Which varieties you talking about, Clay....?
[and by the way, regarding our "lackluster climate" even though we have a shorter and overall less warm growing season and lack the higher humidity that they have in Florida, which I know most plants like, I'm thinking that with mangoes the lack of humidity (or less so...or none in my case out here in the desert) forestalls or eliminates many of the humidity-based diseases that the Floridians get....and another huge benefit, especially in this current winter pattern, is we don't get the really radical cold Arctic fronts that race through Canada, cut across the nation's mid-section and perpetrate so far south as they have. The Pacific Ocean definitely has a moderating affect on those fronts that come down to us from Alaska on occasion, and seem to cause less extreme swings (in my estimation anyway) in our weather patterns]
Also, with average lows being less that those in most of Florida, we can also reap the benefit of some fruits that need some cold to fruit. Not talking mango's here, but other sub-tropical fruit.....
So, enough of my blah, blah.....
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Guilty as charged!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gary