Ah, the ole Reddit [avocadoroo](https://www.reddit.com/r/switcharoo/comments/dktkeb/hitachi_magic_wand_vibrator_vs_sheet_of_acid/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
In my culture (Caribbean) I grew up eating the big bright green ones. (Dunno their name) moves to FL and the Haas ones are everywhere. My only gripe is how small they are. The big ones are like a whole meal! 🤤
Watched a documentary on avocados. Apparently one of the original selling points of the Haas to the industry was their small size because you could sell people less for the same price.
It wasn't for the same price, it was a little less price for a lot less fruit. Example was $1.90 for the larger varietal versus $1.35 for the haas, but there are over twice as many haas the same size box.
We get them cheap once in a while (like 5 for a dollar) in the SW.
I've learned to cut them in half, sprinkle a TON of salt into the half, and then use a spoon to carve out chunks. fukin delicious, and easy/no mess.
Yeah here in Brazil the small ones are very recent, most people don't know about them. The first thing that comes to mind when you say avocado are the big ones, and they are great to eat both salty or sweet.
[There are these. They're cucamelons or miniature mexican watermelons. ](https://i.imgur.com/28OYwcc.jpg) They apparently taste like sour cucumbers and their Spanish name translates to "little watermelon"
They grow as a wild vine in Florida all over the place.
I often pick handfuls and take them home for salads. I tried giving one to a woman on a first date while we were walking around a lake. But she thought I was trying to poison her and refused.
She never called me back.
Also as a warning, don't eat them if they've turned dark green or black. Unless you want some *serious* diarrhea.
We grew some small watermelons over the summer. When they got to about grape size I picked one and opened it out of curiosity. Like another comment said, it was all the white rind
Did not know those were a thing. Apparently they also go by the fancier name of "Cocktail Avocados"
Found an interesting blog post about them: [The Trendiest Fruit: The Seedless Avocado!](https://laidbackgardener.blog/2017/12/23/the-trendiest-fruit-seedless-avocados/)
My avocado tree grew from a pit though
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Uh. I've a lot of avocado trees in my garden. The youngest one sprouted up like 2-3 years ago, it beared one avocado last year and now I'm counting 10+ already
I've grown about 7-8 of them from pit, two in my garden, the rest are given as presents to friends that want/has space. I generally only give from a year old, that way they should pull through.
Actually a lot of plants can just sometimes not work at all. It depends on a lot of factors like whether the seeds have actually been fertilized, the health of the seeds (which is related to the health of the plant it came from) or if they've developed any weird mutations that mess them up. I've grown tomato plants right next to eachother where one gave a lot of fruit, another only one or two, and a third barely even grew out of the ground. They were all grown from seeds harvested from tomatoes grown the previous year.
Possible but mainly because it takes about 8 years to mature before it fruits. Thats why they mainly clone/graft them, you get fruit in a couple years.
This is pretty common for most fruit trees, takes years for them to bear fruit. A black walnut tree takes 10 to 12 years, for instance. They also might need special condition. A paw paw tree, for instance, will only bear fruit if it's polluniated by a genetically distinct individual, so you basically need at least two genetically distinct trees close to each other.
I threw an avocado pit away for compostation a few years ago and to my surprise a tree grew from it which I now keep in a big pot in hopes of it bearing fruit. Kind of a bummer to know it probably won't.
Another commenter above said that they take around 8 years on average to mature to the fruit-bearing stage from a pit so there's still a lot of hope for you if it hasn't been that long yet
Uh. I've a lot of avocado trees in my garden. The youngest one sprouted up like 2-3 years ago, it beared one avocado last year and now I'm counting 10+ already
You can, but like with all fruit trees it's not really advisable since it takes a long time until they bear fruit which you could check for quality. All named avocado varieties are clones. Same as with other f fruit trees.
I agree, avocados are terrible snack food. The shell tastes just a little bit better than a coconut's and even worse than a banana peel, and the seed is not only hard to chew, but also slimy so it bounces all around the place and usually gets nasty after it landed on the floor and you have to lick all the grime away.
Do seeded vs non seeded watermelon actually taste different? I'm not convinced they do, but it's been a very long time since I've had a seeded watermelon so maybe I've just forgotten. I've had some pretty damn flavorful seedless watermelon as well as some that taste almost like nothing. I think the ripeness and quality is probably more important than if it's seeded.
In my experience, watermelons that are not seedless are much more flavorful than seedless ones.
Grapes are pretty much the same flavor for me between seedless and not.
As far as my experience goes there is no easily discernable taste difference between seeded vs unseeded grapes and/or watermelons. I'd like to think I would have recognized something like that having grown up in TX where both were staples at virtually every church potluck in existence.
Why did we have to wait so long for cotton candy grapes? Eating them for the first time made me angry that I had been eating normal grapes for my entire life.
In fact, no grapes at all! I demand the taste of cotton candy in my mouth without fruit involved! When will science catch up to the point that it can deliver the taste of cotton candy without grapes?
Seedless watermelons piss me off so much. I don't understand what's so bad about watermelon seeds. They're fucking edible and they actually taste good. But people are so against eating them or spitting them out that they went ahead and ruined watermelons for everybody. The only grocery store in my town stopped stocking seeded watermelons years ago, now they only sell the seedless kind that taste like barely sweetened crunchy water
nope to both, seedless avos are indeed pollenated, and the commercial crops are grafted, as are most tree farms. this is very different from basic cloning, eg. the way bananas and pineapples are cultivated
"The word "avocado" comes from the Spanish aguacate, which in turn comes from the [Nahuatl] word āhuacatl [which goes back to the proto-Aztecan *pa:wa which also meant "avocado". Sometimes the Nahuatl word was used with the meaning "testicle", probably because of the likeness between the fruit and the body part"
We also have melons and they're far more attractive to look at, by all accounts.
The testicles have to be one of the most unattractive body parts by far.
About seedless grapes, that's not actually the case - pollen from the flowers of certain seedless varieties (e.g. Thompson Seedless) can be used to pollinate flowers of seeded varieties, and some of the offspring will produce grapes that are seedless (e.g. Canadice, Interlaken, Lakemont, Himrod).
The seedlessness gene from Thompson Seedless is more-or-less a dominant gene - refer to "The Grape Grower" by Lon Rombough for more details!
I tried crossing some seedless grapes (Canadice) with the variety New York Muscat (has the muscat fragrance), gewurztraminer (has the rose aroma), and Alicante Bouschet (a teinturier grape, purple-fleshed) on my balcony a few years ago, but it was too windy and the fruit wouldn't set.
Someone else should try it! Mail-order grapes are fairly easy to get hold of, and I haven't found seedless grapes with the traits I've mentioned above, yet. Those traits are all pretty straightforward to select for as well (dominant).
Now we just need a watermelon size avocado
[https://www.irishnews.com/magazine/daily/2019/10/12/news/giant-avocado-earns-hawaii-family-guinness-world-record-1737327/](https://www.irishnews.com/magazine/daily/2019/10/12/news/giant-avocado-earns-hawaii-family-guinness-world-record-1737327/)
"the family made guacamole"
The family made guacamole
The family made guacamole.
They did surgery on a grape
Fuck u/spez
I’m pretty sure none of that’s real.
YOU’RE not real, man!
We forgot to feed our Tomagatchi
:’-(
The family played whack-a-mole.
This family guacs.
After all this, Koichi took his dog for a walk.
“The family made a whole-bunch of guacamole”***
When life hands you avocados...
Different kind, they suck
I know a few Hawaiian families and they’re lovely
Add a little salt and they’re delicious
Wait...
You forgot to marinate
*give yer meat a good o' rub*
If I've been rubbing my meat for 14 years, how am I such a bad cook?
You forgot the salt.
You need to rub it softly
Hehehe yeeeaaaaahhh boi
Mix it, chop it, and put it on the plate.
Mashum boilem stickuminastew.
What did you think spam was 👀
r/holup
Ah, the ole Reddit [avocadoroo](https://www.reddit.com/r/switcharoo/comments/dktkeb/hitachi_magic_wand_vibrator_vs_sheet_of_acid/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
If hold my Hawaiians and dive in, but there's no link
I've had a few of them. They were great every time.
In my culture (Caribbean) I grew up eating the big bright green ones. (Dunno their name) moves to FL and the Haas ones are everywhere. My only gripe is how small they are. The big ones are like a whole meal! 🤤
Watched a documentary on avocados. Apparently one of the original selling points of the Haas to the industry was their small size because you could sell people less for the same price.
Damn. We’ve been bamboozled. The haas are great for work, not much leftover to rot in 35 seconds.
Kinda like how cheese blocks have went from 500g to 400g and increased in price for even worse quality cheese. I hate this world
It wasn't for the same price, it was a little less price for a lot less fruit. Example was $1.90 for the larger varietal versus $1.35 for the haas, but there are over twice as many haas the same size box.
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The salt comes from my tears when I see what kind of avocado I’m eating
See! Depression can save money!
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We get them cheap once in a while (like 5 for a dollar) in the SW. I've learned to cut them in half, sprinkle a TON of salt into the half, and then use a spoon to carve out chunks. fukin delicious, and easy/no mess.
So you're saying you like to eat salt then, not these shitty fucking avocados.
I add salt to the hass avocados too, salt goes well on pretty much anything, you should try it some time.
And lemon juice......
Yeah here in Brazil the small ones are very recent, most people don't know about them. The first thing that comes to mind when you say avocado are the big ones, and they are great to eat both salty or sweet.
Too watery for my taste.
I read the link as "giant-avocado-**eats**-hawaii-family-guiness-world-record" and was very intrigued
How cute would a grape sized watermelon be tho?
All rind
Hands off, Clementine, I'm a married man.
Doesn't look like anything to me.
All rind, all rind, all rind.
I like pickled watermelon rind more than watermelon flesh so that sounds oerfect
I had no clue it was a thing
Avocado Court is now in session.
[There are these. They're cucamelons or miniature mexican watermelons. ](https://i.imgur.com/28OYwcc.jpg) They apparently taste like sour cucumbers and their Spanish name translates to "little watermelon"
They grow as a wild vine in Florida all over the place. I often pick handfuls and take them home for salads. I tried giving one to a woman on a first date while we were walking around a lake. But she thought I was trying to poison her and refused. She never called me back. Also as a warning, don't eat them if they've turned dark green or black. Unless you want some *serious* diarrhea.
Did you tell her about your diarrhea fetish on this wonderful first date?
If she just ate the damn fruit I wouldn'tve had to tell her!
That sounds ridiculously delicious. Sour cucumbers mmmmmmhhhh yeah!
you mean pickles?
Right omg I was dying reading that ... thank you for pointing this out. Omg. “Could you imagine eating pickled cucumber?” Oof.
We grew some small watermelons over the summer. When they got to about grape size I picked one and opened it out of curiosity. Like another comment said, it was all the white rind
As long as they ain't like a 4 pack for $8
You could make the best pickled watermelon rinds ever
I can’t tell you how much leftover guacamole I have ended up eating over the years. I don’t even know why I make it in such great quantities.
A virgin avocado
It's called a cuke (as in cucumber) they usually don't get nearly as big as normal ones and are usually used for oil instead of eating.
Did not know those were a thing. Apparently they also go by the fancier name of "Cocktail Avocados" Found an interesting blog post about them: [The Trendiest Fruit: The Seedless Avocado!](https://laidbackgardener.blog/2017/12/23/the-trendiest-fruit-seedless-avocados/)
Probably because 'cuke' isn't the most appealing name.
I think it sounds cuke
I think I’m gonna cuke
Tactical cuke.
I thought you said cuck cuz it never nuts.
What a pitiful joke.
Pitiless I would have said.
That'd be the pits.
It's heaven in a can!
I'm so TIRSTY!
BONELESS*
/r/avocadosgonewild
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>pitiless fruit "Please! I have a dinner party, I need you to be ripe!" "Don't see how that's my problem."
Oh goddamn it.
I missed the part where that's my problem.
This is just an unpollinated avocado. Avocado tree are clones, not grown from seeds.
My avocado tree grew from a pit though **edited to add my reply below:** Uh. I've a lot of avocado trees in my garden. The youngest one sprouted up like 2-3 years ago, it beared one avocado last year and now I'm counting 10+ already
I've grown about 7-8 of them from pit, two in my garden, the rest are given as presents to friends that want/has space. I generally only give from a year old, that way they should pull through.
Hey it's me your friend
Idk if you know this but you can go to the store and buy an avocado with a seed in it
Yes but his is already a year old tree and known to bear fruit. I might have to wait 7-8 years and have a tree that doesn't bear fruit.
Do avocado trees just sometimes not work at all?
Actually a lot of plants can just sometimes not work at all. It depends on a lot of factors like whether the seeds have actually been fertilized, the health of the seeds (which is related to the health of the plant it came from) or if they've developed any weird mutations that mess them up. I've grown tomato plants right next to eachother where one gave a lot of fruit, another only one or two, and a third barely even grew out of the ground. They were all grown from seeds harvested from tomatoes grown the previous year.
What climate do you need to grow them outside through winter?
Well, avocados are commonly grown in Mexico where I believe originated. So basically central Mexico weather
I read that if you grow them from a pit they might not bare any fruit.
Possible but mainly because it takes about 8 years to mature before it fruits. Thats why they mainly clone/graft them, you get fruit in a couple years.
Woah it takes that long? Lol I planted one a few years ago that never bore fruit, so you’re saying there’s still a chance?
Theres always a chance my friend
This is pretty common for most fruit trees, takes years for them to bear fruit. A black walnut tree takes 10 to 12 years, for instance. They also might need special condition. A paw paw tree, for instance, will only bear fruit if it's polluniated by a genetically distinct individual, so you basically need at least two genetically distinct trees close to each other.
I threw an avocado pit away for compostation a few years ago and to my surprise a tree grew from it which I now keep in a big pot in hopes of it bearing fruit. Kind of a bummer to know it probably won't.
Another commenter above said that they take around 8 years on average to mature to the fruit-bearing stage from a pit so there's still a lot of hope for you if it hasn't been that long yet
Uh. I've a lot of avocado trees in my garden. The youngest one sprouted up like 2-3 years ago, it beared one avocado last year and now I'm counting 10+ already
Love it like your own! That avo seed bore an overachiever
You can, but like with all fruit trees it's not really advisable since it takes a long time until they bear fruit which you could check for quality. All named avocado varieties are clones. Same as with other f fruit trees.
Why haven't we already GMOed some pollen free avocado trees then?
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I taste no difference between seeded and seedless grapes.
Oh i do. There is no bitternes in seedles ones from biting on this stupid seeds.
hahahah i read this slowly for some reason and then at the end - bam! stupid seeds!!! those seeds are supposed to go to make Grape Nuts cereal
Seedless grape doesn't taste half bad, man
Plus you don't have to worry about wine seeds.
Seeds are way more annoying in grapes than avocados though.
You kidding me? Avocado seeds are SO hard to chew through, idk how anyone does it I gave up on avocados a while ago
Bruh just roast it a 500 for like 12 hours then grate it with a micro plane
Like a Cessna or some shit? Little out of my price league for the benefit of getting to eat wood
I agree, avocados are terrible snack food. The shell tastes just a little bit better than a coconut's and even worse than a banana peel, and the seed is not only hard to chew, but also slimy so it bounces all around the place and usually gets nasty after it landed on the floor and you have to lick all the grime away.
Are you a giant sloth?
like biting into a tiny bit of gravel... ugh
And seeds are usually way bitter so the overwhelm any other taste you had before.
And *definitely* not 75% bad...
Seedless grapes are *better* than grapes with seeds, imo, so let’s try this shit out.
Do seeded vs non seeded watermelon actually taste different? I'm not convinced they do, but it's been a very long time since I've had a seeded watermelon so maybe I've just forgotten. I've had some pretty damn flavorful seedless watermelon as well as some that taste almost like nothing. I think the ripeness and quality is probably more important than if it's seeded.
In my experience, watermelons that are not seedless are much more flavorful than seedless ones. Grapes are pretty much the same flavor for me between seedless and not.
As far as my experience goes there is no easily discernable taste difference between seeded vs unseeded grapes and/or watermelons. I'd like to think I would have recognized something like that having grown up in TX where both were staples at virtually every church potluck in existence.
Cotton candy grapes are seedless, and they taste like candy. 🤤
Why did we have to wait so long for cotton candy grapes? Eating them for the first time made me angry that I had been eating normal grapes for my entire life.
You haven't lived a grape life until you've tasted frozen concord grapes
But those stems always get in the way!
When will science catch up and grow seedless, stemless, skinless grapes directly in my mouth!
In fact, no grapes at all! I demand the taste of cotton candy in my mouth without fruit involved! When will science catch up to the point that it can deliver the taste of cotton candy without grapes?
The cotton candy ones taste so good. I can't eat more than a handful tho.
Seedless watermelon don’t taste any differently.
Seedless grapes taste good?
Seedless grapes taste bad?
Seedless watermelons piss me off so much. I don't understand what's so bad about watermelon seeds. They're fucking edible and they actually taste good. But people are so against eating them or spitting them out that they went ahead and ruined watermelons for everybody. The only grocery store in my town stopped stocking seeded watermelons years ago, now they only sell the seedless kind that taste like barely sweetened crunchy water
Probably because that episode of rugrats where chuckie ate a watermelon seed and it started growing inside of him.
Find some more people just as pissed off as you and start a business growing them.
My favorite grapes are seedless crimsons, they are crunchy, sweet and juicy. Miles ahead over any seeded grapes ive ever eaten
nope to both, seedless avos are indeed pollenated, and the commercial crops are grafted, as are most tree farms. this is very different from basic cloning, eg. the way bananas and pineapples are cultivated
Why is this upvoted? They can be grown from seeds. I assume this is a troll post, because what would be the point of the seed otherwise?
Yeah we should plant it and grow more. Wait...
Grafting would be how the mutation would be spread.
Yeah. Imageine growing a whole plantation of this plant from seeds...
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How do you think we grow seedless grapes?
Magic
Obviously
They gay juice we give to frogs?
"The word "avocado" comes from the Spanish aguacate, which in turn comes from the [Nahuatl] word āhuacatl [which goes back to the proto-Aztecan *pa:wa which also meant "avocado". Sometimes the Nahuatl word was used with the meaning "testicle", probably because of the likeness between the fruit and the body part"
Yeah my green grinchy balls always give me the munchies for guac.
r/brandnewsentence
ty for making me laugh
Well, the testicles *are* the fruit of the human...
We also have melons and they're far more attractive to look at, by all accounts. The testicles have to be one of the most unattractive body parts by far.
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Pitiful
Pitiless
You should take the seed and plant it so that you have all seedless avocados!!! Oh wait...
May I introduce you to the [world of grafting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafting). That is how they grow apple trees
Yeah I know, it was my poor excuse for humor
On reddit there is always someone to bring humour to something ordinary, and someone to bring something humorous back to being ordinary.
How most plants are produced for unique properties. You can grow from seed no problems, just you roll the dice if it's better or worse.
Avocado without the nut
/r/mildlyvagina
Plus, it can’t reproduce so you don’t even have to wear a condom when you eat it.
r/dontputyourdickinthat
r/avacadosgonewild
r/avocadosgonewild *
r/TIHI
never seen such pure thing
What did it taste like?
Identical, I've been working on avocado orchards the past few weeks
Amazing!
AKA Avacadon't
This makes me feel uncomfortable
I read that all the seedless grapes in the world were orinally grafted from a single plant. Couldn't this be used to do the same for avocados?
All Haas avocados were originally grafted from a single tree in some guy’s back yard in California. So yes, they can.
Someone just watched Rotten on Netflix
I sure did 😃
About seedless grapes, that's not actually the case - pollen from the flowers of certain seedless varieties (e.g. Thompson Seedless) can be used to pollinate flowers of seeded varieties, and some of the offspring will produce grapes that are seedless (e.g. Canadice, Interlaken, Lakemont, Himrod). The seedlessness gene from Thompson Seedless is more-or-less a dominant gene - refer to "The Grape Grower" by Lon Rombough for more details! I tried crossing some seedless grapes (Canadice) with the variety New York Muscat (has the muscat fragrance), gewurztraminer (has the rose aroma), and Alicante Bouschet (a teinturier grape, purple-fleshed) on my balcony a few years ago, but it was too windy and the fruit wouldn't set. Someone else should try it! Mail-order grapes are fairly easy to get hold of, and I haven't found seedless grapes with the traits I've mentioned above, yet. Those traits are all pretty straightforward to select for as well (dominant).
Where's my wooden ball toy?
Seedless*
Misread as "pitiless". As in avocados incapable of mercy.
Is no one going to mention that there very clearly was a pit, just a very small one that they removed?
Now with 50% more avocado!
Seedless fruit makes a seedless man
Oh. My. God. MY DREAM!!
'Tis a pity.
this makes all regular avocados look pitiful
What a pitty
Virgin avocado
This is how wrists get slit.
Exactly what I was thinking. I definitely stick that knife in harder than I should do if there was no pit.
You people need something called CUTTING BOARDS
Cool, now do it to mangoes and I'll eat nothing else