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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Future’s Florida Fruit Feast - Vol 11
« on: March 04, 2024, 11:38:20 AM »Were those Marc Anthony's poly?
Small delicious fruit. From memory - mono.
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Were those Marc Anthony's poly?
What’s in hand?
Honey kiss
orange sherbet
Maha Chanok
Crystal
zinc
Beverly
Venus
mallika
Jakarta
Graham
ivory
sweet tart
white pirie
Sunset
nam doc mai Sia tong
lemon zest
cotton candy
m4
rosigold
Neelam
Lil Gem
Ppk
Step
Keitt
Golden Nugget
Mangifera lalijiwa
Banganapalle
Nam Doc Mai
Kiewya
Marc Anthony
Harvest Moon
San Felipe
Kent
Keitt, Lil Gem, Orange Sherbet, Nam Doc Mai, Golden Nugget, Mallika
so i bought my first mango tree and its a keitt and i will plant this beauty in a 30 gal grow bag (i dont have room for now till i will buy a land this a dream for now lol)
anyway i want to get owais mango since egyptians mango work good where i live (im not for usa)
what do you think good or bad mango???
Yes, it is totally worth it to grow mono versions of Polyembryonic varieties. This applies only if you have the space to experiment. The mono version of Polyembryonic varieties have approximately 50% of its genes from the maternal parent so if those genes happen to have some beneficial traits from the mother tree, you could get those traits in the fruit of that seedling. Same goes with regular mono varieties.
With the mono version of Polyembryonic varieties, there is the possibility that the single seedling is selfed, it pollinated itself when the fruit was formed, or it was pollinated with another variety(zygotic). In either of these scenarios, there will be a mixing of the genes.
For Lemon Zest as an example, if the seedling was a result of selfing, you know that there is citrus in the genotype/phenotype and selfing may or may not enhance those traits. You could get fruit or growth characteristics that are better than the parent but you could also enhance the bad traits as well!
If the LZ seedling was cross pollinated with another variety, you could a seedling that produces completely different fruit but it could also be very similar to the original parent type fruit depending on what genes are dominant. I know nothing about mango genetics so other factors can play a role in this respect.
I’ve actually been planting E4, Sweet Tart and Lemon Zest seedlings in hopes of growing and fruiting a zygotic seedling (non-clone) in the hopes of getting a better version of the fruit/tree.
It would be awesome to get LZ that is precocious and highly productive without spraying. An E4 that has less fiber and changes color when ripe would be great. Sweet Tart, hmmm, not much I’d change but who knows, maybe it could somehow taste better or grow even more vigorous for me.
Simon
I’m new here are you hosting a feast?
I’m new here are you hosting a feast?
I think he should.
purslane. I have some that just randomly started growing in my garden, it grows year-round through the summer. There are improved purslane varieties that you can order from seed companies. I just go and eat a few leaves when I'm outside, it isn't something you want to eat a ton of at once
Cambodiana Mango Seedling
After a couple years of producing, I thought this would be a good time for a write-up. My tree produced fruit after 5 years from seed but I waited for year 7 to confirm mango quality and size. This tree consistently puts out 6 ounce size fruit and one of the earliest to ripen in my yard. It’s a strong producer of disease free fruit, flowers, and leaves. Lanky grower that needs a good pruning. I’ll get to it someday…right. If left to ripen on the tree, the fruit turn a beautiful orange with yellow-orange fiberless flesh and brix in low 20s. Can also be picked early with a hint of yellow and they ripen on the counter just fine. Flavor is pure indochinese. Apparently this is the OG of all other indochinese types we love from Zill. It’s like a Sweet Tart mango, but smaller. Polyembryonic seed, however, I only have luck growing out the primary shoot in the subsequent generations. I have planted out several seedlings of this seedling on my property due to the favorable characteristics of the mother. Another win for us SoCA seedling growers.
Hi folks!
You can visit La Conception botanical garden. They introduce new fruit tree when I was there 6 years ago. Curious if the jackfruit, litchi, longan, banana Cavendish, sapote mamey are still there? Please let me know!
https://acclimatons.com/le-jardin-botanique-de-malaga-la-concepcion/
There are also a fruit festival this year at Rufino (he is passionate by tropical fruit, you should go and visit his land).
https://fruitstock.eu/fruitstock-festival/?fbclid=IwAR1tVimp6DV3B5Cqjco0gCF5OLNLoB9qLPnXlisCJzjU1IV2nkBtsTzge0w&prenom=Aude&email=teyssota%40yahoo.fr&ev=242774
There are many interesting producer of mango between Motril / Nerja/ Velez Malaga, as well as nurseries.
By the way, anyone know if frutales tropicales nursery still exist (they used to have rare tropical fruit)?
Enjoy the “Malaga” Mango’s . 100 points if you can find a grower that will sell you a known cultivar of Mango or Cherimoya.
I went to Malaga and Almunecar in season hoping to catch the Cherimoya festival . We stayed next to a 20+ acre Cherimoya orchard right in Almunecar and it was like asking people about the mafia or human smuggling off the coast.
No one would talk about it and gave us dirty looks like we were crazy for asking. T’was weird indeed.
There must be someone doing it up right in those nice growing conditions though.
Looking forward to see’ing what y’alls can rustle up.
I must say you have quite the channel. Thank you. I’m heading to Malaga area so will PM you to compare notes.
I was there 3 months ago. Unless you are invited to someone's garden, I don't think you will find anything else outside Malaga central market. That's where all exotics are. They even had salak and mangosteen for 20 EUR/kilo. ( imported of course ). Top tier fresh figs and cherimoyas are your best hope right now. In general I think Southern Spain is noticeably cooler overall than Southern California even though their climates classified as the same.