The Mango trees are heavily laden with loads of Mango's at our house in Plai Laem and they have to come down. Some of the trees are very high and if the ripe (or not so ripe) fruits fall down, they're most of the time damaged and can't be consumed or used otherwise anymore.
In Thailand the Mango is widely available and in order to get them out of the high tree tops, there are some nifty tools available, this long bamboo pole with net is just one of them. The net is attached to one end of the 3 to 4 meter long bamboo pole and has an iron frame but also two 'hooks' to loosen the mango from it's stem. In such way, the mango can be easily separated from it's stem and falls just a few centimeters into the net and you can haul the pole in and have a prefect and ideally ripe mango.
The length of these is sometimes staggering, up to 4 meters, as can be seen in this picture.
This is an end product, the mango on the right I picked out of a tree at about 3 to 4 meters height, the mango on the left is not ripe yet and fell out of a treeIt looks like we're in for a good season since the trees are indeed heavy laden this year!
Camille
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Hi Camille very timely. I just had smoked chicken, sticky rice and a lovely ripe mango for lunch.
Nice one Mike.
Just realised that besides the mangos in our garden also the papaya's and peanuts and a few other fruits are ripening up.
Hi Camille! I"ve already sent you an email before, but im not sure if it was really sent, so im trying again:) The mangoes from your garden look delicious! Are they already ripe this year? Im comming to Samui on tuesday with my friends and I love mangoes, so I wanted to ask if it would be possible to buy some from you. By some I mean as much as you can sell,not just a fiew piecies:D Or if you dont have, do you know anybody else et samui or any orchard with fruit in season? not necesarilly mangoes. Thank you very much!
Silva
Hi Silva,
Sorry for the late reply, yes I did get the original mail but I didn't ask
my wife yet due to the fact that I was travelling and busy with other
things. I will check with my wife and will get back to you.
Are you looking into kilos?
Hi Camille!
Thank you for the reply. Yes, im looking into kilos:)
Best regards,
Silva
Hi Silva,
Our pickings are thin this year, the rain earlier this destroyed much of our mangos and at this time, although it’s mango season, we have just a few. The markets around Samui will have them on sale however and it should be no problem to get as much as you want or need!
Hope this helps for now!
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