The Tropical Fruit Forum

Found an interesting post on polyembryony
http://www.ubergardener.com/grow-true-to-type-citrus-from-seed/

I dont think this has been found true experimentally in all mangos:

Nucellar embryos begin development as soon as pollination occurs while zygotic embryos take four weeks to develop; thus, nucellar embryos often crowd out the zygotic embryos.

I have a friend in ecuador that loves the mango de chupar sold there. The sucking method has been discussed here once by joeP with regard to the tyler. Does anyone know more about the mango de chupar? Is it an actual variety or just a blanket term for small sweet fibrous mangos that are appropriately consumed this way? If its a variety does it have another name?

http://www.fairchildgarden.org/livingcollections/tropicalfruitprogram/blog/id/242/read/For-the-Love-of-Mangos-Ecuador/

According to morton "kwai mi" is the same as mauritius. Is that not the case?

The reason i ask is that i had some kwai mai this weekend and i liked i much more than lychees id ever had. Didnt have that rose water taste.

Thank you both. I hope so. Will see next spring. As mark has pointed out in another thread, when the tree isn't working on growing its branches and leaves, its working on its roots. Crossing fingers.

I've had carabao and manila within a couple days of each other and preferred the manila. Seemed more tangy and complex. But the difference was fairly subtle and was well within the range of variability of all the manilas I had last season.

My pakistan mulberry just dropped all its leaves. Planted it last spring and it flowered and fruited almost immediately. Fruits tasted a bit grassy but not worried about that. After a couple months the leaves turned yellow. Tried a few things and eventually citrus and avocado food. Leaves colored up nicely after that,  were good for a few weeks and then suddenly yellowed, dried and dropped a week ago. Should i be worried? My neighbors mulberry thats only a couple years older is still lush and green.

Guava. Strawberry guava. Feijoa.

Grats!

For much of my yard, I mixed and amended large sections rather than just the hole for the tree. I would think this is a better option (when you don't have too much established) for a home garden vs. commercial or very large lots.

Join your local crfg. Scion exchanges are coming up.

Quote from: Tim on October 10, 2013, 12:47:27 PM

Nice looking trees, cute pup too... is it on fertilizing duty for your trees?

I'm a fan of Shiba Inu, but mine fertilizes only the backyard lawn.

Super cute puppy! My shiba will only fertilize neighbor's bushes. Will hold it for hours not to dirty his own territory. 

2 months in fridge...incredible thanks Behl!!

good after 2 months in the fridge oughta fill some voids!

Here we have brown clay soil (very heavy) but the mango's do fine.

After a flooding for several weeks my mangotree's growed like never before so fast.

I would stake the tree's well because clay might get soft after loads of rain and then the tree might fall over.

Interesting. By 'fooding for several weeks' do you mean there was standing above-ground water for several weeks? I'm in a similar situation as JeffDM, and while I give my trees a thorough soaking once a week in summer, I wonder if something more aggressive might help root penetration. My clay is impenetrable past about 2ft down. I've employed various planting/prep methods from just turning, to turning and mixing with compost, to turning and forking with square holes. Etc. Actually reading a book on soil science to try to understand better. My trees are too young though to tell what'll work in the long run. I can tell what's responded in the short term. White sapote, almond, cherry of the rio grand, grape and papaya have done extremely well. Loquot, jaboticaba, mulberry, avocado (with some tip burn), dragonfruit, jujube, surinam cherry seem ok. Pomelo and apricot are suffering.