New growth on Pickering mango

[dross99_si]

Haven’t seen growth like this before. So many leaves this close together and all the little nodes. Normal?

[Cookie Monster]

Normal.

[dross99_si]

Thanks Cookie Monster

[Squam256]

Mixed vegetative/floral shoots. Very common when the cold stimulus was insufficient to trigger a complete floral response in the buds.

[dross99_si]

Mixed vegetative/floral shoots. Very common when the cold stimulus was insufficient to trigger a complete floral response in the buds.

Strange. So it's part flower/part vegetative growth? As it matures will it just turn to pure vegetative? Is it bad for the plant in any way? It may be unrelated, but this same plant dropped 4-5 of its most mature bottom leaves as well. They were sitting on the surface of the potting soil when I went outside yesterday morning. Any thoughts on that?

[mangokothiyan]

Mixed vegetative/floral shoots. Very common when the cold stimulus was insufficient to trigger a complete floral response in the buds.

Strange. So it's part flower/part vegetative growth? As it matures will it just turn to pure vegetative? Is it bad for the plant in any way? It may be unrelated, but this same plant dropped 4-5 of its most mature bottom leaves as well. They were sitting on the surface of the potting soil when I went outside yesterday morning. Any thoughts on that?

It is perfectly normal and will not hurt the tree at all. The growth will not turn to pure vegetative; you should get fruits from such branches. I wouldn't worry at all about the tree shedding its bottom leaves; happens all the time.

[dross99_si]

A few more shots from today. Just wanted to share.

[dross99_si]

So Squam says to wait till March to remove these mixed blooms. My question is should I cut/snap these bloom spikes at their bases or should I make the cut below the bases?
These spikes occurred where I tipped at a growth ring site and I was hoping that these would turn into new branches, but this occurred instead.
Its tough to figure out how to remove these the right way (without removing too much of the already small main branches) and encourage new vegetative branch growth to bulk up the tree as a whole. Suggestions?
Thanks guys!

[dross99_si]

[dross99_si]

Snap off at blue or cut at red?

[mangokothiyan]

Snap off at blue or cut at red?

I would cut it off at the red. That way, you will get multiple new branches, of which you can keep three of the best.