my little pickering mango tree holding fruits

[knlim000]

There were three,  I picked one off, a little too late to pick it off.   I think it should be ok to have it hold two fruits? I was planning on just letting it get bigger(not ripe) so that I can pick them green early off the tree to make  green mango salad.

[bsbullie]

Pull them all off before you ruin the tree.

[simon_grow]

I agree with bsbullie unless you want to stunt your tree. I have many Florida grafted mango trees and they grow so slowly that I use them for scions for grafting onto seedlings and Lavern Manilla trees. If you are doing similar, go ahead and let it hold fruit but if this tree is a keeper, I would remove the fruit.

I do see that the fruit is quite large already but can't exactly tell just how big the remaining fruit are. If they are close to full size, I guess most the damage is done already.

I removed all the mangos from my Florida grafted Glenn mango tree for the first 4 years and finally let it hold fruit last year and my tree is only about 4 feet tall. Because I let it establish for so long before letting it hold fruit, it is finally starting to show some growth even though it is on Florida rootstock.

By the way, your tree looks beautiful. What other mango varieties are you growing?

Simon

[knlim000]

ok, thanks guys, I will go pull off all the fruits from all the tree now. I will provide pictures later.

[knlim000]

I just pulled these fruits off.  row with most mangos are tom phi kan(smells very good), then two pickering(no smell even when I ate it green), the four himsagar, the two cac, the two Mahachanok,then ivory last one.  I like the smell of  RAPOZA, I pick one the size of my little finger and it has a strong floral smell to it.

They were all acquired last Aug/Sept.  I think that's the best time to get the trees with weather not too hot for shipping.

ivory


tom phi kan




cac



alphonso

[simon_grow]

Congratulations, your trees will perform much better since you have removed those fruit. I was not very fond of the fruit from my Alphonso, it lacked the sweetness and intensity of flavor compared to the Alphonsos grown in India. If you like the strong Indian resin flavor, you may be better off with Kesar or Jumbo Kesar although these varieties are still being evaluated here in California. Thanks for the update on your trees.

Simon

[knlim000]

Forgot this picture of the fruits that was picked off this evening.


And the rest of mangos continue.

Here's my Kesar, Simon.




roseligold, seems big enough to hold fruit.



rapazo





mallika

[TheDom]

I wouldn't let a single one of those mangos hold fruit yet, unless a lot of that Rosigold was cropped out of the picture, then maybe one or two on it.

[Stan]

Looks like more than one Mango plant in the bay area other then Fremont  . Congrats!..Yeah,I would kept one or two..once they looked that good!

Maybe you can take a closeup of the weed. I cant make it out right now.

[Mark in Texas]

I wouldn't let a single one of those mangos hold fruit yet, unless a lot of that Rosigold was cropped out of the picture, then maybe one or two on it.

I second that. There isn't enough foliage and probably also root mass to support that fruit.  You can actually kill a fruit tree or grapevine or at least stunt it for a long time by not understanding the concept of matching foliage mass, age, etc. with fruit load.  I know it's tempting, but there will come a time.