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Quote from: JF on September 16, 2015, 01:22:10 AMQuote from: simon_grow on September 16, 2015, 01:03:06 AMDoes St Maui taste better than Ice Cream Mango? I'm not worried about production, only quality of fruit? I've tried Ice Cream and really like it so I'm hoping St Maui will be similar or better in terms of flavor. Simonno it doesn't have the finest of ice crean, It's in the class of Angie,sunrise.I wonder what, if any, taste difference there is with the Ice Cream grown in Florida vs California. I say this cause I, and others i know, feel it is not of very good quality. Its not a clean tree gere and if it weren't for its compact/smaller growing size, I feel there would be very little demand for it.
Quote from: simon_grow on September 16, 2015, 01:03:06 AMDoes St Maui taste better than Ice Cream Mango? I'm not worried about production, only quality of fruit? I've tried Ice Cream and really like it so I'm hoping St Maui will be similar or better in terms of flavor. Simonno it doesn't have the finest of ice crean, It's in the class of Angie,sunrise.
Does St Maui taste better than Ice Cream Mango? I'm not worried about production, only quality of fruit? I've tried Ice Cream and really like it so I'm hoping St Maui will be similar or better in terms of flavor. Simon
Thanks for your input JF and Rob. Rob, the Ice Cream grown in SoCal is an excellent tasting fruit that is very unique and has a very subtle complex flavor that is difficult to describe. I've recently had the pleasure of tasting many different varieties of mango and Ice Cream is on my top 10 list even though it is a slow grower and I'm trying to grow ginormous trees. It was a smaller mango that was not pretty and it had a firm texture and a very sweet taste. It had a Brix above 20, I can't remember exactly what it was but it was sweet enough. It had a complex mild Indian Resin taste that I have not experienced in any other mango. The Resin taste is not as strong as Alphonso or Kesar, it was mild and very different with a lot of depth. The Ice Cream mango was very well received by all tasters and I believe most had it on their top 3 list. I believe it was Tropicdude that mentioned that if one were to like the Ice Cream mango, they may also like the St Maui. I'm hoping that the St Maui has that same complex hard to describe resin note as the Ice Cream. I feel that the Mangos we grow here in SoCal are less washed out, for susceptible varieties, due to the less frequent rains we receive and also perhaps due to the longer amount of time the fruit ripens on the tree. My Glenn's for example were anything but mild and had a Brix into the 20s. Simon
ST Maui was bred in Florida. Florida Red was bred is Hawaii. Seems everyone wants to be from where they are not from to get respect....
Quote from: Future on September 18, 2015, 05:49:37 PMST Maui was bred in Florida. Florida Red was bred is Hawaii. Seems everyone wants to be from where they are not from to get respect....ST Maui was not bred in Florida. It was sent to Florida from Hawaii by Dick Hamilton.'Floida Red', aka 'Rapoza', is indeed from Hawaii.
JF,The ST Maui's on my tree (before the fruit fell off) looked more like pic 2.I don't recall seeing any with that tiny beak on pic 1.Who knows...maybe I have a mislabeled tree.
Quote from: Squam256 on September 18, 2015, 08:48:17 PMQuote from: Future on September 18, 2015, 05:49:37 PMST Maui was bred in Florida. Florida Red was bred is Hawaii. Seems everyone wants to be from where they are not from to get respect....ST Maui was not bred in Florida. It was sent to Florida from Hawaii by Dick Hamilton.'Floida Red', aka 'Rapoza', is indeed from Hawaii.He sent ST Maui to Florida and forgot to distribute it here in Hawaii? Or if he did it never made the mark. Seems to me nobody here has it.Too bad cultivars get renamed like that. Rapoza should stay Rapoza even inside of Florida.
I've had 3 so far from my tree. Very strong pineapple flavor, tart and acidic with a bright yellow flesh. It's like eating a pineapple to me. Vigorous, vertical grower that produces in bunches. Fruit is blocky round in shape almost Cushman-ish. Mean brix in the 14s.
yellow ripe.
Carlos, this year was not a year to base conclusions. Flowering was late, harvest times are off and many areas were ravaged by anthracnose. As for the variety itself, from the trees I have seen it is a vigorous grower in South Florida so keep that in mind. You also need to be weary of cutting too much back at one time as it can cause the tree to skip blooming.