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Tropical Fruit => Tropical Fruit Discussion => Topic started by: fliptop on March 19, 2022, 09:55:13 AM
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Anyone have experience letting a freeze-damaged Mango tree fruit?
My Neelam at the beginning of January was a happy tree, verdant leaves flowing in the gentle breeze whilst chickens frolicked beneath its canopy:
(https://i.postimg.cc/18vvB8FC/20220102-145327-1-2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/18vvB8FC)
Then one night of frost and two nights below freezing wreaked havoc on the Neelam's idyllic existence. After some serious pruning, the poor tree looked like this:
(https://i.postimg.cc/4KtBgBMM/20220228-124824-1-2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/4KtBgBMM)
But all was not lost, as the determined tree budded out. But, hark, what's this? Mixed bloom?!
(https://i.postimg.cc/zyHkCxJB/20220318-193738-1.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/zyHkCxJB)
If the tree decides to hold fruit, should I let it? It's three years in the ground this past February.
Thanks!
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I doubt it will hold on to fruit in that kind of shape but I'd remove it if it tries. Let it recover and fill out into a nice tree again.
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Not till "verdant leaves flowing in the gentle breeze whilst chickens frolicked beneath its canopy" returns :)
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Not till "verdant leaves flowing in the gentle breeze whilst chickens frolicked beneath its canopy" returns :)
8) Yup.
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Thanks, I figured waiting would be the case. Orkine, your account in another post of the Carrie tree you stumped after a freeze event gave me a lot of encouragement. While I lost some trees, most survived, and many, like the blooming Neelam, are on the road to recovery. Thanks!
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Looking good! flip
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Thanks, shot! The new growth on a lot of the Mango trees has finally brought calm to my freeze-rattled soul. Unfortunately, the youngest and smallest trees suffered the most, and I lost, among others, the seedling Gedong Gincu/Apricot.
(https://i.postimg.cc/nX2MDDxS/20220308-175917-HDR-1-2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/nX2MDDxS)
(https://i.postimg.cc/MMMGN3Qg/20220311-073823-1.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/MMMGN3Qg)
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This Fall when you look at the pictures you'll be amazed how much your
trees recovered.
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This is a yearly thing for us in 9b. Just let it fruit. If we didnt every year because of frost burn then we would never get fruit.
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(https://i.postimg.cc/CRwfXzK7/20220319-130951.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/CRwfXzK7)
(https://i.postimg.cc/5jn0yn9B/20220320-164017.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/5jn0yn9B)
(https://i.postimg.cc/k2jFyxyK/20220305-193456.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/k2jFyxyK)
(https://i.postimg.cc/649f0zFV/20220220-140849.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/649f0zFV)
(https://i.postimg.cc/rK62j4pd/20220227-155108.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/rK62j4pd)
(https://i.postimg.cc/crdXd199/20220320-143049.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/crdXd199)
Lemon zest on piva rootstock
Thanks Alex :)