there are two basic types of avocado, small black haas that like dry arid conditions and carribean avocados that do well in tropics.

i prefer the oily haas as well, there are varieties popular in Guatemala that seem to be hybrid and produce larger oily avocados, theyre usually darker skinned like Brogdon

I was interested in Kona Sharwil, Jan Boyce & Lamb-Hass. I acquired a grafted Hass from Ralph's supermarket for $8 during this past winter.

I would strongly recommend Lula. Brogdan isn't a bad choice either. But as far as oil content, I think it (Lula) comes closest to Haas.

Harry

Lula is nice and oily. My friend's Lula beared well last year (fall-winter) with the last avocado coming off tree in February. As of today I can see he has a nice new crop of Lula coming along. Day avocado has a good reputation but I never had one and don't know how oily it is.

Not that it is anything like a Haas, but the Wilson seedless is a creamy buttery excellent tasting avacado. Not great for commercial use but an outstanding choice for a home planting. It does well in South Florida so it should also do well in the Caribbean.

Wow lots of good choices, thanks for the tips everyone, it will be a couple months before I can put in the trees, need to clear the weeds and put in the irrigation system yet. I am on a budget so this will be a step by step project.

The reason I wanted to know ahead of time, is that most varieties are available locally , an experimental farm has some 180 + trees of every variety you could imagine, and the man in charge can make me grafts of the ones I like.

If a particular variety that I would like to get is not available locally, I could probably bring one over from the States.

the land I'll have available is 2 "Tareas" which is close about 1250 sq meters.

my plan is to take 1 tarea, and plant it with Papaya and Dragon Fruit I should be able to fit 24 plants of each on a 80ft by 80 ft lot.

On the other lot I'll have 4 Avocado, 4 Mango and a whole bunch of other stuff, like Jujube, Lemons, Figs etc.

Lemon and Fig varieties that I want will most likely not be available locally and will probably need to bring them from the US. I have a Meyer tree I brought over already. I purchased a Eureke Lemon from a local nursery but its not doing well in the capitol city, its potted and it rains a lot plus doesn't get more than 4-5 hours of sun.

I'll update on this project once I get it started. someday I hope to have grafts available to those that need them.

Another thing is I intend to keep this as Organic as possible, which will make things harder, I know its possible some stuff will fail, but that's ok, its a hobby / learning experience.