Effect of Harvest Time, Delay in Destemming and Desapping Treatment on the Sap Volume and Visual Quality of ‘Carabao’ Mango Fruit

The sap or latex injury in mango reduces fruit quality as it causes skin blemish during harvesting and postharvest handling. Sap volume visual of ‘Carabao’ affected by different harvest times the day (every hour from 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM), delay cutting (hourly up 6 h) pedicel at either base abscission zone desapping agents applied 1 7 h were assessed. was assessed allowing flow on after re-cutting zone. measured while injury, days table ripe stage, quality, weight loss, degree anthracnose stem end rot storage. experiments laid out using completely randomized design. ranged 0.06 0.25 mL fruit-1. lowest recorded harvested afternoon between 1:00 PM, highest noted 10:00 AM. relative humidity air Better stage - 2:00 4:00 PM. did not vary. destemming location cut length affect quality. However, rather than tended result better which helped ripening. All treatments, such 1.0 % alum, detergent, 0.5 lime [Ca(OH)2], water, could control injury. Untreated showed longer shelf life due a lower anthracnose. Stem-end vary among agents. Among water is found reduce damage better. Harvesting later day, zone, washing mangoes with can mango.