Let me say up front, I am not bashing Turpentine mangoes universally; just don't like the ones I've tried. I know there are countless mixed offspring growing around the state since it's been around so long, maybe I just haven't had a good one. All that I have tried had that very recognizable flavor/smell and all were fairly fibrous with a small seed sealed tight as a clam.
Anyway, so I have a few seedlings going into their second season from an unknown tree in Miami that gave very delicious mangoes. Two of the seedlings have sap that smells like the fruit of the tree that bore them, but the other seedling sap smells very strongly like Turpentine. Probably not a coincident that there was a very large Turpentine tree a stone's throw away. Has anyone ever encountered a mango where the sap DID NOT indicate what the fruit would be like? I've never taken a tree from seedling to fruiting, seems a long road only to find out the fruit tastes like Turpentine. Trying to decide if I shouldn't waste my time and just graft something else onto it this Spring.