Mango season has started!

[Jeff in St Pete]

We've been enjoying green mangoes for the past few months but now they are finally ripening. Green mangoes are a popular snack here. They are sliced and served with a wedge of lime and sometimes a sprinkle of salt. To me they taste almost like a granny smith apple. I love them green, but nothing is better than a fresh picked ripe mango. I picked and ate four of them today and they were juicy, sweet and delicious!

Green mangoes just starting to ripen

[Jeff in St Pete]

Some ripe fruit

[Jeff in St Pete]

One of our many large old Mango trees

[Jeff in St Pete]

This small yellow variety is easy to peel! Makes great mango juice too...

[Jeff in St Pete]

The Mono Titi monkeys have not been around much lately. Now that the mangoes are ripening and the mamone trees are loaded with fruit, the Mono Titi's are making daily visits again.

[Xenon]

Nice visuals!

Cheers,

Jonathan

[Kris]

Dear Jeff

Nice visuals...And even here in south india mango season is a month away !

And here are some stills from our house garden.

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Love,

kris

[bubba]

Jeff, Great stuff! The Mango wars do not begin in South Florida until July. Notwithstanding our horrible Winter, it looks like there will be many baseball to football sized projectiles for summer warfare.

[tropicbreeze]

July our mangos only start flowering. September/October/November/December they ripen, depending on variety.

Most of my mangos are KP's. These are October and November photos.

KP mangos

Second in number of trees are the R2E2's

Then come "Strawberry Mangos" but can't find the photos. So next are Nam Dok Mai

And an odd one, looks like a cross between "Strawberry" and KP.

[tjwalters]

Love fresh mango! Mango and sticky rice!

[Rusty on Pine Is.]

Wow Jeff.....heavy duty drool factor going on....we have a while to wait here on the island, but the crop is coming!

Thanks for the pics!

Rusty

[epicure3]

My Alphonso mangos ripen around October. Same with the Glenns. Great pics of the tree and fruit.

[realarch]

Starting to salivate here. Love the small yellow ones, and would love to try some of those Aussie varieties.

Those little monkeys are too cute.

Tim

[LauraAnu]

You are such a tease Jeff . Mangoes are not ready here as yet. I have to wait for July to get some fresh mangoes as I am too cheap to buy any All my extra cash goes to palms

Laura

I have also been walking around my yard all day looking for a spot to plant a mango tree.

[ariscott]

July our mangos only start flowering. September/October/November/December they ripen, depending on variety.

Most of my mangos are KP's. These are October and November photos.

KP mangos

Second in number of trees are the R2E2's

Then come "Strawberry Mangos" but can't find the photos. So next are Nam Dok Mai

And an odd one, looks like a cross between "Strawberry" and KP.

Zig, I am going to your place for mangos....

Mine had about 10 mangos last year, so hopefully more this year... only the KP though. Nam Dok Mai has a bit to grow yet...

Regards, Ari

[tropicbreeze]

Ari, you can have all my Nam Dok Mai's, I'm not into cooking them.

[www.dadluvsu.com]

I've been watching all our mangos flowering for the past couple weeks... made me crave a good mango... Went to whole foods grocery and purchased a 'Champagne' variety... kept the seed stock I love the sweet & juicy mangitos... gonna have awesome mangoes soon!

[Moose]

Mango Season has arrived early in South Florida this year!

If you are in town July 13 & 14th, Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden is hosting the 21st International Mango Festival.

Here is a link for further info. http://www.ftg.org/Events/?date=07-2013&eventID=748

[Moose]

Here is the link to the Curator's Choice Cultivars.

http://www.fairchildgarden.org/livingcollections/tropicalfruitprogram/Fairchilds17thAnnualInternationalMangoFestival/internationalmangofestival/

There will be many varieties of trees for sale as well. The rarest cultivars go real quick. If you are looking for the hard to find cultivar - you need to be there when the gates open at 9:30 am Saturday morning.