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Flying saucers' landed, bring friends
« on: June 30, 2012, 08:42:27 PM »



It takes a few people to eat a flying saucer and they grow on a dwarf tree.They are usually bigger maher its mother and even giant mossman but are nearly seedless.This is a modest sized individual with extra seeds in the center I see.They are considered to have flavor as good as any of the 20 or so named local types.

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Re: Flying saucers' landed, bring friends
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2012, 08:53:43 PM »



The FS had a great haul of seeds I have just cleaned up.

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Re: Flying saucers' landed, bring friends
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2012, 07:51:33 AM »
Hi Mike,
That looks super delish and creamy 8) THX for sharing :)

By the way, Is giant mossman and flying saucer the same cv.?
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Re: Flying saucers' landed, bring friends
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2012, 09:34:51 AM »
Steven no the Mossman is spherical not flattened like the flying saucer and looks like a regular black sapote.Both are sweeter than most other varieties and the flying saucer is a dwarf tree with mossman being normal size.

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Re: Flying saucers' landed, bring friends
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2012, 09:49:16 AM »
Steven no the Mossman is spherical not flattened like the flying saucer and looks like a regular black sapote.Both are sweeter than most other varieties and the flying saucer is a dwarf tree with mossman being normal size.

Thanks Mike...I thought they were the same cv...silly me :-[ Now, I know :)
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Re: Flying saucers' landed, bring friends
« Reply #5 on: July 01, 2012, 10:08:16 AM »
Besides quality what they have in common is size and both can be below 1kg or as much as about 3kg I suppose.I predict they will fade away because they are too large for consumers who prefer to buy black sapotes in the 250g to 500g size range.

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Re: Flying saucers' landed, bring friends
« Reply #6 on: July 01, 2012, 07:22:29 PM »
Mike, if you know where to buy a plant of Flying Saucer, I'd be happy to keep its genes in existence.
I have Bernicker and Maher and enjoy both, and both are quite dwarf for me. I'd love anotehr dwarf.
I've seen mossmans nearer the 5kg mark. I'm affraid of them when they reach that size. I picked up a 3kg whopper once and it just never ripened, staying grey on the inside for over a month...

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Re: Flying saucers' landed, bring friends
« Reply #7 on: July 01, 2012, 08:46:47 PM »
BMc I suppose 5kg might be a truer mark for the max of both.Flying saucer trees are not for sale anywhere any more.They are just a daughter of maher that turned out to have a smaller tree,bigger and sweeter fruit with fewer seeds.Each year there are fewer fruit of flying saucer but it mother maher lives on and mossman is fading more slowly.They will never really be commercial due to their outrageous size.

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Re: Flying saucers' landed, bring friends
« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2012, 03:43:50 AM »
Steven no the Mossman is spherical not flattened like the flying saucer and looks like a regular black sapote.Both are sweeter than most other varieties and the flying saucer is a dwarf tree with mossman being normal size.

Can't really tell from your photo that the fruit is flattened or that it looks like flying saucer.
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Re: Flying saucers' landed, bring friends
« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2012, 03:54:07 AM »



They are disc like with an element of donut going one.There is one on the left here with far less thickness than width.

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Re: Flying saucers' landed, bring friends
« Reply #10 on: July 02, 2012, 03:59:46 AM »



Oscar I haven't captured the disc or saucer like quality of that cv as well as I could.

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Re: Flying saucers' landed, bring friends
« Reply #11 on: July 02, 2012, 01:30:14 PM »
Wow Mike, that thing is a monster, almost looks like a squash or pumpkin of sorts!  I'd be happy to carry on it's genetics too. :)

awesome cv. one more reason to plant seeds,
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Re: Flying saucers' landed, bring friends
« Reply #12 on: July 02, 2012, 06:44:31 PM »



Oscar I haven't captured the disc or saucer like quality of that cv as well as I could.

Mike, thanks for the photos. Btw, seeds displayed don't seem to match fruits displayed? I see seeds that look like canistel or ross sapote, but no fruits of them?
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Re: Flying saucers' landed, bring friends
« Reply #13 on: July 02, 2012, 07:24:25 PM »
Oscar, pic above has canistel, abiu and malay apples. I think Mike got hungry between pics and only the seeds remain in evidence.

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Re: Flying saucers' landed, bring friends
« Reply #14 on: July 02, 2012, 07:27:50 PM »
I was hungry and the camera batteries were recharging so some of the models didn't quite make it through to final portrait phase.

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Re: Flying saucers' landed, bring friends
« Reply #15 on: July 06, 2012, 02:10:14 AM »



The goliaths of the black sapote world are being brought down by a new generation of small fruit like this 'goose egg' black sapote.Admittedly it is tasty and conveniently small.