole! You provide interesting history facts about the avocado! Thanks for the research! I will remember you next time I eat the green stuff!
Oct 22, 2007 01:05 AM
Georgie Hunter R(S) 58089
Hawai'i Life Real Estate Brokers - Haiku, HI
Maui Real Estate sales and lifestyle info

Karen,

We just planted a seed and it grew, you know how that is.  This year it really went off and they are falling to the ground.  I'm not sure if it'a a real variety or not.

 

Oct 22, 2007 05:09 AM
Anonymous
Carrol Kishk

We live in Egypt, the foods I require are not here so often, I am american and he was in america for 25 years, so the transition to living here in egypt is a curtual shock for me and then the foods I need are not here so often. So growing the avacado seed is really a help to me and is fun. I am so sad to hear that avacado cant be grown from the home plant. Realy sad. I love MEXICAN FOOD, WE ARE FROM CALIFORNIA.  Now my family will also be sad that we cant grow them from seed in home. Egypt mostly takes care of themselves, no ingredients do they sell except for their own recipies, but I have some american restaurants to go to. But I am on a Raw Foods diet to help diabetes, so the restaurants are not so much done. There was a Mexican restaurant here, but it did not last, Egyptians are skittish about foreign foods of that sort. The egyptian diet is high in cholesterole, it kills many people we go to too many funerals . And they do not stick to any diet. And they cannot controle the foods they eat, even when they learn the best foods for their health. No one exorcises , out here. Very very few do. Even Dr. does not know that exorcise can lower blood sugar. But I am going to eat avacado in my diet , it is alive and not cooked, it is allowed in my Raw Foods diet.

    Thankyou  for showing us all how to grow the avacado seed.

Aug 08, 2009 07:36 PM
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Anonymous
Leo

I have a avocado tree in y yard that this year 2019 finnaly produced about 30 avocados.

This is after about 15 years of not producing anything. I have never seen this type of fuit, it is

perfectly round like in the above poctures but grown only to about 6 inches. The taste of this

fruit is like I have never tasted before. I woule like to find out the scientific name for it.

Mar 19, 2012 01:53 AM
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