Mamey is a delicious fruit, but my favorite way to eat it is by making a shake w/ some ice & some whole milk. You can also freeze that and make it Mamey "ice cream," which is amazing.
Me too Daniel Lopez, Mamey Sapote milkshake is by far the best if you know how to do it right. More fruit than milk, ice, 1 tablespoon of sugar, a pinch of salt and 1 teaspoon of real vanilla, and bam, the most delicious milkshake ever.
Dwight Mann really? This means you may not be able to see it bearing fruits as in you might die before it gives you fruits.. sad I have lost interest in planting them
No really. In Honduras might take that long but here in Florida and in Mexico they grow like crazy and they don't get that tall. Look for Huerta Humaña on you tube they will tell you everything about Mamey sapote. I'm also growing this plant here in Georgia from fruit that I had eat and they are doing very well. I wish I could share a picture, I'm About to transfer my plants to my greenhouse They are delicious and the way that you know that they are ripe is if they feel soft just like an avocado
@@dwightmann6297 Believe it or not We are from the same country. I remembering being the very first one to get up in the morning to get the mamey sapote Not sure why the Huerta Humaña trees are shorter and a lot of mamey Maybe is the way they grow them Saludos amigo
Hello, to know if a mamey is ready, before removing it from the tree, you take your fingernail and clip a tiny piece off the skin. If it is a deep corral color, then the mamey is ready to be picked. That is an old Cuban trick that is tried and true. The mamey is ready when it is soft on the outside but not mushy. If you wait until it is too ripe, then the flavor changes and it will not taste fresh. You need a larger knife than what you used to make a cut all around the seed and you remove the membrane and the seed from the middle. Mamey is a very sweet tasting tropical fruit. The color should be a deep reddish coral color. It can be made into ice cream, shakes or eaten as a fruit. In Miami, Norman Brothers makes deliciious mamey shakes with ice cream or yogurt.
I only wish I could post a photo of the gigantic one I had today. This one was not wrinkly, but soft, and incredibly sweet. My take is that it tastes like a cross between a papaya and a sweet potato. I squeezed lime on it and it was fantastic! Gonna plant the seed now too. Thanks for the video.
I just discovered it and I’m in love with it! It was explained to me that when you put it on the counter and it ripened enough to flatten on the bottom then it’s ready to open. I waited over a week and just opened it. The sweet taste and smooth texture are perfect. I loved the seed and I was looking for instructions on how to grow it on my own and found your video.
I discovered mamey sapote when I visited Guatemala. Some of the fruit were huge, they looked like a football. When the fruit is fully ripe, it’s very soft and it has the consistency and taste of pumpkin pie! It was my favorite fruit, so unique and delicious. I haven’t been able to have any since, but I know it would grow very well in much of Australia where I now live.
I'm happy to come across the Mamey Sapote as I was just preparing to eat one which I tried just a few weeks ago and really like them. I used a nutcracker with just enough leverage to get a small crack in the shell. I'll soak for an hour and follow your steps and see how it goes. Thanks for the video.
I've got a tree growing in South Florida. It was the first fruit where I immediately knew I needed a tree. I spent $250 I didn't have to get a grafted one. And indeed they do get extremely soft and wrinkled when ripe, and are so sweet it's hard to eat a whole fruit.
It’s definitely not ripe! It has to be softer even a little wrinkled. It has its distinct taste but overall it should be very sweet and the texture very soft.
@dwinosam, the mamey sapote skin is very hard, it’s like a crust and doesn’t wrinkle at all. You may be referring to the sapodilla with a very thin skin that can wrinkle. From the deep orange color this fruit is fully ripe.
I love a mamey. I found one at a local market and bought it to eat. Your comment about it being some what like papaya is a good one. It is not very sweet and it is just something good to eat. Some folks wrap the pit in damp paper towels and store it in a zip lock bag to get the pit to start germinating. This fruit reminds me so much of the structure and pit of an avocado.
Ramon that's a milkshake, smoothies are made with water no milk. And you’re right, evaporated milk is the best for milkshakes. I use organic milk and it taste delicious too.
I just had one today for the first time. It was very sweet tasted like sweet yams and vanilla to me. The outside was firm but gave in gently. I did the scratch method where you scratch a small area and you should see an orange like color. My Mamey sapote came with 3 uncracked seeds I’m gonna put them in water overnight and use the paper towel method to see if that helps germinate them faster.
Vic Cast - Hi Vic, no need to crack Mamey Sapote seed at all! It’s not like a mango husk & mamey sapote is such a quick strong plant even sprouting is super quick & strong. I put mine straight from the fruit into paper towel it sprouted all on its own & I couldn’t keep up with reporting it into larger pots it’s roots kept going out of the bottom holes of the pot. Tip don’t keep in the paper towel too late after it sprouts, I did & had some mould which I washed off & now a metre or so tall 2 years old, planted in ground this weekend as it’s almost spring season here 🌱
You're right about knowing when the fruit is ripe..it's usually used the make shakes/smoothie..add some condensed milk and put it in a blender with some nutmeg and cinnamon..
As others have noted, the mamey in the video was not ripe at all; a ripe one would have been very soft all over and aromatic. The flesh is wonderfully sweet, tasting of pumpkin or sweet potato pie filling, in my opinion. I’m not an expert, but I’ve been researching how to grow a lot of different tropical fruits and I never heard of needing to crack open the outside of a mamey seed if it’s not already cracked. Maybe you do … Anyhow, I know of two ways of sprouting a mamey seed. 1.) Plant it fresh after opening the fruit, making sure to lay it on its side (not vertically because you don’t know which end will sprout). And 2.) The way I sprouted a mamey seed by wrapping it in damp paper towels then placing it in a plastic bag, checking every few days. When it sprouted I was able to plant the seed vertically in the center of the pot because I knew which direction it was growing. I do like this guy’s water soaking advice; most seeds benefit from that. Before I watched this, I used that technique on a drying mamey seed that sat out on my couter for a couple of days after I opened the fruit. I soaked it for about 24 hours or so then placed it in damp paper towels and a plastic bag to sprout, which-hurray!-it did.
This is a very common fruit to eat for Hispanics. My favorite way to have it is in a shake or ice cream. You cut into chunks when ripe and freeze. Once frozen you blend with milk, sugar and ice. Delicious!
Great info. Love this tip for seeds with hard cases. I appreciate the comment that the tree will take over 2 decades to bear fruit but I'll start the seed I've saved from a mamey fruit and maybe give away the plant for adoption. Thanks from Miami, Florida. PS...just subscribed...keep up the good work!
I’ve lived in Colombia and Southern Florida and this fruit is very familiar to me. The mamey sapote you got in my opinion wasn’t quite ready. It was orange but it need to be deeeep orange almost red ish (not pale orange), and that also depends on the variety I believe. Anyway, you should always scratch a piece of the skin before buying to see the color inside and always smell it! I bought some “ripe” mamey sapotes in Colombia and they turned out to be reallllly rancid and sour with some good parts but mostly 80% rancid and putrid parts, so you want to be mindful of that. It can’t be too ripe but can’t be too hard. If too hard it will be astringent kind of like an unripe Hachiya persimmon that feels wierd on your tongue. Great video though! What part of the states are you in like gardening zone?
These are supposed to be really soft and sweet. You could just dip a spoon in with no fuss. I usually just got halves of the fruit in the freezer section of our corner bodega and ate it like ice cream.
live foodage thanks! I think I was I didn’t know what it’s supposed to taste like, but I had a different expectation in mind! Haha I wish I could try one that someone who eats them a lot picked out where I know I have a good one! Thanks for watching!
It should be squishy and it tastes like a sweet potato..and has the same exact consistency as a sweet potatoes too...very starchy..these are great for making shakes and for baking with!
I'm super far from a mamey expert, I've just been sprouting a seed for a few days now myself, but that whole step you mentioned hearing about cracking the seed open? My seed wasn't split when I got it (your fruit was much more ripe than mine not sure if your was necessarily over ripe but anyway) and I had no need to split the seed. Just soaked it in water 12ish hours on 12ish hours off for a few days like any other seed I want to grow or like the sprouts I grow to eat and it split just fine on its own. For some the extra time waiting for it to do it on it's own might be more effort but for me I'd rather play it safe and just stick it in water for a bit than bother trying to properly crack it myself. It's like an extra day or two to save the worry of 'am I about to break this seed way too hard'. Just my personal preference
I just put my seed in a pot with soil and outer split out with the heat of the sunshine. So I just removed the shelf slowly, I'm not sure about smacking the seeds 😂
That was interesting. I'll have to research it more. I'm in central Florida and also have a greenhouse for those plants that I "just gotta have". Thank you
Nancy Fahey it was an interesting experience. It tasted like pumpkin/almond/Honey/apricot yet really tasted like none of them all at the same time. I wouldn’t say the fruit was in my top ten or anything but it’s definitely something I’ve never tasted before and you never know til you try! Thanks for watching!
I live in South Florida, I have a lot of rare Tropical fruit trees. There are 8 cultivars of Mamey Sapote. Pantin are the best. It takes over 7 years after the tree is 6 feet tall, when the tree is about 15 feet tall, to get edible fruit. When the tree is 8 feet tall, the fruit will only be the size of a pea. Every year the fruit will get bigger, but they will never ripen. My first two trees were broken by a hurricane, and died. My third tree was broken by a hurricane but survived. Instead of one trunk growing back, 5 grew back, so it is V shaped. I've learned that when a hurricane is coming, rip or cut all the leaves off of your trees. Mamey Sapote leaves just snap off; bananas leaves have to be cut off with a machete. I've also learned, to only buy fruit trees from a best nurseries. They will grow 12 trees, but only graft from the best tree of the 12. I bought all of my trees when they were 6 ft tall; in 5 or 7 gallon pots. It is not worth growing a tree from seed and waiting 15 years (30 year for a Jaboticaba tree) to get fruit; and then find out that the fruit is not very good. Or buying a 6 foot tree from Home Depot, waiting 5 years, to get the same result. It is always better to buy a grafted tree, because it will be identical to its parent tree. Also, of all of the Tropical Trees I have (I live in Zone 10 Semi-Tropical), the Sapote is the most cold sensitive. A 60 degree night will kill all of the leaves and fruit. My tree survived a few 50 degree nights this winter. The tree and several fruit survived, this my be my first year in 25 years that I will have Mamey Sapotes. You can buy Mamey Sapotes in the Latino Markets here when they are in season for $5 a pound, and they are usually 4 pounds so one fruit is $20. But you never know what cultivar they are, and they are never as good as a Pantin. Pantin Mamey Sapotes taste like the desert Flan.
Right. Tbh my goal wasn’t ever to really get a tree that would produce fruit. I knew from the start it would never get big enough and would take like 20 years even if it did. Mainly did it because it was something different and I had the seed already after buying the fruit haha I really appreciate the info though! Some good things to know! Thanks for watching and for the knowledge!
@@TheMoreYouGrow The way to tell if they are ripe is to scratch the skin with your finger nail, it should be redish -orange inside. Yours has dents in it so I thought it was overripe. But after watching the video again you say that it is touch to cut, then it it is tough to twist open, then it makes a snapping sound when it snaps open, like a raw potato. It should feel like a ripe peach, not a raw potato. So yours was not ripe yet. It should be sweet similar to a ripe cantaloupe. Look for them in the summer, if you have Latino Markets in your area. The cultivar that you have, has a big seed and a thin layer of meat. Also try a Sapodilla, which tastes like brown sugar, they are super sweet. I guess you have seen this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pouteria_sapota
Mamey sapote fruits are usually never ripe enough at the store you just have to let it sit on the counter for 5 days or more for it to fully ripen from being hard
Back in the Philippines this fruit is called Chico. It comes in two varieties, a small fruit, which is very sweet , more like a ripe pear dipped in brown sugar. The big fruit variety is not sweet at all if at all.
To tell when a Mamey is ripe you scratch the skin with your fingernail, if it is green it’s not ripe, if it’s pink it’s almost ripe either pick it off the tree or buy it at the store and eat it in a day or two. When ripe, it has a pumpkin, almond, vanilla flavor with a custard texture. Very yummy in my opinion...
shoulda waited till it was soft..then you dont need to cut it & it will be pre sprouted like mine. first one i bought. i thought i left it too long but it was perfect..very yummy and just squeezed it out & it was sprouting very nicely
Scratch off a bit of the skin. It should look bright red orange. If it looks like the one you tried, it’s too light, not ready/fully ripe yet. It’s creamy like avocado and very sweet. I usually cut and freeze, add ice, milk to a blender along with it, and turn into a delicious milkshake :) thanks for the wonderful video
If it is wrinkly on the outside and soft its ready and it is a big berry so the texture should be like a blueberry inside and it has a texture of a cold piece of pumpkin pie. the taste should be sweet and like a sweet potato
There’s other variety’s of mamey sapote that are better and softer but I think I suppose to be ripe with is when it quite soft and the flesh should be really soft as well but if the skin is tough it’s not ripe
In our country we eat sapodilla. It's smaller version of these. They are usually very sweet and have a grainy pulp. Little crunchy, like sand mixed in the pulp. I don't know about mamey spote. They both are same family sapotaceae. Maybe that's not ripe enough.
Yuvan Raj when I read a little more I think it could be a little riper, but they aren’t super sweet. I think it came down to me not knowing what to expect but expecting something much fruitier/sweeter than what these are. I’m not entirely sure still. Wish I could go to central/South America where they are more popular and have someone pick one at the right stage for me to know what they taste like at the right ripeness! Maybe one day! Haha
Mamey (pronounced maw-may) is grown in various tropical regions including South America, the Caribbean, and South FL. Personally, I think it tastes best in a shake or as ice cream.
I have tried countless times to get mamey to grow. Winn Dixie picks them to early and they never ripen just rot. I can't find them at the Latin store but occasionally the farm market. I've sprouted one in a bag but when I transplant them they always die. I'm in the Florida Keys so weather good year round. Great fruit in milkshakes
It probably would grow well there but the downside to growing from seed is time (takes 10+ years depending on the tree) and there’s no telling what the fruit will be like. Grafting will get you fruit much sooner and will give you good quality fruit
This one was still too small and not yet ripe. As stated below by another post, it will be deep orange and red inside when ripe, will be so soft you can cut it open like butter, and it will be very sweet and pasty. Put some in a blender with milk, cinnamon, and cacao for the best and healthiest chocolate tasting smoothie ever! Body builders ad one or two scoops of unflavored protein powder. My tree is over 20 years od and produces mamey (pronounced Mah-mey) fruit 3 times the size of the one in this video. I now have a seed which I germinated in a zip lock bag with water and paper towel for a few weeks. It sprouted and now is in a pot with soil and is about 8 inches tall after about 2 weeks, with many leafs. I water it about every other day. If you pick one from the tree too soon, or cut one open before it is extremely soft, then it will be too hard, not sweet, not ripe, and no good to eat ever.
Should be like eating brown sugar. From the store it will never be as sweet as if you were to pick a ripe one from a tree. Best thing to do is buy one that's not soft wrap it in paper and let it sit there a few days. Very softly touch it, if it's soft, you eat it.
That was not ripe, I have two beautiful Mamey trees the fruit is absolutely FANTASTIC and very Sweet, the color should be a orangey red color and tender all around. I normally eat it with a Spoon, my Mamey is over one pound in weight here in Florida 😉
Sure is a pretty color not sure I’d grow it but the seed is really big cool I have seed if u want them b glad to send them to u I’m just right down in Texas
You got a unripe one the best is when you poke it it's hast to be mushy or really soft all over no hard pard should exist and yes when really ripe it should be really sweet best fruit ever
No wonder that one tasted like a horsefly’s birthday cake 💩 😂 thanks for letting me know so that I didn’t think they all tasted that way! They seedling from it is still growing though!
Sorry for the off topic question.... but.... When you went to the Rhodes Farm Tour Meetup, you had a tray of something green and talked about taking a sack of feed and turning it into 300 pounds of feed for your livestock. As I struggle to take care of my animal family on my social security check, I would really like more info about that. Have looked through your channel and have not found it discussed. Got a link for more info you could share? Thanks!
FallingLeaves I brought a tray of my wheat fodder from my wheat fodder system. I will be doing a video on that here in about 2 weeks or so telling all about it and how to do it 😊 so stay tuned for that!
Well to give you an update it grew for about 6 months but it struggled the whole time due to my climate here in north Texas until it couldn’t hold on anymore. My air is too dry here
Your Mamey sapote was no where near ripe enough to cut and taste. The fruit should be super soft in all areas. When it's completely ripe you can cut into them with a butter knife, the skin will be very easy to cut. There should be absolutely no almond taste to a ripe Mamey sapote either. The flesh should be soft, have a custard like texture, and taste, and taste like a bit of a flan and pumpkin pie - ish…. They are very sweet as well. Usually, at least on all of the ones that I get, the seeds usually start to sprout while in the fruit. I usually just throw the seeds into a 1 gallon pot of potting soil and water them in, they are super easy to sprout. I have never needed to crack the seed to get them to sprout.
Mamey is a delicious fruit, but my favorite way to eat it is by making a shake w/ some ice & some whole milk. You can also freeze that and make it Mamey "ice cream," which is amazing.
Me too Daniel Lopez, Mamey Sapote milkshake is by far the best if you know how to do it right. More fruit than milk, ice, 1 tablespoon of sugar, a pinch of salt and 1 teaspoon of real vanilla, and bam, the most delicious milkshake ever.
Hello from Honduras it takes up 25 years to get fruits from a sapote tree from seed the are very sweet when fully ripe your fruit was under ripe
Dwight Mann really? This means you may not be able to see it bearing fruits as in you might die before it gives you fruits.. sad I have lost interest in planting them
No really.
In Honduras might take that long but here in Florida and in Mexico they grow like crazy and they don't get that tall.
Look for Huerta Humaña on you tube they will tell you everything about Mamey sapote.
I'm also growing this plant here in Georgia from fruit that I had eat and they are doing very well.
I wish I could share a picture, I'm About to transfer my plants to my greenhouse
They are delicious and the way that you know that they are ripe is if they feel soft just like an avocado
@@mosesnsubuga7402 in my country the say it's a inheritance tree
@@ananm3442 well we will see who is right in 10 to 20 years
@@dwightmann6297
Believe it or not
We are from the same country.
I remembering being the very first one to get up in the morning to get the mamey sapote
Not sure why the Huerta Humaña trees are shorter and a lot of mamey
Maybe is the way they grow them
Saludos amigo
Hello, to know if a mamey is ready, before removing it from the tree, you take your fingernail and clip a tiny piece off the skin. If it is a deep corral color, then the mamey is ready to be picked. That is an old Cuban trick that is tried and true. The mamey is ready when it is soft on the outside but not mushy. If you wait until it is too ripe, then the flavor changes and it will not taste fresh. You need a larger knife than what you used to make a cut all around the seed and you remove the membrane and the seed from the middle. Mamey is a very sweet tasting tropical fruit. The color should be a deep reddish coral color. It can be made into ice cream, shakes or eaten as a fruit. In Miami, Norman Brothers makes deliciious mamey shakes with ice cream or yogurt.
I only wish I could post a photo of the gigantic one I had today. This one was not wrinkly, but soft, and incredibly sweet. My take is that it tastes like a cross between a papaya and a sweet potato. I squeezed lime on it and it was fantastic! Gonna plant the seed now too. Thanks for the video.
and scratching the surface of the fruit to see 'orange' means it's ready.
I just discovered it and I’m in love with it! It was explained to me that when you put it on the counter and it ripened enough to flatten on the bottom then it’s ready to open. I waited over a week and just opened it. The sweet taste and smooth texture are perfect. I loved the seed and I was looking for instructions on how to grow it on my own and found your video.
I discovered mamey sapote when I visited Guatemala. Some of the fruit were huge, they looked like a football. When the fruit is fully ripe, it’s very soft and it has the consistency and taste of pumpkin pie! It was my favorite fruit, so unique and delicious. I haven’t been able to have any since, but I know it would grow very well in much of Australia where I now live.
I'm happy to come across the Mamey Sapote as I was just preparing to eat one which I tried just a few weeks ago and really like them. I used a nutcracker with just enough leverage to get a small crack in the shell. I'll soak for an hour and follow your steps and see how it goes. Thanks for the video.
I've got a tree growing in South Florida. It was the first fruit where I immediately knew I needed a tree. I spent $250 I didn't have to get a grafted one. And indeed they do get extremely soft and wrinkled when ripe, and are so sweet it's hard to eat a whole fruit.
It reminded me of sweet potato baked and a cantaloupe undertone it's definitely one of the most interesting tastes 😊 I'm going to do 6 seeds
Thank you for this. These grow well in Miami, and I'm looking forward to sprouting the seed of a delicious mamey a friend gave me.
You're the man! Thank you for this video!
It’s definitely not ripe! It has to be softer even a little wrinkled. It has its distinct taste but overall it should be very sweet and the texture very soft.
@dwinosam, the mamey sapote skin is very hard, it’s like a crust and doesn’t wrinkle at all. You may be referring to the sapodilla with a very thin skin that can wrinkle. From the deep orange color this fruit is fully ripe.
@@paquefeal2385 some Mamey varieties actually will wrinkle when it is ripe. I think the common wrinkly variety is called ‘Magaña’
@@paquefeal2385 The Mamey Sapote I have does wrinkle to show signs of ripeness that way you can tell it’s soft and creamy inside
I love a mamey. I found one at a local market and bought it to eat. Your comment about it being some what like papaya is a good one. It is not very sweet and it is just something good to eat. Some folks wrap the pit in damp paper towels and store it in a zip lock bag to get the pit to start germinating. This fruit reminds me so much of the structure and pit of an avocado.
When very soft it is very ripe mamey is one of my favorit fruit, we use it in smoothe . carnation milk sinnamon Vanilla extract and ice no sugar
Ramon that's a milkshake, smoothies are made with water no milk. And you’re right, evaporated milk is the best for milkshakes. I use organic milk and it taste delicious too.
I just had one today for the first time. It was very sweet tasted like sweet yams and vanilla to me. The outside was firm but gave in gently. I did the scratch method where you scratch a small area and you should see an orange like color. My Mamey sapote came with 3 uncracked seeds I’m gonna put them in water overnight and use the paper towel method to see if that helps germinate them faster.
Vic Cast - Hi Vic, no need to crack Mamey Sapote seed at all! It’s not like a mango husk & mamey sapote is such a quick strong plant even sprouting is super quick & strong. I put mine straight from the fruit into paper towel it sprouted all on its own & I couldn’t keep up with reporting it into larger pots it’s roots kept going out of the bottom holes of the pot. Tip don’t keep in the paper towel too late after it sprouts, I did & had some mould which I washed off & now a metre or so tall 2 years old, planted in ground this weekend as it’s almost spring season here 🌱
Good description of the taste. I just bought several at Walmart here in South West Florida. Delicious. Now I am going to grow a couple.
@@gerrylavelle8433 that’s awesome, it’s a great fruit full of nutrients.
mixed with peach ice cream....super yummy
You're right about knowing when the fruit is ripe..it's usually used the make shakes/smoothie..add some condensed milk and put it in a blender with some nutmeg and cinnamon..
As others have noted, the mamey in the video was not ripe at all; a ripe one would have been very soft all over and aromatic. The flesh is wonderfully sweet, tasting of pumpkin or sweet potato pie filling, in my opinion.
I’m not an expert, but I’ve been researching how to grow a lot of different tropical fruits and I never heard of needing to crack open the outside of a mamey seed if it’s not already cracked. Maybe you do … Anyhow, I know of two ways of sprouting a mamey seed. 1.) Plant it fresh after opening the fruit, making sure to lay it on its side (not vertically because you don’t know which end will sprout). And 2.) The way I sprouted a mamey seed by wrapping it in damp paper towels then placing it in a plastic bag, checking every few days. When it sprouted I was able to plant the seed vertically in the center of the pot because I knew which direction it was growing.
I do like this guy’s water soaking advice; most seeds benefit from that. Before I watched this, I used that technique on a drying mamey seed that sat out on my couter for a couple of days after I opened the fruit. I soaked it for about 24 hours or so then placed it in damp paper towels and a plastic bag to sprout, which-hurray!-it did.
This is a very common fruit to eat for Hispanics. My favorite way to have it is in a shake or ice cream. You cut into chunks when ripe and freeze. Once frozen you blend with milk, sugar and ice. Delicious!
Great info. Love this tip for seeds with hard cases. I appreciate the comment that the tree will take over 2 decades to bear fruit but I'll start the seed I've saved from a mamey fruit and maybe give away the plant for adoption. Thanks from Miami, Florida. PS...just subscribed...keep up the good work!
Do u have seed or plant?
This is 1 of the best fruit on earth
Thanks for sharing I’m gonna try it out tomorrow
Very cool
Im in Naples Fl. and the Mamey would grow well here.
I’ve lived in Colombia and Southern Florida and this fruit is very familiar to me. The mamey sapote you got in my opinion wasn’t quite ready. It was orange but it need to be deeeep orange almost red ish (not pale orange), and that also depends on the variety I believe. Anyway, you should always scratch a piece of the skin before buying to see the color inside and always smell it! I bought some “ripe” mamey sapotes in Colombia and they turned out to be reallllly rancid and sour with some good parts but mostly 80% rancid and putrid parts, so you want to be mindful of that. It can’t be too ripe but can’t be too hard. If too hard it will be astringent kind of like an unripe Hachiya persimmon that feels wierd on your tongue. Great video though! What part of the states are you in like gardening zone?
Read my comment.
What a beautiful mamey little tree!
Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
These are supposed to be really soft and sweet. You could just dip a spoon in with no fuss. I usually just got halves of the fruit in the freezer section of our corner bodega and ate it like ice cream.
deep vivid color and soft to the touch is how I prefer to consume sapote
live foodage thanks! I think I was I didn’t know what it’s supposed to taste like, but I had a different expectation in mind! Haha I wish I could try one that someone who eats them a lot picked out where I know I have a good one! Thanks for watching!
My Cuban friend makes shakes using sweetened condensed milk and the pulp. You could also use ice cream.
Awesome! I’ve never seen a fruit like that. Thanks for sharing.😊
Trish Gordon yes it was new for me as well! Thanks for watching!
It should be squishy and it tastes like a sweet potato..and has the same exact consistency as a sweet potatoes too...very starchy..these are great for making shakes and for baking with!
This was a cool and fun video
The fruit is very sweet when fully ripe.
I’d love an update please and thank you!! It grew a LOT in one month!
Unfortunately these plants did not appreciate when I moved back to Bowie because the climate was too arid for them to thrive here.
Awesome! Im going to try this gracias
Mamey is delicious 😙 I have 2 seeds and i can't wait to grow a mamey tree, 🤗🤗🤗
Howd did the grow? Just curious
I'm super far from a mamey expert, I've just been sprouting a seed for a few days now myself, but that whole step you mentioned hearing about cracking the seed open? My seed wasn't split when I got it (your fruit was much more ripe than mine not sure if your was necessarily over ripe but anyway) and I had no need to split the seed. Just soaked it in water 12ish hours on 12ish hours off for a few days like any other seed I want to grow or like the sprouts I grow to eat and it split just fine on its own. For some the extra time waiting for it to do it on it's own might be more effort but for me I'd rather play it safe and just stick it in water for a bit than bother trying to properly crack it myself. It's like an extra day or two to save the worry of 'am I about to break this seed way too hard'. Just my personal preference
I just put my seed in a pot with soil and outer split out with the heat of the sunshine.
So I just removed the shelf slowly, I'm not sure about smacking the seeds 😂
Great video
That was interesting. I'll have to research it more. I'm in central Florida and also have a greenhouse for those plants that I "just gotta have". Thank you
Nancy Fahey it was an interesting experience. It tasted like pumpkin/almond/Honey/apricot yet really tasted like none of them all at the same time. I wouldn’t say the fruit was in my top ten or anything but it’s definitely something I’ve never tasted before and you never know til you try! Thanks for watching!
I love my Mains fruit
Ir taste like yam or pumkin pie
The taste it's like no other. Very unique
You are right.tha is not ripe.
I live in South Florida, I have a lot of rare Tropical fruit trees. There are 8 cultivars of Mamey Sapote. Pantin are the best. It takes over 7 years after the tree is 6 feet tall, when the tree is about 15 feet tall, to get edible fruit. When the tree is 8 feet tall, the fruit will only be the size of a pea. Every year the fruit will get bigger, but they will never ripen. My first two trees were broken by a hurricane, and died. My third tree was broken by a hurricane but survived. Instead of one trunk growing back, 5 grew back, so it is V shaped. I've learned that when a hurricane is coming, rip or cut all the leaves off of your trees. Mamey Sapote leaves just snap off; bananas leaves have to be cut off with a machete. I've also learned, to only buy fruit trees from a best nurseries. They will grow 12 trees, but only graft from the best tree of the 12. I bought all of my trees when they were 6 ft tall; in 5 or 7 gallon pots. It is not worth growing a tree from seed and waiting 15 years (30 year for a Jaboticaba tree) to get fruit; and then find out that the fruit is not very good. Or buying a 6 foot tree from Home Depot, waiting 5 years, to get the same result. It is always better to buy a grafted tree, because it will be identical to its parent tree. Also, of all of the Tropical Trees I have (I live in Zone 10 Semi-Tropical), the Sapote is the most cold sensitive. A 60 degree night will kill all of the leaves and fruit. My tree survived a few 50 degree nights this winter. The tree and several fruit survived, this my be my first year in 25 years that I will have Mamey Sapotes. You can buy Mamey Sapotes in the Latino Markets here when they are in season for $5 a pound, and they are usually 4 pounds so one fruit is $20. But you never know what cultivar they are, and they are never as good as a Pantin. Pantin Mamey Sapotes taste like the desert Flan.
Right. Tbh my goal wasn’t ever to really get a tree that would produce fruit. I knew from the start it would never get big enough and would take like 20 years even if it did. Mainly did it because it was something different and I had the seed already after buying the fruit haha I really appreciate the info though! Some good things to know! Thanks for watching and for the knowledge!
@@TheMoreYouGrow The way to tell if they are ripe is to scratch the skin with your finger nail, it should be redish -orange inside. Yours has dents in it so I thought it was overripe. But after watching the video again you say that it is touch to cut, then it it is tough to twist open, then it makes a snapping sound when it snaps open, like a raw potato. It should feel like a ripe peach, not a raw potato. So yours was not ripe yet. It should be sweet similar to a ripe cantaloupe. Look for them in the summer, if you have Latino Markets in your area. The cultivar that you have, has a big seed and a thin layer of meat. Also try a Sapodilla, which tastes like brown sugar, they are super sweet. I guess you have seen this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pouteria_sapota
Interesting fruit, I've never heard of that one. I bet you were shocked when it grew so quickly!
Caz Kawit you’re right I was! Especially since it says online they take a long time haha!
They are delicious
It’s like a Papaya & a sweet potato kinda sweet & dence
I have three 3 trees in my backyard. Trinidad & Tobago WI.
Mamey sapote fruits are usually never ripe enough at the store you just have to let it sit on the counter for 5 days or more for it to fully ripen from being hard
I have a seed and planted it about a week ago I got mine at the farmers market It was super soft. The coating has a split waiting for sprout. .
Be patient. It does take awhile unfortunately 😅
That is so cool. I want to try more things like this.
Daybird Aviaries first step is to do it! Or as Justin Rhodes likes to say “Just Plant!” Haha
I just ate some moments ago.
Yours did not look it was ripe.
My seed had begun to sprout inside the fruit.
Do they need to be budded ?
You use those in milk shakes with milk and sugar or honey it's so good it's a fruit that grows in my country of Cuba and colombia
How cool!
Back in the Philippines this fruit is called Chico. It comes in two varieties, a small fruit, which is very sweet , more like a ripe pear dipped in brown sugar. The big fruit variety is not sweet at all if at all.
To tell when a Mamey is ripe you scratch the skin with your fingernail, if it is green it’s not ripe, if it’s pink it’s almost ripe either pick it off the tree or buy it at the store and eat it in a day or two. When ripe, it has a pumpkin, almond, vanilla flavor with a custard texture. Very yummy in my opinion...
shoulda waited till it was soft..then you dont need to cut it & it will be pre sprouted like mine. first one i bought. i thought i left it too long but it was perfect..very yummy and just squeezed it out & it was sprouting very nicely
They are all over Miami $5 bucks each. Make shakes or eat them like Papaya.
Scratch off a bit of the skin. It should look bright red orange. If it looks like the one you tried, it’s too light, not ready/fully ripe yet. It’s creamy like avocado and very sweet. I usually cut and freeze, add ice, milk to a blender along with it, and turn into a delicious milkshake :) thanks for the wonderful video
I like when their more squishy they get really sweet kinda like when a banana is more black it’s sweeter and not concentrated flavor
And more concentrated flavor *^
I just opened one up it has two seeds in it that are germinating inside
Sapote smoothie is the BEST maybe you should've waited for it to be a bit more wrinkly if that makes sense lol but I love the tutorial 😊!
Thanks for sharing this video
If I recall, I think these are pretty starchy. I once used a bunch in a pie that had a pumpkin pie like consistency and flavor profile.
Yeah I definitely pick up the flavors similar to pumpkin when I eat it among others flavors
What type of temperature do it need to be in
If it is wrinkly on the outside and soft its ready and it is a big berry so the texture should be like a blueberry inside and it has a texture of a cold piece of pumpkin pie. the taste should be sweet and like a sweet potato
There’s other variety’s of mamey sapote that are better and softer but I think I suppose to be ripe with is when it quite soft and the flesh should be really soft as well but if the skin is tough it’s not ripe
And sweet!!!
Could you do the demo with Thai Sapoche ( same fruit ) but smaller version.
Do you have any new mamey videos?
To me it has a light sweet taste almost identical to a fig.
To me tasted like sweet potatoe pie pudding with the same texture. It was refrigerator cold too
In our country we eat sapodilla. It's smaller version of these.
They are usually very sweet and have a grainy pulp. Little crunchy, like sand mixed in the pulp.
I don't know about mamey spote. They both are same family sapotaceae.
Maybe that's not ripe enough.
Yuvan Raj when I read a little more I think it could be a little riper, but they aren’t super sweet. I think it came down to me not knowing what to expect but expecting something much fruitier/sweeter than what these are. I’m not entirely sure still. Wish I could go to central/South America where they are more popular and have someone pick one at the right stage for me to know what they taste like at the right ripeness! Maybe one day! Haha
WRONG! A Mamey Sapote is not a Mamey, as they call it in Cuba, and it is not a Sapodilla, or Nees Fruit, which is what they call Sapodills in Jamaica.
How is it now? I'm growing 2 but I heard it will take 7 years to bear fruit
Mine ended up getting a disease unfortunately. Yeah they take many years to bare fruit if you are lucky.
Mamey (pronounced maw-may) is grown in various tropical regions including South America, the Caribbean, and South FL. Personally, I think it tastes best in a shake or as ice cream.
Their supposed to be rather squishy and wrinkly when ripe. The ones I ate tasted similar to pumpkin pie.
How tall does the tree get?
Congratulations, was grow beautiful, that's intresting.
Grower George thanks George! Yeah it’s doing well!
I have tried countless times to get mamey to grow. Winn Dixie picks them to early and they never ripen just rot. I can't find them at the Latin store but occasionally the farm market. I've sprouted one in a bag but when I transplant them they always die. I'm in the Florida Keys so weather good year round. Great fruit in milkshakes
Can a tree grow in San Diego from a seed? And how long does it take to give fruits?
It probably would grow well there but the downside to growing from seed is time (takes 10+ years depending on the tree) and there’s no telling what the fruit will be like. Grafting will get you fruit much sooner and will give you good quality fruit
How long does it take for the tree of Mame to have the first fruit of mermaid
At least 5 years to bear fruit and more likely 7 years but the trees themselves are quite beautiful with large green leaves.
This one was still too small and not yet ripe. As stated below by another post, it will be deep orange and red inside when ripe, will be so soft you can cut it open like butter, and it will be very sweet and pasty. Put some in a blender with milk, cinnamon, and cacao for the best and healthiest chocolate tasting smoothie ever! Body builders ad one or two scoops of unflavored protein powder. My tree is over 20 years od and produces mamey (pronounced Mah-mey) fruit 3 times the size of the one in this video. I now have a seed which I germinated in a zip lock bag with water and paper towel for a few weeks. It sprouted and now is in a pot with soil and is about 8 inches tall after about 2 weeks, with many leafs. I water it about every other day. If you pick one from the tree too soon, or cut one open before it is extremely soft, then it will be too hard, not sweet, not ripe, and no good to eat ever.
How much water thay nide
yours is definitely green
Should be like eating brown sugar. From the store it will never be as sweet as if you were to pick a ripe one from a tree. Best thing to do is buy one that's not soft wrap it in paper and let it sit there a few days. Very softly touch it, if it's soft, you eat it.
I find that seeds that are really tough are a little tricky to germinate
He said mami 😂
shell has to be soft when ripe/ taste like sweet potato or pumkln
That seed is big dude. Hope it works.
Getting started on homesteading yeah it was crazy! It’s growing like a champ so far! You can see what it looks like now at the end of this video
My husband says it tastes like a cantaloupe and sweet potato mated.
They are supposed to be very sweet
That was not ripe, I have two beautiful Mamey trees the fruit is absolutely FANTASTIC and very Sweet, the color should be a orangey red color and tender all around.
I normally eat it with a Spoon, my Mamey is over one pound in weight here in Florida 😉
I am eating some right now
Do you know how to grow mammea apple seeds?
Sure is a pretty color not sure I’d grow it but the seed is really big cool I have seed if u want them b glad to send them to u I’m just right down in Texas
How is that tree you planted 4 years ago?
It grew for awhile but it didn’t last, did not like my arid climate well
You got a unripe one the best is when you poke it it's hast to be mushy or really soft all over no hard pard should exist and yes when really ripe it should be really sweet best fruit ever
No wonder that one tasted like a horsefly’s birthday cake 💩 😂 thanks for letting me know so that I didn’t think they all tasted that way! They seedling from it is still growing though!
Horsefly’s birthday cake?!?!? :D That’s too funny!!!
Sorry for the off topic question.... but.... When you went to the Rhodes Farm Tour Meetup, you had a tray of something green and talked about taking a sack of feed and turning it into 300 pounds of feed for your livestock. As I struggle to take care of my animal family on my social security check, I would really like more info about that. Have looked through your channel and have not found it discussed. Got a link for more info you could share? Thanks!
FallingLeaves I brought a tray of my wheat fodder from my wheat fodder system. I will be doing a video on that here in about 2 weeks or so telling all about it and how to do it 😊 so stay tuned for that!
Oh Great! I will certainly be watching for it. Thanks for taking the time to respond. Sorry for hijacking the conversation.
FallingLeaves you didn’t hijack anything 😊 I’m glad you asked about it! I’m excited to do a video on the set up. It definitely helps with feed cost
Thanks!
lets have an update vid . how is it now?
Well to give you an update it grew for about 6 months but it struggled the whole time due to my climate here in north Texas until it couldn’t hold on anymore. My air is too dry here
@@TheMoreYouGrow I am also in dry air I will try and place my seedling in a green house
do you think it may have been the cold weather? how cold did it get by you
scrape the skin ...if it is more orange underneath , it's ready ! ;) yours was too young
Your Mamey sapote was no where near ripe enough to cut and taste. The fruit should be super soft in all areas.
When it's completely ripe you can cut into them with a butter knife, the skin will be very easy to cut.
There should be absolutely no almond taste to a ripe Mamey sapote either.
The flesh should be soft, have a custard like texture, and taste, and taste like a bit of a flan and pumpkin pie - ish….
They are very sweet as well.
Usually, at least on all of the ones that I get, the seeds usually start to sprout while in the fruit.
I usually just throw the seeds into a 1 gallon pot of potting soil and water them in, they are super easy to sprout. I have never needed to crack the seed to get them to sprout.
I already said that and more. Lol
John, how are you starts doing now a year later?
I couldn’t find mamey sapote here I looked at the Asian markets and Mexican markets and they don’t have them you can also buy them from Miamifruit.org
It’s pretty season and even then hard to find in the grocery store.
That one was ripe and they are not as sweet as papaya. It tastes really good in milkshakes.
Where did you get that Mamey sapote?
Leann Layton at our HEB when I lived in College Station 😁