fruit pics

[mangomandan]

We had a couple cool nights in November, enough to confuse my baby Florda Prince peach tree into fruiting.

If a mamey hits you in the head, is that a natural hazard, or an attractive nuisance?

[Squam256]

Did you take out that other mamey tree that never fruited?

[Ethan]

Having the mamey right outside the door is smart, easy to check when ripe and easy to release the hounds should you need to.

nice trees,
-Ethan

[fruitlovers]

Better to bump heads with a mamey than a needle sharp spiky durian! There is a youtube video of a guy mowing the lawn on a rider mower and he hits his head on a durian. He's bleeding everywhere, calls the ambulance, but before it comes he rushes into the house to take photos of himself and the bloody durian!
Oscar

[ericalynne]

Nice pics. I am impressed. Now I really have to go out and get some low chill peaches. Don't know if I will live long enough to start mamey. I just eat them when I go to Homestead...all those fruit stands along Krome Ave.

Erica

[mangomandan]

Did you take out that other mamey tree that never fruited?

No, I pruned the Pantin back after I planted one of the new mangos next to it. It's always been very sensitive to drought. I figured maybe its limited root system might do better with less tree.
Maybe some day I'll taste a Pantin.

[adiel]

MangoManDan, you are right!  The trees have been very confused this year.  Check out my apple tree, same thing happened: http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=133.0  Nice mamey, what variety is that?

Adiel

[Patrick]

Dan, how old is your Mangana Mamey? How does it handle the cold??

[mangomandan]

Dan, how old is your Mangana Mamey? How does it handle the cold??

The Magana is about 15 years old, and has been pruned back a few times because it's close to the house.

It's planted in suburban Lake Worth. We've had very few freezes through the years, and never below 30 as far as I know.  I don't remember any freeze damage to speak of.

Likewise the Pantin, which is more exposed, hasn't suffered any freeze damage that I remember. It is in total sun, and the leaves wilt and the fruit drops if I forget to water it during dry spells.  I don't imagine that Pantin is less vigorous than others. I figure it's my particular tree at that particular spot in the yard.

[MangoFang]

Peachy Cool, Dan the mangoman!!!!  My Florida Prince is only flowering now, but still like a month ahead of the normal schedule....

Dripping, slurpy, drooling fun....soon......

MFang

[zands]

Those peaches have such good color. When do you think they will be ripe enough to eat? Plus have you ever eaten a peach grown in PB County or nearby? If so can you rate it?

[mangomandan]

Those peaches have such good color. When do you think they will be ripe enough to eat? Plus have you ever eaten a peach grown in PB County or nearby? If so can you rate it?

Growing peaches is completely new to me. I'll have to read up on it, as I don't have a clue when to pick them.   It's not clear in the photo, but these peaches are about the size of a half dollar. I don't think they will grow any larger. It's a small tree in a small pot.

The tree had fruit on it last spring when I bought it from a nursery in west Broward.  I tasted a couple and they were good. I think there is room for improvement as the tree grows, and if I thin the fruit.

I planted the tree in Venus (central Florida) in the spring. In November when it flowered I dug it up and moved it to Lake Worth for the winter.  I figured otherwise the tree would die in the hard freezes to come.

I'm going to replant it in Venus in the spring. I'm curious how it will do after such an early fruiting.

[Tropicalgrower89]

Nice trees! Especially the magana mamey. 

[mangomandan]

I've had a chance to eat several of the Florda Prince peaches now.  The first few had the peach taste but weren't sweet enough.  The last several were very good.

I had kind of expected peach trees to be doomed to diseases and insects in the Florida heat and humidity.  So far no problems.   Maybe I'm still in the "honeymoon period" one sometimes has with newer plantings.    Yes I can always see the cloud around the silver lining.