I bought this special Vietnamese mango – at higher price --  from Toptrop a few years ago. This year it had a few fruits, and based on the look it is not Cac Hoa Loc as sold but rather Mahachanok to me. So far I have two incidents that they seem to have mis-labeling the trees: wrong Edward and Cac Hoa Loc. I hate when this happened because we spent lots of effort and times, especially outside of idea tropical climate area, to nurture the trees and then ended up with something else.

I could be wrong but this pic shows it is Maha and not the yellow Cac Hoa Loc. Now I have two Maha trees.

I ate two fruits from my tree (sold by Toptrop) and both had poly embryonic seeds to my surprise. From Wikipedia “The flesh has a rich, sweet flavor with a mild, pleasant aroma and contains a monoembryonic seed.”

Picture of my Edward fruits: http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=24853.msg296764#msg296764

What is your Edward?

Btw, in a similar twist, my Vietnamese Cac Hoa Loc (sold by Toptrop) fruits have mono-embryonic seeds from 3 samples. The original 36" tree had 4 fruits and they were all fiberous and didn't taste good, while its scions grafted on a 10 feet Kent seedling gave same mono-embryonic seeds fruits but tasted excellent: balanced sweet and tart and the aroma of Maha. The seed is so thin that it almost gives 3 cheeks instead of 2 and a seed.  I think a strong mature tree gives better tasting fruits in this case. (These Cac Hoa Loc fruits look more like a Mahachanoc  without the red tint than the original one from Vietnam, so I don't know if it is a real deal Cac Hoa Loc or something else.)

Found this on the web. Have you seen this before? Instead of chocolate box for Valentine, a dozen of Love Mangoes.

Pic in a little more than half way in the page:
https://thinkloud65.wordpress.com/category/beautiful-pics/

My 3 yrs old seedling developed a shrunken dried cracked bark 1” ring around the trunk 3” above ground. I’m thinking a bridge graft to save it. Had anyone done this on mango before? Currently the tree is doing very well with lots of healthy new shoots and leaves, but the root will run out of food in times. I think the disease  bark was cause by unprotected from strong hot sun. I now think leaving the lower shoots to provide sun shade for the trunk instead of cut them off as most people would do.

Btw, bridge graft uses small scions to connect upper and lower trunk, but can one just use healthy strip of bark for the bridge?

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

I believe this is the Kesar plantation Tropicdude is referring to. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D2-bJ_0bh1E. I'm interested to know if the fruit will be irradiated or not. I'd love to get my hands on some non irradiated fruit.

Simon

Talking about irradiated (hot water treatment?) mango fruits, I have this question: why the mango imported to SoCal in the Winter all had blacken inside while very few or none during Summer? It's hard for me to believe the treatment processes are different for different time of the year.

I’m talking about Mexico’s Ataulfo or Champagne mango, not HD La Verne’s Manila mango which has bumps and some red color. Ataulfo is all yellow with thin seed. My sister in CA 92704 has a seedling and holding one big fruit for the first time. I remember seeing its flower this spring with a lot of grey color mildew, and her neighbor older tree had the same severe mildew on flower and young leaves. Anyone grow Ataulfo in SoCal, and does it give good crop?

SoCal heatwave in June 2016

I watered all my plants the night before the hottest day, but this recently heatwave might had killed a few of my young 1 year old seedling, cooked the Valencia 4" long young fruit, burned most of the Cac leaves. I wished I had screened all the plants from the sun but I didn't think about it.

What did you do for your mango plants?

There is a green fig tree on the sidewalk not far from where I live, SoCal. It had a late crop extended into November – late variety? -- with green fruit with red color inside. Some fruits had a drop of honey at the eye. I had tried to root many times –  in water -- but failed when planned the rooted cuttings in soil. Last winter I grafted a 4” cutting on my Osborne Prolific and it took easily. It sends out a few little fruit now. The leaves are unusual thick and large. Can you identify it? Does Bataglia have thick leaves?

It seems to me my Edward fruits grow half the rate as compare to others like LZ, Kent, or Glenn. What do your Edward say?

Btw, Toptropic says "Another good trait is a long-lasting season". How's so; because it sends out a 2nd season flower after the first?

Hi All,

Could you be able to confirm my 4 yrs  Kent seedling  is sending out flower buds?

Thanks,
Sapote

My Edward sent out many flushes this year, but for whatever reason the last two flushes the young leaves didn't look healthy with big leave -- they were smaller and had those small reddish spots all over.

The whole tree shot to show it's not in any bad shape. It grew 24" or more this year.


The reddish spots



Any idea what caused this?

Thanks,
sapote