I just got a food sealing system, so will try it next summer.

Meanwhile, I have found it easy to use the mango pieces, frozen in a big lump, in regular zipper lock plastic bags.  The mango doesn't seem to freeze that hard, maybe due to sugar content? So it's easy to slice the lump into smaller pieces for the blender or whatever.

Question to those who have had some experience with loving Sweet Tart:

How do you determine the best time to pick it?  And to eat it?

My ST skipped fruiting last year, but I have high hopes for this coming summer.
And I want to do it right, as some of the ones I ate were too tart while others were terrific.

I suggested a couple possibilities, and my friend planted Fairchild. It was Squam who convinced me that Fairchild was good. I had confused it for years with Florigon, which I don't enjoy.

Zands, you're right. She has decided she has room for a second tree. She's in a good but not excellent location, about 5 miles inland. I'm tempted to recommend LZ, but I don't know if it will bear well without any fungicide sprays after it blooms.  My LZs always look great, but I do spray copper several times on all my trees.

I also don't know how common bacterial black spot is. I think of anthracnose as always being in the air, ready to pounce. I don't think that I have dealt with black spot in recent years, but perhaps my spraying has prevented it.

Quote from: WGphil on September 14, 2016, 11:13:05 AM

My fairchild was loaded this year and has never had a drop of any spray on it.
Big bloom and biggest crop so far.   Smaller mango is the biggest drawback imo. 

Fairchild is super reliable, puts out every year which makes up for the small size of the fruits. My experience w my Fairchild tree. Plus is a delicious mango.

I've had to do it twice through the years.

From time to time I still visit my Keitt and Kent in Tamarac, and my Gary in downtown Lake Worth.

the Aloha mango is absolutely amazing!

Always fun to hear about a new and wonderful mango.   

It's quite possible I've never had a Mallika at its best.

That said, I would* definitely choose Fruit Punch. It has a great, overall fruity, mangoey flavor. It's a decent size, and pleasant to look at as well.


*I gave Mallika away a long time ago.

When I'm eating mangos, maybe a couple pounds a day, my fasting blood sugar ranges between 145 and 160, too high.

I'm a Type 2 diabetic, and not active. I think most "normal" folks would not be adversely affected.

To get really healthy blood sugar levels, I have to eat low carb and take in a bit of resistant starch.

Nice thread, Simon. Thanks for great analysis from you and others.

I was out of state for about 16 days, and I'm afraid I missed some of my favorite cultivars completely. 

But the few I have tried in the last couple days have been superb; I'm told that the weather in my area was hot and dry while I was gone. I have several dead plants to support that.  At any rate, perhaps the dry weather has improved the flavor after a wet spring.

The Pineapple Pleasure I had was friggin delicious, as was the lone 36-8. The latter had coconut notes that I personally found far more enjoyable than the Coconut Creams I have tasted; the pineapple flavor probably helped in that regard.  My Dots are excellent now, far better than the ones I tasted at the beginning of July.

My Lemon Zests are not ready yet. The tree fruited poorly (after two good years in a row) but I have high hopes for the ones that did set.

This is the first year my Edgar fruited. The first couple I have tasted are sweet and rich, but have grassy / immature notes for which I had to deduct points.   These fruits are showing some sunken, black lesions near the stem end. I don't know how much this will affect eating quality.

I just purchased mangos with these names, but can't find any information on them.

Would anyone know of possible alternative spellings?

Also found Buttercream (or Butter Cream?) at Zill HP.  Were these formerly numbered (so I could search for information on them) ?

Thanks!

Alex, your Edward mangos played well in Peoria.*
"Best I've ever tasted."   
My relatives assumed they came from my trees and I may have left that notion unchallenged.


*Actually Deerfield, IL,  but that's less poetic.

Looking good!

Now when is the tasting?  I want to reserve the charter bus asap..............

Dan, excellent mangos!
I let mine fruit this year fast grower

Glad to hear they do well in California 

I don't know yet how they compare to other cultivars regarding disease resistance in Florida's humidity; I definitely enjoy the flavor.

I think I'm the first guy on my block to have a Zill Indochinese* mango tree.
Please don't hate me for being bountiful.

*sometimes known as ZINC  or  ZIC





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