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I am wondering if anyone has recommendations for disease resistant mangoes that fruit well in wetter tropics. 100+ inches rainfall annual east side big island hawaii.. I am growing relatives like odorata and kasturi. So far I have planted brooks late, maha chanok, rapoza, chock anon. Most all fruits get destroyed by anthracnose on local trees. Ive seen florigon do well but it is not so great of a mango. Any suggestions would be most helpful thanksAdam CroweAina Exotics
Thanks for the feedback everyone, I will try to ask oscar when im ready to graft some curious about rosa and sri lankanas.. I have heard vietnamese mangoes do fruit better in wet hawaii, are there any standout varieties in from vietnam any of you know? I tried some from a seedling tree on windward oahu that were some of the best mangoes i ever had.
Quote from: Aina Exotics on August 04, 2018, 02:48:34 PMThanks for the feedback everyone, I will try to ask oscar when im ready to graft some curious about rosa and sri lankanas.. I have heard vietnamese mangoes do fruit better in wet hawaii, are there any standout varieties in from vietnam any of you know? I tried some from a seedling tree on windward oahu that were some of the best mangoes i ever had.Best of Vietnam --> Cac aka Coc
I’m sure there is some history explaining this but with all the talk of great mangos, Kensington Pride gets no mention. Does it not grow well in the USA?
Some Sri Lankan varieties are known to do well in wet conditions. See Karuth and Vellai Colomban. Dont know how they would do in Hawaiian climate.
Quote from: bsbullie on July 31, 2018, 08:45:15 PMSome Sri Lankan varieties are known to do well in wet conditions. See Karuth and Vellai Colomban. Dont know how they would do in Hawaiian climate.These varieties fruit in borderline rainforest climate without any care or spraying. During peak of two monsoon seasons May and October sun may not come out for entire month. These still manage to fruit. I saw Squam has a young tree. Would be interesting to see how it performs in Florida. I have Rapoza that managed to fruit for me during monsoon season without any spraying.
Quote from: DurianLover on August 06, 2018, 01:29:20 AMQuote from: bsbullie on July 31, 2018, 08:45:15 PMSome Sri Lankan varieties are known to do well in wet conditions. See Karuth and Vellai Colomban. Dont know how they would do in Hawaiian climate.These varieties fruit in borderline rainforest climate without any care or spraying. During peak of two monsoon seasons May and October sun may not come out for entire month. These still manage to fruit. I saw Squam has a young tree. Would be interesting to see how it performs in Florida. I have Rapoza that managed to fruit for me during monsoon season without any spraying.This is useful. Do tell how Karuth and Vellai C taste.Rapoza is a known persistent flowering cultivar so this makes sense.
The KP anomaly cannot easily be explained and neither can the fact that Floridian mangoes like keitt, kent and a whole lot of others are held in such low regard in Australia are very rarely sold commercially.and taste poor to most consumers.KP is held in high regard in SE Asia where they are exported to and premium prices are paid yet in the US they are considered inferior even to NMD and Maha Chanok.This has been discussed many times on the forum without resolution.