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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #475 on: January 20, 2020, 04:31:14 AM »
I kind of like that hint of bitterness in lychees, so enjoy biting into exterior. But i think there is also a hint of bitterness also in thin layer of interior skin that is around the shell. Anyways, lychees will forever be in my top 10. It's very frustrating living in a place that's not really that great for my two favorite fruits: mangoes and lychees. I get some, but not enough! But i can't complain because almost everything else does so great here. Getting tons of rambutans right now. And just harvested many hundreds of pounds of exquisite durians!  :) 8) 8)

What a bizarre culinary fetish. The membrane I could understand, but the exocarp of a lychee?? To me it is putrid and dusty from debris of pesticides. But it's still the easiest way to open a lychee without a juicesplosion.

One thing I discovered by accident biting into a passionfruit when I was too lazy to get a knife: there was a durian aroma. I think I read another testimony on the forum regarding this too.
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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #476 on: January 21, 2020, 06:26:04 PM »
I kind of like that hint of bitterness in lychees, so enjoy biting into exterior. But i think there is also a hint of bitterness also in thin layer of interior skin that is around the shell. Anyways, lychees will forever be in my top 10. It's very frustrating living in a place that's not really that great for my two favorite fruits: mangoes and lychees. I get some, but not enough! But i can't complain because almost everything else does so great here. Getting tons of rambutans right now. And just harvested many hundreds of pounds of exquisite durians!  :) 8) 8)

What a bizarre culinary fetish. The membrane I could understand, but the exocarp of a lychee?? To me it is putrid and dusty from debris of pesticides. But it's still the easiest way to open a lychee without a juicesplosion.

One thing I discovered by accident biting into a passionfruit when I was too lazy to get a knife: there was a durian aroma. I think I read another testimony on the forum regarding this too.
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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #477 on: February 12, 2020, 05:17:53 AM »
Only five?!?!?

OK:
  • Mango, one favorite cultivar is Banganapalli but hoping to experience more :)
  • Jakfruit, both ripe and cooked green
  • Sapodilla
  • Dates of all varieties, especially black dates
  • Tie between guanabana and cherimoya

OK, I cheated a little on that last one. As far as fruits I have tried and would never have again, that list only has one entry and his name is Durian! Not my cuppa tea!

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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #478 on: February 12, 2020, 12:48:00 PM »
There are so many fruits to chose from. If i must chose top five then here are my favorites:

1. Mango (Anwar Ratol variety)
2. Cherimoya
3. Sunder Khani Grape
4. Hami Melon
5. Sumo Orange

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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #479 on: February 13, 2020, 02:02:39 AM »
This is a fun thread with over 100,000 views, an amazing number.

Cherries from the North West  (ripe cherries travel very well to Florida which is about as far from Washington State as you can get)
Apricots-- Good ones hard to find outside of California. They get soft-mushy too quickly. They must be grown in Southern States but are sold locally.
Mangoes grown in your backyard or my backyard
Pears but must be dead ripe. I have eaten only 10 times in my life
Raisins in oatmeal rank high. Buy whole oats and grind them in a coffee mill. I sometime grind the oats in a hand crank mill. You can take these ground oats and make Scottish oatcakes too.

Disclosure - I have posted the same fruits 5 times on this "hardy perennial" thread

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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #480 on: February 13, 2020, 06:06:08 PM »
It's fun to see how my list changes over time. After eating lots and lots of durians i have to include it into my top 5.
1)lychee
2)mango
3)durian
4)watermelon
5) cherry, especially the tart ones like Royal Ann.
But there are so many good fruits it's really hard to narrow down to only 5! Really best has to do with grown under best conditions, preferably on my own farm.
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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #481 on: March 01, 2020, 10:53:28 PM »
Aloha
Yup it’s Time to change my top 5 fruits and then some
1 durian zibithinus
2 chempedak
3 dabai
4 durio kinabaluensis
5 coconut
6 durio lowianus certain types
7 durio oxylanus big one
8 durio suluk hybrid
9 pulasan
10 mango

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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #482 on: March 02, 2020, 01:35:27 PM »
1) Mangos
2) Cherries
2.5) Annonas lol
3) Rambutan
4) Longan
5) Oranges

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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #483 on: March 04, 2020, 12:34:32 AM »
Aloha
Yup it’s Time to change my top 5 fruits and then some
1 durian zibithinus
2 chempedak
3 dabai
4 durio kinabaluensis
5 coconut
6 durio lowianus certain types
7 durio oxylanus big one
8 durio suluk hybrid
9 pulasan
10 mango
Seems like after your Borneo trip you've become a total durio convert? Lots of durios in your top 10 list!  :D
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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #484 on: March 12, 2020, 11:09:48 PM »
1. Annona  ... all of them
2. Mangosteen
3. Sapodilla
4. Watermelon
5. Nectarine

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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #485 on: March 13, 2020, 11:56:58 AM »
Any combination of the following fruits will make my Top 5 list...
- Mango
- Jackfruit
- Lychees
- Cherimoyas
- Avocados
- Guavas
- Sapodillas

This said, when Ice Apple / Nongu is in season (or available), forget about any of the other fruits. This takes the #1 spot :)



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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #486 on: September 08, 2020, 06:39:42 PM »
Mango
Pineapple
Guava
Limes
Grapes








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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #487 on: September 08, 2020, 06:43:44 PM »
Mango
Pineapple
Guava
Limes
Grapes
Mango.  Check.
Pineapple.  Check.
Grapes.  Check.
Guava.....okay.
Limes?
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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #488 on: September 08, 2020, 06:53:16 PM »
Mango
Pineapple
Guava
Limes
Grapes
Limes?  Limes??
yes lemons and lime juice. A little goes a long ways

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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #489 on: September 08, 2020, 06:56:04 PM »
I have to add soursop to my list bumped out sugar apples, fresh soursop off the tree chilled for a couple hours does my soul good


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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #490 on: September 08, 2020, 06:57:22 PM »
Mango
Mamey
Cherimoya
Soursap
Watermelon

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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #491 on: September 08, 2020, 06:59:44 PM »
I have to add soursop to my list bumped out sugar apples, fresh soursop off the tree chilled for a couple hours does my soul good

I have never had one and wouldn't know where to buy one. I probably should build a greenhouse to grow one. I hear they don't like anything below 40 degrees
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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #492 on: September 08, 2020, 07:00:31 PM »
I have to add soursop to my list bumped out sugar apples, fresh soursop off the tree chilled for a couple hours does my soul good

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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #493 on: September 08, 2020, 07:46:14 PM »
Kwai muk
Shine muscat grape(can only find in Asia)
Persimmon
Lychee
Jackfruit




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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #494 on: September 09, 2020, 01:04:04 AM »
1. Mango
2. Cherimoya
3. Mangosteen
4. Peach
5. Golden Kiwi
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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #495 on: September 09, 2020, 06:00:08 AM »
Mine are as follows.
Peacherimoya
Passion fruitomatoes
Figsweet tamarind
Carambollamerican blueberrie
Persimmonnon  astrigentamarillo
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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #496 on: September 09, 2020, 09:48:28 AM »
Mine are as follows.
Peacherimoya
Passion fruitomatoes
Figsweet tamarind
Carambollamerican blueberrie
Persimmonnon  astrigentamarillo
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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #497 on: September 09, 2020, 12:24:07 PM »

Apricot
Lychee
Figs
Garcinia
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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #498 on: September 09, 2020, 02:02:10 PM »
Mine are as follows.
Peacherimoya
Passion fruitomatoes
Figsweet tamarind
Carambollamerican blueberrie
Persimmonnon  astrigentamarillo
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Re: Top 5 favorite fruits (including non tropicals)
« Reply #499 on: September 09, 2020, 02:14:01 PM »
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I kind of like that hint of bitterness in lychees, so enjoy biting into exterior. But i think there is also a hint of bitterness also in thin layer of interior skin that is around the shell. Anyways, lychees will forever be in my top 10. It's very frustrating living in a place that's not really that great for my two favorite fruits: mangoes and lychees. I get some, but not enough! But i can't complain because almost everything else does so great here. Getting tons of rambutans right now. And just harvested many hundreds of pounds of exquisite durians!  :) 8) 8)

you used to claim that mangoes did fine on the wet side of the island where you are and that you had bumper crops, yet now you are saying its "not really that great" and you dont get much fruit. you are a liar and i knew it. your "many hundreds of pounds of durian" claim makes you sound like are trying to brag and boast your own ego, even though you are probably just lying again.