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My franken Manila has started to bloom also for 3 weeks now and I've been spraying sulfur once a week since then. I'm determined to get some fruits this coming season. Powdery mildew has been wrecking havoc for the last 2 years.16 yrs old grafted tree planted when it's 2 ft tall? Young grafted tree takes forever to grow.
The tree is 16 years old but no that tall.
There is no need to wait for a rootstock to become mature and fruit-bearing before you graft onto it, and for many trees (avocados, citrus, others) you'll have much better luck using small seedlings. I assume that mangoes are similar?Not for mango. I suggest to read "mango grow in SoCal" thread.
That does look close! Most of the results online show a fruit with a pink or purple blush when unripe, and these are solid deep green, even in direct sun. Otherwise it looks real close, and Internet photos are notoriously inaccurate.None in the pic looks like my Lance, color and shape. Maybe the climate makes the difference. Notice the dots on the skin. Most of mine turned yellow from green, and some had a little red tint if exposed to full sun.
wait for them to get soft and skin start wrinkling.
it was the last varietal branch. Who knows. What is this disease?
Is there any way to use the little seedling without waiting for it to grow more first, or should I stick with the larger one instead?What is your objective? Ornamental or fruit tree? For fruits, wait until the rootstock have flower and fruits, then do the grafting. Why graft now?
Sweetheart lychee grafted onto Emperor lychee. Amazing 1year of growth. Graft was done on 3/26/22Hi there, what type of graft is it? I'm thinking it's a cleft graft as often used for mango, but not sure.
Thanks Victoria Ave and Sapote, for confirming what I thought I would do with my baby mango seedlings.Correct. Young seedlings love to be in morning eastern sun then shaded off after 11am. They will grow much better than those on the south or west side. Once they tall then they will get more sun.
Sapote, being just 3 ft on the East side of the house, your seedling trees would only get about half day sun growing up, right? If that is so, I might pull a couple of Hibiscus bushes and replace them with mango seedlings then…
Can anyone identify this mango tree a keitt or Valencia pride?Why do you want to plant small grafted tree? As mentioned many time in this thread, the best way in SoCal is to plant a seedling and then graft on it when it is 10ft or larger.
Got this from Emily nursery, listed as keitt but looks like Valencia pride to me…
I also have newly germinated mango seeds in conventional pots currently,It's better to keep them in the pot until the trunk is 6 to 8" tall then plant in the ground shade off the summer sun for high survival. I found out that a healthy mango tree will take a direct rain gutter right on top of it in cold winter, as long as it was not exposed to direct hot sun in the summer. Five of my seedlings were planted on the east side 3 ft from the house and so they were all shaded in hot summer. They are not over 10 ft tall and 5ft wide.
would you recommend to plant these in the ground now (late October)
or later in Spring be better for our SoCal climate?
We usually use a 27 gallon tote with a heat mat sandwiched between 2 1020 trays. I'd be concerned about the humidity levels in your oven but it looks like its working.The seeds are in very high humidity - inside the food container with sealed cover and a few spoon of water
These seedlings were in there about 2 weeks.
cats would probably do a better job since they can climb trees. my neighbors cat is a good hunter and kills squirrels.My cats are no match for the squirrel iron teeth -- they torn up the chicken wire of the live trap and escaped. I even added double layer of steel mesh that used on stucco wall, and they torn through them also on this cage:
The palm trees are my neighbor. They seem to be growing roots all over my fruit trees. I'm more concern about my fruit trees. I'm concern it may cause my tropical fruit trees to die.The palm roots will suck the soil dry. You're feeding water and nutrient to the palms, and less to your trees.
Speaking of which looks like my VP fruit are coming along well. Looking like late September I should be ready to harvestThis is a year for vegetative growth. My big 5" trunk PC has only ONE fruit -- not much flowers to begin with. Another big tree with cocktail graft has zero fruit that last years gave many wonderful fruits: ST Maui, Sweet tart, Okrungtong, Edward (I since topped it off and grafted Iman Passand but not took), Mahachanok; the biggest tree (HD rootstock) with LZ and Okrungtong only has 2 LZ and zero Okrung fruits. I thought this year I will have load of LZ, but all the green fruits splited with no seed. The 2 remained fruits are from late blooming in June I believe. Other trees near the house are doing better: some Alphonso the first time, and Maha as every year.
Speaking of which looks like my VP fruit are coming along well. Looking like late September I should be ready to harvestFrom the pic, my guess is this tree was bought grafted in the pot? A California seedling grafted should look stronger and fuller with more branches than this.
