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Does Zills post their new introductions on their Facebook page? Trying to keep my finger on the pulse of the latest mango trends.
Quote from: hammer524 on February 28, 2023, 06:26:15 PMDoes Zills post their new introductions on their Facebook page? Trying to keep my finger on the pulse of the latest mango trends.They're a wholesale nursery, so your best bet is to search posts on here for info, especially those close to the sources like Har, Rob, and Alex. Usually they are the first to share info on here. You could also try purchasing fruit from the ZHPP fruit stand and you may luck out, or might get something picked at a time which doesn't give a fair representation.BTW, Alex recently updated many of the pages on the Tropical Acres Farms site, so if you haven't looked there in a while, there's new info, especially into the medium term performance info for stuff grafted 3+ years ago (many of the recent Zill releases).
Watermelon Splash sounds like a sweet mixed drink that I wouldn't like. Watermelon is one of my all-time favorite fruits, but not sure it's a taste I'd appreciate in a Mango.
Probably in the minority here, but I like names like "M-4" and "E-4".
Quote from: fliptop on February 28, 2023, 07:35:20 PMProbably in the minority here, but I like names like "M-4" and "E-4".Anything works for me as long as the name doesn't influence taste.
From what I remember, “Candy Corn” was one of the random seedlings growing along the perimeter path at the nursery (not a number from Gary’s breeding project). If it’s the mango I’m thinking of, it had an Indochinese hybrid type flavor and was good quality.I’m very skeptical of reports on its eating quality that were based on fruit that was being harvested way too green. This is reminiscent of when people were asking what the big deal was about some of the program hybrids that were regularly being picked weeks before they should have been. Ours is Flowering/setting fruit now so we’ll see if we get anything from it this cycle and give it a fair eval.
I’ve certainly had mangos from ZHPP that were mediocre and then purchased and sampled the same names cultivar at Tropical Acres farms and had a totally different opinion of the mango afterwards.
Bovine, I’m sure that’s the reasoning and i came off like I was trashing ZHPP but I’d never do that I just meant to say they pick emGreen and Alex picks em correctly per cultivar…so my review of candy corn from ZHPP is probably way off of the actual potential of candy corn.