Lula
IMPORTANT READ BEFORE Make your Grafting Request Order
We are only able to graft twice a year, Late Spring & Late Summer.
- If we receive the order between after September 24th and before May 1st, The trees will be grafted in Spring & should be ready by the end of the year.
- For orders made after May 01st and before of September 24th will be grafted in late Summer and should be ready in the Spring following year, May most likely.
Only Once the small tree has completed two flushes of growth since it was grafted do we consider it ready to leave our nursery.
(Estimated time is 6 to 8 months. Some varieties take longer time to growth)
Lula was a seedling of the Taft avocado and is thought to be a Mexican-Guatemalan hybrid. It was planted by Lula Cellon, wife of nurseryman George Cellon, in 1915 and first fruited in 1919. This avocado came to become the most important cultivars of the commercial industry in south Florida before losing favor to new varieties later in the 20th century.
The medium-to-large fruit is green, pyriform in shape with greenish-pale colored flesh and a rather large seed. The eating quality is excellent, and Lula is probably one of the better Florida avocados, possessing a rich flavor with a touch of sweetness and fairly good oil content (mid-teens percentage), enough to hold up for making guacamole. The skin is somewhat brittle and doesn't always peel easily.
The trees are vigorous growers but very productive and possess good cold tolerance (to the mid-low 20sF or so).
Lula's main drawbacks are its low flesh-to-seed ratio and that fact that the fruit are prone to scab in humid areas. In addition to being a market fruit, Lula has often been used for rootstock among nurseries grafting avocados in Florida.
The tree produces A-type flowers and the fruit matures from October through December, some years even well into the New Year. We consider it one of our best avocados and strong performing trees.
Race: Mexican-Guatemalan hybrid.
Flower type: A
Country: Florida - USA