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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2025 Mango season
« Last post by roblack on Today at 09:03:23 PM »
Glenn is done, with 1 fruit hanging that I can see. Was losing about 2 - 8 fruit per day to squirrels, rats, and birds. Didn't really matter, as we have got more than we can deal with. 9 Ceci Loves are hanging on that tree, all in metal mesh bags, lmao!

A bunch of mmm4s and Kesars are coming along. Starting to harvest more OS, but not a lot (lots of fruit drop). My lone Guava was ravaged by some horrid beast.

Another thing I've noticed about CL; the panicles appear to hold very strong. I've knocked into the fruits several times, pretty hard upside the head, with zero drops.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mango sap reaction
« Last post by sapote on Today at 09:03:06 PM »
I made the mistake of picking mangos last week in an established orchard wearing only short sleeved t-shirt, shorts and sneakers.  I remember sap on some fruits shooting out and dripping on my legs, arms, hands and face as I picked them.  I carried fresh-picked bundles of mangos in my arms to my cart. There were mangos all over the ground that I was trudging through, soaking my shoes and socks.  I had no idea what I was going to be experiencing in the near future.  I am now covered from head to toe with blisters and miserable.  I've read up on urushiol, and treatments for such.  I've slathered myself with poison ivy itch cream, and painted myself with calamine lotion.  My lips are swollen as if I've injected them with botox, and the corners of my mouth are cracked, I can barely open my mouth.  Yes, this is a basket case caused by my own ignorance.  I now know why Alex wears muck boots, long pants, long-sleeved shirts, and covers just about as much exposed skin as possible.

I am stabilized, and no anaphylactic shock...  How long should I expect this condition to last before I begin to feel better and the itching to subside?

Sorry to hear you have zero mango gene :)
I love to rub the fragrant sap on my face from those indian green young fruitlets, especially the Imam Passand. I picked off those with odd shape or a little yellow color and the high pressure sap jsut shooting out .
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2025 Mango season
« Last post by sapote on Today at 08:55:49 PM »
M4 cold, before lunch.  Reminded me of pina colada shakes i had as kid at bazars minus bag of zeppolis lol.





Sorry but this mango looks too old -- either it took a long time to ripe due to early picking.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2025 Mango season
« Last post by MountDoraOllie on Today at 08:46:32 PM »
That "sugar cookie" variety is a seedling tree planted somewhere just north of big Lake O and I purchased them from an old woman sitting at a makeshift roadside stand.  I was randomly driving around the area looking for just something like this and I found her.  I'll most likely never be able to find her again and lord knows if she's still alive as she had to be 80 when I met her 10 years ago.  Said her grandfather planted the tree from a mango he had eaten and she grew up with the tree.  They were on the small-ish side but had a very small seed, were bursting with mango, coconut and pineapple flavor.  I didn't test the sugar but brix had to be at least 27-28.

Had a pineapple pleasure this morning.  Huge mango.  Great mango flavor and only the smallest of pineapple flavor.

CAC this morning was wonderful.  Mango and cream in that one and is a tree worthy of going in ground for me as I start planning out what additional trees i'm going to put in ground.

The stuff of legend! What an awesome story. The sad reality is that someone will buy that property when she dies and cut down that huge old mango tree because it makes too much of a mess. But your story will live on. One wonders how many other "Sugar Cookie" kinds of mangoes are out there, undiscovered except by just a few.

I was disappointed with Pineapple Pleasure for the same reason: was expecting a strong pineapple flavor but instead found very little. It's a good mango on its own, though. The name does it no favors.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mango sap reaction
« Last post by MasOlas on Today at 08:44:04 PM »
Hahaha - good to know you will survive. We’re all going crazy and that’s part of the fun! Carry on…
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I'd possibly be into a few seeds as well. Where is Hobe Sound in Florida? I'm in Wewahitchka in the panhandle. Trying to get an idea of this species cold hardiness. Do the leaves smell pretty good or have you used it in food? If so was it good?
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I assume you got the chicken bullion plant to root? I tried a bunch of cuttings recently and got like 3 out of 15 to root. I grew them from seeds before which was easy. Mine have flowered multiple times but not setting seeds yet. Hopefully soon. There's flowers on one pant now. We like to use a good handful of the leaves and cook it with rice to impart the flavor to the rice. Along with a good handful of Magenta leaf herb to give the rice a purplish color.

The toona sinensis is totally worth growing too. Ot does truly taste like beef and onions or close to that. Definitely makes for a good stir fry green veggie or for soups etc.
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are pruners the new bananas for units of measurement?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 10,000lb of Hass
« Last post by CThurst83 on Today at 08:22:56 PM »
Amazing! How many trees produced that much fruit?

Hard to say total trees, and this is the "off" year so not all were laden. About 6-7 acres.

My family’s grove in Valley Center was 8,000 per acre to break even and 10,000 per acre to profit. Are the trees on 15x15 or more spread out?
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I'll buy them, check your message.
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