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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: For Sale- Mulberry scion wood
« on: June 06, 2021, 11:35:19 PM »
Do you know if these can wait a month in fridge please?
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If we are talking about disappointing mangoes then kent should feature in discussion as should Julie, TA, haden, brooks,palmer and even keitt. If you have a mixed bag of mangoes and eat them together these don't fair well in open competition.
The one time a fruit exceeded my expectation by very far, is when I had an imported Indian Alphonso, after years munching on commercial store bought varieties.
I can relate to that. Cuz that's pretty much was my experience for years. I thought store-bought mango were putrid. Then one day I had a fresh Florida Mango off the tree and things have never been the same. I did give a store-bought mango a second chance thinking that maybe I just wasn't purchasing ripe ones. But after one bite it went straight to the rubbish can
You should be able to grow Mangoes in the bay area.
I did lecture about it a month ago in Santa Cruz
https://drive.google.com/.../1RHCXpvNuoSi2ySP6kZ.../view...
Itay
Ok, then should I plant multiple trees?
What if I don’t have a mature tree? Should I still graft two seedlings?
Ok, I'll start my mango from seed experiment. Just a question, how long does it take a mango to go from seed to fruit?
In 1985, a large tree-spade truck moved several dozen mature mango trees from deep sandy soil near US-1 in Boynton Beach, southeastern Florida.
Some of them were seedlings that had grown in situ. Taproots were checked for but none were found. All the cones of soil moved had loose sand at the bottoms.
Have you done it before from other countries that you visited? What would be a good excuse if getting searched by customs agency then U.S. Food and Agriculture?
On a side note, the variety of pineapple I want to grow/eat the most is the Meli Kalima. My friend visited Hawaii and said it was the most delicious pineapple he has ever eaten. I believe it is a patented variety so unfortunately no growing of this variety for us.
Lets say I want to try whatever variety that yields from a monoembryonic mango seed. If I take a scion from that seedling and put it in a well established mango tree, will it bear fruit earlier?? Really hope it does! Hope someone can shed some light
Simon
Thanks for keeping this thread and project going. I’m curious about your efforts on growing direct from seed. What’s the oldest seedling you have? Anything that’s flowered yet?
Looking at your opening post on this thread, it seems you have all the making of an expert - willingness to make more mistakes than anyone else in a narrow field. I’m talking to a friend, we are bouncing around ideas on the fastest way to get a seedling to fruit. These include girdling, tipping, grafting a seedling onto a seedling (sounds odd but there is some evidence...), potassium, horizontal branch bending...
Keen to hear more about the Cali experiences
I got two Maya mangoes in my box from Tropical Acres in July. They were meh.
I got one of the seeds to sprout, and its growing in a pot in my front yard right now...
Simon, during the early years of a mango seedling in the ground, how many set of leaves should I expect per season please? My seedlings have been kinda slow so I was wondering if it's normal.
I just counted how many leaves are on my E4 seedling that was planted this year and it has 58 matured leaves and 15 new leaves forming at the tip. I included the tiny leaves at the bottom in the leaf count. It’s about 2.5-3 feet tall right now. Here’s a picture
Simon
I was visiting the experimental station where some varieties are being evaluated, wanted to see what was still holding fruit there, and came across 2 beautiful looking Maya, that have fallen, but they were perfect looking, the fruit is highly attractive, small. I ate one, the flesh was firm, not super juicy, a little fiber close to the seed.
As for taste, It had a odd flavor, that took me time to pin down, then it hit me, it tasted like Mango with Barbados Cherries, I actually enjoyed this little mangoes. are there better mangoes? sure, but this is a decent mango, clean fruit, colorful, I can see why it was chosen for commercial purposes.