Awesome Scott! Lets stay connected on those projects.
Gnappi Ive heard of your Juicy Lucy. I think Roberto posted its brix rating once amd said very good things about it. Sounds very appealing by your description. Im actually doing a couple myself. Just as Scott described I'll be grafting them onto mature trees as well. Polys will be left to compete in same pot and once they reach scion quality they'll get cut and grafted. Same with Monos once theyre ready I'll keep cutting amd grafting onto trees.
Heres my list so far: Madame Francis from Haiti, Mingolo and Banilejo from DR, a bunch special Nam Dak Mai looking variety that the owner told me it was a totapuri seedling his father planted (some poly seeds some mono), Carrie, Royal Purple, Orange Delicious, Banana Mango, Irwin, Super Julie, Chokanon, Kent, Mahachanok, Zills Raw Honey, Haden, & San Felipe. The most special to me is my "Mimas Nurse" project.
My grandmother who we all call Mima and all my friends also know as Mima spent some time recently in the hospital battling her diabetes. We were talking about Mangoes in the hospital room and her nurse jumped in the conversation and said her mother had planted a Julie seed in her back yard over 30 years ago. She claimed it was better than the Julies back home in Jamaica and Mima asked her to bring her some for me to plant a seed for her. The nurse asked if it was ok being that Mimas sugar was literally in the 500s. We said it was ok and she brought 2 mangoes. I had it also in my head to plant the seeds in hope for something special to come out and wow they are special. One sprouted with no leaves and just this most akward little stem kept pushing forward. It grew to about 4 inches with no leaves and then all of a sudden grew leaves. Then the other sprouted into what my grandmother said she's never seen before. This seedling has the fattest leaves Ive ever seen and its extremely vigorous. She begged me to keep that one with her and work it until it fruits. I'll keep you all posted on my findings. Also pray for Mima if you dont mind. Thank you
Best Regards,
Alex