My iMac was in for repairs after a near-death experience, so just catching up with what's been going on for the past week or so on the forum. It's been pretty warm here in Pinellas County after a very wet summer, and my mango trees are still putting out new vegetative flushes. Unless my memory is playing tricks, I think some of them had begun to flower by this time last year, with the NDM leading the race. It's been the warmest fall that I can remember this past decade.
Don't mango trees need a quiet/dormant spell before they start flowering? And doesn't the new growth have to harden off before it is ready to put out flowers? So far, there haven't been any chilly days -- a few cool ones, with nights in the 50s (mostly 60s) and a couple of days where the highs stayed in the upper 60s. Mostly, it's hovered a little above or just below 80.
It takes roughly 6 months from flowering to fruit, right? So if the flowering is late Jan/or Feb, the fruits will start ripening later in the year -- when the rains have picked up again.
The pdf composite isn't the sharpest as I had to keep the file size low, but you'll get an idea: the photos were shot yesterday (Dec. 10).
Topic: Mango trees flushing with new vegetative flushes now (Read 9826 times)