Whats up Sayyad, the pickering is doing great at the garden by the way. Hope all is well brother.
I have that community garden in Miramar I told you about and Miramar is an extremely caribbean community so they keep us honest lol.
Guyana Trinidad and Jamaica all have an influx of ancestory from India so a lot of their resources and lingo get mixed up.
I wouldnt doubt the confusion but its one of my projects for this year is to clear that up.
Buxton Spice is Black Spice and Black Spice is whats its called by the people. But there is a much sweeter mango called the Blackie. I have Black Spice and the sap smells bland compared to what this Blackie seedling trees smell like. Theres 3.
The multiple bearing thing is actually something a lot of caribbean varieties do. Remember in the caribbean they actually like the black spots and sap running. They selected seedlings for yield and flavor back then. Aesthetics is a lie to many folks from the caribbean 😏
All in all 2 trees bearing ripe fruit in February is nuts.
But yea definitely not Black Spice. Now I have another guy with the hairy mango which is what I believe many Jamaicans call Blackie because they actually look the same other than the fact that the Hairy Mango is smaller.
Glad to hear your project is going well.
Everything is doing well here. Just hoping for a good crop.
Reason I mentioned black spice is that my parents are Guyanese and have a few trees.
Also I know a bunch of other people with black spice trees in my locality.
I've tasted many of these fruits from many trees and they all have cac/zinc sap smell, small green fruit and black spots.
All these trees were grown from seed directly from Guyana.
Surprisingly, after the establishment not much resources were shared.
For instance Julie is not really common in Guyana but it is in both Trinidad and Jamaica.
With that being said, if your guy calls in blackie, that's cool.
He grew the tree so he can call it whatever he wants in my book.
I wouldn't be surprised if different subcultures in Guyana call things different names though.
Everything I'm saying is based on my Guyanese/Indian heritage.
Sorry for the long post.