Mango Madness

By Tribune Herald

Published: Monday, November 2, 2009 8:42 AM HST

Jenna Roussy, an employee at Hilo Shark's Coffee, holds a 7-pound Keitt mango on Friday at the shop. The fruit is possibly the largest mango ever grown in the U.S., and surpassed only by the current world record holder, a 7-pound, 7-ounce Keitt cultivated in the Philippines. The 7-pounder trumps Kailua-Kona resident Colleen Porter's 5-pound, 7-ounce fruit, declared the world's heaviest mango in 2006 by the Guinness Book of World Records. The ripening fruit should be ready for consumption in a few days, but in the meantime remains on display in the shop owned by Roussy's employer, Tom Sharkey, right. Hilo radiologist Scott Grosskreutz, left, who grew the mango in his Honomu backyard, holds a half-pound Brook mango for comparison.

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Grosskreutz stands among his mammoth mangoes in the yard of his Big Island home. - Photo Courtesy Of Scott Grosskreutz


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Roberta wrote on Nov 2, 2009 11:17 AM:

" What did he use Miracle Grow???? "

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