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Letting a freeze-damaged mango tree fruit?
« on: March 19, 2022, 09:55:13 AM »
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:



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:



But all was not lost, as the determined tree budded out. But, hark, what's this? Mixed bloom?!



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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Re: Letting a freeze-damaged mango tree fruit?
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2022, 10:38:33 AM »
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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Re: Letting a freeze-damaged mango tree fruit?
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2022, 11:34:19 AM »
Not till "verdant leaves flowing in the gentle breeze whilst chickens frolicked beneath its canopy" returns :)

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Re: Letting a freeze-damaged mango tree fruit?
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2022, 06:02:33 PM »
Not till "verdant leaves flowing in the gentle breeze whilst chickens frolicked beneath its canopy" returns :)
8) Yup.
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Re: Letting a freeze-damaged mango tree fruit?
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2022, 05:38:35 AM »
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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Re: Letting a freeze-damaged mango tree fruit?
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2022, 10:57:24 AM »
Looking good! flip

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Re: Letting a freeze-damaged mango tree fruit?
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2022, 06:01:08 PM »
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.





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Re: Letting a freeze-damaged mango tree fruit?
« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2022, 10:01:50 PM »
This Fall when you look at the pictures you'll be amazed how much your
trees recovered.

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Re: Letting a freeze-damaged mango tree fruit?
« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2022, 10:44:33 AM »
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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Re: Letting a freeze-damaged mango tree fruit?
« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2022, 11:24:45 AM »











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