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You might consider a microclimate. What you are looking for is good air circulation plus some sort of rain shadow. Maybe even a temporary tarp over a tree or two could help provide some dry. Perhaps the crest of a hill. You might also look around the area for a local variety which is adaptable to graft with. This fellow is in a high rainfall area in Hawaii and seems to have found such a variety.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMCkKl1AksU&t=7s
Quote from: pineislander on December 16, 2018, 07:31:02 PMYou might consider a microclimate. What you are looking for is good air circulation plus some sort of rain shadow. Maybe even a temporary tarp over a tree or two could help provide some dry. Perhaps the crest of a hill. You might also look around the area for a local variety which is adaptable to graft with. This fellow is in a high rainfall area in Hawaii and seems to have found such a variety.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMCkKl1AksU&t=7sThere is no such thing as a "rain proof mango", at least not of the indica species. All of the indicas will suffer to some extent from rains during flowering time in varying degrees. The variety he mentions, which he calls lajiwa, is really Mangifera laleejewa, which is a different species, and is really going to fruit well, but is not regular mango (indica). The other species that do well in rainy east Hawaii are odorata and kasturi. The mango he shows in the video i would guess is a Golden Glow. They are small and shaped like that and very susceptible to the russeting disease evident in his video.
You can also look intoKarutha KolombanVellai KolombanBoth from Sri Lankan and the literature I see says known to set fruit in rainy weather
Oscar, what species is golden glow?Also, what about m. quadrifida?Thanks,Peter
In equatorial tropics, you first need to find a mango variety that will flower from temperatures in the low 70's or upper 60's F. When it actually flowers, THEN the next worry in the high humidity encouraging rots on the flowers.Most mango varieties will never flower where I grew up in the central Amazon, but there I guess it was only about 150 meters elevation.Do you know what your before-sunrise low temperatures are there in eastern Ecuador?[/quoteCentral Amazon you mean in the state of amazonas?but from what I read the city of manaus has a dry season(tropical monsoon )