Top 3 mango varieties poll

[nileshkwr]

This poll will help people with limited space to select varieties.

[Epicatt2]

Results will be interesting to see since I am growing only five mango cultivars and only
one of those mangoes of mine appears on this poll list and that's 'Nam Doc Mai #4' and
anyway, my five mangoes are all too small to have given me any ripe fruit yet.

And for the record my choices were made for dwarf and semi-dwarf cultivars due to
space limitation in my yard.

Poll awaaaay y'all......

Cheers!

Paul M.
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[nileshkwr]

Results will be interesting to see since I am growing only five mango cultivars and only
one of those mangoes of mine appears on this poll list and that's 'Nam Doc Mai #4' and
anyway, my five mangoes are all too small to have given me any ripe fruit yet.

And for the record my choices were made for dwarf and semi-dwarf cultivars due to
space limitation in my yard.

Poll awaaaay y'all......

Cheers!

Paul M.
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You can vote for upto 3 varieties, you can vote for only one or two varieties also.

[Oolie]

I don't think anyone's going to vote for NDM4/ the inside out mango.

[achetadomestica]

This year my favorite mangos were Ice Cream, Pickering, Carrie, Julie and Florigon.
None of those are on your list? To be fair allot of the early mangos were not peak flavor.
I only had 2 sweet tarts which is usually my favorite but they were picked early and
just OK. You have to include Carrie don't you?

[bovine421]

This year my favorite mangos were Ice Cream, Pickering, Carrie, Julie and Florigon.
None of those are on your list? To be fair allot of the early mangos were not peak flavor.
I only had 2 sweet tarts which is usually my favorite but they were picked early and
just OK. You have to include Carrie don't you?

Ice cream has been one of my favorites this season. Carrie has had an early and long season so the three most enjoyable mangoes I've had so far would be LZ ice cream and apricot. But I have an orange sherbet on the counter so that could change🙂

[Johnny Eat Fruit]

For sweetness - Lemon Zest

For Complexity and Alphonso Class - Carrie

Classic - Cotton Candy and Fruit Punch

Coconut Class - M4 and Pina Colada

Balanced Classic - Maha Chanok

Just the highlights I tried this year from Florida.

Johnny

[Satya]

If it is just taste then (disregarding tree- size, health, resistance, productivity and  fruit- appearance, size etc). And if i had only 3 to choose from-


White Pirie
Lemon Zest
Pina Colada

[Timbogrow]

Ice cream
Lemon merangue
Zinc

[ben mango]

Pirie is up there for me too, top 3. Cac and pickering deserve to be on the list

[johnb51]

There were 500 views, and only 38 voted? 

[yoski]

Missing M-4, Cac and Pickering for sure.
Lemon Zest tastes great, but is extremely susceptible to MBBS. I got rid of mine for that reason alone.

[Brev Grower]

Having a poll for taste only is difficult because I find that most of the best tasting are the poorest producers. Cultivars like Bombay, LZ, Edward and Peach cobbler to name a few. Not to mention tree size... Most people will want mangoes to produce a decent amount every year. Unless you have unlimited space, I don't think the best tasting mangoes should be the greatest concern. Taste and productivity both should be the most important IMO. With that said, my top 3 would be Sweet tart, Venus and Orange sherbet with Angie, Pickering and Cotton Candy all a close 4th.

[johnb51]

Ice cream
Lemon merangue
Zinc

Yes, Ice Cream and White Pirie should be there from what I've been told.  So far Lemon Zest, SweetTart, and Sugarloaf lead.

[johnb51]

Having a poll for taste only is difficult because I find that most of the best tasting are the poorest producers. Cultivars like Bombay, LZ, Edward and Peach cobbler to name a few. Not to mention tree size... Most people will want mangoes to produce a decent amount every year. Unless you have unlimited space, I don't think the best tasting mangoes should be the greatest concern. Taste and productivity both should be the most important IMO. With that said, my top 3 would be Sweet tart, Venus and Orange sherbet with Angie, Pickering and Cotton Candy all a close 4th.

Makes sense.  Have you tasted Sugarloaf yet?  I don't see it on your tree list.

[JR561]

There were 500 views, and only 38 voted? 

I need,

CAC
ZINC
DOT

[gozp]

zill 20-46
lemon zest
sunrise

[Calusa]

There were 500 views, and only 38 voted? 

There are some popular forum varieties missing from the poll. Carrie, Maha, Glen ...

[nullzero]

I like Kesar a lot, has a great piney sweet flavor.

[Epicatt2]

\You can vote for upto 3 varieties, you can vote for only one or two varieties also.

It makes no sense for me to make selections on this poll since I've never tasted any of those selections.  (And I'll bet that I'm likely not the only one.)

Just FWIW . . . .

Paul M.
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[nileshkwr]

Here is the result of the poll as on 26.7.2023 , for the people who can not vote and can not see the result.

[nileshkwr]

[johnb51]

#1: SweetTart
#2: Lemon Zest
#3: Orange Sherbet
#4: Sugarloaf

[roblack]

All polls are tricky regarding validity.

There is a wide degree of variability in availability of the listed mangoes, so most will have never tried all mangoes, and many will have only been sampled by a small percentage of respondents. The only way to truly Fruit Fight is in a fruit-to-fruit face off taste test.

Doing another Sweet Tart Ceci Love battle. Will let OS jump in there too. Whatever happens, I win.

[EddieF]

Need more varieties to check.
Ed