Fruit fly and mangoes (forum)

Wayne starts with ...
These critters do much damage if you are not quick enough to get the fruit off. This mango has been stung on the tip, their favourite place to attack, therefore the fruit will over-ripen around the seed well before the remainder of the fruit ripens.

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Time: 14th December 2009 12:55pm

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Jimmy says...
OK

Time: 14th December 2009 1:47pm

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Ellen says...
best to put a mosquito net over it.

Time: 14th December 2009 4:24pm

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Wayne says...
You physically cannot put mosquito nets over a grown mango tree Ellen I'm afraid.

Time: 14th December 2009 4:46pm

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lance says...
what if we repel them by disturbing their brain using the frequency of the fruit fly
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Time: 7th October 2010 3:43pm

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lance says...
what if we repel them by disturbing their brain using the frequency of the fruit fly
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Time: 7th October 2010 3:44pm

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Jason says...
Very happy it's too cold for the tropical fruit fly here :) of course too cold for mangos also which is a bit tragic :P

Time: 7th October 2010 7:15pm

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amanda says...
Never fear Jason - mangoes are not the "Be all and End all" - of fruits. Any fruit you can freeze, can or dry - that still tastes great - is one that (IMHO) you are not 'missing out" on too much perhaps?!

We freeze buckets of mangoe flesh when they are season and cheap.

Some fruits are still great - homegrown or not. I get the impression these one's are also the one's that haven't been interbred, and mucked about with, etc for 100's of years.

I notice a huge difference between home grown peaches (for eg) compared to homegrown mangoes? Maybe it's just me.



Time: 8th October 2010 1:02am

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Jason says...
Yeah I guess, I've had fresh mangos and theres not much difference between them and supermarket ones, nothing like the Peach or even more so Apricot versus supermarket. But you still always want to grow everything so you desire the ones you can't :). The older the get the more I like Figs, I can see the day coming when they might be my favorite fruit

Time: 8th October 2010 1:28am

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amanda says...
Yea Jason - wish I could grow cherries...I wonder if home grown one's are better than shop one's?

Caramelised fig makes a very nice dessert :)

Time: 8th October 2010 10:53am

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Jason says...
Cherries in the shops are not as good as home grow but it's not a huge different like Apricot or even Nectarines. I could say a shop Apricot gets down to as low as 5-10% of the flavour of a real one. But shop Cherries are probably at 70% easy :). Nectarines from the shop I guess can be as crappy as 40% of a real one.

Most chefs don't like to cook figs because they are non improvable in flavour from the raw state, I agree with that :) best to eat them straight off the tree

Time: 9th October 2010 11:59am

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amanda says...
Yea they have really stuffed up the apricots haven't they!? What have they done to them??
They used to be good when I was a kid :(

Time: 9th October 2010 12:29pm

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BJ says...
I'll continue the frolic off topic ... ironically the poor supermarket quality has really played in my favour! My husband was quite dubious about the whole 'home grown' thing when we first stared dating. Then I gave him tomatoes, and a few peaches and nectarines and now he encourages the whole home-grown thing and even plants the tomatoes himself where he can find a small space in the garden. He's checking our little fuzzy peaches every day and I caught him this morning tenderly checking under each grape leaf to find out if we might have some grapes this year!! I don't think he's be interested in the effort if supermarket food tasted half as good as home grown.

Time: 9th October 2010 12:53pm

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