The Tropical Fruit Forum

Believe it or not, I got over 6" of rain at my house, measure with a pot and camping cooler box. The 4" tall pot was over filled and the cooler measure near 9" but since there is a hump around the drain spigot so it's less than 8".  Weather predicted 20mph wind but we got less than 10 luckily. The pot and cooler were out in the open area.

Here’s another graft that took using that method 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼


This is a Sugarloaf grafted onto my Orange Sherbet mango tree!

Great video!!!
Try to align at least one side of the scion to the rootstock if they are different in size, instead of aligning them center.

In my opinion, the key to better public acceptance of organic fruits is through awareness/education. This is why I like going to small sellers because I get a chance to talk and learn from these sellers.

Most people only learned about selecting produces or fruits from TV ads which only show shiny waxy perfect looking fruits.
Yes, they need more education in foods that a corn ear with a worm is not a bad corn.

I hate to discard any healthy vigorous seedlings, so why not plant them all in pots and wait. Some will die and you might ended up with a single tree, true to LZ or not but a good tree, then if the fruits are not good then topwork and graft something on.

This is a bad year of mango fruits for me: all the trees are doing great but not much fruits 
LZ: so much flowers but zero fruits.
ST Maui: normally a reliable fruiting variety, but all small fruits fell off.
Okrung: many fruitlets but cracked because there is no seed
Peach cobbler: normally very reliable and held about 30 fruits, this year it had only 10 and all fell off at about thumb size. It sent out summer flowers but no fruits. It seems the three is in growing reason and so it aborted the fruits, or it's too warm for flowers to develop to fruits.


Here are the trees with no fruits:
(FL people think we are crazy to have mango trees inches next to the house
LZ on the top high and Okrung on the left and lower -- both are grafts on one HD Lavern rootstock:


Peach cobbler on the right and left side: Okrung, maha, ST Maui on Glenn rootstock:

Success on 2/3 grave coffins.  EXCELLENT results considering was my first time grafting.  It was about 6-7 weeks but I'm very happy they took!

At this stage, I would cut off the branch above the graft so the rootstock only push the new shoots from the scion.
These grafts took longer time to push new shoots because OP left too much leaves and nodes above the graft. I would cut off the branch above the lowest leaf to force the rootstock to push new shoots from the scion.

Cleft may be the most dummy proof.  In my opinion,  the "coffin" graft is a poor method (and has nothing to do with nor any resemblance to a graft by Walter Zill).  I am not sure why you would have stripped the scion.  Cant see anything hood to come of that.

If done right, side veneer is a fast take and makes for a good graft union.

Correct that Cleft is the sure way but what if the rootstock branch is much larger than the scion? This is why Walter Zill shown his graft of cuttings on a larger branches. However, as amatuers gardeners I and others can't tell how to cut the bark flat down to the cambium -- not too deep into the wood and not enough -- and so by pulling off the bark it's a sure way to get to the cambium 100% sure as in the "coffin" method.

Valencia Pride holding a good amount of mangoes getting finger size. Last year only harvested 4 hoping to double it this year. Have a few panicles on it right now so maybe a late season hold.

Are these trees grafted from FL? They look so lanky. Growing mangoes from seeds is a sure and fast way in SoCal.

wow, more than 3 months since I reported of the flower panicles on the trees, and now here they are still with flower buds not open yet. The cold weather slow down the flower development, I think. So far no bad sign of PM yet. I hope the buds will fully open for the bees in March and it should be warmer by then. I also think we only have the best wind from March to early May, before the marine layer moving in causing morning dews in warm weather and it a good recipe for PM. Took this pic this morning on LZ + O-krung tong grafted on HD mexican rootstock:


 

This patch of flowers became black and fell off. Then a 2nd patch happened in late March/early April but had major PM, so I picked them off (a mistake I think). Then 3rd patch of flowers came in May then hit by SoCal June gloom. None of LZ have any fruits this year, but other varieties hold decent fruits.
I believe that I made the mistake of removing all flowers of the 2nd patch which might be ok to have some LZ fruits. Flowering in June in SoCal is not good.

How are your SoCal mango this season?

Btw, in the pic the top branches are LZ and the lower branches near the mosaic table are Okrung which hold decent fruits while the bigger and taller LZ have none this year

I found some more of my photos from last year, here's the Younghan's Gold fruit shape.

The last few photos show the fruit a bit over ripe. Do you pick them hard, or just gave when squeezed? Sapote never ripe properly when picked hard, this makes sapote fruits hard to distribute/transport as the only good tasting fruits are ones that picked perfect pipe on the tree, or a fruit bomb mess on the ground couple days later.

None of the coon ever come back around here, after getting a dose of 4500V from the e-fly swatter.

It is sweet, soft and juicy, with 2 or 4 large and small seeds, not sure what variety this is, it bears even more fruits this year...

Good variety I think. Could Suebelle which can have yellow to orange flesh and excellent taste.

I learned that bud graft or veneer graft is not a good choice for some varieties, which grow faster when cleft graft was used.