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