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Pina Colada Tree Size, Growth Rate, Vigorousness-- At least in my yard the new Zill Pina Colada is a slow, non-vigorous grower. In fact It does not grow fast enough for me! The fruits taste great, an 8.5 out of 10 but are small. Maybe I got a dwarfish pina colada. Maybe others have different experience.
(REF)-- I don't see Pina Colada as being that small in the long run.
(REF)Productivity and Precociousness-- My Pina Colada tree had a full bloom and bore one (1) fruit. It was unevenly ripened. I cut off two main branches and am topworking the tree into a more productive variety.
(REF)-- I was optimistic when I planted my Pina Colada mango tree. It has been in the ground for about two years. It had a full bloom this year and zero fruit set. In comparison other trees of the same age have produced over 30 mangos. I plan on giving Pina Colada another year, but I am doubtful of the tree's ability to be productive in my yard. In preparation to say farewell, I grafted two scions of a Carrie mango to the trunk of the Pina Colada.
(REF)-- Patience Grasshopper. You need to give tgese trees at leadt 5 years. If this is your thinking, you better get that axe out andbuy a bunch of pine trees.
(REF)-- Those two above photos were a joke. My PC is still small and is slow growing. I had two bland fruits from it last year. This year - a profusion of beautiful panicles that look better than what I see on other mango trees, but no fruits stayed. Might have been raining and fungus hit them.
(REF)-- The Pina Colada was productive when it was 40-14 and mother tree be productive since it has been named Pina Colada. I have seen the mother tree however I am not at liberty to post any pictures of it.
(REF)Ripening Time (Location dependent)?
Flavor / Color / Tasting Notes-- I've only tasted 6-8 Pina Colada mangos over the last few years. Last week I ate two, one of which was a bit tart for my taste. The other was possibly the finest damn thing I have ever tasted. I would compare it to mango candy, except that no candy could be that good.
I wonder if Patrick's care regimen was as successful with his Pina Colada as it was with Lemon Zest.
(REF)-- It can be very good if left to ripen to the proper stage prior to harvest. Would I rank it in the tops, don't think so. Texture is very soft. Picked to early, it is very chalky and will not have the proper flavor profile it should have. If space is limited and a factor, I would think hard about planting one. If space is more on the unlimited side, then stick one in the ground.
As for small mango and big seed, I am also not in the boat. Its all about the quality first. Sweet Tart is smaller in size with an obnoxious seed but I will highly recommend it because of its flavor. I would rather eat two amazing mangoes than one average mango just based on flesh to seed ratio.
(REF)-- I ate my first Pina Colada fruit yesterday. It was a bit tart similar to Sweet and tart mango. Did not taste like a pina colada cocktail. My tree is slow growing about 5.5 ft tall and the fruits are small. I give it a high rating but its is based on just one fruit.
(REF)-- Same as Mr Clean, my Pina Colada is a slow and frustrating grower. Easily the worst grower of my new Zills which are also LZ and ST (Sweet Tart). My pina colada also having a bizarrely wide diameter at the base at the graft. Also having a branching out that is 50% of optimum. For comparison I have another grafted tree next to it, planted at same time, that is growing 3 times better. I will post photos.
I hope my pina colada is not on some kind of dwarfing rootstock. Doubtful that it is on a Zill experimental dwarfing rootstock but I wonder.....
pina colada had a spectacular bloom this spring but held no fruits. Hopefully this big bloom means some fruit for 2015. But with such slow growth I hope I have the future orientation to remove all 2015 fruits except one. On iffy trees there is a low anxiety, I am always thinking/wondering ahead about what it will do next year. Anxiety about wasted space in my non-infinite size yard because I do have non-mango trees in pots that need to be in ground but I lack the space. Make that wasted in ground growth time too for these deserving but presently potted fruit trees.
BTW I think it is always good idea to have an army reserve of "new soldiers" growing in pots in case a fruit tree has a disaster or tastes awful. If you never plant them you can always sell them. I recently sold a muscadine grape I was waiting to plant that had great new growth on it simply because four months ago I stepped it up from the original one gallon to a three gallon pot. Thus the buyer has a better head start, She bought it to have grape vines covering part of a garden gazebo, to cool it in summer.
Anyone know when Pina Colada fruits tend to come in? Mid-season or outside mid-season?
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