i see some online sources that have rollinia mucosa as the same species as rollinia deliciosa?

just had a candongo this morning and i was shocked at how good it tastes...the fruit was smaller and had less sharp spikes/errm no spikes than the biriba pictures i have seen online. more brown instead of yellowish color.

it tasted something like mango and banana with the same texture of soursop...inside about 30 seeds but there was enough flesh so i don't complain.

maybe the tree is fertilized and in full sun?
you should probably propagate that tree for yourself because i have seen many custard apples trees around here and they have just a few to no fruit... i was at some land the other day that i may buy with my brother and the place is full of both soursop and custard apple trees...the soursop trees had fruit but don't remember a single mamon.

i thought it was a canistel too 

i have lots of seedlings over a year old if you want some of them.

well dioecious species can give you a male,female or hermaphrodite plant.

so for instance i keep 4 kei apples,4 ceylon and 2 i think are tropical apricot...then i have 5 pulasan, 5 mammea,4 quenepas,5 talisia and 5 asian persimmons.

when they fruit i will cut down excess males...the dovyalis can be kept small or in containers so not really a problem to keep 4.

pouteria species don't mind sand too much,

citrus would probably love it.

cactus fruits,persimmon,pomegranate,mango,coconut,icaco,sea grape....
peaches...

very nice place

Quote from: digigarden on October 29, 2012, 10:38:09 AM

from the few i have tasted:
madame francine,pascual and haden.

I do not have available all the other varieties mentioned, my trees are still small and do not produce fruit yet, ( LZ, CC, NDM, Lancetilla, Maha Chanok Alphonso)  out of the local varieties, the ones I have enjoyed the most was the Pascual, which is a bit acidic like an orange, which gives a nice twang to the mango flavor.  little fiber, and is huge.

I didn't see any Hadens or Kents this year at the Mango festival. seems they are disappearing as farmers switch to Keitts.   prefer a Kent over Keitt, but more profit for farmers in the later.

Next year I'm going to try and make a trip in the summer to Fla, so I can try out  some of the much talked about varieties here in the forum.  my NDM and Lancetilla,  should flower this year. as those plants are big enough. 

this year i only tried 1 new variety "Osteen" and it was pretty darn good, even though it was just a sample "piece", I want to try a whole one.

most of my grafted plants(keitt,pascual,parvin,tommy and bizcochuelo) did produce flowers already except the bizcochuelo and don't remember if the parvin did...so i guess they can be grafted already, just let me know and the scions are yours.

what i like about the pascual is that it's quite big without any fiber, which is good when you want to eat it right away but i prefer madame francine as it's a bit less messy with better flavor. i don't know how vigorous pascual would be as i can't find that information online...my grafted one seems to be growing quite slowly, probably needs a larger pot.

did you ever try the ataulfo? it seems really good tasting...i wonder if this is the one i tried instead of alphonso.

too bad i never went to the mango festival 

i would cut it before it gets thick...

had this only with an air layer.

it seems i'm the only person that actually likes noni and genip out of hand
i find it "cleansing"...

the pitanga i tried tasted really good so idk what everyone is saying.

barbados cherry is used to make juice and you are not supposed to eat it like that 

how can you not like loquat,pears or melons  ?  dragon fruit?? i almost had an orgasm when i first tasted dragon fruit.

the fruit that didn't really impress me too much was abiu but i still eat it.

now the worst fruit ever is probably mocambo

guilty as charged 

but hey at least this hobby is good for health and will put some food to the table.

nice looking plants.

As a reply for the first post,i understand S.Javanicum is used as reference for both S.Samarangense and S.Aqueum since such species are quite similar. All i know S.Samarangense is slightly larger with slighty larger fruit.

Malay apple(S.Malaccense) is different though...much wider and darker foliage. Larger fruit.

I have both wax apples and malay in 7 gallon containers but they haven't flowered yet. One of my seedlings which grew from a seed i found in a park looks different though, i wonder if it's something else.