🥭 How India grows most of the mangoes in the world.
📍 India grows 45% of all the mangoes in the world. However, exports account for only 1% of international trade - almost all the mangoes are consumed locally by the residents.
📍 Mango import in the US limited by only easy-to-ship, fibrous varieties such as Tommy Atkins.
📍 To enjoy the full palette of mango varieties, you need to grow your own tree or buy fruit from local growers in southern areas.
📝 Earlier posts on Mango:
🔸 Mango rainbow: What's the taste of that mango variety?
🔸 5 most Favorite Mango Varieties
🔸 Top 10 Dwarf "Condo" Mango
🔸 Top 5 vigorous growers and reliable producers
🔸 Top 5 exotic Mango varieties for rare fruit collection
🔸 How to grow a mango tree
🔸 How to protect mango fruit from rodents
🛒 Plant your own Mango Tree
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📍 India grows 45% of all the mangoes in the world. However, exports account for only 1% of international trade - almost all the mangoes are consumed locally by the residents.
📍 Mango import in the US limited by only easy-to-ship, fibrous varieties such as Tommy Atkins.
📍 To enjoy the full palette of mango varieties, you need to grow your own tree or buy fruit from local growers in southern areas.
📝 Earlier posts on Mango:
🔸 Mango rainbow: What's the taste of that mango variety?
🔸 5 most Favorite Mango Varieties
🔸 Top 10 Dwarf "Condo" Mango
🔸 Top 5 vigorous growers and reliable producers
🔸 Top 5 exotic Mango varieties for rare fruit collection
🔸 How to grow a mango tree
🔸 How to protect mango fruit from rodents
🛒 Plant your own Mango Tree
#Food_Forest #Fun_Facts
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🐲 What does a dragon taste like? Does Dragon Fruit come from a monster cactus? Learn why you need to grow your own. 🌵
🔴 You may have tried a Dragon fruit from the store l, but do you know how it grows? On a cactus tree!
🔴 Names: varieties of Hylocereus and Selenicereus - these fruit bearing cactus plants are also called Dragon Fruit or Pitaya.
🔴 Commercially grown fruit sold in a grocery store may be tasteless. You need to grow your own good variety to have tasty, sweet, flavorful fruit!
🔴 Dragon fruit comes in many varieties. Colors of flesh differ: white, pink, dark red and even purple. The outside of the fruit can be red/pink or yellow.
🔴 In commercial groves, Pitayas grow like cactus trees, over a strong support - big "umbrella frames" ☂️
🔴 It is an easy plant, with low water needs, takes both sun and semi-shade.
🔴 Our favorite variety is Yellow Dragon Fruit Palora, (Selenicereus megalanthus). It is the sweetest and has the most flavor of all. We shared some recipes earlier.
🔴 Can be grown in container 🪴 with a wooden trellis. And the flower is beautiful, too!🪷
📚 Learn more about Dragon Fruit
🍹 Recipe: What to do with a Dragon fruit?
🛒Grow your own Tasty Dragon Fruits
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🔴 You may have tried a Dragon fruit from the store l, but do you know how it grows? On a cactus tree!
🔴 Names: varieties of Hylocereus and Selenicereus - these fruit bearing cactus plants are also called Dragon Fruit or Pitaya.
🔴 Commercially grown fruit sold in a grocery store may be tasteless. You need to grow your own good variety to have tasty, sweet, flavorful fruit!
🔴 Dragon fruit comes in many varieties. Colors of flesh differ: white, pink, dark red and even purple. The outside of the fruit can be red/pink or yellow.
🔴 In commercial groves, Pitayas grow like cactus trees, over a strong support - big "umbrella frames" ☂️
🔴 It is an easy plant, with low water needs, takes both sun and semi-shade.
🔴 Our favorite variety is Yellow Dragon Fruit Palora, (Selenicereus megalanthus). It is the sweetest and has the most flavor of all. We shared some recipes earlier.
🔴 Can be grown in container 🪴 with a wooden trellis. And the flower is beautiful, too!🪷
📚 Learn more about Dragon Fruit
🍹 Recipe: What to do with a Dragon fruit?
🛒Grow your own Tasty Dragon Fruits
#Food_Forest #Recipes #Nature_Wonders
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🥤 How to always have your own Root Beer
🥙 Piper auritum - Root Beer Plant, Acuyo, False Kava-Kava - is a close relative of Piper methysticum (Kava-Kava), and Piper nigrum (Black Pepper). It is very often confused with Kava-Kava, and probably has some similar medicinal effects.
🥙 This herb originated from Tropical America and grows also in the South Pacific.
🥙 Large-leaved perennial, known for its leaves, which are used for their spicy aromatic scent and flavor, some liken to root beer, others to anise-clove. It can be used for making a root beer-flavoted drink.
🥙 This species is easily identified by its huge leaves which can grow over a foot long in older specimens.
🥙 The leaves are chopped and used for flavoring, as well as used whole, as wrappings for meats, tamales, etc.
📚 Learn more about Piper plants
🛒 Grow your own Root Beer Plant
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🥙 Piper auritum - Root Beer Plant, Acuyo, False Kava-Kava - is a close relative of Piper methysticum (Kava-Kava), and Piper nigrum (Black Pepper). It is very often confused with Kava-Kava, and probably has some similar medicinal effects.
🥙 This herb originated from Tropical America and grows also in the South Pacific.
🥙 Large-leaved perennial, known for its leaves, which are used for their spicy aromatic scent and flavor, some liken to root beer, others to anise-clove. It can be used for making a root beer-flavoted drink.
🥙 This species is easily identified by its huge leaves which can grow over a foot long in older specimens.
🥙 The leaves are chopped and used for flavoring, as well as used whole, as wrappings for meats, tamales, etc.
📚 Learn more about Piper plants
🛒 Grow your own Root Beer Plant
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🥭 What is the biggest mango fruit?
🔍 We discovered one of the biggest Mango fruit after we planted this new variety - Kiew Yai.
🦶 Right now the fruit is almost a foot long!
⏳ The tree was planted in April - only 3 months ago.
😋 Looking forward to tasting it soon and sharing our taste impressions with you. Stay with us!
⬆️ Reminder: In order to have good quality fruit, your Mango tree must be grafted. Grafted varieties start fruiting right away, while seedlings may take from 7 to 10 years to fruit and the taste of the seedling's fruit will always be a surprise, they may be small in size and very fibrous.
📝 Check out our earlier posts on Mango
🛒 Order Kiew Yai and shop more Mango varieties
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🦶 Right now the fruit is almost a foot long!
⏳ The tree was planted in April - only 3 months ago.
📝 Check out our earlier posts on Mango
🛒 Order Kiew Yai and shop more Mango varieties
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🍲 How to make a zippy Papaya-Citrus Marinade
🍗 🍖 The Papaya enzyme papain makes this fruit especially suitable for tenderizing meat in marinades. Use this zippy marinade for beef or poultry.
✔️ 1 cup papaya puree
✔️ 1 tbsp lime zest
✔️ 1/3 cup grapefruit juice
✔️ 1/2 cup low sodium soy sauce
✔️ 1 tbsp honey
✔️ 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
✔️ 1 tbsp coarse black pepper
✔️ 1/2 tsp basil leaves
✔️ 2 tbsp olive oil
🍊 Combine and mix all ingredients except olive oil, then gradually mix in olive oil. Marinade meat for 2-8 hrs and cook over grill.
📚 From previous posts:
• How to have fresh Papaya fruit year around
• Top 3 most wanted Papaya varieties
• The truth about Papaya
🛒 Get your own Papaya tree
#Recipes #Food_Forest
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🍗 🍖 The Papaya enzyme papain makes this fruit especially suitable for tenderizing meat in marinades. Use this zippy marinade for beef or poultry.
✔️ 1 cup papaya puree
✔️ 1 tbsp lime zest
✔️ 1/3 cup grapefruit juice
✔️ 1/2 cup low sodium soy sauce
✔️ 1 tbsp honey
✔️ 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
✔️ 1 tbsp coarse black pepper
✔️ 1/2 tsp basil leaves
✔️ 2 tbsp olive oil
🍊 Combine and mix all ingredients except olive oil, then gradually mix in olive oil. Marinade meat for 2-8 hrs and cook over grill.
📚 From previous posts:
• How to have fresh Papaya fruit year around
• Top 3 most wanted Papaya varieties
• The truth about Papaya
🛒 Get your own Papaya tree
#Recipes #Food_Forest
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🥭 Use your yard instead of being used by your yard!
Tired of mowing a boring lawn? Get some colors in your yard and grow edible landscape!
Select useful, functional plants:
🌺 Spectacular Eye Candies
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🌳 Hedges with Benefits
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🦋 Butterfly Attractors
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Tired of mowing a boring lawn? Get some colors in your yard and grow edible landscape!
Select useful, functional plants:
🌺 Spectacular Eye Candies
👉#Nature_Wonders
🌳 Hedges with Benefits
👉#Hedges_with_benefits
🦋 Butterfly Attractors
👉#Butterfly_Plants
🍒 Food Forest
👉#Food_Forest
Pick the right plants with TopTropicals free expert help.
At TopTropicals, we have 25 years experience growing rare tropical fruit trees and flowering plants.
Plants are the best therapists.
You can Grow Happiness - we can help.
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💃 Does Red Passion flower produce edible fruit?
♥️ Passiflora coccinea, or Red Passion Flower, is a spectacular, passion-red variety!
♥️ It is tropical, evergreen vine from South America known for its stunning scarlet-red flowers and edible passion fruit. Yes, the fruit are edible, but they are very rarely seen.
♥️ It thrives in full sun or part shade with fertile, well-drained soils and can grow up to 10-12 feet long.
♥️ This easy-to-grow plant is perfect for trellises, walls, and containers. Minimal pruning is needed, and it blooms primarily in summer and fall.
♥️ Attracting butterflies and hummingbirds 🦋🐝
💻 Do you grow Passion vines? Share yours in comments👇
📚 From previous post: The truth about Passion flower and Passion fruit.
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♥️ Passiflora coccinea, or Red Passion Flower, is a spectacular, passion-red variety!
♥️ It is tropical, evergreen vine from South America known for its stunning scarlet-red flowers and edible passion fruit. Yes, the fruit are edible, but they are very rarely seen.
♥️ It thrives in full sun or part shade with fertile, well-drained soils and can grow up to 10-12 feet long.
♥️ This easy-to-grow plant is perfect for trellises, walls, and containers. Minimal pruning is needed, and it blooms primarily in summer and fall.
♥️ Attracting butterflies and hummingbirds 🦋🐝
📚 From previous post: The truth about Passion flower and Passion fruit.
🛒 Shop Passiflora plants
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🌶 These two peppers are a must for spice lovers - intense fruity habanero flavor packs quite a bang!
Extremely showy, these ornamental peppers have culinary benefits and are great for container garden.
❤️ Capsicum annuum x chinense - ❤️-shaped Biquinho Pepper that you saw in earlier post. An exceptionally distinct pepper, an ancient hybrid of Capsicum annuum (bird pepper) and Capsicum chinense (habanero group). While of small size (1"), these heart-shaped red fruits are prolifically produced along the branches of compact plants.
🔴 Capsicum frutescens - Wiri Wiri Pepper from Guyana is the illustrious gem; hard sought and rarely found. This plant produces good yields of small 1/2" berry shaped hot peppers. Peppers grow upright, are very hot, and turn from green, to orange, to red when mature. Guyanese dinners will only take one of those meals for you to never forget! The secret of their food is the flavor, and one of the cornerstone ingredients in many of their dishes is the Wiri pepper. The Guyanese population claim that it is not just a key ingredient to their diet, but also to why they are so good looking, live so long, and have such great skin.
Hot? Yes, it is important that hot peppers are, but the people who really know, know that it is not just about heat, it is about flavor! And that is exactly what makes these little red gems so special.
🧪 For abundant crops, fertilize with Sunshine C-Cibus plant booster.
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🌈 Mango Rainbow tasting table-2: what's the taste of that Mango variety?
🥭 We've had another mango tasting table and asked participants to describe the taste in a few words. And this is what we got:
🟠 Haden - mild, melting, classic heavenly mango flavor,dark yellow flesh, almost fiberless.
🟠 Ugly Betty - opposite to the name, the taste is excellent , juicy, melting, sweet.
🟠 Cotton Candy - true candy, fiberless, sweet, melting.
🟠 Madame Fransis - dark orange pulp, slightly fibrous, robust, meaty like a steak, good with cognac. A little pulpy but unique flavor.
🟠 Diamond - bright yellow, fiberless, sugary, juicy, no pulp at all, classic mango taste, good with ice cream, "wow" taste!
🟠 Pickering - zesty, waterfall: all the flavors come at once, eat with White wine and/or a cake. Oval fruit somewhat flat, very large for a dwarf tree!
🟠 Baptiste - hint of citrus, melts in your mouth, dark orange flesh, crisp, eat with Red wine and cheese.
🟠 Florigon - creamy, buttery, spicy. Eat with Ice cream!
🟠 Tommy Atkins - has a bit zing to it, perfect consistency, perfect taste. Super colorful, crimson red to purple skin!
🟠 Nam Doc Mai - gold standard! Perfect every day.
🟠 Carry - tastes even better than all others, smooth buttery, lite!
❔ What Mango varieties have you tried this year?
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🥭 We've had another mango tasting table and asked participants to describe the taste in a few words. And this is what we got:
🟠 Haden - mild, melting, classic heavenly mango flavor,dark yellow flesh, almost fiberless.
🟠 Ugly Betty - opposite to the name, the taste is excellent , juicy, melting, sweet.
🟠 Cotton Candy - true candy, fiberless, sweet, melting.
🟠 Madame Fransis - dark orange pulp, slightly fibrous, robust, meaty like a steak, good with cognac. A little pulpy but unique flavor.
🟠 Diamond - bright yellow, fiberless, sugary, juicy, no pulp at all, classic mango taste, good with ice cream, "wow" taste!
🟠 Pickering - zesty, waterfall: all the flavors come at once, eat with White wine and/or a cake. Oval fruit somewhat flat, very large for a dwarf tree!
🟠 Baptiste - hint of citrus, melts in your mouth, dark orange flesh, crisp, eat with Red wine and cheese.
🟠 Florigon - creamy, buttery, spicy. Eat with Ice cream!
🟠 Tommy Atkins - has a bit zing to it, perfect consistency, perfect taste. Super colorful, crimson red to purple skin!
🟠 Nam Doc Mai - gold standard! Perfect every day.
🟠 Carry - tastes even better than all others, smooth buttery, lite!
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🍒🥤 What's for lunch?
Yet another crop of Barbados cherry is here! Our Barbados cherry has been fruiting on and on for many months!
📚 See earlier posts:
💋 How to make Barbados Cherry drink
💋 65 times more of vitamin C
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Yet another crop of Barbados cherry is here! Our Barbados cherry has been fruiting on and on for many months!
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