So I have some mango seedlings I started last summer. It's neat to see the different colored leaves in the new growth. So my question is, is color any indication of fruit quality? I've read about leaf and sap smell being good indicators for similarity to parent trees (and am grateful my Pim Seng Mun seedling leaves smell like Pim Seng Mun). So what about the leaves?

Here's Choc Anon. Very dark leaves.



Here's Pim Seng Mun. Medium brown colored.



My Pickering seedlings have pink colored new growth.

I've just watched the Truly Tropical Mango Varieties "Pickering" and "Ice Cream" videos and their trees appear bigger than I've imagined based on some posts I've read.

I will be planting a couple Pickering mango trees and an Ice Cream mango tree when I set up a little home in Zone 10a (Punta Gorda, FL area). Could keepers of these trees let me know how large your tree is (height x width) and how old it is?

Thanks!

I have a small Angie Mango Tree in a container that produced one fruit this year.

I picked it mostly green with a little yellow blush on its shoulders. I had some varmint eat young unripe watermelon off the vine and didn't want to risk losing the mango.

I let it soften on the counter top. When I figured it was ready, I went at it with a knife. I was immediately overwhelmed with a pine smell that was really off putting. To make matters worse, the more firmer parts not only had a strong pine smell, but what I guess was a strong pine taste (having never eaten pine trees before, I imagined this is what eating pine would taste like).

Though I was certain I was poisoning myself, I persevered . . . I grew it, dammit, and I sure as hell was going to eat the fruit of my labor.

I survived, but was thinking I'd like to get rid of the tree. Then I thought . . . maybe this was atypical? Maybe it was picked way too soon? Maybe it was an off year? I mixed up my own soil and have some pine bark chips in there and thought maybe they influenced the taste?

So to those with Angies, can anyone give me insight into their taste? Should I give this little tree another chance? It's a healthy tree and I like the concept of it, but if the taste is going to be what I experienced, she must go. It might not make sense, but I love the "mango" smell I'm used to from my childhood Hadens, and the piney smell doesn't do it for me.

Here are pics!

So I went to a fruit tasting and loved--among others--the Pim Seng Mun mangoes. And I acquired and planted seeds and got multiple sprouts out of the seeds. I believe this has been discussed ad nauseam regarding which is the zygote and which are nucellar, but I do notice some of the seedlings have similar leaves. Not only that, the leaves look odd for a mango--at least to me. I can't find any visual reference for what a Pim Seng Mun mango seedling leaf looks like--I'm guessing because these look so similar, they might be nucellar? The leaf in hand is from one seed group and the two-in-one shot is from the other seed group . . . both groups have similar odd (to me) shaped leaves.

Any input regarding my seedlings?

(I also got two seedlings from a single Nam Doc Mai and Choc Anon seed--wasn't too impressed with either fruit, though. And I have 3 three-year old Ataulfo trees from the same seed.)

Thanks!