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Quote from: Das Bhut on June 13, 2019, 11:48:21 PM

Quote from: gychang on June 13, 2019, 11:16:19 PM

So which are you planning to get?  Sugar Loaf and why?  I'm having similar dilemmas picking out here in hawaii.  Thanks!

if I didn't get sugar loaf I would've gotten an m-4

sugar loaf seems to be spreading and fairly disease resistant like a honey kiss, plus it's a green mango which will deter thieves a bit

Does sugar loaf tree produces lots of fruit in South Florida?

don't know it's still too new to tell

1. Sugar Loaf: pineapple/coconut flavor, fairly fast growing tree with a spreading habit. Green mango, gets a little bit of yellow when it's ripe.

2. orange essence: not very disease resistant, seems to be a huge tree that doesn't like to branch laterally, fruit is similar to orange sherbert. Medium sized yellow fruit.

3. honey kiss: dwarf slow growing tree, very precocious, highly productive, highly disease resistant, essentially the perfect tree. Fruit is 8/10 traditional mango flavor, polyembryonic, small red/yellow mango that will ripen on the tree. The fruit are also very easy to peel.

those are the 3 in my yard, if I had to get more then it'd be

4. Cac: highly vigorous, probably not precocious since it's a huge tree, highly disease resistant, best Indochinese mango (that I've tried) very sweet and very acidic, kind of similar to sweet tart.

5. sweet tart: vigorous, vertical growth habit, not sure about precocity, fairly disease resistant. Fruit is small and has a strong Indochinese flavor. May have trouble flowering.

6. po pyu kalay (lemon meringue): early season, easy to tell when to pick, great citrus flavor, very consistent producer. Fruit falls off the tree and bruises easily though. Parent of Lemo

7. pickering: dwarf tree, very precocious, good coconut flavor, fairly disease resistant

but it's probably a better idea to get fruit that will ripen out of mango season like sapodillas, jackfruit, avocados, etc. than be awash in a sea of mangos

I don't know about socal but in sfl alano tastes good even if you pick it when it's not ripe

Honey Kiss would probably fruit in 3 years depending on how it's own roots fare in your ground.

At least its a tree that seems to take care of itself. I enjoy the fruit from it too. I've heard of another tropical raspberry that is supposed to grow good in FL but I have yet to find it.

did you ever find it?

this is a good place to start with recommendations http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30789.0

looks like okrung to me but I'm pretty bad at identifying mangos. The info tropical acres farms has is good but I haven't gone through every mango https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/mangos

or PIN's mango info https://www.tropicalfruitnursery.com/variety-viewer-variety-mango-reference-4

let it grow in ground and inside of a big compost pile, but not big enough that it'll cook the tree

everything mentioned here: https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/index.html

If it were me I'd keep waiting.  Think about how much fruit you will get when it finally flowers

I have a "dwarf" in-ground japanese plum that grows and grows and grows, setting thousands of flowers but the fruit always drops before it is pea sized.  The trunk is at least 6in diameter.  I call it the selfish tree.

So I can wait a few  years and potentially have a selfish tree, or I could get a mulberry tree this week

I would add to Khan's post above.  For avocado, I would highly recommend the Super Hass. 

For mulberry, I would highly recommend Tice.

why would you recommend Tice over the others?

After making a list of my trees (so I don't forget what I have) it made me wonder how stuff does in other people's yards



avocado:
catalina 2 months in ground, naturally starting to branch out 4 inches from the base
oro negro 2 years in ground, no flowers yet

canistel:
bruce 5 years in ground, never flowered. Very slow growing.

dragonfruit:
david bowie 5 years in ground, flowers but never sets
physical graffiti never gotten a flower
vietnamese jaina grows fast, every year it puts out some big fruits that don't have much flavor

guanabana:
Miami 5 years in ground, minor scale problem
2 seedlings that are 2 years old, minor scale problem

jackfruit:
r55-22 2 years in ground, 14 feet tall with a trunk as big as a street lamp post, lots of vegetative growth but it's only put out one flower
too many seedlings

mango:
honey kiss 1 year in ground set 1 fruit this year after half-flowering. The lowest maintenance tree in my yard
orange essence 2 years in ground no flowers. Not a very vigorous or pretty or disease resistant tree
sugar loaf 2 months in a flooded area. Very clean and moderately vigorous tree

passionfruit:
purple possum decent fruit, not as good as panama red but more productive. Too vigorous, but makes good mulch

sapodilla:
alano 1 year in ground. It was 8 feet long but about as thick as a pencil when I got it so I pugged it after it gave me 4 fruit that I picked too early but were still amazing. It fruits more than it grows.
molix 2 months in ground, has fruit on it now. This thing is more vigorous than my passion fruit. The leaves make it very ornamental.

white sapote:
younghans always chlorotic