The Tropical Fruit Forum

I live in Thousand Oaks, California. By keeping my Kent mango seedling warm during winters by keeping it overnight in the garage, later a plastic bag with 100W incandescent bulb, & even later a large wooden structure with plastic sides & winter warming power source. I started the seed in a cup of water when my son was born 36 years ago, and now the tree is 25 feet tall or so and growing out of the top & sides of its 2-story wooden structure. I had also placed plastic bottles full of water to keep the soil warm around the tree. The base diameter is around 18 inches now, and we do get nice fruit from it. I stopped having to keep it warm during winters around 5 years ago. Photo is looking up through roof at growing mango, plus mangos on a branch of the tree.

Guava is intensely sweet and guava-y.
It's not my cup if tea but I know some who but it up there.
Maya is a classic flavor mango, been on my want to try list.
I have aromanis, which is supposed to be the same as harumanis, it's Indochinese in flavor but not super flavorful

but Goa Mankur mango and Maya from Israel have very good taste. I purchased Goa mankur and Maya graft from them and planted near my house.

I've had a "Gold Nugget" growing very big in the ground here in Chula Vista. The only problem is we are too cold all winter for the fruit to size up and ripen properly. The fruit get about football size, but then soften up in spring and drop without fully ripening. There are other places where some varieties do fine in the County. I'm looking for a variety that doesn't need to get very big to ripen properly.

Wow, mangoba, I like the color (shades) on your citrus, is that an orange or mandarin? What variety is it?

Is that a conjoed twin melons? I had the fingered sumo which had 11 separate parts/fruit envelopes and should have been a world size record, but the Guinness World Records never got back to me.