The Tropical Fruit Forum

It certainly appears to be an off-type. The leaves are quite narrow for CC.

Without people planting off-type seeds, new varieties would never be selected.

The sibling is likely a true to type offspring. Have you crushed immature leaves and compared the aromas?

One of the most recent Zill experimental releases. Monoembryonic (as of yet no poly seeds have been confirmed). Flavor is indochinese (Parsnip flavored) without the acid balance of other ZINC offspring. Texture is creamy.

I've been getting PM even on the varieties purported to be resistant.

That said I've been looking for an appropriate Indian spice type mango to grow down here.

It seems that J-12 may be the answer, both trees (Florida rootstock and grafted by me) both appear to be growing well, limiting their flowering to an amount that won't stunt them, and actually setting fruit despite all the PM on the bloom. Val-Carrie on the other hand seems somewhat sensitive and is reblooming profusely. If VC starts putting out vegetative growth I may change my opinion, but it seems unwilling to do so so far, despite temps remaining in the high 70's/ low 80's at night.

Hopefully Itamaraca is a more vigorous Kesar.

Super-early Maha. Mine flowered around October last year. It recently keeled over.

I was more interested in Mankur.

Quote from: stevehayes on April 10, 2020, 01:06:38 PM

What about Spain? During the summer you’ll enjoy the hot weather and sun and winters are mild and a little bit windy. I don’t think you’ll like to live a longer period in a tropical areas like Bali or Ecuador. Usually autumns and winters there are really rainy and windy so if you dream about parties on the beach then forget about that. However, you will grow there easily your plants. Another point is in case you will achieve your dream of growing tropical fruits where are you going to sell them? The market in the tropical regions is already filled with other producers.

South Portugal is better! You still have Madeira or Azores islands... they are truly beautiful and you can grow all king of tropicals there... 

I love the southern part of Portugal, very similar to southern Cali. Cold ocean!

How much do they charge for drops that are gnawed into a little bit?

Planning a late night sampling in the grove?

Interveinal cholorosis.
Not a big deal, mostly caused by low micro-nutrient bio-availability.

Many products help, but many require continued application.

Iron sulfate will show an immediate improvement, but the long-term solution is adding sulfur or some other slow-release acidifier.

The more data, the better.

I noticed that this year the trees I have grafted on my kent and keitt seedlings have really taken off. Hopefully they will continue in this trend and become productive.

It's not clear from the picture, either it was budded at the point where the trunk shoots sideways, or it's grafted above that at the bark scar. It could be an interstock even given the oddity.

Either way, I don't cleft growth before it hardens off, I do bud though, and will look for a spot where the wood is flat and the bark slips, that way I get good cambium contact.

How about Fruit Punch? Where does it come short?

Fruit punch supposedly has a window of perfection that lasts minutes, with fruit eaten outside of that window being inferior.

It's also inconsistent year-to-year based on all the reports.

Really look closely at the Keitt and Zill-80 seedlings if you're looking for something with commercial potential. Some of them have been highly regarded in this aspect.

Consider what the grafted branch will look like down the road. The common amateur mistakes are to graft far from the trunk and too high up, so that fruit produced by the branch are not a major part of the tree, and are too high up to pick.

To make a graft a major part of the tree, graft low and central.

Though cleft seems easy, I have equal to better luck with bark grafts.

Some kind of syzigium.