Avocado Domestication & the Nabal

[@gilbertomartinez6981]

I am stoked. I had not seen a Nabal up close in videos. Found me a 3 footer Nabal recently. It's flowering but gotta let it grow some more first.

[@ScaryHairyGary]

👍🥑

[@hgf334]

Another great video discussing some of the background to the Nabal avocado, thankyou.

[@ScaryHairyGary]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Mrbfgray]

Sounds like Wilson was minding *someone else's* biz. :D

[@gilbertomartinez6981]

I eat avocados plain too. But I was taught to sprinkle salt on it to enhance its flavor. Sort of like salting butter to make it tastier. Great show!

[@ScaryHairyGary]

I was taught salt, pepper, lime and hot sauce with a beer. Delicious! Thank you

[@nicolassaarni88]

I got some nabal trees. And they are finally starting to get big. Surprisingly they are tall and sturdy plants definitely more vigorous than reed

[@ocneal]

Nice video, Gary. Nabal’s are scrumptious avocado’s. How tall do Nabal trees get ? I think it’s interesting that a Nabal avocado has a type “B” flower type whereas a Reed has a type “A” type.

[@ScaryHairyGary]

Yes. Weird how that is

[@RareAvoTrees]

What's amazes me is that Nabal can produce as well as it does when the tree looks so bad the leaves look sparse.

[@growyourownavocados]

Thanks for explaining how the indigenous selected and developed the best varieties.

[@ScaryHairyGary]

You are welcome

[@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy26]

How do you keep the squirrels, rats & raccoons away from your avocados ?

[@Mrbfgray]

Humans liked eating avos almost as much as sloth steaks. Not 2k yrs but *at least* 12k we've been naturally selecting, yes we are nature too, just more invasive than most.

[@gardengainzz9191]

Gary, I got a 12ft tall Nabal Avocado here in Hayward, CA . Its flowering and has tiny fruitlets. I also have Queen , Daily 11, Reed, Gwen, Sharwil, Lamb and many others.

[@ScaryHairyGary]

That's fantastic. Everyone should have those.

[@russrussel3947]

THAT is the exact very, very round avocado that my friend got from the tree on Bush St. FOR SURE. Creamy, large and round, huge seed. Tall, dense gorgeous tree. If anyone knows anyone still living in Ess Eff on Bush off Powell, just down from Atelier Dore, this tree was in a "secret garden" behind a 3 or 4 story grey, black-gated apartment building that was written about with a beautiful picture of bougainvillea framing it in The Chronicle in the late 90's🥑🥑

[@SVmathfarmer]

Hi Gary how many Nabal Trees are in your grove? How old are they?

[@overweightjoe7078]

How is this hat called?

[@ScaryHairyGary]

I call it: "Mi sombrero"