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Got a box of 'Cecilove' mango (34-24) and they all turned out to be mono.

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I'll have to say first impressions last. LZ and Sweet Tart from Zands maybe 10 years ago knocked my socks off!!! I could not believe how delicious those mangoes were. LZ being super sweet with that strong citrus note in a mango. Sweet Tart....the perfect balance of very sweet and tart. Wow. Then BSBulie allowing me to sample a perfectly ripened Fruit Punch. Wow!!!

I'm interested in 10 seeds as part of a group order if the importer or 3rd party won't mind shipping to FL (I'll pay that shipping as well).

Damn! That's about the size of some of my oak trees lol. I guess my 15ft spacing isn't going to cut it .

Looks super healthy and green. Love all the foliage. Do you have automatic irrigation? Just saw a lone flower on my today that I got from Tree N More some years back. Fruited in a 35gal container but never again since I planted in ground lol.

Great seller. Cool dude. Awesome collection.

My 'Hana Fuyu' pushed new growth mid March. My 'Hudson'/ 'South Florida' started pushing growth in early March. It never looked this good (soil amendments and dependable irrigation).  It's currently holding 2 flowers. Scratch the bark gently. If green its alive. Just still sleeping.

I ordered some cutting recently and wasn't able to properly process them after a week they've been delivered. Luckily the seller wrapped em in damp paper towels and used rubber bands so they clung to the cuttings. They sprouted but more impressively- rooted(!) in the packaging. Long healthy fibrous roots. So as long they cutting are damp and don't dry they should be viable.

LZ no blooms. Tog Bi Con...partial (80%).

A bunch of them started to soften up allot yesterday evening compared to when I received them on Thursday. Pictured is the softest. The skin got wrinkly and looked like a boiled whole egg that was shelled and then fried. It fit nicely in the hand and was easy to cut. Smelled like a ripe mamey sapote- though the flesh looked slightly paler. First scoop, it was extremely sweet. Super sweet with a smooth flesh. No other flavors noted. It tasted like mamey sapotes I've had before that I thoroughly enjoyed. I ate half of the fruit and was pleased to find that the smooth flesh was consistent throughout. No unripened areas encountered or tasted. I attempted a brix reading using my 'economy' refractometer, but it would not register (> 30⁰). Overall, I'm very pleased with this fruit and think it would suffice as a mamey sapote substitute for my usda zone 9b FL (still have to frost protect).
Fruitguy (thank you) mentioned some great pluses I see with the this fruit.
1. The size is perfect for an individual serving. The fruit was intense for me. I could only eat half  .
2. The ripening indicator. Green Sapote skin gets some orange patches when its ripening- a big plus versus scraping the skin of the mamey sapote.

A couple more fruit to go . Thank you Lara Farms. Seemed like they picked it at an optimal stage and time.

So I ordered some green sapote fruit (5lbs) from Lara Farms and I was expecting 2 or 3 but got like 11 lol. They are about tennis ball size. I've been wanting to try this fruit forever as most accounts contrasting them to mamey sapote....tasters of both prefer green sapote (and I fine mamey sapote delicious). So my question is what's the best way to counter ripen them? Covered/uncovered but breathable? The fruit I received have some patches of orange (ripe?) with green but are hard to the touch.