Dr. Richard Campbell's orchard and some of his favorite mangos

[bovine421]

Personal communications indicate that dwarfing root-stocks found so far, dwarf some varieties well, and others not at all.  Sounds as though nurseries could end up with a complicated mess of different seedling batches.

Is it know which varieties that piva rootstock will dwarf? Truely Tropical has a beautiful Phoenix on a dwarf rootstock  that looks to be about 6 foot tall and maybe 6 feet wide from what i can guess from youtube. She stated it is about ten years old and she received as a gift.

[bovine421]

https://www.youtubetrimmer.com/view/?v=1Tf0Zg4P0Z0&start=234&end=298

[bsbullie]

Personal communications indicate that dwarfing root-stocks found so far, dwarf some varieties well, and others not at all.  Sounds as though nurseries could end up with a complicated mess of different seedling batches.

Is it know which varieties that piva rootstock will dwarf? Truely Tropical has a beautiful Phoenix on a dwarf rootstock  that looks to be about 6 foot tall and maybe 6 feet wide from what i can guess from youtube. She stated it is about ten years old and she received as a gift.

Two years old, not 10.  I have always thought my Phoenix was grafted on a dwarfing rootstock.  Mine was purchased and planted in the summer of 2017 as a 3 gallon about 2 feet tall is very similar in growth and height.  It survived the wrath of hurricane Irma as a very small tree only a few months in the ground.

[bovine421]

Personal communications indicate that dwarfing root-stocks found so far, dwarf some varieties well, and others not at all.  Sounds as though nurseries could end up with a complicated mess of different seedling batches.

Is it know which varieties that piva rootstock will dwarf? Truely Tropical has a beautiful Phoenix on a dwarf rootstock  that looks to be about 6 foot tall and maybe 6 feet wide from what i can guess from youtube. She stated it is about ten years old and she received as a gift.

Two years old, not 10.  I have always thought my Phoenix was grafted on a dwarfing rootstock.  Mine was purchased and planted in the summer of 2017 as a 3 gallon about 2 feet tall is very similar in growth and height.  It survived the wrath of hurricane Irma as a very small tree only a few months in the ground.

Was she somewhat precocious? Has she been generous with giving fruit?

[Guanabanus]

I have never heard of Piva root-stock.

[bsbullie]

Personal communications indicate that dwarfing root-stocks found so far, dwarf some varieties well, and others not at all.  Sounds as though nurseries could end up with a complicated mess of different seedling batches.

Is it know which varieties that piva rootstock will dwarf? Truely Tropical has a beautiful Phoenix on a dwarf rootstock  that looks to be about 6 foot tall and maybe 6 feet wide from what i can guess from youtube. She stated it is about ten years old and she received as a gift.

Two years old, not 10.  I have always thought my Phoenix was grafted on a dwarfing rootstock.  Mine was purchased and planted in the summer of 2017 as a 3 gallon about 2 feet tall is very similar in growth and height.  It survived the wrath of hurricane Irma as a very small tree only a few months in the ground.

Was she somewhat precocious? Has she been generous with giving fruit?

Last year, my tree flowered profusely and set fruit but I pulled all fruit.  This year, flowering was sparse (was sparse on most of my trees), and set a few fruit which I unwantingly fed to the squirrels.  I will post a picture of the tree

[pineislander]

Piva is said to be a fruit from South Africa.
https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/product-page/piva

[Future]

I have never heard of Piva root-stock.

I saw it last summer at Dr Campbell ‘s. Alex grows the tree and has fruit. The challenge with Piva is it grows slowly, so getting a decent size rootstock takes longer than normal. I’m told Gary Zill may have found rootstock’s holy grail: a vigorously rootstock that still dwarfs what’s worked onto it.

[bovine421]

Personal communications indicate that dwarfing root-stocks found so far, dwarf some varieties well, and others not at all.  Sounds as though nurseries could end up with a complicated mess of different seedling batches.

Is it know which varieties that piva rootstock will dwarf? Truely Tropical has a beautiful Phoenix on a dwarf rootstock  that looks to be about 6 foot tall and maybe 6 feet wide from what i can guess from youtube. She stated it is about ten years old and she received as a gift.

Two years old, not 10.  I have always thought my Phoenix was grafted on a dwarfing rootstock.  Mine was purchased and planted in the summer of 2017 as a 3 gallon about 2 feet tall is very similar in growth and height.  It survived the wrath of hurricane Irma as a very small tree only a few months in the ground.

Was she somewhat precocious? Has she been generous with giving fruit?

Last year, my tree flowered profusely and set fruit but I pulled all fruit.  This year, flowering was sparse (was sparse on most of my trees), and set a few fruit which I unwantingly fed to the squirrels.  I will post a picture of the tree

Please do i would enjoy seeing that photo I had one Phoenix this year and i am all in on this variety. I have budwood coming from Delray Beach and have ordered one Phoenix to be graft on piva root stock(WPB).Because of limited space i hope it turns out to be like Truely Tropicals 

https://www.youtubetrimmer.com/view/?v=1Tf0Zg4P0Z0&start=234&end=298

[Guanabanus]

Pineislander, thank you for the Piva info.

[pineislander]

I ran across this review of information about mango rootstocks worldwide, in .pdf file format.
https://www.mango.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Mango_rootstock_Final_Report_Eng.pdf

The mango Board which published the above also has a page with many research papers, most are post harvest, nutrition value and consumer which may be of interest.
https://www.mango.org/research/

[bovine421]

I ran across this review of information about mango rootstocks worldwide, in .pdf file format.
https://www.mango.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Mango_rootstock_Final_Report_Eng.pdf

The mango Board which published the above also has a page with many research papers, most are post harvest, nutrition value and consumer which may be of interest.
https://www.mango.org/research/

The use of the rootstock ‘Piva’ as interstock has proven very efficient in different
countries to reduce tree size (S. Oosthuye. 2016- Hort Reeaarch. South Africa Personal
communication) and this has been also proven with several cultivars in Florida (N. Ledesma.2016
Fairchild Tropical Garden. Florida. Personal communication).

https://www.mango.org/blog-womens-history-month-spotlight/

[bsbullie]

Personal communications indicate that dwarfing root-stocks found so far, dwarf some varieties well, and others not at all.  Sounds as though nurseries could end up with a complicated mess of different seedling batches.

Is it know which varieties that piva rootstock will dwarf? Truely Tropical has a beautiful Phoenix on a dwarf rootstock  that looks to be about 6 foot tall and maybe 6 feet wide from what i can guess from youtube. She stated it is about ten years old and she received as a gift.

Two years old, not 10.  I have always thought my Phoenix was grafted on a dwarfing rootstock.  Mine was purchased and planted in the summer of 2017 as a 3 gallon about 2 feet tall is very similar in growth and height.  It survived the wrath of hurricane Irma as a very small tree only a few months in the ground.

Was she somewhat precocious? Has she been generous with giving fruit?

Last year, my tree flowered profusely and set fruit but I pulled all fruit.  This year, flowering was sparse (was sparse on most of my trees), and set a few fruit which I unwantingly fed to the squirrels.  I will post a picture of the tree

Please do i would enjoy seeing that photo I had one Phoenix this year and i am all in on this variety. I have budwood coming from Delray Beach and have ordered one Phoenix to be graft on piva root stock(WPB).Because of limited space i hope it turns out to be like Truely Tropicals 

https://www.youtubetrimmer.com/view/?v=1Tf0Zg4P0Z0&start=234&end=298

Here are pictures from both sides.  Its about 6' x 6'.  Again, planted in Summer of 2017 as a 3 gal purchased at ZHPP.

[roblack]

Beautiful!

...now wish I had kept those Piva seeds

[bsbullie]

Beautiful!

...now wish I had kept those Piva seeds

I dont know what rootstock it is on but it us considerably more dwarfed/compact compared to any of my other trees that were planted as 3 gal at the same time.

[bovine421]

Beautiful!

...now wish I had kept those Piva seeds

I dont know what rootstock it is on but it us considerably more dwarfed/compact compared to any of my other trees that were planted as 3 gal at the same time.

That is a thing of beauty!!! What would you guesstimate its height and width would have been if it was  grafted on turpin rootstock?

[zands]

I'm not talking. But all I got to say. Is I planted an Orange Sherbet last November and it is doing great.

And I planted this after a poster here said Richard Campbell planted 30 of Orange Sherbet, he had such confidence in them. What is good enough for Richard Campbell is good enough for me.