I don't know about Socal or other locations, but here in South Florida, in over a decade of growing mango trees (about 3 dozen of them), I've never pruned fruit on young trees and it's never been an issue.

While pruning fruit is necessary for some species (eg, Jackfruit -- which will go into decline if allowed to carry too much fruit), mangoes will do one of two things: either they will abort the fruit on their own, or the fruit will turn out small. But neither case presents a detriment to the tree.

My sweet tart did the same thing actually. I planted mine out from a 7 gallon, and within a year, it produced 2 dozen fruits -- all of which I allowed to remain until maturity. The fruit were all excellent, albeit a bit small.

The ST is dropping a few tiny fruit a day.   Looks like i'll get aboot 2 or three dozen to mature.  That's fine Can't wait to taste this thing!!!

Mangos during the  Florida off season are found in  grocery stores like Bravo.  They taste kinda crappy though.  If your taste buds are shot you'll love them!!!  lol

I have cherimoya growing in between mangos and palms.  Had a few fruit but it has been left to grow wild these days.  Still have seeds from fruit I ate in Barcelona.   One of the best tasting fruits in the world by the way!!!

I brought home a few cherimoya seeds from fruit I bought  on my last trip to Barcelona, Spain.  What a flavor!!!    Got 2 to sprout at home and this year had my first fruit.  Still in pots and will go in the ground this fall.   One of the best tasting fruit in the world

Post a pic.

My Pickering is in the ground 5 years and the fruit right now is out-a-sight delicious.  Rich and sweet.    And the current crop is sweet and richer that the first ones like Cookie  said.  Also doing well are the Nam Doc Mai, Glenn, Mallika and Cat Hoa Loc.  Even the Cogshall are good.  Oh yeah --- the tree ratz polished off at least 15% of the Cogs.  Started trapping to no avail.  This area never runs out of the furry bestids!!!!

I have so much fruit now I starting trading mangos for free beer at the local Irish pub.  Win win win.

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Used the correct tank this time and used FRESH Roundup. This is most important.

 When I lived In Charlotte, NC I had a contractor put in 5 large trees that would shade the south facing deck. He said it's ok to use leftover last years Roundup for flower bed clean up but for fast removal of grass sod for tree panting it must be fresh!!!

5/6 UPDATE ------- Did a walk around last PM on the Tomcat baits and every one had been carried off overnight. About 20 baits total. Spaced about 8 ft apart. This is why it's a big problem. There's a friggin army of the furry bestids out there!!!!!

Had to post this story after what has been going on lately. I have a fenced in yard with a pool and enclosure. I walk the 3 dogs outside the enclosure. Used to leave the poop and bag it up in the AM. About a month ago the dog poop started disappearing overnite!!!!!

Turned out to be rats. I now have to pick it up before nightfall.  And I'm not in the gongfermors union!
Now I set traps.

I also spread around some Tomcat bait chunks over the fence in the wooded lot next door.
And I hate having rats near my mango, banana and avocado trees.

Gimme a break!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quote from: TropicalFruitHunters on November 07, 2016, 03:22:59 PM

My store-bought experience has been that cherimoyas from USA were always very good while every single fruit from outside the US has been shitty.  Fruit is so bad, I wouldn't even chuck them our Ohio douche bag John Kasich.

LOL

Double LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I use 6 3 16 from Diamond R in Ft Pierce.  It works great for the 4 to 5 periodic appls I do annually.  The lable on the bag says its organic.  Its fine for the bananas all year round.  For mango, avocado etc I put it down for the pre fruit appl only.    Resr of the year its their 8 4 8.   These two come in 50 lb bags for about 22 bucks.  Nobody beats that!!!

Biggest banana bunch this year-- FHIA 2 -- 46 lbs

Just cut down this bunch and the taste is fantastic. Good weight too. Have 8 more bunches filling in on just about every mat.



 Fastest way to get the dogs in from the yard - yell bananas.