Photo of a ripe coconut cream here:

http://mangosbymail.com/our-mangos

If you don't have a bird/squirrel problem, you can probably wait until it falls on the ground.  CC tastes best when fairly soft.  Since you have two, experiment.

Mahachanok that was picked three weeks too soon.   

Click on Mahachanok picture:
http://mangosbymail.com/our-mangos

I'am not happy that he might be failing but just trying to find out facts of the matter! I find it interesting that folks claim there are no cold hardy Mango's when I understand that there are varieties from India that grow in colder mountain regions! Or is that a hoax's too!
Would be interesting to find out for sure!

I wouldn't be surprised if a cold hardy mango was discovered someday.  Maybe next year, maybe not in my lifetime.  My rationale for is Dr. Campbell claimed that the jackfruit from Fairchild's jackfruit program as seedlings survived a freeze that killed mature jackfruit right next to the seedlings.  Thus, all of Fairchild's seedling jackfruit are likely more cold tolerant than regular jackfruit.  Get 10,000 mango seeds and plant them in a colder temperature, see what survives.  Repeat this enough and you should get a cold tolerant mango.  After getting a cold tolerant mango, then the process would be repeated for other desireable characteristics, like good tasting, productive, disease resistance, etc. 

It is far easier to buy mangos from www.MangosByMail.com, than to develop a cold hardy mango.

A lot of good advice; probably a few envious members.   I suggest studying the layout of the Fruit & Spice Park and other botanical gardens.  Hurricane Andrew leveled the F&S park, so they were able to correct certain "sins" and add things like water features, etc. after Andrew.  If you have the resources, you might contact a landscape architect to develop a "master plan" for the property to help develop your vision.

Perhaps contacting Ken Love and Oscar (Fruit Lovers), may be useful in determining what will fruit well at your location. 

Hey Jen,

Welcome to the Forum. Peanut Butter fruit is a novelty fruit; it is a small fruit with a large seed inside.  There is very little flesh.  It tastes a little like peanut butter.  I think it is propogated by seed, so you could eat the fruit and plant the seed. 

Good call on the Pickering mango.  Guava, you might research whether the guava fruit fly is in your area.  I'm not a Persimmon expert, here in south Florida the astringent persimmons bear more fruit than the non-astringent varieties, like Fuyu.  You might research that issue for the San Diego area.  Triumph is a productive astringent variety.

Best wishes,

Mr. Clean

Is this your business?

Yes, why do you ask?

www.MangosByMail.com mailing mangos to mango fans in northern climates.

http://mangosbymail.com/our-mangos

Provides a variety viewer of mango seed cross sections of these varieties:

• Mahachanok
• Angie
• Coconut Cream
• Pickering
• Nam Doc Mai
• Rosigold

We are a small orchard of 1.25 acres with over 70 mango trees in ground in Palm Beach County, Florida.  We cannot ship to Hawaii or California.

Here is some info http://www.florikan.com/phone/literature_index.html#lit-hort

Here is an advertisement https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AQk6erHZwo8
Simon

I use a combination of time release and "quicker" release fertilizer for younger trees.  This ensures the trees have nutrition and allows for more nutrition during the summer months.  ECHO supposedly had problems growing fruit trees, until they started using time release fertilizers.  Time release helps to ensure consistent nutrition.

How did the CC taste this year ?

Thanks Ed

The CC could have been better.  I had better CC from the same tree earlier in the year.

We had an mango tasting on Memorial Day.  Squam provided the Lemonzest; Mr. Clean provided the rest of the mangos.  Squam diligently recorded the brix of each mango.  Two mangos had a 23 brix:  the Dupuis Saigon and Lemonzest.  The Dupuis was unevenly ripened, resulting in part of the mango having a Brix of 23 and another part with a 17 Brix.  Carrie and Angie had similar flavor, but Carrie had more flavor than the Angie.

Angie
Carrie
Dupuis Saigon (Brix 17/23)
Dwarf Hawaiian
Coconut Cream
Rosigold
Lemonzest (Brix 23)
Spirit of 76
Mahachanok
Pickering (did not cut, decided could ripen more)
Nam Doc Mai (did not cut, decided could ripen more)
Duncan (did not cut, decided could ripen more)

So I have a few Ruby Supreme Guava trees and my neighbor commercially grows Asian Guava, so I'm pretty much covered there. However, I really enjoy the small, yellow-skinned pink fleshed guavas that are no bigger than a golf ball.  I believe a lot of them come from Mexico.  Anybody know what variety that is? Can they be grown adequately in deep south florida area?  Thank You.

-Jon

Jon,

Since you are in the Redlands, you might track down Jorge J. Zaldivar  with PG Tropicals, he's all about guava and has a guava farm in the Redlands.

Thanks for sharing.  These were previously on Curator Choice lists in the past:  Kuini, Angie, Fairchild, Mallika, Nam Doc Mai, Rosigold, Cogshall, Manilita

I've got enough mangos that I have lost interest in driving long distances for mango festivals.