Pickering grows well, slow and steady. It is less consistent than Manilita with its fruiting habits, it flowers every year, but sets less reliably. I usually have a few, but not a lot. The fruit is good, with a slight coconut flavor and no subacid element - it is all sweet. I suspect it's flavor is different on sand than on calcerous soil. While it is still in the good range for me it doesn't match other people's descriptions of fruit quality. Also, the fruit are hideous here - not at all pretty like ones I've seen others post. The biggest consideration tho is that raccoons love them - they absolutely have to be protected with plastic clamshells or raccoons will get all of them. Even with the plastic shells, raccoons still get some. Raccoons on the other hand completely ignore the Manilita. No idea why, but I don't protect those, and never had a one taken by raccoon - weird right?