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There are many different varieties of orange so itis entirely possible that you tasted one variety many years ago from one grower or region but are now ordering a different type of orange from Florida.

I will also say that the flavor of citrus (same tree, same type) will change depending on growing conditions. When I was in the tropics they had green oranges from Brazil that were sweet but without the acid bite that I like to balance the flavors. One reason for this difference may be that Brazil doesn’t get cold enough to stimulate enough acid production in the fruit.

Floridamay be similar. I have bought oranges from Florida that taste differently from the same cultivar grown locally here in California. Very different taste profile. I encourage you to seek out California citrus if you are not satisfied with the options you currently have and give it a try. 

I bought a small tree a few months ago that is now defoliated due to the recent winds. I’m not sure if I’ll keep it or not. I tried fruit from a friends tree and wasn’t impressed at all. There was an odd bitter aftertaste. I don’t mind giving it some time but it wasn’t love at first sight

When is Inga grafting season in socal? I tried in July and wasn’t successful but we did have high heat then.

My Sharwil is in the beginning stages of flowering

Do they typically start flowering at this time? I’ve got to check on mine but they are both recovering from the ides of july🤯

I’m so used to seeing no shipping to CA that it’s kind of refreshing to see some other place be on the list. Why India though?

I’ve attached photos of my dwarf Brazilian papaya. Grew bonkers with fertigation and 30-10-10 fertilizer.

The picture of fruit shows main fruit and cat face fruit which don’t rate as good. The cat face fruit are slightly deformed - round with puckered tip. I was told to relive those. Also remove any side branches.

My tree did get beat up in the wind. Several leaves snapped and it no longer looks bushy. I guess it looks like a real papaya tree and less of a papaya Bush now.

Quote from: JF on October 01, 2018, 09:29:00 PM

As mango season approaches and end in SoCal I edit my top ten list once again






I told you that "Señorita" was the best out of the hundred or so we tried last year.



1. Señorita
2.ST
3.Zinc
4.E4
5.OS
6.Creme brûlée
7.LZ
8.Parson
9.M4
10.HK

is sweet turd a seedling of a known variety? And was it in your top 10? 😆

Look on figbid.com. For the most part it’s run by ourfigs.com members. Cutting season is coming up and you should be able to find some cuttings.

You can also post on the buy sell trade section of ourfigs.com - that’s how I started with my collection.

Good luck.

My first LSU purple will be ripe any day now. Looking forward to it

Meiwa are more sweet (or more accurately speaking they are less bitter) than the other kumquats , in my humble yet highly accurate opinion 😀

I had my 4 year old with me so we were sitting in the back. I was trying to make sure the volume was low on her cartoons so that people weren’t disturbed by the sound.

I went to a mango talk in the summer that described mango flavors and the combinations of flavors experiencesd. I was surprised to see that connoisseurs has gauged 50-60 different flavor profiles to score mangos. Since then I’ve been able to pick out some of the different flavors highlighted from that talk.

But that’s more nuance. If you’re talking flavor bomb, try a pina colada mango. Out of all the mangos I tried this past year that cultivar tastes the least generic and most unique. It even had darker wedges of flesh inside like a mango (no I’m not making this up,  and no I don’t think it was rotting or bad or a coincidence because I noticed the same pattern on the 4 that I had)

From there, you can experience more rose like or floral tastes, more concentrated sweet tastes, more citrus tones, more creamy tones (that’s how My brain interpreted the coconut cream and e4).

Even the seeds look different in those mangoes - like someone gave them a crew cut with like 2mm of fiber all the way around and that’s it!

Many of the mangoes will have combinations of flavors, just like I heard about in the lecture, and the flavors will hit at different times throughout the bite. Interestingly, flavor of mango will also change according to when it is picked and stage of ripeness. I had a fantastic fruit cocktail mango in Florida. 5 days later I had another one that  must have passed its prime flavor because it tasted like curdled cheese with no hint of mango at all.

My trees are fairly young but I managed to ripen a fruit punch mango. I still picked it a tad early and it took longer than I expected to soften but my wife and children asked for more of that one and were more enthusiastic for that mango than for standard store bought ones.

Hope that helps. In short, yes there is a wide variety of mango flavors out there. If you don’t think you could tell the difference, try something that will really stand out like pina colada and see if you can appreciate the difference.

Khaled

I have 1 graft in the ground on one of the rootstock I got from you. I grafted on a lower branch which luckily provided it some shade during the heat wave. It’s now reaching out beyond the shade. I also have kahaluu (large and inground) , Yamagata (small but in ground) and murashige graft that just started pushing.

Looking good Behl.

Mine is growing well but no more fruit from it this year.