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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Total Mango Harvest From 2018
« on: June 14, 2018, 08:34:14 PM »
If these are your own trees, is there a reason why you harvested them so early?
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While out in the yard today I noticed a brown spot on the trunk of one of my Pickering trees. It's not got sap coming out, it's just a dry wound. I noticed the same thing on the trunks of some of my seedling carambola trees as well.
The Pickering is in a 7-gallon pot. We've had heavy rains recently and now it's been hot and full sun and humid, if that gives any help determining what might be going on.
Any clue as to what's caused this? And if so, what to do about it? It's one of my favorite trees and I don't want to lose it.
Has anyone ever compared the 2 regions? Since being transferred to Norfolk, Va in the Navy, I've started purchasing Mango Boxes from South Florida growers.
Although many factors come into play such as rain, fertilization, temperature, time of the season, age of the tree etc, so I've had Nam Doc Mai, Edward, Coconut Cream, Sweet tart, and Lemon zest from South Florida and not one mango from any of those boxes have even come close to ripened Nam Doc Mai from my old tree in California.... The Brix, flavor profile, texture... everything is just on a whole another level.
I've often heard on here of how bland Nam Doc Mai is... Well the ones from Florida were exactly that, extremely bland and washed out with mild sweetness... While the Nam Dac Mai from my tree in California was like pure sugar Candy in Mango form with extremely mild complexity of acidity and spice. That Nam Dac Mai has remained my baseline for Mangos as it's wiped the floor with everything I've had from Florida. Again might I add, this may be a bad season for Mangos, maybe too much rain, too early in the season, young tree, picked too green... lots of factors here folks...however so far it appears that California may have better growing conditions than South Florida to produce high quality Mangos.
Thanks for the advice everyone. I guess I'll be going with air-layered. Apparently lots of people have had a bad experience with lychee grown from seeds. I guess it's not like apples where there are 100 varieties that only taste a little bit different (sure, lots of people may have a favorite but if they ask for an apple they'd probably be just a fine with a red delicious as they would a honeycrisp).
I also don't want to put in the effort needed to grow a lychee tree from seed if the seedlings are that fragile. I've never had much success growing anything from seed, come to think of it...
Just bought some organic lychees in whole foods yesterday.
I paid about $8.99 for a quart of them. Not sure the actual weight.
BTW they were excellent.
Yep. Divorce takes a heavy toll on collections, Noel and Harry being notable examples of this.All it takes is one major financial error, divorce, or career relocation. Years of collecting and growing can disappear frighteningly quick
There are many seasoned campaigners and earlier contributors who frequented this place and have now diminished their posting or disappeared. I could name quite a few who had plenty to say who no longer seem to be with us.
Hi Skan,
I have never tasted a Mahachanok before. I agree The fruits doesn't look like the one in their website https://plantogram.com/product/mango_maha_Chanok/. I will need to contact them. The tree was not cheap.
Anyone else in CA has Mahachanok fruits looking like mine?
As close as Australia is to Pacific islands and at least some polynesian residents I'd be surprised if there wasn't substantial material there. Maybe get to know some Samoans....
Yeah there are plenty of Polynesians here and several breadfruit cultivars of which I have 4 in the ground here. There are not that many trees though. They are not rare here but not common either.
I have a plant nursery and have orders for them in the 100's. The problem is getting them in the numbers needed. How many suckers does a tree produce? not many and how long would it take to get 1000 trees from root cuttings? A long time! As well as a shortage of material. That is why tissue culture is the way to go.
ZHPP is the wholesale nursery, Excalibur is retail and they are brothers. If Excalibur is convenient for you I would just go there and pick out the best looking tree for myself. Not sure about the price maybe in the $200 range? I am impatient and it's totally worth the extra money for me to have fruit the next season 25gl vs 7gl 3yrs. My suggestion is to taste test as many varieties as you can and then graft a few cocktail trees of all your top 10 or however the # works out. My ST was a 25gl and hasn't really flushed growth yet, just loads of fruit.
Dada,
There are probably a diversity of breadfruits available in Ecuador. I'd advise you to search near the coastal towns where people of Afro-Caribbean descent are more common. I'd bet you will find that some of them have breadfruit trees. Learn how to spot them and propagate, usually a piece of root is what you need.
Offer to buy some pieces of root, bring a tool to dig and cut, and if you can't plant immediately, a small cooler to preserve the root.
How to propagate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2WHyHtMDEo
haha I backed up the db and was writing a sql script to do this, when I remembered that the forum has a cool censored word replacement feature, which I leveraged to replace postimg.org with postimg.cc
Old images should be working again.
It’s Seacrest. They decided to change the name.
It's a Bombay mango. Height is about 6.5 feet from the ground. If pugging is recommended, about what height?
Thanks!
Sorry to tell you but thats ambarella.
yup, dwarf ambarella.
