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As mango season approaches and end in SoCal I edit my top ten list once again
1.LZ
2. Señorita
3.ST
4.Zinc
5.E4
6.OS
7.Creme brûlée
8.Parson
9.M4
10.HK
Change in the rankings. California mangos are much sweeter than the hundreds of Florida mangos I’ve tried this year, amazing 1.6lb LZ!!
Hey MarkFrank, did you say that this Señorita mango is a variety that came from Hispaniola (Haiti or D.R.)? How did it come to California? Is anyone in Florida growing it? What's the flavor profile?
This year señorita went up against over 200 Florida mangos and come out on top.
This was an 7 year old madame francis seedling same profile but sweeter and totally fiberless. Brix range from 25-28 has that nice Caribbean spicy flavor
That sounds tasty.
I wonder how this will do in FL?
Is anyone trying to grow it down here?
Magnificent Frank! U were able to have a sport LZ, harvest moon & now ST.
What is your magic? 🤣
Man Gonz, you keep better track than I do on my own stuff....forgot about those
Mr. Zill has taken the mango to a whole different level with his outstanding creations. Backyard growers should follow Leo Manuel’s advice and plant any mango you love and wait a few years for it to fruit. Here in Southern California it doesn’t take 10 years for a seedling to fruit in 3 years you’ll have fruits.For the most part I’m culling the vigorous ones and keeping the runts, I want to try and see if I can take great poly mangos like bolt, sweet tart, orange essence, wester, Pina colada which produce multi shoots and select out the runts. For the most part flavor is already incredible how can one improve any further? ....but I think maybe the angle is to get a great tasting mango in smaller tree. 🤷♂️
-Joep450
very nice to see lot of folks on this forum now have great collection of upcoming to be "top tiers" once they fruit. biggest collection of all might be with Mike T @ down under. I have several too, two are about to fruit next year, they bloomed this year in vane.
always tag name of parent seed and keep tags until fruiting, then if superior or different but excellent, then give it a name, spread wood around. otherwise topwork it.
My M4 Mangoes
Any brix readings on ur seedling senyorita?
it was 28, frank has not posted yet. also Amarpali was 27.
It was 28 the best mango I’ve had all year... beat E4and creme brûlée
Is it jst me?
Its very hot outside
It's not you
Beautiful!!!
Does it get windy there?
How much do you water them? Just looking for estimate answers (no need for GPM, Lol).
Thanks,
Trung
I dont get the hot warm santa ana winds as most those winds stay low in the valley, I do get some. I get high winds from ocean front from west side when its windy. On watering, I have it on deep watering every other day this year. due to heat we got I had no choice but to water. my monthly water bill is about $230 right now. once we start to cool, I will reduce watering by 50%
Hey Behl
I have some growing already in La Habra. Here is a small sample of the dozens of var in Yucatán ..... btw, and some compare to the best anonas out there
