Bacon
Variety of Avocado · Persea americana
Cold-tolerant green-skinned early cultivar with mild, light flesh – ideal for cooler sites.
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6🇺🇸 USA 1954
Taste & characteristics
Taste
mildaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Mexican-Typ (mit Guatemalan-Einschlag)
- Breeder
- James Bacon
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 280 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Oval to egg-shaped fruit, 180-350 g, thin smooth green skin. Flesh pale, mild, more watery and lower in oil than Hass.
Growth
Upright, vigorous tree; very cold-tolerant (to about -5 °C).
Yield
Reliable and early bearing; a popular home-garden and pollenizer cultivar.
Notes
An important B-type pollenizer for Hass.
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