Avocadovariety
GEM
Also known as 3-29-5
3-29-5
An avocado from a California breeding program.
No photo of GEM yet
Origin · California, United States
Released 2003
No GEM photo yet
How to spot it
- Skin
- Peels YesSkin texture MediumSkin thickness ThickRipe skin colour BlackUnripe skin colour Green to Black
- Shape
- Ellipsoid
- Seeds & stone
- Seed size Medium
- Appearance
- Seed : skin : flesh by weight 15:13:72
Harvest & storage
- Harvest
- harvest season later than Hass in Irvine, CA.
Origin & family
Where GEM began
Recorded origin
California
United States
- Institution
- University of California, Riverside
- Released
- 2003
GEM’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
GEM
California, United States
Gwen → GEMSeed parent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
- ripeness cue
- Fruit yields to gentle pressure when fully ripe. · Californiacaliforniaavocado.com ↗
Fruit & tree
- peels
- Yes
- seed size
- Medium
- fruit shape
- Ellipsoid
- blossom type
- A
- skin texture
- Medium
- skin thickness
- Thick
- skin color ripe
- Black
- skin color unripe
- Green to Black
- ratio seed skin flesh
- 15:13:72
- average fruit weight oz
- 7 to 11
Harvest
harvest season later than Hass in Irvine, CA.Measurements
- Fruit weight (g)
- 235
Register-described fruit or cluster measurements in the source trial context; treatment-specific observations are not species-wide constants.