The Tropical Fruit Forum

Ca, was good season for my backyard trees.  Guessing farms are down to what's left.

Ya'll gonna make me buy another tree now.
Creme B..

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Cogshall looks too small, had 1 like that yesterday my last 1and it was nothing like the ones 2x size with pointy shoulders & red color. 
Had 2 Peach C's today i let sit too long and were small ish as well.  Weren't like larger picked & eaten at proper time ones.  Personally Cogshall to me is better. 
Learning some mangos taste drastically different when eaten or picked too soon/late more then i prefer lol.
I'd love a very good with wide window over excellent variety mango.

Maha was so good.  1st yr fruiting.  Are they always this good?
Taste was like a dozen fruit drinks mixed.  Enjoy them Doc!

Almost everything has been tasting better compared to last month.
1st Pickerings were blah,  Kent was so so, M4 didn't impress, Maha & Cogshall great since day 1 though
Now everything tastes great.  Probably because what's left was able to ripen properly?

Ate a Peach cobbler before dinner.  Was a tad too soon & tasted totally different.  Not 1 tasted the same.  Kinda cool tasting like a different fruit each time (so far), guessing game knowing when to cut it.
Next one i'l let wrinkle a bit more like i do M4.

Happy to say i ate more Pickerings, M4's and they were great.
Had 1st Raw Honey of season today, and 2 more less ripe which were great too.
This mango thing knowing when to eat has serious learning curve!
Can't judge a variety till you've picked, eaten different levels.  Goes from amazing to gross
Raw honey cut & large pickering for show.

My mangos went like this..
Maha Chanok 1st yr fruited, tastes like canned tropical fruit punch flavors by the dozens.
Cogshall love it for edible skin.
M4 certainly had that coconut or the like taste.
Peach Cobbler really did smell & taste a bit like baked peaches.  Make sure it's ripe.
Pickerig only 1 fruit tasted coconut, the rest bland, some were decent but nothing special.
Kent i peeled to freeze 10 and not 1 tasted the same.

Also learned most go from amazing to garbage can if allowed to overripen! 
Was overwhelmed with too many at once ripening in kitchen, great as Maha & Cogshall are, they smelled (and tasted) so bad after too many days sitting there!  Killed me.  Lesson learned, peel & freeze if not eating when ready.  Still learning firmness too.  Better under then overripe 99% of the time.

Probably froze 10lbs of decent ones so far.  Watched Truly T youtube vid of Ms Chris dehyrating them into fruit rollups.  Planning on trying it

EDIT- Pickerings improved greatly.  Picked them too soon!

Pickering i don't remember tasting coconut but this yr it does.  Alot. 
I'm not a coconut person, i'll try to time a M4 & Pickering & eat both.
Picked 5 Pickerings today, tired of seeing large ones 1/2 eaten on ground.
Tomorrow i bet just the seed at most will be left. I imagine varmints eyes open wide when they bite ripe mangos.  Beats a nut.

M4 cold, before lunch.  Reminded me of pina colada shakes i had as kid at bazars minus bag of zeppolis lol.

They were hard when i picked them a week or more ago.  Hanging low, sticking out, didn't want to lose them to mower.  Quite large too.  Ripened up nice on counter.
I have more on tree & 1/2 dozen golf ball 2nd bloomers.  Wind was brutal months ago.

i would definitely pick one.  I see shoulders, dark enough stem, squeeze & take the 1 with give.
Or do the bend it up thing till stem snaps at 90 degrees.  I prefer cutting stem though.
Don't have to eat it yet if too firm.

edit- take the 1 on the left middle photo

I've been picking quite a few when still hard fearing varmints & landscaper.
I figure less then perfect's better then losing it lol.  Squirrels attack when ripe.
Some are slightly soft i've picked.  Mainly cogshall & maha.

During dry season my parents visit.  They worry we'll dry out.  I say don't, we make up for it quick.
Funny they came down to help me do what we didn't get to over winter & left a few days ago.  The 2 weeks they were here was sure hot but rain never was issue.  Sky opens up day after they left & hasn't stopped lol.