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Tropical Fruit => Tropical Fruit Discussion => Topic started by: Cookie Monster on March 11, 2012, 08:48:19 PM
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Here's another tree I really like -- the Rosigold. Year after year, this tree sets 2 crops, one maturing in April and the other maturing in the summer. It's highly productive, precocious, and has a dwarf habit. These were taken today, March 11.
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That Rosigold is loaded with fruit!
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Mine has one large fruit and is full of new blossoms.
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Beautiful! How old is it?
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Wow...what a very nice tree...loaded with fruits!! Are those ripe fruit on the bottom of the tree? I'll send you my address so you can ship the ones you don't want,lol... ;D
Nancy
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Amazing trees....especially when you look at how my Rosigolds are doing without spraying. What has been the spraying schedule. if any?
Harry
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Jeff, that is an awesome mango tree to have. I have one that is about 3 feet tall and loaded with fruit.
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You're killing me, Jeff! I'm hoping to squeeze out half a dozen Cogshall mangoes for the first time, and you have so many fruits that you appear to have a party scheduled for the local rodents. That's a load of mangoes sitting on the ground!
Just when I was pretty much set on adding a Pickering as my second, and likely last tree due to space limitations, you throw out this Rosigold. How do the two compare in terms of growth habits, disease resistance, and productivity?
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How do the two compare in terms of growth habits, disease resistance, and productivity?
From my experience, there is no comparison between the two as far as production and disease resistance. Pickering wins hands down. At my house, without spraying heavily, multiple blooming Rosigold will not mature many, if any fruits. Even with spraying the Rosigold, while not having to spray the Pickering, I think Pickering is slightly better in overall flavor, Of course, that is subjective and as we always say....taste before deciding.
Harry
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Gracias, Harry.
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This tree is 4, possibly 5 years old. The last time I spoke with the owner last summer, he said that he had been using copper; but I don't remember the frequency of his spraying routine.
I'd agree with Harry that the Pickering is a better choice. The pickering is an incredible tree. It's a jawdropping sight to see an older pickering with 1000's of bb-sized fruits. However, having fruits in April (a characteristic of the rosigold) is quite awesome.
My belief is that the two trees (rosi and pickering) are dwarf due mostly to their precocity and productivity. If you preclude a pickering or rosigold from setting fruit, both will grow vigorously.
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@Cookie Monster______
Any report on how this tree did in 2013? Is it growing in the calciferous Broward county soil we are familiar with?
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Look in buy sell trade there is a pretty one . Merry Christmas
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Jeff, would you say that the early and the later crops are of equal quality?
So far I don't think my early Rosigolds have had as much flavor as the July ones. :-\
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I haven't checked on it yet.
My rosiegold was excellent one year and so-so the other. I eventually put a lemon zest in its place :-).
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Right now my Rosigold is full of flowers. And, a decent amount of mangos! It has about 40 green/unripe mangos. February is still about a month away. I'm really hoping I can eat Rosigold mangos in February, for the very first time.
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I've eaten a couple Rosigolds this month. The first, very ripe, was just sweet enough to justify eating the whole fruit.
The second, just barely ripe, did taste pretty good, nice blend of sweet and tart. Maybe not quite as "mangoey" as I'd prefer.
A couple more are nearly ready to pick; maybe I'll hit the jackpot on these.
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Jeez Dan - Mangoes in January...amazing. These are obviously not the spring or summer mangoes....
or would this be the "spring" crop you're eating now....
I'm wondering if my Keitts could ever hold till January? Someday, I'm going to let one sit on the
tree. I've had them as late as Thanksgiving before.....
Gary
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Jeez Dan - Mangoes in January...amazing. These are obviously not the spring or summer mangoes....
or would this be the "spring" crop you're eating now....
I'm wondering if my Keitts could ever hold till January? Someday, I'm going to let one sit on the
tree. I've had them as late as Thanksgiving before.....
Gary
Yes they will Gary. Peter's Keitt ripen in Christmas for Ashok and I had a NDM in early January.
Btw Gary, my graft from your Rosie is flower I will try my first MangoDog Rosie in summer.
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Cool, JF! It's a tasty one!
But I got a question for the all the mango smarties:
Do the different mango varieties planted in one location, ripen at different times of the year
because of when they flower, how long they take to ripen or a combination of both?
Gary
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My 'Rosigold' mango tree is full of almost fully grown mangos. This is the very first time ever that the tree is full of mangos in January, I guess my persistent/constant monthly fertilization regiment payed off.
Today I picked 2 mangos off the ground, under my 'Rosigold' mango tree, I expect them to ripen indoors in a few days. Maybe some of the squirrels or crows that I have working for me, knocked them off the tree. The two mangos are in perfect edible condition. My furry worker friends did a good job.
As for the rest of the mangos, most of them are still green, except for one or two that I noticed today are ready for picking. The way things are going, it sure looks that I'll be having ripe mangos for the first time ever in February.
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I would have picked this variety up if it produces two crops a year. Definitely it would be on my wanted list. Thanks for the info.
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Cool, JF! It's a tasty one!
But I got a question for the all the mango smarties:
Do the different mango varieties planted in one location, ripen at different times of the year
because of when they flower, how long they take to ripen or a combination of both?
Gary
I've wondered the same thing, Gary. I don't think that Neelam, for example, flowers later than other varieties. So why does it ripen its smallish fruit at the same time as large varieties like Keitt? (I keep typing Neelam with a "u" , but my dear computer keeps turning it into an "a".)
In my yard I don't see much consistency from year to year as to whether different cultivars flower at the same or at different times. I assume that slight variations in the weather affect different ones in different ways. I do think that some varieties are better at "holding on" to the fruit from their first flowering. Rosigold and Joellen would be among these. Maybe Edward?
If you want to try keeping a Keitt on your tree till January, it wouldn't hurt to try protecting it with a bag or something. The last fruit of the year can be especially tempting to critters.
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Outstanding tree Jeff !
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Yes, Dan, holding on the tree can vary greatly from one type to another, but all my mangoes
in the past have flowered at the same time for the most part, and ripened at about the same time.
So this early, mid-season, late label so many of the varieties get, I don't seem to see on my
trees out here in the desert. Now, perhaps with maturity I'll get more separation....or.....
Maybe it's the extreme heat and cold winters that tell the trees to just "do it" all at the same
time.....
I need to keep better records this year to see if there is much difference between them all...
Garfy
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My Rosigold...
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Funny this thread got revived :). Picked my first mango of the 2014 season this evening....a Rosigold. It's certainly the first tree to push flowers, and even after having mature sized fruit on it, it still pushes more flowers (extended season). You definetly have to spray copper on the flowers for it to hold. But having fruit set to early in the FL season makes it a keeper in my book. Looks like I adverted the splitting tendency it suffered last season.
Nice looking tree btw JC :) .
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My Rosigold is two years old. Last year it yielded three large, delicious mangos. Squam looked at my Rosigold today and predicts it will yield about 20 mangos this year.
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That's It ! this weekend i will be going down to Miami, and will be bringing back with me, 1 Pickering & 1 RosieGold !;).
Ed..
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Its too bad the early Rosigolds suck.
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Jeff congrats, Rosigold is definitely a mango worth having in your collection.
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Its too bad the early Rosigolds suck.
Early Glenns are often washed out. But lots better than nothing and they are at least my first of season. Are any others early duds?
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Its too bad the early Rosigolds suck.
Early Glenns are often washed out. But lots better than nothing and they are at least my first of season. Are any others early duds?
It is usually rainfall that washes out the Glenns. They seem to be more affected than others.
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Thanks Rob and good to see you back! My first 50% of Glenns were bland and watery. It did not rain too much last spring
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My 'Rosigold' did not give me ripe mangos on March 1 as it usually does every year, because it did give me ripe mangos in February as intended by my monthly pushing (fertililzing) in the year before. I'm not going to do that again this year because I'm used to getting 'Rosigold' mangos by March 1. What I'm planning on doing is top working a 'Haden' tree with the 'Rosy-Gold,' and then force/push it to give me mangos in February, that'll cover the months of February and March with mangos.
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What would be the Top 5 Most highly productive, precocious Mango Trees?
Pickering
Rosi-Gold
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What would be the Top 5 Most highly productive, precocious Mango Trees?
Pickering
Rosi-Gold
Although I'm not a fan for "Top 5 most highly productive precocious" have to include Tommy Atkins.
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The 'Rosy-Gold' is a crazy/great, workhorse of a mango tree. Last year I pushed it just about every month with fertilizer. And as a result, it gave me ripe mangos in February, just as I was planning for. It's just that the quantity of mango that it produced in the month of February was not as much as if I had fertilized the tree as I normally do, just once or twice a year.
The surprising/unexpected thing is that right now, after all the ripe February mangos have gone/ripened, the tree is again, right now, full of mangos that are beginning to ripen and of a larger size than I remember ever seeing!
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I suspect that I'm the only one being engulfed in Rosigold mangos right now, at least in my area.
After pushing the tree with fertilizer every month for the past year, it produced a decent crop in February and now in June, I'm again inundated with 'Rosigold' mangos, what a tree, it's a real trooper.
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Other varieties that are extremely early and very productive are 'Rosa' and 'Dwarf Hawai'ian'.
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Thanks HAR !
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Other varieties that are extremely early and very productive are 'Rosa' and 'Dwarf Hawai'ian'.
I never see them for sale. I think Truely Tropical sells the fruit
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I suspect that I'm the only one being engulfed in Rosigold mangos right now, at least in my area.
After pushing the tree with fertilizer every month for the past year, it produced a decent crop in February and now in June, I'm again inundated with 'Rosigold' mangos, what a tree, it's a real trooper.
I have been picking my second late crop of Rosigold's for the last few weeks.
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Other varieties that are extremely early and very productive are 'Rosa' and 'Dwarf Hawai'ian'.
Thank you Har, those Varieties that you've recommended above, definitely deserve to be checked out.
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This is my lil RG With Fruit ;).
Ed..
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I just pugged it to remove all fruit, the tree is too small.
Ed.