despite being battered mercilessly from supertyphoons and tropical storms, despite precariously leaning at an angle that would make a limbo dancer proud, despite being a harbour for brown tree snakes and being subjected to frequent whacks of my nine-iron as i aim for the serpents' heads, my parents' backyard mango tree has managed to yield three fruit this year. that's three more than last year, and two more than the year before. huzzah! all hail the mango tree!
20050108
o mango tree
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6 comments:
1/08/2005 05:30:00 PM
Lucky u santos. Was it big and sweet? It looks dribble.
1/09/2005 04:47:00 AM
Wow! Another mango post! I was really going to post one and there's another, Green mangoes at JMom's blog. Are we all thinking of the same thing?
How old is your mango tree? Perhaps it will bear more fruits around summertime.
Karen
1/09/2005 11:55:00 AM
hi fish fish
it was definitely big--almost the size of a small child's head. and fibrous, like a small child's head. but tasty, sweet and yes, dribble!
hi karen
i just saw jmom's post. 'tis the season :-) the tree is about 8 years old, but it flowers during typhoon season and of course, they get blown away before they can bud. the last supertyphoon pushed the tree sideways, which seems to help because now the flowers closer to the ground are protected--maybe next year we'll see more!
happy new year!
1/09/2005 12:17:00 PM
Hi Santos! What a coincidence that we both posted about mangoes. I bet yours tasted a lot better though, fresh off the tree. My grandmother's house has a mango tree right in front, and oh, it was sooo sweeeet!
1/09/2005 12:28:00 PM
hi jmom!
this was probably a lot like the one you had. the seed (the tree came from seed) was from a hawaiian mango, which i think is haden. most of the mango trees here are closer to the philippines' carabao, but are smaller and stay green. still, i'm happy that we've got them!
1/09/2005 07:07:00 PM
My Dad will be so jealous. His mango tree has been consistent in yield. Zero for the past 3 yrs. Hee
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