Hi, Garden Coach: We have a Haas avocado tree that’s loaded with fruit for the first time. We put some in a brown bag with bananas, but they are not ripening. How will we know when to pick them?

The Luna can both cross-pollinate with Hass avocado trees and has marketable fruit. I f the two types are planted together in a field, Focht said, growers wouldn’t lose that 10% to 11% of the crop.

Nearly 20 years before Rudolph Hass decided against uprooting the tree that would bear his name, ‘Fuerte’ became the first standard bearer of the avocado industry when, in an Altadena nursery ...

But with over 500 avocado varieties in existence, why has the Hass avocado dominated the market and built an avocado empire while the others barely get a mention? The answer lies in a perfect ...

Hass trees produce 95 percent of the avocados grown in California, which is the nation's top avocado-producing state, according to the California Avocado Commission. They also provide fruit for ...