Losing mangos by the bushel

[Orkine]

I just got home and saw easily one hundred or more mangos under my trees.  Some small, others more mature and some likely ready to pick.
I didn't have to wait long.  A gust of wind and another dropped.

Anyone else having this problem.  It has been super winder here in South Florida today and its raining mangos.  It had not rained in a while, not sure if this makes things worse.

What looked like a good year is going bust, so sad.

Share your experience and if you have suggested actions for the future do share.  Not for this crop but perhaps for a future crop.

[palmcity]

1.Anyone else having this problem.
2.Share your experience and if you have suggested actions for the future do share.

1. yes
2.ok.. Here's a few....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpicz6AztA8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIcocdt1sVc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_PFTM4Cuew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOZ5Bzh2qkU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ncvlvwcp38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oYKqBUhSPo

[Orkine]

1.Anyone else having this problem.
2.Share your experience and if you have suggested actions for the future do share.

1. yes
2.ok.. Here's a few....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpicz6AztA8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIcocdt1sVc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_PFTM4Cuew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOZ5Bzh2qkU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ncvlvwcp38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oYKqBUhSPo

Thanks.  Maybe I will be adventurous.

Here are a few photos.
I still have fruit so the year is certainly not a bust.  One tree in particular is heavy with fruit see picture below. 
Lacentilla was almost wiped out.  Never had any luck with that tree since I put it in five or six years ago.  Huge fruit, but never able to hold on tree long enough to ripen or get sweet (if it ever gets sweet).  Raccoons and squirrels get to it first.

http://ibb.co/eKU0Sa
http://ibb.co/eHA77a
http://ibb.co/k1gEna

Can,t blame it all on the wind, some as you see were small but had colored up, would have dropped anyway. 

[palmcity]

Thanks.  Maybe I will be adventurous.

I feel compelled to eat what I grow and not waste it so I'm trying my best to eat as many as I can green. Some are better than others just picking them up and biting is low odds that I will eat it all. The super hard green skin is usually discarded along with the seed. I have eaten them like cucumbers sliced in slithers and salt & pepper when taken inside the house. I have also added some salt, sugar, and or vinegar occasionally. Everyone seems to agree that green mangos are healthy for us to eat with actually less calories since ripening was stopped. I am going to try more of these ideas on youtube.

I had a friend who had orange groves years ago in central Florida. He would always always ask for a glass of OJ anytime a choice was given at a meal. He would say, "Someones got to drink it." I acknowledged that and proceeded to drink my tomato juice, coke, etc.

I am eating more green mangos and will eventually try some of the hot liquid storing in glass jar ideas but have not yet. I like sweet and was impressed with the sugar ideas for the green mangos. Of course some varieties will be better than others and this is purely trial and error for myself. If anyone wants to post ideas for his varieties as to how to best eat them green please post as I have some of these choices also and would be interested in how you prefer to eat green mangos  of each of these choices::: Keitt, Haden, Okrung, Glen, Carrie, Philippean, and Madem Francis which have no chance of ripening in a warm room in a paper bag etc. 

[DeeMango]

Check your plants carefully for mealybugs. They are good at hiding when you approach the plant so sometimes it's hard to see them unless you're looking carefully. They are cottony white bugs that suck the sap out of the stems directly at the top of each fruit. This weakens the stems and causes fruit drop, especially in breezy weather. It's probably too late to treat them now, but you can spray with soapy water. Since you already have fruit ripening, you probably don't want to use Malathion on them now. The ones in my yard seem to have a preference for Nam Doc Mai's.

[gnappi]

Jeez, sorry to hear you're losing so many fruits, hopefully the largest ones will ripen and the rest left on the tree will hold.

We had a windy day and just had an "End of the World" rain / windstorm event and my Pickering (only has 6 full fruits), Madame Francis, and East Indian multi mango trees dropped zero fruit. My Julie seedling that I was fearing would break under the weight of the fruit lost maybe 15-20  but that's a good thing because I still may have to thin it ruthlessly.

Funny, my Gold nugget Jak dropped two immature fruits, but I have over 30 left on it.

[puglvr1]

I feel your pain...I've had a lot of small fruits drop here as well...not as many as you but a grocery bag full off of my one Cogshall tree. Last year this tree suffered from fungus disease (black stuff) on all the fruits, most likely severe anthracnose and I didn't get a single edible fruit from it. This year I decided to treat it with Fungicide and it seems to help a lot. I should have some to pick in a few weeks even with all the drops I've had...well at least that's what I'm hoping for  . Its been quite windy here since March! Usually by April the winds have tapered off, not at all this year...

A mango grower with a large tree a few miles from me told me he has over a hundred of varying sizes of mango drops all over the ground also...you're not alone apparently 

Palmcity, thanks for the recipes. Might try some of them...

[Future]

Truly Tropical just posted the same on their blog.  Green mangoes that will not ripen for sale due to high winds...

[clannewton]

I feel your pain!

[puglvr1]

SOOOO Sorry!!!!!!!!!!!

[pineislander]

It might not be a final solution, but windbreaks could help.Proper windbreaks will have multiple layers to be most effective. There is info online for how to do this. Have a look at your properties and evaluate if a 'wind tunnel' effect may exist, could be a driveway wall or treeline actually funnels gusts towards trees. I noticed that though I lost plenty of fruit and even 1/4 of a Valencia Pride tree which broke a large branch, a fully laden Carrie on the downwind side lost not a single fruit.

[Future]

https://www.themangoplace.com/blog/2017/5/25/what-to-do-with-green-mangos