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Although not ideal conditions, Mangos grow and fruit fine in damp soil with occasional heavy flooding. The pictures are my old yard which would flood a couple times yearly and then stay underwater for a week or two afterward. Never lost a mango tree there from flooding or disease.   



Tony! What are you growing up in Merritt Island?

So far just a few mangoes, Dot, M4 and Pickering. Planning on adding a couple more mango trees and maybe a sapodilla in the backyard to block salt off the water.       

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Although not ideal conditions, Mangos grow and fruit fine in damp soil with occasional heavy flooding. The pictures are my old yard which would flood a couple times yearly and then stay underwater for a week or two afterward. Never lost a mango tree there from flooding or disease.   



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Updated Mamey Info please
« on: May 11, 2020, 06:15:36 PM »
Personally I prefer the taste and smaller size of Green Sapote to Mamey and I have had better luck growing them in west Broward county. In Broward my Pace Mameys leaves seemed to be the favorite food of the local beetles so I was constantly fighting them off and then dealing with a sick looking tree. The Green Sapote grew much better and seemed to thrive in my yard. Unfortunately I moved before it fruited.       

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Best time to prune mango tree?
« on: October 14, 2019, 09:40:53 AM »
The best time to prune a mango tree is right after you pick the fruit in the early-mid summer. If you prune it in the fall or winter you will not get fruit the next season. 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Iguana Wars
« on: August 17, 2019, 08:17:12 PM »
I saw no iguanas in Jupiter, but tens of the Jesus lizards, including in my backyard  >:(
Does anybody know the pest potential of these? I read they are invasive but nothing about what damage, if any, they cause.
My trees are too young to have fruit, but I should think in advance.

Jesus lizards also known as Basilisk's don't normally eat fruit they are carnivores that mostly eat insects and worms.  I used to have them all around my yard and grove in Broward. We never had any issues with them eating mangoes or other fruit.

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Check back in two months.

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I would really prefer my fruit trees and grove go to someone that will enjoy and appreciate them. If a forum member buys it I'll take an extra $3000 off.     

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I'm retired and my kids are out of the house so the Mrs and I are looking to downsize to a smaller place. I would much rather sell it to someone that will appreciate the fruit trees and grove. The Zillow listing https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4910-SW-205th-Ave-Southwest-Ranches-FL-33332/43129265_zpid/ tells about our house so here's all the tree information.  If anyone would like more specific information PM me.

24 mature fruit bearing mango trees with 22 different varieties.
Angie
Carrie
Coconut Cream
Cogshall
Cushman
Dot
Edward (2)
Florigon
Francis Hargrave
Fruit Punch
Galaxy
Graham
Keitt
Kent
Lemon Zest
Maha Chanok
Nam Doc Mai
Pickering
Pu Pyu Kalay
Rosigold
Tong Bi Con
Valencia Pride (2) 

5 varieties of Sapodilla,
Alano
Hasya
Molix
Morena
Silas Wood

5 varieties of lychee,
Brewster
Ohia
Kaimana
Mauritius
Sweet Heart

The other fruit trees include J-31 Jakfruit, Biew Kiew Longan, Oro Negro Avocado, Pace Mamey Sapote, Bradenton Loquat, Lisa Atemoya, Green Sapote, Black Grumichama, Yellow Grumichama, Cherry of the Rio Grande, Small Leaf Jaboticaba, Ackee, Sweet Tamarind, and Plantains. Likely a few other trees that I'm forgetting about but you get the idea its a dream tropical fruit garden that still has room to plant a few more.   

Tony       

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You would think that dipping fresh picked fruit into some type of fungicide solution would destroy the fungus spores on the fruit. I have been meaning to try dipping a few mangoes in chlorinated pool water as an experiment.   

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I have two mature Valencia Pride trees in my garden and a mature Tong bi Con tree.  I recommend Tong bi Con, it grows faster then Valencia Pride and has huge very dark green leaves that give it an almost ornamental look.

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My grandfather owned a citrus grove in southeastern Pasco county (Holiday) in the sixties, seventies and eighties. He also experimented growing various tropical fruits on his farm without much long term success. I recall him trying Avocado, Mango, Lychee and a few others. The only ones that survived long term were the avocado trees all the others did fine for a couple years then died once a bad cold front came through which in that area happens every few years.   

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I though this was a pretty interesting article about growing/bringing back an extinct species of date palm from a unbelievably still viable 2000 year old seed. 

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/judean-date-palm-methuselah?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=atlas-page

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Anyone grows or tasted the Siamese mango?


Yes, tasted Siamese a few years ago, they were just meh on taste...Although they did have a very cool French baguette shape.   

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Valencia Pride - Dwarf Tree
« on: May 17, 2017, 07:21:46 PM »
I have two healthy mature Valencia Pride trees planted in my yard. One of the VP trees grows much slower and lower then the other more vigorous one does.  Oddly when one tree has a great fruiting year the other tree seems to fruit lightly. I'm guessing the size and growth difference is mainly based upon different rootstocks, the soil and location where each tree is planted. Cant explain why my VP trees alternate their heavy fruit years but it is convenient.       

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Watering mango trees
« on: May 17, 2017, 12:52:22 PM »
I have never watered a mango tree outside of the first month or two after planting.

I normally only water my newly planted trees for the first couple months. That said my many mango trees are doing just fine without any extra irrigation. Granted some of that could be due to the high water table and muck soil that my trees are planted in. I suspect many here may be limiting their bloom and resultant fruiting by excessive watering. If you have lots of springtime leafy growth consider less frequent watering.   

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Water source for FL
« on: December 07, 2016, 05:31:13 PM »
Botanigard, AzaSol, and Conserve SC for bugs (Conserve used sparingly to avoid resistance); Nordox and Abound for fungus on a 2 week rotation schedule; sulfur (That Flowable) on mango blooms.

Jeff,
Just curious. What pesticides do you use?

What rate of Nordox do you use on your trees?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Why so much Weird Medical Spam?
« on: November 12, 2016, 03:23:05 PM »
Looks like every third post is a weird collection of medical terms, words and phases?  Can one of the admins delete these fake
accounts?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: amazing super short mango tree
« on: October 07, 2016, 12:58:41 PM »
Mango Bansai?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Help With Mango ID
« on: July 28, 2016, 09:11:04 PM »
Looks like Valencia Pride.

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So...two Ivory mangoes are now coloring up with a yellow streak. Should I let them get full yellow on the tree before picking or counter ripen? For the record, Tog Bi Con (TBC) is a much, much larger mango than Ivory- both in thickness and length. TBC flesh is also an orange color.

My Tog bi Con trees fruit has a very pale white flesh? 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: One last Mango Tree
« on: July 07, 2016, 08:29:05 PM »
Depends on the planting space that's available. If your space is limited go with the M/C, if you have more room available then go with the Sweet tart. Both are excellent mangos. 

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Unfortunately amount of blooms are not always a reliable indicator for fruitset or fruit production.

So true! My Carrie was full of blooms and I later discovered that only a very few bb sized fruit . Suspect
that Anthracnose is the culprit. Sprayed it this weekend.

Has  anyone else noticed something strange happening to  Carrie this year?  My Carrie, which is usually dependable, was covered with flowers but the number of tiny fruits it now has is much less than in previous years. A few of my friends also had the same thing happen their Carrie trees.

Exactly the same on my Carrie tree. It was covered in a very heavy bloom and ended up with almost no fruit set. All in all maybe 10-15 fruit on the entire tree.   

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Mature Mango Trees Without Bloom 2016
« on: March 10, 2016, 09:54:19 PM »
Its been a slow start and very late mango bloom season in my yard this year due to the wet and mild winter weather in South Florida. While walking my yard this morning I noticed everything is now blooming or starting too bloom except for one lone unexpected holdout. A mature and usually productive 20+ foot tall Tong-Bi-Con (Ivory) mango tree. Before anyone asks, it was not pruned last year and seems healthy. As its a Thai type mango I'm hoping it may fruit off season although it has never done that before.

I'm wondering if anyone else has any mature trees that decided to take this year off and what type they are?   

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: First mango blooms of the 2016 season
« on: March 10, 2016, 09:28:28 PM »
I had been checking out mango tree for weeks, as most of the others locally are now in full bloom, but mine hadn't grown in any way since last year. I got home from work last evening and was giving it another look over when I noticed what looked like a leaf flush on one of the branches. Resigning myself to having missed out on mangoes for the year I went in for a closer look.....and it was a bloom! It had leaves at the top oddly enough, I guess because of the mild winter. I noticed some others as well, I'll post a picture below. Interestingly enough its only blooming on one side so far, although it started out the same way last year and the other side bloomed about a month later.

(Excuse the anthracnose)



Many of my mango trees are putting out leafy bloom this year as well. Very likely as you said due to a very mild winter.   

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Florida mango flowers?
« on: February 08, 2016, 09:49:04 PM »
This is about the time when the should be blooming so I would bet that's what you have coming there. If you don't want any fruit due to the trees size or whatnot. Wait a few weeks and let the blooms become pea size fruit then pluck them off. If you pull the blooms off the tree will likely re-bloom again.   

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