Off topic but I couldn't resist...my family and I love mangoes. Every summer, we get mango fever and one way or another (usps mail or couriered by a friend, family member, or us personally, we get about 4 shipments (2-3 banana boxes) of mangoes each summer. Enough to have mangoes for breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, and dinner...like we did today and enough to freeze for smoothies or thawing just until the are still super cold but not yet thawed out.

Friday at 7 PM, I had just finished a conference in Orlando. I bolted to South Florida to a) see my parents and b) to get some mangoes from the two trees in my parent's backyard and visit a few other regular mango locations. On Saturday at 7:30 PM, I was headed back to Tallahassee with a truck plus half of a backseat filled with six different types of 'unknown' mangoes (261 total). I was expecting only four different mangoes but we 'found' two additional trees *and* a cashew nut tree while leaving a new tree location.

Our six year old daughter ate ten (10) mangoes today.



Here is the cashew nut tree...

10 mangoes?  that would send me running for a toilet.  those things go right through me.

Ten. Surprised us all. "Can I have another one?" was the call of the day. Notice the variation in size of the mangoes and the seed accounts for about 20-25%.

If I ate half of that, the Northeastern seaboard would be on lockdown alert for 36 hours!

By the way love Mangoes- wish I could have a tree.

Those mangos look so delicious and healthy looking.You can make some good mango daquiries with those mangos or some mango salsa.Thanks for sharing jd.

If there is one fruit I like better than figs, its mangoes.  My grandfather had 2 in his back yard in Puerto Rico and we used to eat 10 a day easy.  I am debating trying to grow a mango tree here in zone 7 and bringing it inside to a southern window for the winter, but I doubt it would last until the next spring.  But you never know.  Enjoy!

I love Mangoes too. Would you care to trade some Mangoes for a fig?

I agree. 10 mangoes a day is easy.

I am trying to grow mangoes here in 8b. I planted one the ground last year but it was killed by the cold and frost (I was/am a novice with regards to cold protection). I also kept four other mango trees in an unheated garage and all four made it. I have read that they like alternating wet/dry conditions, thus my current conditions may not be best for optimal growth and to promote flowering but we'll see. I have one in a self-watering container that is pushing out new leaves weekly. I am considering a small but well-insulated and heated greenhouse for overwintering a few tropical fruit trees here in 8b.

Are those pomegranates back behind the orange self-watering bins?

The pomegranate is to the right of the red self watering container with the mango in it. To the left of the orange bins are 1) chickasaw plums with leaves all along the stem and 2) persimmon root stock with bare stems and leaves only at the top.

Man, plums.... I had no idea that they leafed out SO MUCH on the branches.  It is a constant effort to strip off all the shoots and keep a good shape.  PITA.

@Jason. PITA for sure. I am just hoping I can avoid the spraying routine that folks say I *need* to have to grow plums. Are you spraying? If so, what?

@Bass. Check your PM. Thrilled to have something you like. Shipping is ridiculous right now. It was cheaper for me to courier them personally then to ship six or seven 40# boxes.

Those mango shots have my mouth watering--I'd love the opportunity to eat ten a day! I've tried growing them in Tucson, and had one last about three years in the ground before it froze to death--even with frost protection. I finally gave up on trying them in-ground, but will try one in a container and just move it into the garage when there's a frost warning. As much as I love figs and many other fruits, if I had to choose, I can't think of anything I'd rather be able to grow than mangoes.

I grew up with mangoes. Recently visited Malaysia and man, the mangoes were so tasty sweet & creamy. Many varieties. Soooo delicious. Anyone tried durians ??

My in laws live in Trindad and Tobago in the Caribbean. I visit often specially for the fruits. Here's some mangoes that I have picked while down there. 

Oh yea Paully I tried durians.When I brought the fruit home I opened it in my house boy did my house stink.To me the fruit taste like onion and garlic custard together.It is supposed to be really healthy for our body.

I was in Singapore many years ago, and kept smelling spoiled chicken in the open-air markets. Later I found out it was durian, not chicken. Phew!

I loove  mango taste!

Lmao Ken

George, u do not have to have the string in tween your teethes...
Just gota find the RIGHT MANGO... here are some pics of some fruit from my Nam Doc Mai tree...

IMHO this is as close as I can get to  "nectar of the gods"....

JD, let me know when you come dwn again for your mango run... I'll give you some of my mangos for comparison to the Haden's that you brough back with you.

Mmmm... you guys are such teases!

Num doc mai is excellent tasting and one of my favorites. Ben, how large is your tree? at one point I had a dwarf Num Doc Mai but it didn't like my cool greenhouse. 

Bass is that little guy a Maprang?

Before figs get ripe in my yard.
Manila Mango from the Philipines a yellow skin kidney shape fruit is awesome to me that i get from market here.

Looking forward to eating some ripe dark colored figs this season from my yard that is.

Celt, this is called Doudouce mango. The trees are huge, but are usually loaded with mangoes, they seem to be ripe all year round, and they fall off when ripe.