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My Top 10 Favorite Mango Varieties, Whats Yours?
« on: April 18, 2023, 12:31:48 PM »
Top 10:
Coconut Cream
Guava Mango (Guamango)
Pickering
Orange Sherbet
Rosigold (tasted like floral roses to me)
Lemon Zest
Nam Doc Mai
PPK (lemon meringue)
Buttercream
And believe it or not I like the shitty fibrous turpetine mango

RECENTLY PLANTED
Creme Brulee (I want to know more about this variety and haven't tasted it)
Casturi Mango
Lancetilla
Irwin

I don't have a shortage of planting space so I did a couple less desirable varieties.


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Re: My Top 10 Favorite Mango Varieties, Whats Yours?
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2023, 02:08:18 PM »
Top 10 - Flavor - Lemon zest, Bailey's Marvel, Carrie, Sweet tart, Peach cobbler, M4, Venus, NDM#4, Angie, and Cotton candy. Not necessarily in that order.

Top all around trees - Carrie, Pickering, Angie, M4, NDM #4, Orange Sherbet, Ceci Love, Honey kiss.

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Re: My Top 10 Favorite Mango Varieties, Whats Yours?
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2023, 08:42:25 PM »
Top 10

Pickering
M4
Seacrest
Lemon Zest
Peach Cobbler
Orange Sherbet
Glenn
Coconut Cream
Pina Colada
Wise
Bill (Cape Coral)

Mangoes I have:
Valencia Pride, Karen Michelle, Pineapple Pleasure, Pina Colada, M4, Coconut Cream, Seacrest, Sugar Loaf, Pickering, Honey Kiss, Peach Cobbler, Spirit of 76, Glenn, Cotton Candy, Gary, Lemon Zest, Orange Essence, Dwarf Hawaiian, Ice Cream, Sweet Tart, All Summer

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Re: My Top 10 Favorite Mango Varieties, Whats Yours?
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2023, 04:43:45 AM »
Dwarf Hawaiian Little Gem Dot Buxton Spice Pina Colada M4 Karen Michelle Fruit Punch Valencia Pride Little Kiett
Tete Nene Julie Juliet Carrie Ice Cream Coconut Cream Little Gem  Dot  Mallika PPK  OS  Pina Colada Cotton Candy Buxton Spice Karen Michelle M-4 Beverly Marc Anthony White Pirie Lychee Cherilata Plantain Barbados Cherry

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Re: My Top 10 Favorite Mango Varieties, Whats Yours?
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2023, 10:57:35 AM »
Dwarf Hawaiian Little Gem Dot Buxton Spice Pina Colada M4 Karen Michelle Fruit Punch Valencia Pride Little Kiett
What is Little Kiett?  (You knew I'd ask.)
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Re: My Top 10 Favorite Mango Varieties, Whats Yours?
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2023, 12:30:27 PM »
My 2023 revised list.

I'll prefer my list with this:
I tend to my mangos on the sweeter side with a firmer texture.
A lot of the intensely flavored mangoes have a very short window to pick and another small window to eat.
If after 10 years into the world of ZHPP mangos, picking 1000s of mangos, and eating more then I know it's hard to get some consistency.
So I'm really using the best version I had of each mango.

Comparing strictly on eating experience (taste, aroma, texture) in no order.

Lemon Zest
Mulgoba
Bailey's Marvel
Zinc
Sugar Loaf*
Buttercream*
Valcarrie
Cotton Candy
Pina Colada
Orange Sherbet

*Still working out how to actually pick them at the right time

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Re: My Top 10 Favorite Mango Varieties, Whats Yours?
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2023, 01:25:19 PM »
Great list here thanks everyone for sharing. I don’t think I’ve even tasted 10 mango varieties in my life haha but hope to change that soon. Not many options here at the grocery stores or markets in SoCal.

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Re: My Top 10 Favorite Mango Varieties, Whats Yours?
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2023, 08:36:17 PM »
Great list here thanks everyone for sharing. I don’t think I’ve even tasted 10 mango varieties in my life haha but hope to change that soon. Not many options here at the grocery stores or markets in SoCal.
You need to make some new friends (forum members).
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Re: My Top 10 Favorite Mango Varieties, Whats Yours?
« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2023, 11:35:56 AM »
In no particular order:
Pickering
Orange Sherbet
M-4
Sugar Loaf
Fruit punch
Edward
Super Alphonso
Karen Michelle
Malika
Lemon Zest
When it comes to productivity, reliability and disease resistance the list narrows to:
Pickering, Edward, M-4, Orange Sherbet
Lemon Zest is a particularly troublesome tree, I wouldn't plant it again. Malika is a light and unreliable producer.

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Re: My Top 10 Favorite Mango Varieties, Whats Yours?
« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2023, 01:48:47 PM »
In no particular order:
Pickering
Orange Sherbet
M-4
Sugar Loaf
Fruit punch
Edward
Super Alphonso
Karen Michelle
Malika
Lemon Zest
When it comes to productivity, reliability and disease resistance the list narrows to:
Pickering, Edward, M-4, Orange Sherbet
Lemon Zest is a particularly troublesome tree, I wouldn't plant it again. Malika is a light and unreliable producer.
Amrapali might be a good substitute for Mallika.  Also, how do you feel about PPK?
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Re: My Top 10 Favorite Mango Varieties, Whats Yours?
« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2023, 02:30:23 PM »
In no particular order:
Pickering
Orange Sherbet
M-4
Sugar Loaf
Fruit punch
Edward
Super Alphonso
Karen Michelle
Malika
Lemon Zest
When it comes to productivity, reliability and disease resistance the list narrows to:
Pickering, Edward, M-4, Orange Sherbet
Lemon Zest is a particularly troublesome tree, I wouldn't plant it again. Malika is a light and unreliable producer.

« Last Edit: April 26, 2023, 01:03:40 PM by palmcity »

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Re: My Top 10 Favorite Mango Varieties, Whats Yours?
« Reply #11 on: April 26, 2023, 09:05:30 PM »
PPK and Lemon Zest are very MBBS prone. Great tasting, but difficult to grow fruit to maturity in my yard.

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Re: My Top 10 Favorite Mango Varieties, Whats Yours?
« Reply #12 on: April 30, 2023, 10:32:02 PM »
By Taste ONLY:

Pineapple Pleasure*
Sugarloaf*
Fruit Punch
Peach cobbler
CAC
lemon zest
Orange sherbet
Sweet Tart
Cecilove
Baileys marvel*


* I grow these varieties.
If I can add a number 11 it’s “seacrest/triple-Sec”
IN THAT ORDER.

changes after every season but my top two stay the same so far.

If you ask me about a mango trees qualities and not just taste of fruit I have a whole different list.


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Re: My Top 10 Favorite Mango Varieties, Whats Yours?
« Reply #13 on: May 27, 2023, 06:27:40 AM »
I like only 3 mango varieties tastewise
1. Alphonso
2. Dasheri
3. Payari
Rest varieties I tasted were not good enough.

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Re: My Top 10 Favorite Mango Varieties, Whats Yours?
« Reply #14 on: May 27, 2023, 03:17:53 PM »
I'll jump in here, since I have PPK. I had gone to Truly Tropical years ago to buy a Sweet Tart tree. While there, Chris was going on about how people loved PPK, and she always sold out of it. So even though I didn't have room for it, I bought both trees. Boy, am I glad I did! They're 2 of my 3 favorite mangos (of the ones I have), and taste totally different. PPKs are sweet and citrusy. They kind of don't even taste like a mango, but I don't mean that in any negative way. My only criticism is that its production is quite variable for me. This year I got zero PPKs! That said, my tree is still pretty young. Still, I would never be without a PPK tree.

In no particular order:
Pickering
Orange Sherbet
M-4
Sugar Loaf
Fruit punch
Edward
Super Alphonso
Karen Michelle
Malika
Lemon Zest
When it comes to productivity, reliability and disease resistance the list narrows to:
Pickering, Edward, M-4, Orange Sherbet
Lemon Zest is a particularly troublesome tree, I wouldn't plant it again. Malika is a light and unreliable producer.
Amrapali might be a good substitute for Mallika.  Also, how do you feel about PPK?


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Re: My Top 10 Favorite Mango Varieties, Whats Yours?
« Reply #15 on: May 28, 2023, 07:26:31 AM »
I'll jump in here,  PPKs are sweet and citrusy. They kind of don't even taste like a mango, but I don't mean that in any negative way. My only criticism is that its production is quite variable for me. This year I got zero PPKs! That said, my tree is still pretty young. Still, I would never be without a PPK tree.
Interesting, as I also have a light harvest with less PPK's this year vs last year.

Almost all other varieties have more fruit this year vs. last year.

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Re: My Top 10 Favorite Mango Varieties, Whats Yours?
« Reply #16 on: May 31, 2023, 03:51:00 PM »


All my mango trees are the old original Florida varieties, since I live in a small town I only had a few varieties to choose from the nurseries and big box stores near me at the time when I was planting my mango trees 10-17 years ago. Lucky for me I enjoy all the mango varieties I planted. Carrie is so far the only mango I do not like that I've tasted, It had a mediciny after taste (hard to explain) which I disliked. But in all fairness I've probably only tasted 10-12 varieties since I started growing mangoes.

I have Glenn, Cogshalls, Maha, Keitt...Glenn being my favorite. I used to have Pickering and really loved that mango...it's a long story and I no longer have the tree. That is one I would plant again but I have more than enough fruits for me and several of my neighbors to share so I guess I don't need another tree. It's a lot of work for the first 5-6 years till they get established especially when we get the few occasional freeze here, protecting them is a lot of work! Right now all the trees are established and are on auto pilot, on their own at this point. Finally reaping the benefits of all my very hard labor...until the next severe freeze that is! 

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Re: My Top 10 Favorite Mango Varieties, Whats Yours?
« Reply #17 on: June 04, 2023, 07:08:33 AM »
Since each variety have its own unique characteristics.
It’s hard to pick the top 10. Top 50 may be better.

Gary
Guava
Orange Sherbet
Creme Brulee
Lemon Zest
Pina Colada
Val-Carrie
Yi Xuan
Coconut Cream
Edgar

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Re: My Top 10 Favorite Mango Varieties, Whats Yours?
« Reply #18 on: June 04, 2023, 11:00:29 AM »
Hard to pick just 10... so I'll pick 11.

Sugar loaf
Cotton candy
Fruit punch
Pina colada
Orange essence
Guava (Sein ta lone)
Lemon Zest
Lemon meringue (pu pyu kalay)
Super Julie
Sweet tart
Orange sherbet

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Re: My Top 10 Favorite Mango Varieties, Whats Yours?
« Reply #19 on: June 04, 2023, 11:20:14 AM »
Anyone selling mango go box of top 10? I tried avocado box and it was a nice.