The Tropical Fruit Forum

Yea, it is like caner cell growing out control. The roots were sending out new suckers (not see this on other mangoes), but then the problem disappear the next year or so. Keep the tree healthy and it will fight for its life.

http://vietbao.vn/vi/Doi-song-Gia-dinh/Diem-mat-nhung-loai-qua-TQ-bi-giau-nhem-tung-tich/2131667495/111/

It says "Green Mango from China"  with no specific name that I can find.  It does look similar to me.

Sapote

It looks like snake bite, ......or a young dog.

Quote from: Cookie Monster on January 26, 2017, 07:33:45 PM

nice. The sri lankan weevil seems to have taken a liking to your venus :-).

Oh that's nothing compared to what they've done to some of the other trees. They really love Fascell, Cambodiana, and Harvest Moon but they'll attack pretty much any mango. I think about half the Sri Lankan weevil population in SFL lives on the farm here in West Palm.

I don't think we have any pests that want to eat mango leaves, or even fruits yet. In SoCal

Sapote

Set up a camera to record at night. I think the zealous nearby coconut trees shot out heavy nuts at dark night at the mango trees. See the bruised top shoots and leaves on all mango? Cut off all coconut fruits. But I would follow Jeff's advice.

Sapote

The key is trim it back to manageable size BEFORE digging the root. If it has many leaves, trim off 50% when it is moved.

Good luck,

Sapote

Night temperature is below 50F  recently and I noticed some of mine are sending out flower stalks. Are yours doing the same? Mahachanok can bear fruits this early but I think others like Edward will be too cold to have fruits.

Sapote

Here's an excellent comparison of two different methods for opening fresh coconuts (some strong language).

The second method is scary!!! Did you notice how many fingers left on his left hand?

Tabble saw as coconut tool? Way too dangerous with any table saw, let alone mixing up with coco hush fiber!! loose fingers or ended up with a whole coconut flying into your face.

I like the "duck beak" hush opener the best.

To get the meat from the hard shell: easily break the shell into smaller pieces,  2 inches or so, then spoon them out. This is much easier than working with the two deep halves.

The mangos from South America and Mexico are hot water treated, from what I have seen on the cases.   The mangos from India are generally irradiated.
I feel the mangos from South America are picked greener than the ones from Mexico (summertime) probably because the South American ones (our winter) have a longer travel time.  As far as the rate of rotting in South American mangos, I have also noticed that it is much higher than the summertime Mexican ones too.  I suspect a bacteria causes some of the rotting.  Not helping too is that fact that some markets/packing houses are refrigerating these South American mangos during storage and transit, which appears to be the kiss of death for unripe fruits.

Thanks. This makes perfect sense why winter mango from South America are so bad.

Talking about treatment methods, this Summer I was in Maui and carefully selected and bought some nice looking local mango fruits. We ate the fresh and aromatic fruits and I opened the seeds hush to check if they were poly or mono. To my surprise all the perfect looking seeds had one or two big worms inside, without any marks that my eyes could tell from outside the fruits. Hot water treatment won't kill those.

Do these mangoes need pollination, and how to in an enclosed greenhouse?

We ate it this morning. I sharpen a knife and surprised it had a very thin skin. I was a bit concerned that the fruit might not ripe because there was a good part near the stem still green. No regret the whole fruit was melting, the flavor was not complex but the nice aroma made up for it, especially the green part at the base near stem. Bonus that the seed was paper thin, and the rough fiber on the seed resembled those Indian variety.

 

Hi Simon,

I'm very happy to hear Glenn in SoCal is better than normal Glenn in FL I can smell the sweet aroma on my hand hour after holding the fruit. If Wikipedia photo is a typical Glenn in FL, then our Glenn really  have different characteristic. Will find out how the taste tonight.