Pickering is definitely super productive and the fruit is really awesome with the desert heat. Grows pretty good once you remove the fruit. I would suggest you withhold fruit for 2 years because they really do not grow much in the year you let it fruit. If you can keep it green and growing for 2 years you will have a beautiful bush that will hold 20 or more mangoes. The longer you wait to let it hold fruit the more you will get once you do. Pickering is a mango machine and the flavor of desert ripened is really tough to beat. The sooner you get those flowers off the sooner it's going to branch. Maha Chanok is another machine and does well here in the desert. A lot of asian varieties do not take our heat and dry air too well, but zills Maha Chanok is vigorous, long season, and super productive. Did you get yours from Samus O'leary tropicals locally or did you mail order?
