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"When that seedling was 14" tall and the trunk only 1/2" thick, it had three walnut size fruit on it. Fuertes rarely produced fruit in less than five years. Rudie had his wife Elizabeth take his picture kneeling by the seedling and showing one of the tiny avocados hanging over his hand. This was in July, 1926." Source: Faith Pauline (Hass) Wilkes, daughter of Rudolph G. Hass.
I know that source of this was Hass' daughter, Faith ( 22:36, 5 September 2009 RCMiLWrite, 2nd change to the page -- she died in July 2010) but doesn't it seem a lil unlikely that a tree seed planted at the start of 1926 could already be producing some fruit in July of that year? I suspect that her recollection of the 1926 date might not be all quite right. Randal Oulton (talk) 03:08, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Paul Wilkes responded December 20182600:6C51:637F:D4DB:F017:813E:9E93:12BD (talk) 13:15, 2 December 2018 (UTC)<ref><guesstimate>
My wife did not get the 1926 date from recollection since she was not born until 1928. She got that date from a small picture that had that date written on the back by her mother. It was obviously incorrect since the mother tree was planted in seed form in 1926 and had already rejected grafts for three years. My guess is that it was about 1932. That small picture is the one our son Tom used to make the portrait and he copied the exact wording onto the lower left corner of the portrait. Thank you for pointing this out. I will have him change the date on the portrait to 1932. I will try to correct that on Wikipedia but that has become so complex I don't know if I will be successful.[reply]
