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

 

[CrealCritter]

Opossum you best get out of that peach tree! Just who do you think you are?

P.S. tank didn't bark once, he a silent hunter.

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[CrealCritter]

I wanted a apple pie, FB still got a case of the miseries. Although she is better today then yesterday. Let me just say this pasties are not my strong suit for sure. So I did first golden delicious apple tree thinning. And made a pie, it's in the oven now.

FB made the crust and put them in the fridge for me. I rolled them out and assembled the pie.

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I forgot to snap a picture of the apples in the pan.

I pretty much followed this recipe.

It's out of the oven, but FB says it's got to cool off some before I can have a slice. I must admit it's better looking than I thought it would be.

Pie is really good, most definitely not a sugar bomb, there isnt any sugar in the recipe. I can taste every ingredient and it seems well balanced to me.

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[CrealCritter]

Morning peach tree drops. Still good clean peaches.

We have a number of loring still fleshing up and rock hard. They are large peaches, that remind me of a mild grapefruit taste.

It's odd to me the flavor profile differences amongst the varieties. FB's favorite is red haven, mine is contender. We both prefer gerogia belle (white fleshed) as second favorites.

Having growing up in the north, I didn't grow up with peaches, like I did apples. But it makes me wonder what heirloom peaches taste like before all this unique variety breeding occured and is still occuring . The two standard peach trees that all others are judged by, is red haven (have) and elberta (don't have).

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[CrealCritter]

Au rosa and Au producer. Both are hybrid japanese plums bred and relased in the 70's and 90's respectively by auburn university. Au rosa is the smaller reddish colored, au producer are the larger darker purple colored plums. Both have scab defects for me to work on cleaning up next season. Scabby plums don't stop.me from eating them and are better than no plums

There are two other Au plums I would like to plant, rubrum and roadside. Then I would have the series (all 4 releases of larger au plums). There is a au cherry plum that produces a small plum, that I'm not so much interested in.

Jesus is Lord and Christ