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Tropical Fruit Discussion / SoCal Orange County mango report 2017-2022
« on: August 26, 2022, 03:41:06 AM »
My mango report over the past few years in socal. The mango report is relatively pathetic this year. It's probably a mix of poor fertilizer choice, severe powdery mildew, and an extended freeze that damaged several trees.
In late February we had an unusually prolonged frost that caused cold damage. I'd never seen cold damage in my mango trees. Leaves partially wilted, and unfortunately these half-dead leaves were severely disease-prone as the dead portions were like a magnet for disease.
Sweet tart is an easy grower here in CA but flowering is hit and miss. Only 1 fruit this year. In years past brix has been higher than 30. Easy grower. no die back that I can ever remember. It has grown too big for itself and broken branches because of how heavy it has gotten.
Pina colada, coconut cream, M4, orange essence, phoenix - reliable flowering and disease free for me. Pina colada is of course slow growing but tastes fantastic. Highest brix for me was 36.
Sugarloaf also fruits reliably for me but my tree is small.
Lemon zest flowers profusely but loses almost everything to powdery mildew. The tree grows quickly though and loves this weather and will flower. If you want to grow it in socal, you need to manage die back quickly and spray for powdery mildew starting in February.
Orange sherbet grows very well. Flowered heavily for me the first year but hasn't flowered for a few years until putting out 1 mango this year.
Taralay has been a reliable heavy producer for me for a few years now except for this year. I did change my fertilizer regimen and gave heavy nitrogen this year.
Honey kiss... Grows but is prone to random die back.
Dot - gave fantastic fruit for a couple of years but 90% of the tree died back due to infection. It's hanging on by a thread.
Ppk doesn't like my climate. It's alive and flowers once per season sparsely but it prefers to grow when we have humid monsoon weather from Arizona. It didn't flush at all this season until this past week, and now it's going bonkers.
Kesar was like Ppk but finally succumbed to die back. I have a new graft on different rootstock and will get a better chance to judge it.
Venus - hard to say. It's growing under a mulberry and so is essentially shaded and suffers from random die back. I think it would do better in full sun.
Orange essence is a problem free aggressive grower and sets lots of fruit. If you are a rookie and want a Florida mango tree grow this.
Phoenix also grows vigorously and sets lots of fruit but does have random die back.
I mention the die back because it spreads rapidly and will kill the tree of it gets deep enough into the trunk.
Furit punch does well and is relatively disease free.
Juicy Peach seems like a dud but I got some wood from Alex at tropical acres and am regrafting it onto more vigorous rootstock. The original Juicy Peach has grown maybe 5 8nches in 4 years.
Pineapple Pleasure also seems like a dud. Hasn't flowered in 4 years. 1 tree has grown several feet whioe another has grown just a few inches.
Cotton candy is growing and did produce good quality fruit. I've only had it for 2 years now.
Mabruka flowers at the end of fall for me and produces fruit over winter and then something or someone steals it as it flattens up in spring.
Mallika died. Never liked the fruit. Giving it another chance.
M4 is also an easy grower and fruits reliably for me. It is later season for me like it is in Florida.
Cecilove is small and hasn't flowered yet.
Karen Michelle is small and hasn't flowered yet
M10 is small and haven't flowered yet.
In late February we had an unusually prolonged frost that caused cold damage. I'd never seen cold damage in my mango trees. Leaves partially wilted, and unfortunately these half-dead leaves were severely disease-prone as the dead portions were like a magnet for disease.
Sweet tart is an easy grower here in CA but flowering is hit and miss. Only 1 fruit this year. In years past brix has been higher than 30. Easy grower. no die back that I can ever remember. It has grown too big for itself and broken branches because of how heavy it has gotten.
Pina colada, coconut cream, M4, orange essence, phoenix - reliable flowering and disease free for me. Pina colada is of course slow growing but tastes fantastic. Highest brix for me was 36.
Sugarloaf also fruits reliably for me but my tree is small.
Lemon zest flowers profusely but loses almost everything to powdery mildew. The tree grows quickly though and loves this weather and will flower. If you want to grow it in socal, you need to manage die back quickly and spray for powdery mildew starting in February.
Orange sherbet grows very well. Flowered heavily for me the first year but hasn't flowered for a few years until putting out 1 mango this year.
Taralay has been a reliable heavy producer for me for a few years now except for this year. I did change my fertilizer regimen and gave heavy nitrogen this year.
Honey kiss... Grows but is prone to random die back.
Dot - gave fantastic fruit for a couple of years but 90% of the tree died back due to infection. It's hanging on by a thread.
Ppk doesn't like my climate. It's alive and flowers once per season sparsely but it prefers to grow when we have humid monsoon weather from Arizona. It didn't flush at all this season until this past week, and now it's going bonkers.
Kesar was like Ppk but finally succumbed to die back. I have a new graft on different rootstock and will get a better chance to judge it.
Venus - hard to say. It's growing under a mulberry and so is essentially shaded and suffers from random die back. I think it would do better in full sun.
Orange essence is a problem free aggressive grower and sets lots of fruit. If you are a rookie and want a Florida mango tree grow this.
Phoenix also grows vigorously and sets lots of fruit but does have random die back.
I mention the die back because it spreads rapidly and will kill the tree of it gets deep enough into the trunk.
Furit punch does well and is relatively disease free.
Juicy Peach seems like a dud but I got some wood from Alex at tropical acres and am regrafting it onto more vigorous rootstock. The original Juicy Peach has grown maybe 5 8nches in 4 years.
Pineapple Pleasure also seems like a dud. Hasn't flowered in 4 years. 1 tree has grown several feet whioe another has grown just a few inches.
Cotton candy is growing and did produce good quality fruit. I've only had it for 2 years now.
Mabruka flowers at the end of fall for me and produces fruit over winter and then something or someone steals it as it flattens up in spring.
Mallika died. Never liked the fruit. Giving it another chance.
M4 is also an easy grower and fruits reliably for me. It is later season for me like it is in Florida.
Cecilove is small and hasn't flowered yet.
Karen Michelle is small and hasn't flowered yet
M10 is small and haven't flowered yet.
