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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: A New Maha Chanok Convert
« on: June 14, 2015, 10:12:57 AM »
OK, thanks Zands, it has been an unusual year so far. My NDM also taste very bland this year. The Glenns and Carries were very good, but already most are off the tree! Still waiting on the LZ that produced for the 1st time this year (5). Hope they're better than the MC.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: A New Maha Chanok Convert
« on: June 14, 2015, 08:45:34 AM »
Our Maha Chanok flowered and fruited for the 1st time this year. Its about 5 years old and 10 ft tall.
 Its loaded with about 70 fruit, and I had to support the branches. The 1st fruit came off 2 weeks ago with beautiful color and aroma, BUT the taste was bland and watered down. All the other fruit are still hard. Is the tree overworked ? Should I thin the herd a little next year if its loaded again? We,re in PBC Fl.

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Recipes / Re: Mamey milkshake
« on: July 16, 2012, 09:20:27 PM »
I agree with bsbullie, no ice, just dilutes the taste. Freeze your mango or mamey first, and this replaces the ice. Vanilla ice cream & milk with a little vanilla extract & cinnamon does the trick!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Time needed for grafts to take
« on: July 15, 2012, 08:42:48 PM »
Enduser, can you say, tongue in cheek? Of course 100% is fantastic ! Jsvand 5 & the rest of us wish we could
have that kind of grafting success. Its time to meet the Forkerts !!!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fairchild --- The perfect perimeter mango. No one will take them
« on: July 03, 2012, 10:39:59 PM »
Hi Harry, I'd like to visit your fruit  stand one of these days. My sister lives in Cooper City and the Hard Rocks not too far away , so my wife and I could hit the trifecta, and make a day of it. We're in P.B. Co. and are
always looking to try new types of mangoes. If you could e-mail the directions, that would be great!  I too
have nighttime visitors to my mango trees and they are fruit (roof rats). Can smell a ripe mango a mile away.
 If I leave a ripe one on a table in our screened porch, they'll chew a hole in the screen, climb up the table leg,
and take a squirrel size bite from it. My Papayas suffer the same fate. Its an ongoing battle.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Experience and results of different growing(in ground) environment for mango...
« on: July 03, 2012, 10:09:29 PM »
Why not a smaller condo type mango tree in a large container with excellent soil of your choice? A Pickering
would be a good  tree for this application.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Introduce Yourself
« on: July 03, 2012, 09:51:14 PM »
Hi Tropicdude, my wifes from the DR and grew up growing everthing from mangoes to coffee and tobbaco.
  Any trouble getting those barerooted plants through customs? Our last visit was to Santiago in Nov.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Excalibur Fruit Trees in Lake Worth, Florida
« on: July 01, 2012, 09:10:23 PM »
We're in Western Palm Beach Co. and the first few Glenns we got  were indeed "watered down" and a big disappointment, considering our 7 yr. old tree @ 12ft had about 100 fruit. Last year we had about 10.
   We are near the end of the harvest and the quality from the first few has really improved. The fruit are large and flavorful, without the watery taste.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Introduce Yourself
« on: July 01, 2012, 05:46:27 PM »
Hello everbody,
   My wife and I got hooked on mangoes a few years ago when our Glenn produced its first fruit. My only experience with mangoes up until then was with backyard Hadens brought in by co-workers. The Glenn was a pleasant surprise. Last year I bought a Malika, Poi Pu Kalay,Lancatilla,Carrie,NDM#4 and a Maha Chanok.
  The Carrie has 6 small fruit. We have lots of Papaya, some bananas/Plantains, orange, a few pineapple, and 2 Mamey Sapote from seed.
    I just found a guy on Craigslist selling many  different kinds mangoes from his house. This would be a great way to taste some of what we have planted so we paid him a visit yesterday. We picked up an Edwards, Jacarta,Bailys Marvel, Spirit of 76, Zill, Van Dyke, and a NDM. Turns out the guy bought the house from Gary Zill. Its in WPB. Didn't get a tour, but the property looked great, lots of mango trees! We're now having our our own mango taste test, and seeing how our Glenn stacks up.

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