Here are some close up shots of some of the grafts. I had to take the pictures at awkward angles because the sun was whitewashing the pictures.
This is one of the older cleft grafts done around late spring or early summer, it is an Edward Seedling from Eunice Messners Edward mango that she brought to Leo's house for tasting. Eunice recommended that I plant the seed because she felt that some seedling mangoes produce pretty decent fruit. I also grafted this seedling onto my slightly more mature Manilla mango that flowered last year in order to see if the rootstock can influence the grafted variety to bloom earlier than it normally would. The Manilla rootstock is not flowering yet so I may have to wait till next year to see if there is any influence.
This is the vegetative flush from the graft shown above. Edward seedling.
Here are two failed grafts and one that took, this is a green Thai mango, scions donated from a member of this forum.
This is a Maha Chanok with the buds ready to break, it has been in suspended animation for about two months and buds are finally growing
This is the same Maha scion but showing the buds about to break, it was grafted approx late oct.
This is a NDM graft that's been suspended for about 2-3 months, the buds are just starting to swell.
This is another one that has not pushed yet and like the others, it's been holding for a while and it's just starting to swell. Scion was donated from a forum member, I have to look at my notes to find out the variety.
I also have Carrie, Grafted Edward, Mallika and a Spirit of 76 that is overwintering in the garage. I will probably remove all fruit from all mango trees for another 1-3 years so that I can get my trees to size up. I believe it takes several years for mango trees in SoCal to acclimate and get settled in because of our relatively cooler winters and I eventually want a lot of fruit from my trees so I hope a little patience on my part will reward me with mangoes to share in future mango tastings.
Simon
