Your two or three or four best blooming mango trees

[puglvr1]

Thanks JF, that's good to hear!

[zands]

JF in La Habra --for what it is worth my Glenn is also putting forth new growth unlike my other mangoes and panicles too...Maybe it is a habit of the Glenn.

[Fruitguy]

Great pics everyone.  Looks like we have some serious mango growers here!   

[Cookie Monster]

Ditto for mine. About 10% new growth, the rest flowers.

JF in La Habra --for what it is worth my Glenn is also putting forth new growth unlike my other mangoes and panicles too...Maybe it is a habit of the Glenn.

[Tropicalgrower89]

My glenn= nothing.  Looks like it's still dormant with one small new growth.

[Sleepdoc]

My best bloomers are ..

Glenn



Khun See/Pim Saen Mun/Florigon/Glenn   my topworking experiment


Haden



Carrie


Angie


Some others that are also blooming are :
Pickering
Ice Cream
Nam Doc Mai
Fairchild
Cogshall
Rosigold topped with Mallika and Carrie
Mallika
Alanpur Baneshan
Alfonso
Young
Pina Colada
Valencia pride and Heidi with only a handful of blooms thus far ..

No Blooms:
Langra Benarsi
Harvest Moon
Lemon Zest
Coconut Cream
PPK

[puglvr1]

Sleepdoc...I'm green with envy!! AWESOME trees!! Amazing collection you have there.

[zands]

Sleepdoc--
Your trees are burdened down with blooms
What I like is how leafy they are. So filled in. Not scraggly at all. You must be doing some intelligent pruning and management. Foliar nutritional sprays? Your Haden has lots of nice low branching out ....unlike mine at least. And Haden is an upright grower. I like Hadens and hope I get a good crop this year

[Sleepdoc]

Thanks Pugz and Zands.  I do spray and tip, and use controlled pruning on the smaller trees which I had planted myself.  I plan on keeping those as manageable as possible .

  The larger and established trees were pruned by Wilma, with a Tri-annual major prune-back by me.  Thing is, when I give them a harsh pruning, they skip a year or two of production....I used to spray micros, copper, etc on the large trees, but that was quite a job.  The Big ones are on their own now, as it's just not worth the labor. 

I give Sulfate of Potash to all the mango trees.  I applied 100lbs of it last month

[Tomas]

My Pickering and Mallika are in bloom now.

[zands]

My Pickering and Mallika are in bloom now.

My Pickering and Neelam were last to bloom but are finally pushing out panicles

[Tim]

Zands - any update on developing fruits on your front yard trees, any fruit gone missing yet?  It may not be much trouble for you having a cop in the neighborhood.  One of my neighbors got really pissed his gold nugget tangerine tree got stripped (it's worse this year than most), he cut the poor thing to the ground. 

[zands]

Zands - any update on developing fruits on your front yard trees, any fruit gone missing yet?  It may not be much trouble for you having a cop in the neighborhood.  One of my neighbors got really pissed his gold nugget tangerine tree got stripped (it's worse this year than most), he cut the poor thing to the ground.

Got one side yard Kent fruit taken which is aggravating because they look great but are not anywhere near ripe. I got one Glenn taken from backyard tree in a well  protected place taken by utility workers but only because they had to walk through my yard to get to something. I gave them two more fruits because I liked them and could tell they appreciated mangoes PLUS that Glenn tree has lots more.

Besides cops it is really hard to park by my house you will be noticed and maybe rear-ended. So no tree stripping but maybe someone walking by grabs one or two. I just put up some "PRIVATE PROPERTY" signs

One of my neighbors got really pissed his gold nugget tangerine tree got stripped (it's worse this year than most), he cut the poor thing to the ground.

That's cruel and dumb. He should have found someone to take it. Or put bird netting all over it. Thievery from farms can get very bad in rural California.