Those lychee's look great Harry!

Surprised you're already seeing Cogshalls ripening. I'm also glad I never planted a Jean Ellen...

WOW....and we're still 3 months away from any mango tasting. But sorry, Harry, the Jean Ellen were so mediocre........loved the way the Cogshall and Glenn colored up - let us know how that taste test goees...

mangorintintin

Looking great Harry. You're Lychees are WAY ahead of mine. The handful of fruit that are on my trees are still about the size of a dime. Can't wait to head down there again.

That about does it for Jean Ellen for me. Won't be planting that one.

And Fairchild describes it as being in the 'Alphonso class' in terms of flavor. lol.

Wow I'm jealous, congrats!!!

Wow...those looks absolutely delicious Harry! I wish I lived closer!

Its amazing how different the two Cogshall look from each other unless its the angle of the photo...one looks short and wide and the other looks long almost like Valencia pride.

Those lychees looks fantastic!! We got over an inch of rain on Friday too...I hope it doesn't have a bad affect on the the flavor of the mangoes.

here is my sweetheart, I tried one that was more red then the others, it was clean, dry, great sweet and acid balance with no detectable aftertaste and an aborted chicken tongue seed. all around excellent

I give them another week before being perfectly ripe. I plan to do at least 6 air layers after harvest so stay tuned

only thing close to giving me mangos is Rosigold, which are almost there

Harry, nice mangos.

Adiel

NICE sweetheart lychee tree MK...keep a real close eye out for those "tree rats"! They're just about the right time you really need to watch over them from those pesky pain in the you know what. Enjoy them!

Nancy: I don't have an issue with squirrels and lychees. I have to fight birds, possums and raccoons though.

Bryan: Your sweetheart lychees look exactly like my Hak Ip lychees. I think we need to do some close comparisons. My Sweethearts look very different....and not in a good way. I'd be most interested in you bringing some by when they are fully mature and lets put them to a test as agianst what I'm growing. Your description of the flavor seems to belie the visual similarities. I am considerably perplexed.

Harry

amazing pics harry
mk- was wondering what the hell type of leaves u had going on there before i realized the leaves have been eaten away- do you know whats been nobbling at your leaves. the lychees look great.

One issue with the hak ip / sweetheart is that I think some nurseries sell the hak ip as the sweetheart. Some nurserymen that I've talked to can't find any difference between the two. In my albeit limited observations, the sweet heart seems to be less vigorous than the hak ip.

Jeff

Harry,lol...I was going to say its great you don't have to worry about squirrels...but after seeing your list of other varmints I changed my mind...I'm sure I have most of them here too :o(

The second batch of a scattering of ripe mangoes this early season was just consumed at my office. We had rather slim pickings as the main season is still a couple of weeks away. We had a tiny, tiny Maha Chanook, another Jean Ellen and 3 Cogshalls at varying stages of ripeness. Cogshall this year seems to be ripening somewhat unevenly and is getting anthracnose black spots on the more ripend sections of each mango eventhough there is still part of the mango that is firm and to the green side on the part of the mango away from the sun. I must say that the Jean Ellen was better than the first one I had. It had a touch of that intense Indian mango vibe that I envision coming along with Alphonso and the like. It is still not one I would have planted if I had tasted it first....but I haven't closed the book on it entirely as of yet. The Maha Chanook was so small that it was a mere tease. They are usually fairly uniform in size, but this oe, for some reason colored up on the tree way ahead of all the others. In anycase, it rounded out the platter nicely.

Harry