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 Thai Everbearing
Duncan

Where did you get your Thai Everbearing fruit from?

None of those are like Haak yip which is one of the smoothest skin types and there must be some change of identity when getting over there. I am pretty sure emperor is a smaller fruiting line of fai zee Sui and nearly all pictured look rather like those. FIS are big and rough skinned soft fleshed and have looser skin than most.
I am not aware of the medical taste but is it rose water like,hydrocarbon like or maybe like disinfectant?

This has been debated previously on other threads.  The pictures of Hak Ip in this thread do look like what I always thought Hak IP was supposed to look like.  There have been local growers here in So. Flordia over the years that questioned this ID....noting that the classic description from China of the Hak Ip vartiety did not comport with the fruit that we were calling Hak Ip.  Now to further complicate things, Sweetheart has been introduced/marketed and looks pretty close to what we have been calling Hak Ip.

The "medicinal" taste that I get, and that others have described with the after taste of the fruit pictured here is more of a strong tanic flavor....not hydrocarbon at all and certainly not disinfectant......not that I am much of an expert on the flavor of disinfectants.

It was a nice visit.  Peter was a great host and he has some really remarkable trees and plants on his property.  Don't forget to try some his delicious chocolates which he makes on his property.  While there, Costa Rica was winning games they never expected in the soccer World Cup.  The people were going quite wild. And you'll have to familiarize yourself with the favorite Costa Rican expression.  PURA VIDA!!  That will take you a long way.

It can and has been an excellent mango.  There have been numerous tastings that I have been involved with where it has vied for top billing.  Unfortunately, it does have some inconsistencies. There have been years where the flavor has been off for some unexplained reason.  For me, it is still a keeper.  It is productive and semi dwarf in growth habit.  The fruit can vary in size from year to year but overall at most times and seasons excellent in eating quality on the Fairchild scale of Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor.  And yes, Angie is an early season mango.

Soursop fiber is my major objection to the fruit.  The allegedly fiberless variety grows in my yard.  After too many years to think about, it remains fruitless.  With all of its wonderful qualities.....in appearance, flavor and medicinally I so want to report good things about it.  Maybe one day.  My tree has bloomed now lightly for a couple of years.  I am not beginning to hold my breath just yet, but I remain hopeful.

Oh, wait.....is that a stump among other tree cuttings?

Here's a quick shot of this mango from the Fairchild mango book from the early 1990's.  Note the eating quality rated at that time was from Fair to Good.

Now that is about as ugly a Maha I have ever seen.  Yes, the good news is that the interior of the fruit does outlast the exterior. I assume this is a non-sprayed fruit? I don't spray but even my most blemished Mahas are not quite this blemished.

Hi Harry,

I think you mentioned that you have Ewais mango tree in you property, right ?!. How would you compare Ewais to Kesar in Flavor ?.

Thanks

Correct, I do have both.  Eweis is a much older tree and has borne consistent crops for quite few years. This was the first year that my Kesar tree carried fruit to maturity and, as the result of a family vacation away from home, I only got to try two of the 25 or so fruits the tree produced.  The initial sampling of Kesar left me favorably impressed.  It is not my favorite mango by a long shot, but it seems to have a nice flavor, good productivity and good disease resistance. It has some flavor similarities to Bombay and Eweis.  For me, Eweis, at least at this stage of production in my yard, is slightly superior in flavor.......in my humble opinion.

Wow......I just re-read this thread, got a really good laugh and was amazed to see the amount of discussion/argument/analysis is being devoted to the flavor of the Maha Chanok mango, on its own and in comparison with other dynamic mangoes.  I really think you people are a little crazy.  No...actually not a little. Its ridiculous and absurd.......and, I love it.

1. i think that this one is spanish lime

This is definitely not Spanish Lime.  Rather, it is White Sapote.

Orcas are guilty of cruelty as well !

Quote from: starling1 on June 28, 2015, 04:51:25 AM

You infer that nature is cruel. It is. But it is necessarily cruel. For unnecessary cruelty--the sort that is expressed in all manner of depraved and sadistic acts of physical and psychological torture limited only in scope and detail by the human imagination, you need human beings.

Thanks for pointing this out, Adam.  And, to be correct Mr. Starling1, I didn't infer anything.  I may have implied cruelty of nature in my post.  If you want to play pedantic games with words and word usage you should at least understand the difference between inferring and implying. I am surprised by this pedestrian misuse of the English language from someone as verbally skilled as you are.