Today's avocado industry, a multi-billion-dollar global enterprise, relies primarily on a single variety: the Hass avocado. This monoculture approach poses significant risks, as genetically identical ...

U.S. Plant Patent No. 139: The Hass avocado. U.S. Plant. Pat. 139. In 1945, avocado grower H. B. Griswold extolled many of the new fruit’s virtues in the California Avocado Society Yearbook.

The nursery recommended that Hass plant all three, and graft the strongest grower onto a Fuerte avocado tree — then, the industry standard. An undated view overlooking terraced avocado fields in ...

The Haas avocado needs about 13 months on the tree to ripen, Gragg says — a long wait, but so worth it. ... Even if you plant a seed from, say, a Hass avocado, ...

In 1925, Rudolph Hass (rhymes with pass) was 33 years old and earning 25 cents an hour as a mail carrier in Pasadena. Originally from Wisconsin, he had decided to come West to seek his fortune.But … ...

While the Hass avocado was long thought to be a hybrid, the details of its provenance — 61% Mexican, 39% Guatemalan — were not previously known. The scientists’ new map of the Hass avocado genome ...

Among the offerings: the super hass avocado plant. RARE ORCHID FOUND IN VERMONT FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 1902 As the couple note as well on PlantoGram, this avocado plant produces green fruit with ...

Through the sequencing of a Hass avocado’s DNA, researchers learned that the Hass is a mix of 61 percent Mexican avocado and 39 percent Guatemalan avocado genes.

The taste is similar to that of a Hass avocado, nutty and smooth, and in recent consumer panels, ... Smaller trees equal more land to plant on, yielding more avocados. Now, that’s my kind of math.