the MOST anthracnose and disease resistant mango's

[TonyinCC]

  Not sure if the Zill variety  "Little Gem" is in Australia or Hawaii , but it seems virtually immune to local anthracnose strains in my location in SW Florida. This year it was very wet at my location during the beginning of Summer and the clusters of fruit that stayed wet for long periods had russeting.  It still held a normal crop and internal fruit quality was high despite some fruit becoming almost completely russeted. That would be bad in a commercial sense , but as a home fruit grower, I don't care what it looks like. Little Gem can have very pretty fruit most years here.

 Maha Chanok fruit stayed clean. I think that variety is from Thailand. An added bonus with Maha is that it often fruits offseason. Its normal season is June-July here but have had fruit in December, January,March, and April from my trees in addition to the main season. Almost every year I get some offseason fruit but the months vary.

As a side note, Florigon and Duncan trees both died of different fungal diseases twice in my yard.

[Gone tropo]

  Not sure if the Zill variety  "Little Gem" is in Australia or Hawaii , but it seems virtually immune to local anthracnose strains in my location in SW Florida. This year it was very wet at my location during the beginning of Summer and the clusters of fruit that stayed wet for long periods had russeting.  It still held a normal crop and internal fruit quality was high despite some fruit becoming almost completely russeted. That would be bad in a commercial sense , but as a home fruit grower, I don't care what it looks like. Little Gem can have very pretty fruit most years here.

 Maha Chanok fruit stayed clean. I think that variety is from Thailand. An added bonus with Maha is that it often fruits offseason. Its normal season is June-July here but have had fruit in December, January,March, and April from my trees in addition to the main season. Almost every year I get some offseason fruit but the months vary.

As a side note, Florigon and Duncan trees both died of different fungal diseases twice in my yard.

I agree maha is excellent and great to hear about off season fruit as I also got first fruit in winter this year and also for nam doc mai both are flowering again so seems both will produce off season crops.  Havent heard of little gem here.

[yoski]

Yoski—where did you get your Angie tree? Have been looking for a decent sized one but can’t find them. Im in central florida.

I got it at Excalibur, 5200 Fearnley Rd, Lake Worth, FL 33467
They must have had them in small pots for wat too long. Wife was giving my hell for buying such a crappy tree. Under proper care it turned out to be one of the best producers. If you know how to graft, you're welcome to come by and take what you need.

[David H]

 Re. Fairchild mango : This is from "Register of New Fruit & Nut Varieties. 2nd edition. " by Brooks and Olmo.

Orig. in Balboa Heights, Canal Zone, by the Canal Zone Exp.Gardens.  Introd. about 1929.  Selected sdlg. from seeds introd. into U.S. as P.I. 11654 by Dr. David Fairchild from Saigon, Cochin China.