NABAL Avocado vs. REED Avocado Taste Test!

Reed vs. Nabal. Classic avocados go head to head! Both are excellent. Which one tastes better? Watch and find out!

Everyone's taste buds are different. Of course this is just my opinion. It took a long time and a lot of work to finally be able to harvest both around the same time, but the taste of these fruits make it worth the effort.

Nabal is a Guatemalan avocado variety. It was found growing on a coffee farm in the mountains of Guatemala back in 1917 by American explorer Wilson Popenoe. He visited Guatemala to search for new avocado varieties, to help bolster the newly created avocado industry in California. He sent budwood of Nabal and several other varieties back to California. Once it arrived in California, the budwood graft was successful, and soon the Nabal began to produce fruit, and it's reputation quickly grew. The fruit was so exceptional that farmers, ranchers, and the public began demanding more budwood and more fruit. Soon there were Nabal trees all over California.

Fast forward to the 1940s, when James Reed, an avocado farmer in Carlsbad, California, planted a Nabal seed on his farm. After about eight years, the seedling tree began to produce fruit. Like children, seeds from a mother tree do not bear identical fruit to the mother. The seedling trees always make different, but similar fruit to the mother. In this case, James Reed's tree produced a fruit that looked like Nabal, but was slightly different in terms of taste, size, production, tree growth habit, etc. The fruit was excellent, and so James Reed named it after himself. This is how the Reed avocado came into existence. Fast forward to the present day, and the Reed is one of the most popular varieties among the public and farmers, thanks to its creamy, buttery texture and large size.

00:00 - Intro and History
02:38 - Reed Taste Test
05:00 - Nabal Taste Test

[chimishimray]

I have 100 Reeds avocado in my garden.
But there is no factory, no marketing place.
So, we the villagers are just enjoying like the other fruits.
Taste is really good 👍

[AE-tkfp]

Great Vid! I agree on your taste test. Nabal is amazing. We have 2 trees of it. We don't give them away either. They are the "farmer's choice" fruit. We have a small fruit tree and avocado orchard here in South Texas along the Gulf Coast. We grow Gem, Kahalu'u, Green Gold, Jan Boyce, Reed, Lamb Hass, Sir Prize, Hass, Nabal, Carmen, Sharwill, and Gwen. We look forward to harvesting Nabals. So darn good!

[baomichael]

Awesome video is this NABAL considered best tasting? When can I buy one thx

[CSI]

Save your money and yard space. Do Not plant Reed. I'm cutting down my Reed tree. I paid $70 for a small grafted branch. Now it's a small tree. It gave me fruits the 1st year I planted it. This year is the 2nd year. Both years, the fruits tasted watery. Because the water content is so high, there's no flavor. Instead, plant Fuerte. Fuertes are extremely creamy like butter and nutty flavor.

[jamestnguyen]

A blind taste test would produce the most accurate verdict. Great job.

[frankyancy]

Have two young Reeds, never tasted, just set fruit this year. They are a BEAUTIFUL tree. So looking forward to video on trees. I'm going with the smaller trees: GEM, Gwen, Pinkerton, Lamb, Holiday, Wurtz, keeping all well below 15 feet, even my Hass and Bacon. Excellent videos.

[scotthyde]

Are you sure you didn’t mix the 2 up? That one you say is reed has a massive stone and little flesh, which looks like Nabal. The one you said is Nabal looks exactly like all the reeds I have had.

[balunatarajan]

Hi please refer online store to buy avocados(reed, nabal, ..) in US.

[raymondabella]

Nice vid! When you do your next vid comparing the actual characteristics of the trees, please go into detail as to which is more space friendly. Also wonder how either would do up against the Choquette variety? Which do you think would be best for blending g into a shake or smoothie? 👍

[geoffreylevens]

Enviable job making that video! I lived in a small orchard in San Diego in mid 1970's. There were a couple Nabal trees and by far my favorite of all the varieties of avo's I've eaten. I ate one or two a day for months every year I was there.

[hbmai]

I'm so sad for the lack of vocabulary to describe avocados, where the hundreds of words to describe red wine. Avocado vocabulary. Creamy nutty buttery green yellow stringy strong avocado taste. Pretty pathetic.

[reyn]

A side-by-side comparison of the skin. Also a side-by-side of picked yet unripe fruit would have been great. thanks for sharing.

[johnbanach]

So is Nabal your #1 favorite now? Have you tasted Sharwil?

[blake]

Reed avocado grow well in arid windy areas, Mediterranean climate, they will do well in hot dry areas in the world such as California Argentina Australia and parts of Africa

[theurbanpropagation]

Thanks for this mate! Ive got a reed here in the Urban food forest! I'm thinking of getting a Nabal, should I? Cheers

[jamesbrodak]

Any chance you’d sell me a scion 🙏🏽 I’m in fallbrook

[samvee]

Great information. Thank you. wish I was there.

[builder]

I live in So Cal, do you sell NABAL Scions for grafting? I currently have Bacon, Lamb Haas, Haas, mexicali, sirprise, & pinkerton trees growing.

[RareAvoTrees]

Great taste test, a new large round type is called cannonball avocado its a bit larger than reed or nabal at 3 pounds likely seedling tree came from nimlioh or nabal seed, mostly grown in northern cal so far i have cannonball trees, the cool thing is a tiny bit more cold hardy than a Nabal and taste prob about the same as Nabal.

[johnnysworld-backyardorchard]

Great video AJ, I have never tried a Nabal but have a Nabal tree that has not fruited yet, thanks for sharing, great taste test video!