good to hear Florida cultivar Edward is keeping up with the best of the thai varieties. now if we can just get an "improved" productive Edward

Everettsky - GREAT post! I'm so glad to hear the MC is all its been cranked up to be, so makes me continue to want to get my hands on one to grow.

I don't suppose the phillipine super mango is sold in this country yet. That would be a nice cultivar to get, too.

I love sweet!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the share and pics....

mangocoyote

Everettsky - I worked for Philexport - an umbrella organization of Phil. Gov't to assist philippine exporter products in the globe. Another organization is CITEM, which assist exporters in the promotion and marketing of there products. Since Carabao Mango is an export fruit crop of the Philippines, they branded carabao mango Philippine Super Mangoes (PSM) or sometimes Manila Super Mangoes.

Philippine Super Mangoes is just a brand created by CITEM for mango exporters much like of Calypso Mango or B74 mango of Australia. Under this brand, there are carabao mango strains that are grown and sold to exporters such as Lamao, probably the oldest carabao mango strain that was named after Lamao Experimental Station in Bataan which was under the American Agricultural Department when Philippines was under American regime.

As far as Iam concern the Philippine Super mangoes you have eaten in Luzon are probably the Lamao strain. As far as the sweetest mango in the world, Sweet Elena Mango, a carabao strain was the one mentioned in the Guiness Book and not the Lamao. This carabao mango strain does not seldom get to local market because almost all grown Sweet elena mango in Zambales in the Philippines get exported to Hong Kong and Japan.

You see, Hong Kong fruit traders who import carabao mango strain only get mangoes from zambales because it is known for the best grown mangoes in the Philippines.

For the taste of Sweet Elena Mango, I've tried it and bought fruits on the site of the mother tree which is about 100 years old. Its sickening sweet with a hint of tartness and a super strong aroma. This variety was released in 2005 and was not released by the Phil. Govt due plant protection issues of the owner of the strain.

I bought 5 grafted trees of this variety and a better variety that they discovered near there trees in the mango farm. The new variety is codenamed LL07. It is a pity that these varieties will not be sold to new mango farmers for upgrade of the mango farm.

There is a growing interest in growing Edwards mango in the Philippines. Edwards mango is a cross between haden x carabao mango, and like edwards is shy bearer because carabao mango is a biennial fruiting mango variety. It fruits every 2 years only. Thats why edwards mango is a less yielding cultivar or less productive fruiting mango. To make it productive, you need to spray with flower inducer like carabao mango like in the Philippines.

I think Edwards mango will have an advantage with Carabao mango because it has a hint of Haden mango sweetness that makes it Unique. And is more disease resistance.

Here is a link about Sweet elena Mango:

http://blog.agriculture.ph/sweetest-mango-in-the-world-sweet-elena-mango.html

Edward is popular in Brasil bredding programs as well, So I bet a more prolific, but similar to Edward cross out there does exist

If you want sweet look for Okrung or Okrung Tong. Okrung Tong is the sweetest mango I ever tasted, never tried Okrung but from everyones account its up there too (okrong tong maybe just a pointy variant)

Berns
I haven't seen you in such a long time, asking you for Guyatis seeds... where have you been hiding?! lol

I wasn't aware of the varied names of the Carabao because they don't label them even in SM, but your reference to the quality of Zambales mangoes is what I've heard as well, and in the delivery service for ANA and other Japanese companies they charge $80 for 6 Philippine mangoes.

In the states they're selling them at the larger chains of Filipino supermarkets in California(PacificSeafood).

:)

If a Valencia Pride is an "8" and a Carrie Mango is a "9" what would you folks who have had the privilege of trying an Edward or Maha Chinook rate them?