Jim Bacon Avocado - Finally In The Ground 🥑Avocado Talk🥑

[@johnnysworld-backyardorchard]

Great looking Jim Bacon, a variety I currently don't have. Great video, looking forward to the future taste test versus the regular Bacon Avocado. Thanks to sharing!

[@AvocadoTalk]

Thought you had a Jim Bacon also... I'm going to start to focus more on excellent tasting for future trees.

[@johnnysworld-backyardorchard]

@@AvocadoTalk I almost bought a Jim Bacon in the past, but never pulled the trigger. Hope your Jim Bacon produces a lot of great avocados in the future!

[@VirginiaFruitGrower]

Jim Bacon sounds like a great variety. You picked out a nice and healthy tree. I bet it's happy now to be able to stretch out and grow.

[@AvocadoTalk]

I should have put it into the ground earlier, better late then never. It was so small when I got it in April but judging by how root bound it was, it definitely needed to go into the ground. Thanks for watching and supporting!

[@youbube0040246]

Got a Mexicola tree back in spring with flowers on it. They fell off shortly after I put it in the ground, but it has the flower buds forming now as well. Just noticed them last week. Thanks for the updates.

[@AvocadoTalk]

I check my Mexicola just now and the fruit from last week's video is still on there. We'll see if it continues to stick. Good luck with yours, maybe we'll both get some off season Mexicola fruit. Thanks for watching!

[@growyourownavocados]

Jim Bacon essentially taste like really good Bacon. From what I have seen up here in the bay area the tree seems smaller than Bacon. Another cool thing about Jim is up here they turn red. Both are very reliable and of course known as good pollinators. The funny thing about Bacon is I have relatives who are not big cado fans but do like Bacon probably because most commercial varieties have too much oil for their taste buds.

[@AvocadoTalk]

Hi there Greg...I'm interested to try it eventually. What's crazy is this little tree flowered and fruited this spring. A lot set but most dropped. There are still a couple so maybe I'll get a chance to try it this year. Thanks for watching!

[@growyourownavocados]

@@AvocadoTalk 5 months and already fruiting? That is impressive! Up here they always say Bacon is probably our most reliable variety and it seems Jim Bacons are no different. Actually my young Jim Bacon which was smaller than yours had fruitlets too.

[@juwanatani8356]

Nice video.I just pressed the like .Thank you for sharing my friend.

[@AvocadoTalk]

Thank you for watching my friend!

[@ShaggyDogg0128]

Nice job!! Jim bacon isn't that common around my neck of the woods. Bacon is though. Wishing the tree does amazing in that spot for you!

[@AvocadoTalk]

The Jim Bacon look healthy, But one of my main concerns right now is that I have it planted next to a eucalyptus and there's eucalyptus all around. We'll see how it goes. Thanks for watching!

[@frankyancy1347]

@@AvocadoTalk I'm guessing the eucalyptus will suck a lot of the water from the avos.

[@AvocadoTalk]

Eventually the Eucalyptus will be coming out, gotta wait for the avocados to get bigger first so that it isn't so bare back there. Probably going to be expensive...

[@0anant0]

The plant looks very healthy! I have both Bacon and Jim Bacon, but only Jim Bacon is flowering (9B,Bay Area) along with Mexicola Grande and Fantastic. All bought and planted in the ground this summer.

[@AvocadoTalk]

Hello OanantO, thanks for being apart of the Team! Yeah both my Jim Bacon and Bacon, also my Mexicola are flowering, just odd but if we get off season fruit, all good....other people's Pinkerton, Mexicola Grande, Fuerte and Gwen around the area are flower too. Let us know if you get fruit. Thanks for watching!

[@glyakk]

I have not been able to find many videos about jim bacons, would love to see an update when you get a chance

[@AvocadoTalk]

yeah, mine is flowering right now again, a little small still but hanging in there. I plan on doing a Bacon vs Jim Bacon video soon.

[@SVmathfarmer]

Nice to see next tree going in! I am observing an off bloom on my Hass trees in Vista and My Queen in San Jose. Apparently it’s not all that rare in Hass at least and in Mexico I just learned they call it the “Loca” bloom. I’m sure you know in 1986 Mr. Carlos Mendez discovered a mutated Hass in his Hass Grove that regularly had the off Bloom. Avocado oligarch Hank Brokaw patented it in 1997 and that of course is the Carmen Hass. I’m trying to determine how many Carmen to stuff into my property as the off bloom is great thing - IF you can get the damn tree to behave properly as it seems to be very climate dependent getting the off bloom. I’ve put 3 Carmen in ground this year and debating on about 4-6 more for SP 22 planting.

[@AvocadoTalk]

I too am excited for my Carmen, have 2 and thinking I should get more also. Would like to get one from Brokaw since the 2 that I got was from a local nursery so unsure how they obtained them. Thanks for watching!

[@SVmathfarmer]

You should put more in if you have room. Look at it this way, we are putting in so much work with all these trees we better sure as hell get heavy production - so I’m hedging my bets with a large amount of Reed, Carmen, Lamb and gambling with Fuerte.

[@AvocadoTalk]

@@SVmathfarmer gambling with Fuerte, that's me right now, feels like it might be problematic with yellowing leaves. Could be the eucalyptus around it. Need another Nabal for sure.

[@ruthestupid1]

I have a Jim Bacon grafted earlier this year and it's about to flour. Also my mexicola grande.

[@AvocadoTalk]

That's great, good luck, hopefully your flower will produce fruit and it sticks. Thanks for watching!

[@frankyancy1347]

A number of mine are flowering: M Grande, Gwen, where a few have set on it, but may not hold,, Pinkerton, even Lamb looks like it might bud early. It's the warm winter? I've a baby Jim also. Best to yours.

[@AvocadoTalk]

Dry warm winter so far is probably doing it. Even your Gwen is flowering which is cool. Thanks for watching!

[@damehinojosa334]

I have a 5g from this summer, it's pushing new buds. It has tip burn. Your leaves look nice do you use filtered water in your staging area?

[@AvocadoTalk]

Nope just City water, it was underneath a huge jacaranda tree so mid day sun protection helped. Also I think my water doesn't have much salts but very hard so that's part of the reason I have yellowing of leaves on some trees.

[@chaidezlsx]

I have a jim bacon in Sacramento, has the flower buds. I'm hoping they hold to fruit. Last year they dropped. Size about 4.5ft tall. 1.5yrs in ground.

[@AvocadoTalk]

That's roughly when my Bacon(not Jim) flowered and held some fruit. I actually got some fruit from it later that year. If you took care of your Jim Bacon, it should take off this year. Keep us updated, curious how mine will do too. Thanks for watching!

[@SVmathfarmer]

Oh BTW since you’ve asked I don’t have a Jim or a Bacon but Bacon is a good avocado when it’s all you have. I had a huge old tree at my old house in Santa Clara and it was a reliable heavy producer of big green dinosaur eggs as we used to call them

[@AvocadoTalk]

I'm really excited for next year's trees to come in from epicenter...

[@SVmathfarmer]

@@AvocadoTalk trees are looking good you will get nice looking trees. I was there again last week getting apples - fruit not trees. Their other business is selling exotic apples.

[@pokerchannel6991]

Hi: I heard bacon grow big. Dont you think that if a person is looking for a compact tree (such as myself), that a bacon might be too big? thx.

[@AvocadoTalk]

Hi there, pros and cons for all avocado trees. Bacon and Jim Bacon both grow large with the right conditions. If you are looking for a smaller tree, go with a GEM avocado. There are other varieties that are small also like Gwen, Esther and others... On another note, you can keep a tree small by topping it, that's my plan with my bacon. So far it's been very productive. Thanks for watching!

[@pokerchannel6991]

@@AvocadoTalk ok. I will climp its tops. That is a good idea. I like the cold tolerance of the jim bacon. thx

[@AvocadoTalk]

@@pokerchannel6991 Bacon and Jim Bacon are both very cold tolerant so if you are in an area that gets cold, they are good options. Mexicola and Mexicola grande are tolerant too. Good luck and welcome to the journey to grow avocados!

[@xrsjohnm]

I have a Jim bacon that's flowering right now too mine is 7 ft tall and wide. 2 nd summer has past going on 3 years next summer no fruit yet.I hate to bring bad news but you said you have eucalyptus all around eucalyptus nothing grows near or underneath eucalyptus

[@xrsjohnm]

I read eucalyptus is one of the bad plants that nothing can compete with you might have a languishing anything planted near a eucalyptus maybe I'm wrong but i read online that eucalyptus is allelopathic

[@AvocadoTalk]

@@xrsjohnm I had a big pepper tree and got it cut down, maybe it is time for the Eucalyptus too, going to be expensive.

[@xrsjohnm]

@@AvocadoTalk the jim bacon is a vigorous healthy growing im amazed how large it grew to 7 ft tall in 2 summers from a 5 gallon it handles frost well in california we get these 20-40 yr frost events where all frost sensitive Avocado die, hass, reed, nabal, except the mexican type bacon, mexicola , these are the only types that can be grown productively and reliably in california imho, I have 2 lemon bottlebrush planted as wind block in the eucalptus family that nothing grows under, toxic leaves Cant use leaves as mulch, barren unfertile soil dry under neath worms Will no go near eucalptus so the soil never improves but they serve as good windbreak ive read that a pesticide won derived synthetically from a chemical in the leaves that is toxic to bugs and plants

[@AvocadoTalk]

@@xrsjohnm I'm actually relaying out my groove, going to put the varieties that I'm not too interested in on the eucalyptus side. Unable to get good info but there is also a super water competitive nature we're dealing with.

[@xrsjohnm]

Im going to leave the 2 bottlebrush in a 15 foot square as is i just Will never be able to use this part of my yard because i read online it may or not be true let me know the soil becomes toxic permanently where a eucalptus grew even after its removed