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Mangosteen season
« on: March 21, 2022, 03:04:18 PM »
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Re: Mangosteen season
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2022, 08:06:29 PM »
Pretty good looking flowers, how old is the tree? has it fruited before?

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Re: Mangosteen season
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2022, 08:53:55 PM »
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Re: Mangosteen season
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2022, 08:58:59 AM »
We are also getting good flowering on mangosteen right now. Ideally we will harvest more than 1000kg beginning in July.
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Re: Mangosteen season
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2022, 10:02:01 AM »
Can you describe the flavor of mangosteen, which is always on the "best fruits" list?
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Re: Mangosteen season
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2022, 12:40:35 PM »
Taste like grapes, but better

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Re: Mangosteen season
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2022, 06:23:48 PM »
Can you describe the flavor of mangosteen, which is always on the "best fruits" list?

I had high expectations trying mangosteen and I was still blown away. My favorite fruit up to now. Hard to compare without knowing what you've tried, but it tastes like candy. Super concentrated sweet, but with enough tart after taste to not make it sickeningly sweet. Closest thing I've had was a super ripe, right off the tree, yellow Thai mango. Just remove the mango flavor, keep the tart and crank up the sweet, while being soft, fluffy and super juicy. My friend thought they taste like pixie sticks

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Re: Mangosteen season
« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2022, 06:48:37 PM »
Imagine a juicy peeled mandarin orange, but replace the 'orange' flavor with something more like vanilla.  They really are good.

Muscadine grapes and jaboticaba flesh is kind of similar but mangosteen is better.


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Re: Mangosteen season
« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2022, 07:21:41 PM »
We have mangosteen being harvested here right now as well. Mangosteen are good but not durian good.

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Re: Mangosteen season
« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2022, 01:22:27 AM »
Long live the King and the QUEEN

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Re: Mangosteen season
« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2022, 09:44:35 AM »
Long live the King and the QUEEN
So durian is king, and mangosteen is queen?  Where does that leave mango and lychee?  Crown prince and princess?
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Re: Mangosteen season
« Reply #11 on: March 23, 2022, 08:01:12 PM »
That's a stinky king

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Re: Mangosteen season
« Reply #12 on: March 23, 2022, 08:23:53 PM »
 I will eat 5 kilo in a day when they are around.

 

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