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I have an orange sherbet that's been ripening for 10 days will try it tonight. I have another orange Essence in a box that I brought from South Florida. That will be the second one that I've tried so I may be able to a form an opinion.
My orange Sherbert has never had any issues with anthracnose and I am in the interior 9B. In my area it growth rate is moderate and very manageable.

Quote from: Julie on June 11, 2021, 10:42:31 PM

I tried the sunburst/fruit cocktail mango and it’s very good. The flesh is soft and fiberless and it had some of the spice flavor (like Carrie has) but not too much and also a fizz component. Seems to be an earlier ripening mango, took a week to ripen and was properly ripened. The others from my list have been hard on my counter for over a week.

I agree with your assessment on fruit cocktail very good enjoyable mango. I also had a coconut cream that was very good.After Pine Islander dispelled some of the carrie hate propaganda. I purchased about a dozen carries from truly tropical. My wife and I enjoyed them very much. The one that I had last year must have been over ripe. I have had two Sweet Tarts so far one was watery the other was sweet but not tart. So for my taste Dot is #1 Dwarf Hawaiian #2 Graham&Carrie are tied for #3 this could change rather shortly I still have Sugarloaf and Phoenix in the finny box. I also like Bombay but Ladies choice was a little weak. I am willing to give her another chance. I did overhear a conversation at the Fruit Stand from someone who really likes PPK. They said so far this year it has been a little weak. Last year was excellent.I I still have a half dozen in a box.




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Hi everyone,

Thank you all so much for the great advice I've received on this forum!  I'm going to post reviews on all of the mangoes from my list as useful information for the forum.  I was planning on ordering all of them from Tropical Acres Farm but unfortunately that seems like it will be out of my price range to try ALL of these through them since they changed their policy so you can't select individual varieties (I still plan on buying as many variety boxes as I can).  I'm also going to try and do a road trip to West Palm Beach to pick up some of these varieties.  I will be picking up my first PPK mango this weekend.

Phoenix
Cotton Candy
Pineapple Pleasure
Lemon Meringue/Po Pu Kalay(PPK)
Sugarloaf
O-15
M-4
Sweet Tart
Pina Colada
Juicy Peach
Butter Cream
Creme Brulee
Fruit Cocktail
Sunrise
Sunset
Honey Kiss
Peach Cobbler
Fruit Punch
Super Alphonso
Guava
Zinc (Zill Indochinese)
Kathy
Seacrest
Orange Essence
White Piri

I know this thread is a little old, but just wanted to say we drove out to NOFO Grove today to check out their mangoes and they had a great selection!  We came home with 7g Fruit Punch, Sweet Tart & Honey Kiss, and 3g Coconut Cream.  Aaron and his wife were very helpful and super friendly.  They had a great selection of other stuff too, but we were only in the market for mangoes.   

He has a list of mangoes in stock on his website so you can see his amazing selection http://www.nofogroves.com