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Nice job! Watch for mites. I finally found out why my Pickering was about to bite the dust - mites. They love it when it's hot and dry. We have not had rain going on 2 months with temps 98F +.
Quote from: Mark in Texas on August 14, 2015, 07:37:04 AMNice job! Watch for mites. I finally found out why my Pickering was about to bite the dust - mites. They love it when it's hot and dry. We have not had rain going on 2 months with temps 98F +.MarkMites are a pain in the rear in summer but I've had to scrape off aphids on every tree ripen mangos.WslauMy mangos have been ripen early started in later June. 50% of my crop have ripen the others will ripen from now until JanuaryIn several varieties I've have a second crop. Cogshall is a well adapted mango for SoCal had 28 on my first crop about equal amount in the second.....mango tasting at your house in November
Quote from: JF on August 14, 2015, 10:16:38 AMQuote from: Mark in Texas on August 14, 2015, 07:37:04 AMNice job! Watch for mites. I finally found out why my Pickering was about to bite the dust - mites. They love it when it's hot and dry. We have not had rain going on 2 months with temps 98F +.MarkMites are a pain in the rear in summer but I've had to scrape off aphids on every tree ripen mangos.WslauMy mangos have been ripen early started in later June. 50% of my crop have ripen the others will ripen from now until JanuaryIn several varieties I've have a second crop. Cogshall is a well adapted mango for SoCal had 28 on my first crop about equal amount in the second.....mango tasting at your house in November JF,Seriously, I would love to host a mango tasting at my house....and even a scion exchange. Unfortunately, I would need all the help from the SoCaler's to have any fruit to taste or scions to share this year, as most of my trees are small. I checked again today and its even worse than I thought....50% of all my mango fruit is already off the tree(s). Normally this would be the start of my mango season. I'd be lucky to have even 5 more weeks of fruit.
Mark, thanks for flipping the pic it's annoying