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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Any info on Imam Passand Mango?
« on: November 11, 2015, 08:15:05 AM »
Yes....they have sweetness in their complex flavoring.
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http://rfcarchives.org.au/Next/Fruits/AusNative/AthertonNut110-1-99.htm
Today I acquired some atherton oak nuts which are related to macadamias but are a bit sweeter and have a little less oil but taste similar.They are subtropical growing above 2500ft at 18 latitude and were once touted as a rival for macadamia.This species is restricted in distribution and it has showy aromatic flowers and ripe fruit containing the nuts are brilliant blue.
The coin is an Australian $2.
Hey all you smart honkey tonks: who can tell me why the carrie mango sometimes sets good crops and why it sometimes sets poor crops?
I've noticed for some time that the flowers my carrie trees send forth during the winter months (Nov - Feb) hold very few fruit. They will either fail to set fruit, or the fruit that is set will drop when BB-sized. However, flowers that come later in the year (Mar/Apr) set and hold a much higher percentage of fruit. Why is this?
Possible theories:
- Iron / Manganese deficiency exacerbated by cold weather (which slows uptake)
- Cold temps from northern fronts cause flowers to drop
- Cooler temps encourage fungus issues
Who can solve the Carrie mango riddle??
Cleaning them is half the fun!
that explains why i can get Ataulfo in winter that taste really good.
i am no mango expert, but, i have been to central america a dozen times or so
and Fla double that, trying mango every time.
this last winter i was pretty amazed at how good the Ataulfo from Wall Mart tasted.
that's what I do when I make champola...I pluck the seeds and scoop the flesh. That's a lot of seeds for an Atemoya??
Hi Raul,
I had a harvest moon. I was a very large, good tasting mango. I liked it a lot. I considered planting it, but I was told by Walter Zill, that he tree didn't fruit this year and that it's not known to produce much fruit.
I ended up planting a CC, LZ and a Providence instead of the harvest moon, which is also a very large, good tasting mango!
Fruit punch is another large and excellent tasting, well balanced mango.
John
Mangoes are great but I'll take a good cherimoya over any mango.
You might BE right but right now I'll take a Sweet Tart over a Pierce
Does anyone have any experience with dieback on this Eugenia? I have a 3-4 year old potted tree that goes through these periods and then recovers. I'm not fertilizing much and the water stays a little on the dry side (I've read to avoid overwatering). Use only rainwater it well-water, gets full sun most of the day. Is this species of Eugenia prone to this? You think this may lessen if I plant it out?
Tired of pruning back dead wood on a non-fruiting plant every 5-6 months.
Keith
I visited Leo Manuel today and he was kind enough to offer me a bunch of Brewster Lychees and also a few of his Hak Ip and Sweetheart Lychees. His Hak Ip and Sweetheart were much less fruitful than his Brewster which was completely loaded from the top to bottom with fruit.
His Lychees were planted in different parts of his yard and his Sweetheart is much larger than his Hak Ip so it's not really comparing Lychees to Lychees. The color of the leaves were slightly different but I feel it was due to being planted in different parts of the yard, age of tree, etc... I noticed that even on the same tree, the size, shape and color of the leaves can be drastically different from each other. Even the fruit from the same tree can be drastically different. Leo's Sweetheart Lychee had a few super small fruit that were about the size of a Groff but it was fully red and on the same tree, he had one fruit that weighed 49 grams and had a unique flattened heart shape very much like some of the pictures of Fei Zhi Siu from Australia.
I harvested two Hak Ip fruit and four Sweetheart fruit. The Hak Ip had an average weight of 38.1 grams and had an average Brix of 17.5%. The Sweetheart had an average weight of 36.4 grams, I only weighed 3 of 4 Sweethearts because one fruit was bad and I only used it for a Brix reading and to observe seed size. The sweethearts had an average Brix of 19.75%.
As far as taste, they both tasted the same to me even though they had different Brix levels. They both had a slight honey taste to them and I detected some Tannin taste in both varieties. Both had a medium level of Lychee/Rose flavor. I believe both varieties were harvested a bit past their prime. They both had relatively low production this year although the Hak Ip is much smaller than the Sweetheart.
In conclusion, I don't know for sure wether or not these two varieties are the same and probably the only way to find out is through sequencing their DNA. In my opinion, they are the same or at least they are so similar that I can't tell the difference.
When looking at these pictures, the color of the fruit is quite different but the differences in color can be attributed to the difference in growing conditions, age of tree, exposure to sunlight and everything else I touched upon above.
Simon
3. Bombay - Huge delicious tangy/sweet mango, very tasty.
Could you please define "huge?"
You beat me to it and took the words right out of my mouth.
Ok, so I did not weigh the mangos that came from my tree... But larger than your average haden or kent and smaller than the larger Keitt mangos. If I had to guess, they were close to two pounds. There was enough flesh that I had trouble eating the entire mango in one sitting. And I like eating at least one or two "average" size mangos per day. One reason I think they may have been larger than usual is I had a lot of fruit drop when only golf ball size. I had some natural thinning of fruit. My 10' tall by 10' wide tree gave me only ten mangos of about 30 or so that set. Hence, bigger, tastier fruit. I was surprised at how good the flavor was, and the large size(with huge, fat shoulders and a very sunken stem) It was great! IMHO.
E.
Anything is possible but what you are describing just sounds odd, especially with more than just 1 fruit. Compost should not have any effect on this. A picture would tell the story. Its very easy to post a picture.
Here are some pictures of my last Bombay. It was one of the smaller ones on the tree. Weighed in at 1 lb 9.2oz. [][/img]
Are there any outstanding Trini or Jamaican restaurants in S. Florida that are 'worth the drive' to visit?
the best Trini place I've found is Joy's Roti in Lauderhill. Has good curry, especially the shrimp & duck. the best Jamaican place I know is Yaad Style Cusine in WPB, on Military just a block north of Belvedere.... and just down the road from Mounts Botanical Garden. They really know how to cook!
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