There are not too many people growing this variety in SoCal yet but I’m sure there will be many more people adding this to their list. Brad and I are planting all the seeds we have at his orchard so we don’t have any to spare.
Probably the option is to plant some rootstocks and order scions from Tropical Acres.
The CAC/COC was absolutely incredible. It was just so sweet, fiberless and had the perfect acid balance. Not only that but it is the perfect eating size, roughly a pound.
I did not eat this mango side by side with a Lemon Zest but I’m sure they would have been neck and neck along with Sweet Tart in the top three. I may have CAC, Sweet Tart and Lemon Zest ripen around the same time later this year so hopefully I can do a mini taste test with these top three varieties around September or October.
I did not take a Brix reading but I have tested enough Mangos that I would guess it had a Brix of 23-28% with my guess of 25%. It wasn’t just the sweetness of this mango that has me so excited, it’s the overall balance of flavor. It was absolutely perfect. I can’t find anything bad to say about this mango.
When I did research speaking with Florida members about this mango, some members mentioned that this variety was not precocious. They had to wait several years for this variety to mature and settle in before it produced. This may be bad in Florida but it’s great for us in SoCal.
With my in ground tree, it did not flower the first 1-2 years in winter, which is odd because just about every variety of grafted mango(mature scions) flowers the first winter and every winter thereafter.
Reply #1 on this thread has a picture of a COC/CAC fruit in case anyone is wondering how it looks.
http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=32984.msg361029#msg361029CAC/COC is disease resistant in my yard the last several years. Just because it is disease resistant in my yard does not mean it will be disease resistant in your yard. My yard gets covered in dew every morning so there is extremely high fungal disease pressures and this variety still sets fruit. This has been the worst year I can remember and my small tree was covered in Powdery Mildew which even caused PM damage to newly forming leaves and it is still setting some fruit although much less than in previous years.
Simon