Avocadovariety
Bacon
An avocado variety with egg-shaped fruit and green skin at maturity; its flowers are type B. Introduced in 1951.
Origin · Buena Park, California
Released 1951
How to spot it
- Skin
- Peels Not easilySkin texture SmoothSkin thickness ThinRipe skin colour GreenUnripe skin colour Green
- Shape
- Obovate
- Seeds & stone
- Seed size Large
- Appearance
- Seed : skin : flesh by weight 18:7:75
Harvest & storage
- Harvest
- kind
- harvest
- months
- 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1
- timing
- basis
- calendar
- country code
- CL
- source scope
- Chile; commercial cultivar description by INIA2010
Chile; commercial cultivar description by INIA2010
biblioteca.inia.cl ↗Context & source
- /details/observations/1/value/country code
- CL
- /details/observations/1/value/source scope
- Chile; commercial cultivar description by INIA2010
- Ripening
- Skin remains green, darkens slightly; fruit yields to gentle pressure when ripe.
region: US-CA
californiaavocado.com ↗Context & source
- /observation/region
- US-CA
- /observation/method
- industry_description
Origin & family
Where Bacon began
Recorded origin
Buena Park, California
United States
- Released
- 1951
Field notes
Original source notes
- ripeness cue
- Skin remains green, darkens slightly; fruit yields to gentle pressure when ripe. · Californiacaliforniaavocado.com ↗
Fruit & tree
- peels
- Not easily
- seed size
- Large
- fruit shape
- Obovate
- blossom type
- B
- skin texture
- Smooth
- skin thickness
- Thin
- skin color ripe
- Green
- skin color unripe
- Green
- ratio seed skin flesh
- 18:7:75
- average fruit weight oz
- 10 to 18
Harvest calendar · Chile
- kind
- harvest
- months
- 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1
- timing
- basis
- calendar
- country code
- CL
- source scope
- Chile; commercial cultivar description by INIA2010
Photos
ProsperosityCC BY 4.0 Organic avocados (bacon cultivar) grown in Tauranga, New Zealand, for sale in Auckland, NZ.