Hello Naveed Congratulations! I am surprised that your Keitt Mangoes made it through winter hanging on the tree. Did you wrap all your Keitts in brown paper bags? Do the paper bags protect the fruit from the winter cold and help ripen it? Usually tropical fruits drop due to the cold in winter.
Yes, I did cover them in brown paper bags to protect them from rats and squirrels, and I suppose it helped protect them from cold also. The temperatures do not get to freezing point, so mangoes survive. Some cold damage happens on few trees but overall they survive. Thank you and thanks for watching.
The fruited on schedule per Phoenix mango season. They set flowers in March and were of full size in August/September. Keitt mango in Phoenix will stay on the tree green for long time and will not turn yellow or get ripe. So sometimes I let it stay on the tree over the winter and in to Jan/Feb so I can have fresh mangoes in winter. But there is some downside to that. The mangoes in Jan/Feb do not taste very good. The juice content and softness of flesh goes away to some extent. Therefore best is to just harvest them in September while it is still hot, ripen them and enjoy them on time.
Amjad sahib taste was not good because I let them stay on the tree over winter. The juice content went down. Flesh was not soft and it lost flavor. Better thing was to just pick them in September and ripen them inside and enjoy.
