I sent them both e-mails last week.  Pugluvr (Nancy) responded and thanked me.  She's been inactive on GW for a while also.....not sure why. I hope all is well with her.  Mango Kush (Bryan) has not repsonded.  He's been MIA for quite a while now.  Again, hoping all is OK with him.

Harry

Madame Francis is not vigorous at my house.  But, it was a relatively recent planting and is planted in a location where it gets shade about half the day.  So I am not sure you can draw any conclusions about growth habit from my experience. It is very disease resistant and fruits fairly heavily without spraying.  So that is a plus. On the negative side, it does not do much in the way of gaining color upon ripening.

Harry

Adam:

How was the fiber content of your fruit.  I am not a big fan of seedy fruits and fiberous fruits are not that far behind on my list of prefer not to wrangle with fruits.  I have had trees that were supposedly seedlless (from Excalibur) and a fiberless one (also from Excalibur) to try to avoid my aversions.  The seedless one also turned out to be fruitless (and thus was not mis-represented, I guess in a way). It fruited one time in the 17 years I had it.  The fruits never matured fully dropping off at about half maturity. It died last year in our record cold waves that we encountered in the previous two years.   The allegedly fiberless has not fruited as of yet.  So the jury is still out.  My luck....the fiberless tree will either also be fruitless or the fruits will be tasteless.

Harry

Good memory, Alexi.  I did post this shot of Noel back on GW some time back.  These mangoes are obviously large and their best characteristic is that they are large.  Probably excellent for chutney and the like. Unfortunately, they are  not all that good for eating out of hand.

Harry

I've seen some that approached 2 lbs, but nothing that big.

Harry

I guess I should read the test and not just look at the pictures.......you haven't tasted any of them.

Cool....which of these, if any, have you tried the fruit from?

Harry

There is a church located conveniently across the street.  Coincidence?  I'll be there volunteering Sunday from 10am to 1:30pm at the Tropical Fruit & Veggie Society table should anyone be there at that time.  Don't be shy.  No petting offered.

Warren.....what do you volunteer doing at the church?

Harry

I had four of the Juan pulasan seedlings.  I gave one to Warren.  I hope his is still alive and kicking.  All three of the remaining plants died a slow and inglorious death at the hands of cold weather. 

Harry

Don't worry, Gerry, they are heading your way!

Harry

Beautiful fruit, Felipe, but from my experience, they look like red atemoyas....not reticulatas.  I would suspect they are some sort of hybrid if they have any reticulata in them at all (I'm not saying that they don't) but they clearly favor the atemoya side of the breeding...at least that is what it looks like to me.

Harry

The best thing and the worst thing about durian is that it keeps on giving.  For many hours after ingesting the darling fruit, it repeats on you like nobody's business.  If you love the flavor......you're good to go for the rest of the day.  If you don't.......you're screwed.  It will be hours before that wierd horrible flavor starts to fade away.

Harry