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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #275 on: December 09, 2014, 01:02:37 PM »
those dates you sent me were incredible!!  Thx, buddy.
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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #276 on: December 09, 2014, 09:51:45 PM »
my friend brought me some last year ...
 i will buy from Eko mulyanto ( the man in that article ) in the end of december ... i  contact his wife yesterday .

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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #277 on: December 10, 2014, 07:48:01 PM »
go ahead, rub it in  ;) 8)
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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #278 on: December 10, 2014, 09:31:46 PM »
lol I bought a crappy mango at Publix (2 for $5 omg) yesterday to throw in some conch salad I was making. May as well have pissed the money down the drain. It was totally inedible. I feel no shame in admitting that I am a mango snob.

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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #279 on: December 10, 2014, 11:53:55 PM »
1) mango (lemon zest, coco cream, ice cream, Carrie, I digress...)
2) lychee
3) cherimoya
4) Bangkok lemon jackfruit
5) this type of peach that is flat like a doughnut with white flesh and super sweet, I find myself driving way out of my way to be ripped off by the fresh market for them, think their name is "flying saucer peach"

Honorable mention: Sierra fig

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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #280 on: December 11, 2014, 12:55:36 AM »
1) mango (lemon zest, coco cream, ice cream, Carrie, I digress...)
2) lychee
3) cherimoya
4) Bangkok lemon jackfruit
5) this type of peach that is flat like a doughnut with white flesh and super sweet, I find myself driving way out of my way to be ripped off by the fresh market for them, think their name is "flying saucer peach"

Honorable mention: Sierra fig

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Was it this peach? I also love them but you have to let them become ripe on the counter. They also sell the nectarine version of it, also great.



In Holland they are called Wild Peach.

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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #281 on: December 11, 2014, 05:33:03 AM »
1) mango (lemon zest, coco cream, ice cream, Carrie, I digress...)
2) lychee
3) cherimoya
4) Bangkok lemon jackfruit
5) this type of peach that is flat like a doughnut with white flesh and super sweet, I find myself driving way out of my way to be ripped off by the fresh market for them, think their name is "flying saucer peach"

Honorable mention: Sierra fig

-joep450

Was it this peach? I also love them but you have to let them become ripe on the counter. They also sell the nectarine version of it, also great.



In Holland they are called Wild Peach.
LOL here we call them Paraguai peach...  ;D

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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #283 on: December 11, 2014, 07:39:20 AM »
We call them Tabacchiera or Saturnina because they recall a tobacco holder or the planet Saturn.
Nice plant, very early, and so far very resistant to pests and disease (compared to other peaches) at least at my location. Also, very vigorous.  The fruit is really sweet.
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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #284 on: December 11, 2014, 07:42:22 AM »
Honorable mention: Sierra fig
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Best figs I ever had were right off a tree in Northern California. Black mission fig. I would love to grow Black Mission here but it seems the South Florida rain and humidity hurts fig production. I have ischia and magnolia here-- My bush sized trees get fungus, leaves drop from it, poor production. And the figs are watery. But still fun to eat. They are as watery sweet as carambola. Oh well.

Figs are a dry climate fruit. Dry in late spring-summer it seems. But they can be tough trees. I have seen them in the Boston area. The Italians (of Italian extraction) have a fig growing tradition here in America, have their methods to keep the tree alive through the winter by severing half the roots. Then bending the tree over into a trench and covering with leaves, straw, blankets etc.

Turkey must be over producing figs. I see dried Turkish figs for 8oz/$2 that are very good. They are nicely packaged in a round package. Sometimes from Greece too. I see these commonly available at places like Doris mkts and Penn Dutch
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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #285 on: December 11, 2014, 07:23:42 PM »
White Pineapple
jackfruit/campedak/marang/durian
grapes
rare bananas/plantain
avocado

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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #286 on: December 12, 2014, 04:42:18 AM »
Mango
Cherry
Peach
Litchi
Mangosteen

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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #287 on: December 15, 2014, 12:05:54 PM »
Don't feel good about leaving a few out, but I'll go with: Durian, Pulasan, Mango, White Pineapple, Raspberry.

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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #288 on: December 15, 2014, 12:36:31 PM »
If I should say what I eat everyday, it would be:

banana
nut
apple
grape
orange

but if you speak of fruits cultivated in the garden or rare fruits I rarely find in some stores:


lychee
sete capotes
guaviyu
black surinam cherry
cherimoya



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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #289 on: January 10, 2015, 10:08:43 PM »
1)Lemon meringue mango
2)Carrie Mango
3)Cogshall Mango
4)Sugar apple
5)probably another variety of mango LOL

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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #290 on: March 22, 2015, 04:22:46 PM »
Here's my list of top 5 favorite fruits in order:

1. Durian  (particularly the top notch Malaysian varieties like XO, Capri, Kun Poh, D 10, Black Thorn, Musang King, and several other branded & kampung lines)
2. Cempedak (Mostly strong flavored ones)
3. Pingan (Artocarpus sarawakensis) & Marang
4. Pulasan
5. Purple Mangosteen

Honorable mention:
Jackfruit (only the soft mushy types with strong flavor), Water Melon, Longkong, Mango, Mabolo and Soursop.
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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #291 on: March 22, 2015, 05:19:15 PM »
My favourite fruits are (temperate): 1. cherry
                                                         2. peach
                                                         3. grape
                                                         4. pear
                                                         5. raspberry
                                   tropicals: 1. mangosteen
                                                   2. mango
                                                   3. pineapple
                                                   4. cherimoya
                                                   5. rambutan

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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #292 on: March 22, 2015, 08:42:25 PM »
1) mango (lemon zest, coco cream, ice cream, Carrie, I digress...)
2) lychee
3) cherimoya
4) Bangkok lemon jackfruit
5) this type of peach that is flat like a doughnut with white flesh and super sweet, I find myself driving way out of my way to be ripped off by the fresh market for them, think their name is "flying saucer peach"

Honorable mention: Sierra fig

-joep450

Was it this peach? I also love them but you have to let them become ripe on the counter. They also sell the nectarine version of it, also great.



In Holland they are called Wild Peach.

there's a low chill uf cultivar that's flat like that that they call ufo

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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #293 on: March 22, 2015, 08:57:00 PM »
1) mango (lemon zest, coco cream, ice cream, Carrie, I digress...)
2) lychee
3) cherimoya
4) Bangkok lemon jackfruit
5) this type of peach that is flat like a doughnut with white flesh and super sweet, I find myself driving way out of my way to be ripped off by the fresh market for them, think their name is "flying saucer peach"

Honorable mention: Sierra fig

-joep450

Was it this peach? I also love them but you have to let them become ripe on the counter. They also sell the nectarine version of it, also great.



In Holland they are called Wild Peach.

there's a low chill uf cultivar that's flat like that that they call ufo

One model in particular that defines a chill unit as 1 hour below 45°F (7°C) but above 32°F (0°C) works well for determining ranges of accumulation in low-chill peaches

Bangkok never has temps under 7 celcius. But if i could grow this peach i would be a happy camper  ;D

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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #294 on: March 22, 2015, 09:42:05 PM »
Just bumped across this thread since it got bumped, and decided to revamp my list LOL Thanks to this forum and its members, I have been opened to a new world where my palate is the limit. My original list
1)Lemon meringue mango
2)Carrie Mango
3)Cogshall Mango
4)Sugar apple
5)probably another variety of mango LOL

As of today
1)Mango
2)Rollinia
3)Jaboticaba (and it could easily be number 2)
4)Sugar apple
5) Loquat (maybe mulberry)

But more importantly, thanks to all for making me spend lots of money lol  Have tasted A LOT of new fruits this year,hope to try more as the summer season comes.

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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #295 on: April 19, 2015, 10:36:02 PM »
As of now, in no order

Passion fruit
Atemoya
Mangosteen
Guava
Ciruela

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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #296 on: April 20, 2015, 07:22:47 AM »
My choices are:

1) Overripe Kuini mango ... slightly fermented
2) Musang King durian, taste richly bitter buttery sweet with little seed
3) Fiber-less pineapple fr Klang, Malaysia
4) mangosteen
5) gluttonous rice Lychee fr Canton, China


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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #297 on: April 20, 2015, 07:33:02 AM »
My choices are:

1) Overripe Kuini mango ... slightly fermented
2) Musang King durian, taste richly bitter buttery sweet with little seed
3) Fiber-less pineapple fr Klang, Malaysia
4) mangosteen
5) gluttonous rice Lychee fr Canton, China

Welcome and thanks for your list. Always quite interesting to me to see what folks from tropical areas actually find their favorites in the tropical fruit world.  Your choices seem to be quite logical and easy to see why they would be your choices. That is, except for your first choice which has made me very curious.  Maybe you could start its own thread and you could post some pictures showing what you mean by overripe and fermented.  I would like to know if this love of an overripe fermented fruit is a popular thing where you live or are your flavor preferences somewhat unusual or eclectic? Maybe pictures won't do the trick.  Some further flavor description....that would be much appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #298 on: April 20, 2015, 07:39:54 AM »
I am interested in hearing about the glutinous rice lychee.
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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #299 on: April 21, 2015, 02:37:34 AM »
I am interested in hearing about the glutinous rice lychee.

Rob, glutinous rice lychee is No Mai Tze.
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