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Snookie
03-09-2014, 07:08 PM
Ok, Today I planted a Ms Holland, Lizard Creek, and Springfield varieties of Avocado plants on a hill.

Never heard of them U say well it's still all good in the neighborhood:}

Also got a No Idea variety and a Haas in pots that I put out to get after it!

Plugged the Key-lime and Persian Lime trees in the ground I overwintered since I was feeling froggie with the shove lol

Peace B with U

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kubali
06-24-2014, 09:41 AM
how's them there key limes doing any updates on them, I love key lime pie I use to live in marathon and ate key lime pie everyday..

Snookie
06-24-2014, 06:21 PM
how's them there key limes doing any updates on them, I love key lime pie I use to live in marathon and ate key lime pie everyday..

Hey How U do?

Thanks for asking...

Persian Lime tree looking great, Key Lime so, so still long and lanky it seems see pictures.

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Snookie

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kubali
06-24-2014, 06:45 PM
Them avocadoes have really been kicking it.
Looking good. snookie have you got any honey from your bees yet.
My friend just gave me 20 pounds of orange blossom honey..

Snookie
06-25-2014, 07:57 PM
Them avocadoes have really been kicking it.
Looking good. snookie have you got any honey from your bees yet.
My friend just gave me 20 pounds of orange blossom honey..

Lol Thanks

No, sorry No Honey yet:{

My first year may not get any, need to leave it for the bee's to make it through winter... or so I'm told!

I still have no real clue to beekeeping but learning lol

However; did get approx 8-10 oz due to a sort of spill/accident lol

Great Flavor, needless to say all gone now:}

20 lb of Orange Blossom is a nice gift :08:

CountryBoy1981
04-26-2015, 10:07 PM
How did the avocados turn out through the past winter? I saw somewhere that Holland may be the same as lila or from the same parentage. I got a grafted lila and I am hoping its as hardy as they say (14f).

Richard
04-27-2015, 12:33 AM
How did the avocados turn out through the past winter? I saw somewhere that Holland may be the same as lila or from the same parentage. I got a grafted lila and I am hoping its as hardy as they say (14f).

Watch out for those hardiness ratings. A plant that lives in 9b that survived a once-in-a-lifetime trip down to 14F between 2am and 5am is very different from a plant regularly surviving sustained temperatures of 14F in zone 8a.

CountryBoy1981
04-27-2015, 02:23 PM
Watch out for those hardiness ratings. A plant that lives in 9b that survived a once-in-a-lifetime trip down to 14F between 2am and 5am is very different from a plant regularly surviving sustained temperatures of 14F in zone 8a.

The past few winters have been extremely cold and we got down to 17 degrees during the 2013/2014 winter and 19 degrees 2014/2015 winter. Heres to hoping for a mild winter this year.

Richard
04-27-2015, 03:12 PM
The past few winters have been extremely cold and we got down to 17 degrees during the 2013/2014 winter and 19 degrees 2014/2015 winter. Heres to hoping for a mild winter this year.

I'd recommend building a temperature shelter around it.
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Jose263
04-29-2015, 07:35 PM
Hey Snookie - How did your Mrs Holland cado fair? My superbum is just starting to show some green. I heard that Skeets Mrs. Holland in Pensacola lost some branch tips but survived - That late spring freeze fooled a lot of plants.
RE the Lila - I contacted Bill Schneider owner of Devine Avocados (Nursery) in Devine Texas a couple of years ago. I found him surfing the web for cold hardy cados. He patented two cold hardy Mexican avocadoes - Opal and Pryor - said to be hardy into the mid teens. Bill told me that the Lila and Fantastic varieties are the commercially licensed names for his Opal and Pryor. It may be that Opal, Mrs. Holland and Lila are genetically identical. The fruit photos appear very similar and the history of the origin of the names support the possibility.
I'm hoping that one day I will have a Mrs Holland in my yard - so I'm routing for Snookie's and Skeet's trees to grow and produce bud wood.
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CountryBoy1981
04-29-2015, 10:18 PM
Hey Snookie - How did your Mrs Holland cado fair? My superbum is just starting to show some green. I heard that Skeets Mrs. Holland in Pensacola lost some branch tips but survived - That late spring freeze fooled a lot of plants.
RE the Lila - I contacted Bill Schneider owner of Devine Avocados (Nursery) in Devine Texas a couple of years ago. I found him surfing the web for cold hardy cados. He patented two cold hardy Mexican avocadoes - Opal and Pryor - said to be hardy into the mid teens. Bill told me that the Lila and Fantastic varieties are the commercially licensed names for his Opal and Pryor. It may be that Opal, Mrs. Holland and Lila are genetically identical. The fruit photos appear very similar and the history of the origin of the names support the possibility.
I'm hoping that one day I will have a Mrs Holland in my yard - so I'm routing for Snookie's and Skeet's trees to grow and produce bud wood.
:goteam:

I passed the Lila variety up the first time I saw it when it was on clearance believing it wasn't going to be hardy to the area. I then looked up a lot more information and saw how hardy it was and purchased it at full price when I found one. I did see that the Opal and Lila were rumored to be genetically identical and Mrs. Holland was supposedly similar.

Jose263
04-29-2015, 11:03 PM
Country - I hope Lila is as good as advertised but even if it is that hardy - it will need freeze protection for 2 or 3 seasons. Another problem is that Lula rootstock is most likely what was used for the graft and Lula is not that cold hardy. Might be best to bury the graft.

CountryBoy1981
04-30-2015, 09:04 AM
Country - I hope Lila is as good as advertised but even if it is that hardy - it will need freeze protection for 2 or 3 seasons. Another problem is that Lula rootstock is most likely what was used for the graft and Lula is not that cold hardy. Might be best to bury the graft.

I was planning on providing it with protection until it gets big enough. Hopefully we don't break 132 year records again this winter.

Jose263
04-30-2015, 09:29 AM
I was planning on providing it with protection until it gets big enough. Hopefully we don't break 132 year records again this winter.

Good luck with the Lila - How close are you to Lillian AL? That's where my folks homestead is..