Well, it's going to be half ass because I wrote the WHOLE post yesterday only to have it bog down with an
image upload and that punched me off the website losing all I had written.......grrrrrrrrrrrrrr......
Anyway, my Palm Springs desert haul this year is as follows:
Manila - around 106 (some still on tree but I counted those)
Manila #2 - about 9
Rosigold - 5 I believe
Alphonso - 6
Maha Chinok - 2
Pickering - 2
Valencia Pride - 2 earlier
Now, as far as taste this is how I rated the ones I've eaten so far:
Rosie
Alphonso
Manila
Pickering
Maha Chinok
Valencia Pride
Manila #2
I couldn't believe how less than average the pickering and maha chinok (picture following - it fell off the tree, so that is the
bruise you see) tasted. A slightly "off"flavor, not that sweet, great on the lack of fiber but that was about it. But...I guess the rule is "taste twice" before you know for sure, so we'll try them again next year. The Valencia Prides from last month that fell off - just not good at all....Sorry, I just wasn't motivated to take pictures - the heat this summer
has been pretty intense and whether that had an effect on the taste of the fruit as well, I don't know.
The last 2 pictures are of my Miracle Mango (Chou Anon - Harry's spelling!) flowering once again in the summer....very strange, we'll see if it holds any fruit but I have my doubts. The second Manila tree has much smaller fruit that my big one, and lots more fiber - not too tasty - definitely a sort of crap shoot it appears in these Manila seedlings sold by Lowes/Home Depot....
Another thing - every single type of mango matured within a couple weeks of each other - like the early/late thing didn't even apply.
My Keitt from last year, yes, that did ripen late into almost December, so at least I'm going to have one that will stretch out my season.
Again, sorry for the minimal effort - heart really not in it - might be partly because my dog of 18 years died about a month ago...
- yeah, it was sad, but I'm feeling much better now....
thanks, gary