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Fairchild Farm Strange Mangoes
« on: November 11, 2017, 08:54:40 AM »
Recently enjoyed a tour of the Fairchild Farm. Dr. Ledesma was kind enough to show us around the property. Lots of amazing and rare fruits. Many cultivars of mango and sapodilla I had never heard of. Particularly interesting was the mango research she is doing.

Here are some pics of mango hybrids and other mango projects she is working on.




























Was sad to hear that funding has really dwindled. Hope that she and others like her will continue to conduct research and advance the field.
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Re: Fairchild Farm Strange Mangoes
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2017, 09:09:48 AM »




check out the color on the new growth of this one!





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Re: Fairchild Farm Strange Mangoes
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2017, 10:20:09 AM »
Thanks for sharing, I’m especially excited about her new hybrid Mangos bred for increased disease resistance. My friend just visited Dr Ledesma and she is a very passionate Mango lover.

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Re: Fairchild Farm Strange Mangoes
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2017, 11:50:31 AM »
Hey Simon. Yeah, she is really into mangoes and other tropical fruit. I am too, so it was a very nice visit.

Evidently they have identified different genes for disease resistance and cold resistance.

Mangoes may be coming to North Florida soon.

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Re: Fairchild Farm Strange Mangoes
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2017, 12:20:32 PM »
Can you tell us anything about the different hybrids?
Color, parentage. Did she mention anything flavor

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Re: Fairchild Farm Strange Mangoes
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2017, 01:39:41 PM »
The research that Dr Ledesma is doing is amazing, cutting edge work. Is the red new growth one of the rubropetala hybrids?

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Re: Fairchild Farm Strange Mangoes
« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2017, 04:32:21 PM »
I think someone posted a video about these, arent they indica x casturi hybrids?

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Re: Fairchild Farm Strange Mangoes
« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2017, 09:51:15 PM »
thanks everyone. I do not know what varieties she was mixing, and cannot id any plants from the pics. Not sure, but don't think I saw the casturi or kuini mother plants. Some of the hybrids she had were probably from them. I tried to get more info in the limited time we had.

She told me that one of her sapodillas blew all of the other ones out of the water, including alano and silas woods. They were almost ready.

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Re: Fairchild Farm Strange Mangoes
« Reply #8 on: November 22, 2017, 09:58:16 AM »


This is a little kuini (m. odorata) that a fellow forum member was kind enough to share with me. The color on the new growth leads me to believe that "yes", several of the hybrids pictured must be of kuini mixed with mango. 

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Re: Fairchild Farm Strange Mangoes
« Reply #9 on: November 22, 2017, 01:20:37 PM »
I've got some species mango & colorful new growth (blood red) occurs in a few of them so it is not strictly a kuini trait.  Kuini does color up well & it does hold the color until the leaves are quite large but it is not the only one with good color.  I don't recall for sure which do, I'll have to take a look & comment later.

I had done a posting about flush color in mangoes (indica) to see if anyone know of cultivars that have nice color in new growth & I think I got no response on this.  I have a seedling mango that has very good color but not quite as strong as some of the other species.  (This one is just destined to be top worked with choice mango cultivars.)  None of my "choice" mango cultivars have very good color in new growth -- I would think that there must be some good clones that have good color as well.

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Re: Fairchild Farm Strange Mangoes
« Reply #10 on: November 22, 2017, 01:48:20 PM »
That's good to know, as I haven't seen that distinct of coloration in new growth before.

A nice sized tree with new growth colored up like that would be beautiful.

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Re: Fairchild Farm Strange Mangoes
« Reply #11 on: November 22, 2017, 09:58:16 PM »
This is a previous thread on their breeding efforts.
http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=24670.msg293374#msg293374

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Re: Fairchild Farm Strange Mangoes
« Reply #12 on: November 24, 2017, 06:45:17 PM »
I've got some species mango & colorful new growth (blood red) occurs in a few of them so it is not strictly a kuini trait.  Kuini does color up well & it does hold the color until the leaves are quite large but it is not the only one with good color.  I don't recall for sure which do, I'll have to take a look & comment later.

I had done a posting about flush color in mangoes (indica) to see if anyone know of cultivars that have nice color in new growth & I think I got no response on this.  I have a seedling mango that has very good color but not quite as strong as some of the other species.  (This one is just destined to be top worked with choice mango cultivars.)  None of my "choice" mango cultivars have very good color in new growth -- I would think that there must be some good clones that have good color as well.

John

I need to holoholo your farm one day.