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Tropical Fruit => Tropical Fruit Discussion => Topic started by: johnb51 on July 27, 2019, 02:14:22 PM
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Here we are nearing the end of July. What do you have left on your trees? I still have Maha Chanok and Honey Kiss although a few of each have ripened already. Chris at Truly Tropical, Delray Beach, was selling Honey Kiss, Neelam, Beverly, and Keitt today. A friend brought us a bag of Keitts, which she picked today.
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Cotton candy
Phoenix
Honey kiss
Juicy peach
Pickering
Young
ppk
Sweet tart
One Edgar
A couple Fairchild
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Cotton candy
Phoenix
Honey kiss
Juicy peach
Pickering
Young
ppk
Sweet tart
One Edgar
A couple Fairchild
You're growing a lot of mango trees in Winter Garden! Does Lake Apopka and the other lakes create a beneficial (milder in winter) micro-climate? Do you have lychee trees, too?
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my trees are still very young. Second yr in ground Valencia pride gave me 2 mangos.. I went to the racoons and the other is trying to finish ripening. I have it bagged and an hoping I get to it first. Might just pluck it and finish it on the counter. Was at Rockledge gardens Mango madness today. They had some mangos to taste and purchase. Not as many varieties as I'd have liked and the line was long ( husband was hot and out of patience) so we bought a few mangos keitt, southern blush, were marked. 3 others were not so I took a chance- 1 is big no green , yellow with a pink blush and was only one ripe enough to cut. It's fricken awesome so I'm pissed now I don't now what it is lol! I did buy 2 more trees.. a Venus and Orange Sherbert. I need an intervention!
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Still have on tree:
Maha Chanok
Pickering
Carrie
Madame francis
Unnamed variety
Choc anon
NDM
Lemon zest
Graham
Sweet tart
Keitt
Venus
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Just picked my first ripe Ivory in 9B. 4 more left on the tree.
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springfel
cotton candy
honey kiss
venus
sweet tart
hatcher
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Lake Apopka is a big help
One Sweetheart grafted lychee and one seedling Mauritius
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I still have some Pina Colada and then my season is finished. Last year my PC were early and this year they are late. My Lemon Zest and Pickering held out but are finished as of say five days ago. My earliest mango was Nam Doc Mai.
This was a screwed up winter in SE Florida. It disrupted mango ripening times. I hope we get a nice cold dry winter 2019-2020.
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Still hanging 7/28
Valencia Pride (many)
Piña Colada (many)
Maha Chanok
Cotton Candy
Lemon Zest (2 left)
Dot (1 left)
Coconut Cream (many)
Harvest Moon (1 left)
Mangifera odorata
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Lots of small Sweet Tarts left, one Peach Cobbler, and one Cotton Candy (on small tree). Oops, also a couple Spirit of 76 fruits, smaller, shaded, from a later bloom.
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anybody wants to sell some pm please lemon zest, cotton candy, phenix, and sweet tart? shipped to penscola florida
thanks!
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picked the last LZ this morning (it was hidden and only saw it while giving the tree its annual haircut). We still have a dozen or so sweet tart and that's it. Couple nights ago the raccoons had a feast and took a combo of 2 dozen LZ, edgar, and sweet tart. ughh.
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picked the last LZ this morning (it was hidden and only saw it while giving the tree its annual haircut). We still have a dozen or so sweet tart and that's it. Couple nights ago the raccoons had a feast and took a combo of 2 dozen LZ, edgar, and sweet tart. ughh.
Lucky, I guess you don't have blue jays problem.
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picked the last LZ this morning (it was hidden and only saw it while giving the tree its annual haircut). We still have a dozen or so sweet tart and that's it. Couple nights ago the raccoons had a feast and took a combo of 2 dozen LZ, edgar, and sweet tart. ughh.
That is a Quentin Tarantino movie, except mangoes get offed, not people.
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picked the last LZ this morning (it was hidden and only saw it while giving the tree its annual haircut). We still have a dozen or so sweet tart and that's it. Couple nights ago the raccoons had a feast and took a combo of 2 dozen LZ, edgar, and sweet tart. ughh.
Two dozen??? What a catastrophe !
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picked the last LZ this morning (it was hidden and only saw it while giving the tree its annual haircut). We still have a dozen or so sweet tart and that's it. Couple nights ago the raccoons had a feast and took a combo of 2 dozen LZ, edgar, and sweet tart. ughh.
Two dozen??? What a catastrophe !
I was not thrilled. They must have had a raccoon orgy Sunday night. Mango carcasses and plastic strawberry clamshells everywhere. I had at least 10 LZ left on the tree and they cleared out all but 1.
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picked the last LZ this morning (it was hidden and only saw it while giving the tree its annual haircut). We still have a dozen or so sweet tart and that's it. Couple nights ago the raccoons had a feast and took a combo of 2 dozen LZ, edgar, and sweet tart. ughh.
Lucky, I guess you don't have blue jays problem.
We have plenty, but the plastic clamshells mostly stop them, squirrels, etc. It's really only the iguanas and raccoons that are a big issue.
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'Edward' at an abandoned house still loaded. Picked 30+
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picked the last LZ this morning (it was hidden and only saw it while giving the tree its annual haircut). We still have a dozen or so sweet tart and that's it. Couple nights ago the raccoons had a feast and took a combo of 2 dozen LZ, edgar, and sweet tart. ughh.
Two dozen??? What a catastrophe !
I was not thrilled. They must have had a raccoon orgy Sunday night. Mango carcasses and plastic strawberry clamshells everywhere. I had at least 10 LZ left on the tree and they cleared out all but 1.
Stop! You're killing me! And I thought I had it bad with one raccoon eating a dozen mangoes over two months. Squirrels got about a dozen also.
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'Edward' at an abandoned house still loaded. Picked 30+
Address (for the locals)?
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Still have Duncan, Mesk, gold nugget, Golden Lippens, Ivory, San Felipe, Wise, Keitt, Zillate and M-4.
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Still hanging 7/28
Valencia Pride (many)
Piña Colada (many)
Maha Chanok
Cotton Candy
Lemon Zest (2 left)
Dot (1 left)
Coconut Cream (many)
Harvest Moon (1 left)
Mangifera odorata
So is cotton candy and coconut cream good producers?
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If anyone wants to sell and ship some fruits, especially Maha Chanok, please let me know.
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I spotted some late bloomed Choc Anon miracle mango this week, just 2 panicles, they may ripen in September/October.
This is my first out of season experience with this variety.
(https://i.postimg.cc/G9mhccvy/DSC01776.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/G9mhccvy)
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If anyone wants to sell and ship some fruits, especially Maha Chanok, please let me know.
I wish I had more to be able to send you. This is the first year my tree had fruit, only around 16 total. I'm tasting rose in the flavor. Definitely has a floral flavor. With my Honey Kiss I'm tasting navel orange. Mango is just an amazing fruit! (I tried eating an underripe Keitt along with those two, but couldn't do it. I had to throw it away.) Even a properly ripened peach, which is a delicious fruit, has about half the sugar of a mango.
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(I tried eating an underripe Keitt along with those two, but couldn't do it. I had to throw it away.)
If you have plenty of Keitt, throwing away a few is no problem. However if you have only a few, they will continue to ripen if not frozen first.
I use to believe that once in refrigerator ripening was not possible of mango per some previous reading. I have found this to be false as long as the fruit was not frozen in the refrigerator or freezer. I have pulled out refrigerated mango that were too green and hard and then placed them on a counter outside refrigerator and both cutup and whole mango have continued to ripen over the next day or two.
I first noticed this ability to ripen during refrigeration with my cut up Keitt mango placed in a bowl in the refrigerator a few years ago always seemed to taste sweeter in a day or two.
The refrigerator slow ripening sometimes does not get to the point of sweetness before evaporation, wrinkling, etc. of the mango to the point of it being undesirable. But, you can take it out and place on counter for a day & you might get to that point before the mango gets too dehydrated and wrinkled.
Of course if you have plenty ... discard any off flavored and grab another.
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Still on tree:
A few LZ
A few Graham
A few Carrie
Sweet tart
Venus
Keitt
Unknown mango - flavor reminiscent of sweet tart but milder, kind of tangy/tart
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So is cotton candy and coconut cream good producers?
Our Coconut Cream mango has been our best producer for the past two years and the fruit has ripened over a long period of time, so we’ve had ripe fruit for over a month now. Only two left now. Our Cotton Candy is still too young to tell, but so far it seems like it will be a good producer.
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I have a few Maha Chanoks and a couple of Hima Sagars.
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Still on tree:
A few LZ
A few Graham
A few Carrie
Sweet tart
Venus
Keitt
Unknown mango - flavor reminiscent of sweet tart but milder, kind of tangy/tart
Hello, if you'd like to sell any of your mangoes, or trade for some plants/trees/etc., please let me know. I am local. :)
--Alex--
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I just picked the last Maha Chanok. I have one Honey Kiss left on the tree. Hopefully squirrels or blue jays won't get it.
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Brev Grower how old is your Graham tree ?
How is the yearly production?
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My last two for 2019 (Maha/HK). Mangoes from late May until now. A very good year.
(https://i.postimg.cc/3ygH6x6h/D349-CACB-2367-48-F9-9-B8-B-8-CED4-AF91252.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/3ygH6x6h)
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Now that we are in the middle of august posts are more important than ever. Who cares what is available in July?
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Now that we are in the middle of august posts are more important than ever. Who cares what is available in July?
Go for it!
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1 Venus
1 Cotton Candy
1 Honey Kiss
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Kiett and a few Neelam
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Now that we are in the middle of august posts are more important than ever. Who cares what is available in July?
As far as old school mango trees go you have Kent and Keitt in August though Keitt will go onwards into September and even early October. Keitt has done this twice or more in October for me. Kent is very good but was a mad grower for me. I had to cut mine down due to HOA. Still have my Keitt of course!
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Also still wise mango.
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Picked up some local Keitts today at the farmers market.
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Last Pina Colada is eaten today. This is my last mango this year. I should have Keitts but I have no fruits on it this year. Partly because it produced tremendously last year 2018.
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Still have 2 Ivory mangoes on the tree. I check em every evening for ripening but am too lazy to cage em. But I wont be surprised if they're gone with the first signs of ripening (possom/ racoon).
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One kent left on tree, the Nam Doc Seedling dropped one but the rest still look green.
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Last Pina Colada is eaten today. This is my last mango this year. I should have Keitts but I have no fruits on it this year. Partly because it produced tremendously last year 2018.
How do you like Piña Colada? Do you consider it a premium variety?
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I am picking my last Mahachanok today.
Its season has lasted 7+ weeks.
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I am picking my last Mahachanok today.
Its season has lasted 7+ weeks.
Are you happy with Maha?
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Last Pina Colada is eaten today. This is my last mango this year. I should have Keitts but I have no fruits on it this year. Partly because it produced tremendously last year 2018.
How do you like Piña Colada? Do you consider it a premium variety?
Premium for a home grower. These fruits are ugly so not so fantastic for a commercial grower. Being a New Zill (new in 2012) it has that exotic quasi citrusy Zill taste when you scrape the skin after scooping out with a spoon. Between Lemon Zest, Sweet Tart and PC.... My Pina Colada has been the most reliable-productive of these three new Zill trees I have.
File PC mango under funky but chic y mejor delicioso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al0hg1iLcLY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al0hg1iLcLY)
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I spotted some late bloomed Choc Anon miracle mango this week, just 2 panicles, they may ripen in September/October.
This is my first out of season experience with this variety.
(https://i.postimg.cc/G9mhccvy/DSC01776.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/G9mhccvy)
These are still holding and look like they may go to October.
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I am picking my last Mahachanok today.
Its season has lasted 7+ weeks.
Are you happy with Maha?
Yes!
It's an excellent tasting mango and very productive too. I never have had any disease problems with it at all.
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I am picking my last Mahachanok today.
Its season has lasted 7+ weeks.
Are you happy with Maha?
Yes!
It's an excellent tasting mango and very productive too. I never have had any disease problems with it at all.
I agree. Not in the top tier in terms of taste, but tastes good and is very productive. No disease issues at all for me too.
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I am picking my last Mahachanok today.
Its season has lasted 7+ weeks.
With multiple Carrie grafts, I usually have a few late bloomers developing in August. I had less Carrie mangos this year than last but the mangos were spread out from about May 19 to August 19 approximately 12 weeks.
(https://i.postimg.cc/KKLsbkJL/IMG-2674.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/KKLsbkJL)
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Brev Grower how old is your Graham tree ?
How is the yearly production?
My graham is maybe 6 years in ground. A very healthy tree with no disease issues. Shape is very much like Carrie, wide, dense, and not very tall. I would say production is modest. Graham sets a ton of fruit for me but then drops most before maturity. This is a known trait with graham. I got about 30 -40 fruit from a tree I may expect 100 from. I have tried to get used to the flavor but i find it strong and medicine like at times. I plan to top work it to honey kiss this year.
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Picked our last carrie and lemon zest today. A squirrel got our one and only madame francis.:(
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We received a bag of very green and hard Keitts from a friend in Coconut Creek yesterday. They look like they could have stayed on the tree another month. Keitt really is a late variety!
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Picked up quite a few Brooks over a week ago, on Merritt Island. Tasted a couple ripe ones last night, and they were delightfully pleasant, with a good balance of tart and sweetness. Nice to see some of the older Florida varieties, still in production. :)
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You come to appreciate these really Late varieties when all your trees are bare.
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This past Monday I ate my sole Baptiste mango. The tree flowered a couple times prior, but none of those resulting fruitlets hung in there. Not the sweetest mango, but not bland. I liked its unique flavor.
(https://i.postimg.cc/svcXHK0J/20190826-184341-1.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/svcXHK0J)
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We received a bag of very green and hard Keitts from a friend in Coconut Creek yesterday. They look like they could have stayed on the tree another month. Keitt really is a late variety!
They are some of the worst mangoes I have ever eaten. Yes, they definitely should have stayed on the tree another month!
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Had the last sweet tart today very good,2 zest still hanging.And then I had the bomb 2 M4,absolute the best late mango ever.Super( sweet )with sub acid, Complexity with heavy coconut flavor exactly like Alex describes, MOUNDS Candy Bars.
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Had the last sweet tart today very good,2 zest still hanging.And then I had the bomb 2 M4,absolute the best late mango ever.Super( sweet )with sub acid, Complexity with heavy coconut flavor exactly like Alex describes, MOUNDS Candy Bars.
Welp, M4 is on the top of my list now. :)
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Two Mahachanok's still holding on, as well as 3 Lemon Zest. We just got the M4's off this week and they are amazing!
Lemon Zest:
(https://i.postimg.cc/jd2HLdPg/LZ2019.jpg)
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Had another m4 today.I proposed to m4 today !
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Had another m4 today.I proposed to m4 today !
Wow! That good!
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;D Happy October ;D
Reliable, productive, long season, Little Keitt Mangos yearly having mangos still hanging in October in South Florida...
(https://i.postimg.cc/945VdMDT/IMG-1639.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/945VdMDT)
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Didn't Ian get what was left?