What fruits did you eat today?

There are a bunch of Southern Highbush and several Rabbiteye on my carport roof.Yesterday,I went up with a container to harvest the Sweetcrisp,before any birds did.
The first row were Rabbiteyes,so those were sampled,some were okay,but Yadkin really stood out in sweetness.
Then the Sweetcrisp were tasted and there was a noticeable higher level of sugar.I went back to the Yadkin,but couldn’t find one nearly as sweet.Rabbiteye do take longer to ripen and it was getting towards evening.I’ll try to get a brix reading on those sometime.
While up there,I tried Reveille and Springhigh and they were bland.The latter was talked about before as having very good flavor.Maybe my plant from Florida Hill was mislabeled.
To me,some of the Northern Highbush,like Spartan may have better flavor,but for sweetness and firmness,without having a thick,tough skin like Berkeley,Sweetcrisp is unique. Brady

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Cotton candy grapes. My kids loved them. I thought they sucked. Didn’t taste like cotton candy to me but my daughter and wife thought they did. $3.99/lb. Right next to them were red Scarlett grapes on sale for $.99/lb that blew them away.

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Mangosteen. Sprouts has them for the unbelievable price of $2.49 per lb.

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Went to Styer orchard in Langhorne, PA today and picked $33 worth of peaches, nectarines, and apples. I know the apples were Ginger Gold and Early Delicious but unsure of the other varieties. We made a nice fruit salad for dessert. Very tasty!

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Had some of the last breba figs. A bunch of Violette de Bordeaux and an unknown that was given to me.

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Sweet Sapphire grapes-


and Tropical Sunrise pluots-

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I found some local baby Honey Dew melons, which are probably a product of thinning out the crop or may be it is a cultivar that really produces tiny melons (small grapefruit size). Have you seen it or try it in your area?

They are surprisingly good!! :yum: A lady at the market showed me how to eat it by chowing down the whole thing like an Apple :laughing: yep, rind & seeds … I thought she lost it. She bought 3 big bags about 10 lbs each so she seriously like it.

When I tried them myself, I realized the rind is crunchy thin with a rich honey dew flavor pulp. The seeds are crunchy edible. I never thought you can eat the whole thing if she hadn’t shown me. She also said she had this tree in her yard when she was a kid so that also bring back a lot of memory for her.

I should have taken some picture before I finished the last one. :smile:

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Sweet sapphire grapes? I have never seem a grape like that one! Where did you get it?

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There are at least 3 grape varieties being sold that have long skinny fruit including Witch Finger and Moon Drops. I bought these at Berkeley Bowl in Berkeley California, but Wholefoods often has the others.

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Thanks . I just looked them up and it it the latest grape in ‘grapes’! Very, very sweet! The variety that looks like fingers is scary!

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Been eating lots of Mexican mangoes, bananas and home grown peaches, nectarines, apricots, late strawberries, going berries, blackberries and the last blueberries from our bushes.

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I had no idea grapes looked like that!

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Blackberries and strawberries; my Italian prunes are starting to ripen!

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I bought moon drops last year and we all loved them. Great flavor

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Blackberries and picked Italian plums!

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Mrs. G.,
My Castleton E plums look like yours and some are even darker. I have a hard time figuring it out when they ripen. Do you need to have your plums soft to a touch before picking?

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I picked two Kirke’s Blue Plums from a multi-graft,with Bob Purvis’s scions.This is the first time fruiting for these,so was unsure when they fully ripen.They probably could have stayed on the tree a bit longer,but one was about 17 brix, tasty and fairly soft.The other will stay on the counter for awhile.
Also,the last Nectaplum was harvested.Sweet,pretty good flavor.Brady


Kirke’s Blue Plum

Spice Zee Nectaplum

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Eve’s Black Cherry figs. My most aesthetically pleasing and tasty fig tree

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Baby Crawford, and Early Elberta Peaches, Hewe’s Crab apples (quite good if you don’t mind the astringency)

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So is it a melon or a tree fruit?

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