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Highs in the 80s for weeks now with lows around 70. Going to be overwhelmingly vegetative growth emerging going forward.
Just some scattered blooms on the Carrie and on the Coconut Cream (coco-cream has new vegetative growth now emerging too). The Pickering has one flower, but is mostly dormant. Both of my NDM's are still dormant with swollen buds. All of my other mango trees (lemon zest, glenn, and valencia pride) are just producing vegetative growth. The hurricane screwed up this mango season for me.
That's odd. I've got strong bloom, despite hurricane Irma and the late Sept pruning that followed. Even my lychees, which got blown apart from Irma have scattered blooms. The cold we had this winter has been phenomenal. Quote from: Tropicalgrower89 on February 17, 2018, 08:59:22 PMJust some scattered blooms on the Carrie and on the Coconut Cream (coco-cream has new vegetative growth now emerging too). The Pickering has one flower, but is mostly dormant. Both of my NDM's are still dormant with swollen buds. All of my other mango trees (lemon zest, glenn, and valencia pride) are just producing vegetative growth. The hurricane screwed up this mango season for me.
We like a cold dry winter for dormancy for mangoes and lychees in South Florida. This leads to a better bloom. Various Caribbean islands such as Haiti and Jamaica have warmer winters than Florida. How do they get decent mango production with nil or no dormancy? Is it the mango varieties that they grow?