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The first two weeks of August was the last posting for Saturday mangos on Truly Tropical Facebook page. It was down to Valencia pride and Keitt.This is a Valencia Pride drop from this morning
Alex at Tropical Acres Farms has many cultivars left for sale daily.
skhan, how do you determine when your Neelams are ready to pick? Thanks!
I still have loads of Sweet Tarts and Lemon Zest and some Lemon Meringue and plenty Orange Sherbets. Loads of Cotton Candy. Hatcher’s and Valencia Orides and Venus and a few M-4’s loads of Keitt and just 1 Kathy and a partridge in a pear tree!I am most pleased with the timing of my O Sherbet’s picking time which is this Friday July 16 and I believe that the readiness of Sweet Tart to be picked the last 3 weeks and probably another 2 weeks is an amazing length of time for a variety to have a window of picking and that’s probably why ST’s get so many splits besides from all the rain. Sweet Tarts literally tell you when to pick them. I love the way Lemon Zest tells you when to pick it and how it’s colors tell you when to cut them open at the exact time. I love that Lemon Meringues are still green on the trees on July 13th. I don’t like that Cotton Candies in the shade towards the end when they are sweetened up get anthracnose skin but the ones in the sun keep the cotton Candy look. I hate how hard it is to know the perfect time to cut into a pineapple Pleasure. I now think it’s got to be opened when it’s more green than yellow. And still have a handful of Venus left. Also going to significantly boost my numbers of Orange Sherbet and Kathy trees by topping many trees and converting them. After this season I don’t see the need to have 5 trees of a variety so I’m going convert most of the trees that I only have 1 to 5 of unless they taste really special to me and my wife like Juicy Peach. Eg Hatcher Harvest Moon Coconut Cream Spirit of 76 Duncan these will be converted plus more like Phoenix Seacrest Van Dyke and more.
Thanks for the comments guys. Friday is going to be our last day of regular hours. We’ve been open daily since April so we’ve done alright.Going to sell by appointment after that, into August I would expect.
I went to Zill high performance plants today and it looks like I will get to try Carla finally. So I've exceeded all my goals for the season. Except I want to try buxton spice and I see if it's more Buxton then spice or Spice than buxton.Zills had plenty of diamonds. I put one in my bucket then I talked myself out of it. Since no one wants to talk about Carla I will give it a review
Quote from: bovine421 on July 14, 2021, 02:34:37 PMI went to Zill high performance plants today and it looks like I will get to try Carla finally. So I've exceeded all my goals for the season. Except I want to try buxton spice and I see if it's more Buxton then spice or Spice than buxton.Zills had plenty of diamonds. I put one in my bucket then I talked myself out of it. Since no one wants to talk about Carla I will give it a reviewWell I for one want to know about Carla. If the flavor resembles Kent, having hints of other fruits other than citrus, pineapple, or coconut.