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Hoping this rain forest plum flowers soon

So it seems like everyone from Caribbean comes to Florida and a "Julie" mango seed happens to be in their pocket.  (Same thing with other nationalities but replace Julie with that nations favorite mango)
As we all know a Julie mango seedling is not a Julie. Even in the Caribbean itself people plant Julie seedlings claiming they are Julies.
If i had to guess between South Florida and the Caribbean there is probably around 100,000 unique "Julie"s.

How does one go about deciding which Julie is THE Julie?
I guess this is a mango history question. But i'm even more interested in the process of determining which tree's scion to bring back, propagated and call Julie.

Feel free to post histories of other mangos and their selection process here.

unfortunately i only have a seashore mangosteen, i dont think they are graft compatible. 

So this thread went sideways pretty fast .
I finally got a Day avocado, thanks for the recommendation.

Between Day, Oro Negro and the freebies from friends I think I should be okay for Avocados throughout the year.

Me too

my tree is 8 feet and scraggly, i have no idea when its going to give me fruit

O man that's too bad from what I understand annona grafting is highly dependent on timing. Seems like March is when all the magic happens.
Unfortunately the sugar apples I have are not big enough to get scions from and I'm probably not allowed to send scions to California.
You can also check with Adam "flyingfoxfruits". Hes been pretty busy though so it might take a little while to hear back.

Flagging tape as in the type of tape to mark the trees for purchase at a nursery?

Yup I think it's the same kind.
I Find it to be a good multipurpose tape are the yard, tying up trees, marking them, easy enough to write on. I use it in conjunction with parafilm. If you double it up or fold it in half it's can withstand a good bit of tension.
This is mainly for the older wood that's need more force to ensure good contact. I wrap the graft (only) directly with the flagging tape and wrap the scions and graft with parafilm to keep it water tight.

Ideally I want to get good enough where I don't need it. But I guess whatever works for now.

Also a tip I learned at the recent grafting class at rfvcb (taught by Sal) is to fold the parafilm M in half twice and you get pretty good tension that way too.

There are plenty of more experienced grafters on the forum, they'll have better insight than me. Just thought I'd share what works for me.

Got a bunch of alano right now

What type. Rosigold?

That's cool Dom I'm thinking about striping mines too, but then again that's a lot of work on 18-20 feet tall trees.
carlos

Same thing happening with my reticulatas, I guess i'll go with Franks advice too

Also what to do with mixed vegetative/blossom spikes that have dropped all bb sized fruit...should they be left as is and be allowed to become branches  (would they? ) , or should they be cut off and if so when?

Thats a good question,
I usually cut it off as if i was tipping the branch before.

Not sure if this is the best thing to do.

So i'm thinking blooming season (in my yard at least) is over.
Seems like everything is switching to leaves now.

NDM only has around 6 spikes (1 new growth is just leaves)
Lancetilla has 2 spike (no new growth yet)
VP has 1 spike (new growth on top is leaves)
Rosigold has around 10 spikes (new growth is leaves)
Neelam has many spikes thats weighing down branches (rest of the terminals are leaves now)

Disappointed in this years blooms.

Is it safe to trim some of these trees now? Open up the canopy and whatnot.

Great initiative to get more people contributing Adam.

Maybe we can do some more contest like fruit hunting in their own locality. Finding more delicious annona specimens. 

Last year i had a few different seedling avocados that were great and big, this year i'm going to be fact checking these growers and see the tree. I'll post to that thread when i find out some more info