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Make sure you taste Magana before buying a tree. Flavor wise, I would rate it at the lower end of the Mamey spectrum. I have a big Pantin that produces lots of delicious fruits. Pace is nice also. Lara Farm is the place to go to for Mamey. They are the experts!Out of what I have tasted, I agree that Pantin is at the top.
Does pina colada mango actually taste like pina colada?Yes, it has the ability to be better than Gary, which also tastes like a Pina Colada. The key with the Pina Colada is picked at the right time so it ripens properly. If picked too early, it will not fully ripen and you wind up with a slightly sour, pasty/chalky mango not worth or cutting into.
Climbed up to the top. Defintiely blooms. Pics to follow. Sri Lankan Beetle is the culprit. They seem to like Sweetheart and Hak Ip over other cultivars. Why? No clue. Have to run.the Weevils also love my Hak Ip and Sweetheart. In addition, they love my NDM and and to some extent my LZ while no attacks on my Coconut Cream, Mallikas, Mahachanoks or Excalibur.
Harry
I think its beyond Florida-centric, its Adam-centric...after all, there are tropical fruit trees growing south of Central Florida, and can even be grown in the ground.QuoteWe have the best jabuticabeira in USA here in central FL, besides outside of Brazil of course!!!
Are you sure about that? Not! Getting Florida-centric on me again? You need to check out some giant jaboticaba trees over here!
Oscar
Harry, looking again at your photo, seems like something is munching pretty badly on those top leaves?Looks like the damage from the prevalent Sri Lankin Root Weevil.
Oscar
Is he no longer working for Excalibur?Yes, he still works for Excalibur...just does this on the side.
Harry
Honeybell trees need a pollinator tree like Dancy tangerine. I have a Honeybell planted next to Dancy tangerine and should be getting some good results. Got a few Honeybell this year. My favorite citrus along with good tangerines
Anyone have more information on pollinator trees for the Honeybell? All Honeybell groves have pollinator trees interspersed IIRC it was one pollinator for every five Honeybell
Here is a great tangerine, mandarins, tangelo resource http://www.rickharrison.com/texts/info/mandarins.html
This thread is a great excuse to try new fruits, or those that we sampled once or twice and didn't appreciate.This isn't really watermelon growing country down here. You have to go up farther north in the State, and the best are grown out of the state. During watermelon season (mid summer, drive down 441between Lake Worth Road to just south of Boynton Beach Boulevard. You will find people selling watermelons on the side of the road. You must be cautious and ask questions to ensure their origin (some are actually brought directly from the fields but some people do nothing more than pick them up from the packing houses so they are the same, or similar, to what you'd get in Publix). Find the right person and you will get an excellent melon. Of course, you must know how to pick them by weight and sound (growing up in Pennsylvania, we had friends who grew watermelons, yellow ones to be precise, and the best damn watermelon you ever had..he taught me how to pick a watermelon). Its the non-commercial heirloom varieties that will be the best but since they don't do well commercially for various reasons, you will be hard pressed to find them down here. Go up to North Carolina and search out the right farms and you might.
murahilin: Do you grow your own watermelon? If so, is there a variety that sweetens reliably for you? I have bad luck with store-bought melons (and apples, and mangos of course.)
With your lack of cold weather I'd be curious to see how they far against an Indian River (Vero Beach, Florida area) Minneola. Its the cold spells here in Florida that really brings out the sweetness and flavor of our citrus.A Honeybell is a Minneola tangelo, specifically a cross between a Duncan grapefruit and a Dancy tangerine. You are actually coming to the end of the actual season (though due to storage you will see them for a little while longer.
Yes, looks like Minneola tangelo to me also. Have minneolas in my orchard, one of my favorite citrus. Very popular here. We do have another original grapefruit/tangerine cross called Tangee tangelo. It has a yellow color with decidedly grapefruit flavor tones, but very nice.
Here is part of my summer 2011 Abiu crop. I picked over 100 Abius from my two trees this year. They taste like a vanilla-coconut honeydew melon. One of the best tasting fruits you can grow in Florida
To those who have seen these photos already, sorry for the repeat!
bsbullie,Flavor is good though it does not have that brown sugar taste to it. I would say it is a cleaner taste and not as intensely sweet as most other varieties. Is it my favorite, no, is it good and worthy of eating, yes.
How is the taste of Silas Woods, I just got Silas Woods yesterday. I have heard from previous topics about it, that it has good flavor.
my bad...Wilson has been long gone. Even though he had knowledge he also was known for giving info that was not 100% accurate/correct. I will see what I can find out tomorrow.
Why would the red flesh color be a drawback ?
The big 'draw' not drawback.
Also, who is 100% accurate/correct. Even I am at 99%. For the few years that I worked that at Excalibur, Wilson was probably the most accurate person there. If he did not know something he readily said so and when he knew something he said it. That does not mean that everyone would like the same tasting mamey. It may have been okay to him but wonderful to others. I think that goes for everything. I do not think accuracy/correctness apply to his comment, I think it was more one of his opinion of the fruit, which he is entitled.
Well, I know for fact and dealing with him as well as other customers comments, he gave information that was inaccurate. I am not saying he always did but he did at times. As I stated, I am not discounting he was knowledgeable but giving false information or steering somebody based on his thoughts when your thoughts are wrong make the information inaccurate/incorrect. I would much rather somebody say I don't know, let me find out" than give a response based on a best guess or your thoughts.Wilson has been long gone. Even though he had knowledge he also was known for giving info that was not 100% accurate/correct. I will see what I can find out tomorrow.
Why would the red flesh color be a drawback ?
The big 'draw' not drawback.
Also, who is 100% accurate/correct. Even I am at 99%. For the few years that I worked that at Excalibur, Wilson was probably the most accurate person there. If he did not know something he readily said so and when he knew something he said it. That does not mean that everyone would like the same tasting mamey. It may have been okay to him but wonderful to others. I think that goes for everything. I do not think accuracy/correctness apply to his comment, I think it was more one of his opinion of the fruit, which he is entitled.
