What did you do in your orchard today?

[R2elk]

I picked up tree drop peaches, they are the best tasting .

Apparently one of my son's has a friend who grows citus, bananas and mangos in a heated green house. He gave me a mango Saturday and said its ready to eat. Then he asked me if I would eat it? I said exotic fresh fruit, sure I will. I've never eat a fresh mango before so he told me how to slice it. I set it in the refrigerator and just cut it open a little bit ago. You can see it's squishy ripe.
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It tastes nothing at all like I was expecting. It had a flavor of very sweet soap and I can't get the soap taste oit of my mouth, even after brushing my teeth. I am most definitely not a fan of his friends fresh hot house mangos I don't even think I could "get used" to eating them.

Do you think I got a bad one? or is this truly what a fresh ripe mango tastes like? Very sweet soap, which is very disappointing...

Jesus is Lord and Christ

Way back when I had tree ripened mangoes, they did not taste like soap to me. Different things taste differently to different people. Some people hate the taste of tomatoes. I can't tolerate the taste of arugula. Cilantro does taste like soap to me.

 

[CrealCritter]

We picked the seedling peach tree a little. There are still quite a few pretty peach colored rocks hanging on it. We need to thin this tree a little more than the others next year, to increase the fruit size.

Good clean fruits to eat and can to eat for later.

We also got to sample the first loring tree drop. The taste of sweet grapefruit took me by surprise. I thought maybe my taste buds were off. So I had FB taste test and she said tastes like sweet grapefruit also, IDK I just grow them.

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[CrealCritter]

Canned in ultra low sugar syrup.

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[CrealCritter]

Just a note to myself. I'm going to miss our peach trees this winter. There's just something about walking out the back door and into the orchard for tree ripe peaches. FB said that's why we are canning them. IDK... it won't be the same, but it will be better than no peaches over winter.

Plums are starting to ripen. AU rosa and AU producer. We lost our Burgundy to spring floods, it drown I need to work on scab, but it's not to bad I should be able to clean it up next season.

On a positive note growing in pots I have several wild American plum rootstock that are ready to graft next spring. And one burgundy seedling that sprouted from seed, this spring.

Jesus is Lord and Christ