Keitt

Although a bit premature, I can't wait to talk about the 'Keitt' mango (Mangifera Indica.) Keitt is one of the world’s most outstanding mangoes and it grows great in Miami. Excellent eating quality, disease resistance, productivity, and ripening time are some of the features of this four to five pound Goliath. This fiberless fruit has a sweet firm flesh that is abundant and delicious. The fruit ripens from August to October so this is the only mango left after all the other varieties are long gone for the season. Last year, record shows that a Colleen Porter of Kailua Kona, Hawaii, reported a Guinness Book of World Records for her largest mango ever produced. Her mango weighed in at 5 pounds 7 ounces, and its size was the size of an adult human head! Hers was a Keitt mango. I can't wait until these fruits ripen, sometime in August-September. They look small now, but they have two months to grow much larger. Delicious and I am salivating!