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Down the rabbit hole : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8snZfekKvig and https://jerry-coleby-williams.net/2014/12/05/elephant-foot-yam-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving/

-joe

Hey Forum,

I was visiting a friend recently and remarked on the leaves of a plant I’d never seen before and he gave me an off shoot of what he described as “I don’t know what the hell it’s called but it produces a giant edible potatoe and here grow one too.”







Can anyone ID this?

Thanks,
Joe

Earlier this year I pollinated my el bumpo with Lisa atemoya pollen and got two flowers to set. Last week the fruit fell off prematurely. Pictured is two small el bumpos left and center next to a small geffner. Both el bumpos softened up and the larger one was edible and nice tasting, no grit with a almost bubble gum flavor. The seeds look viable and I’m excited to plant these out and see what comes of these hybrid cherimoya x atemoya seeds.

-joe

What was the plant?

I’m just curious, as I hear some are weaker shippers than others.

-Joe

I have a few seedling trees and the past two years we had a light and brief frost but the cold weather didn’t kill my abiu, I have noticed they will get chlorotic and they start weakening, I give them foliar iron and blue bag of hollytone (has sulfur) and they green up again. Have noticed they are way more actively growing during warmer months. It’s possible if they are malnourished they will have a tougher time handling cold weather. I have a thick mulch layer of pine bark chunks on them and keep them well watered.

-Joe

Hey guys,

Orders were sent this morning and everyone was sent their tracking numbers, should arrive latest by Friday, extra scions were included so heads up if need to gather rootstock.

Thank You,

Joe

Hey Forum,

Going to be selling some mango scions if anyone is interested. Here are the terms: Sale is open now and closes midnight Friday 7/15/22, first come first served while supplies last, all scions are 6$ ea with minimum order of 5 scions plus 10$ USPS priority small box shipping. Example minimum order is 40$ shipped. All scions will range in size from 1-2 "pencil" size girth and 6 in length, they will be wrapped in parafilm (optional unwrapped if wrapping in buddy tape yourself) and separated into individually labeled ziplock bags. All orders will be shipped out Monday 7/18/2022 which should reach you by Friday that week. Tracking numbers will be sent out individually via DM. Payment is accepted via PayPal friends and family.

Scions available:

Sweet Tart (limited)
Orange Sherbet (limited)
Lemon Zest
Super Julie
Prete

The "Prete" mango, is my seedling Ivory mango which I have written about on 7/27/2021 on this thread scroll to last page https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=6398.875

Below are two pictures of Prete next to Super Julie.







Prete is my last name and translates to priest in Italian, where the name comes from.

Thanks for reading,

-Joe

Hey Elriba,

Interesting point you bring up, but aside from that I’m really rooting for you that your fruit holds to maturity. I’m super curious if the “big eyes” come true to type from seed and if you can please post a picture of the ripe fruit in time.

Thanks,

Joe

In the article it shows a table of percentages, for example the first line FJ x TS (cherimoya x squamosa and both diploid) 35% of progeny were triploid 🤷‍♂️

I wouldn’t think the temperature has been too hot to stymie painter pollen viability as other pollens are working- geffner x Lisa , geffner x dream , dream x fernandez , geffner x ppc, sugar apple x geffner, sugar apple x Fernandez, el bumpo x lisa,  painter x sugar apple are all crosses holding at the moment, the outlier in all of this is that painter pollen is not sticking. 🤔

-Joe

It’s definitely a personal preference thing. No one else in my family likes it but me. And here is how I enjoy it: smear it on raisin toast like jelly with some butter…. Dude……. Drool. Hahaha I have 10 seedlings going on 2.5 years going to try and fruit them.

Would recommend you try the fruit first, and in order for it to be good you gotta eat it really ripe 👍

Btw this tree is surprisingly high in vitamin C as well as Barbados cherry, would recommend growing either of those as personal health supplements.
 
-joe

Simon this article is gold man…. Going to pay more attention to the floral and vegetative stimulators, and be careful of pruning within 4-5 months of floral stimulus (cold weather). I think why in cali it’s optimal for mangos to flower sooner is it’s dry and cold air so ratio of floral vs vegetative balance is tipped towards flowering ie cold is positive for floral induction while dry is negative for vegetative = strong bloom. The issue in Florida seems to be opposite so if poor cold fronts and rain the scale is tipped to favor vegetative growth and not ideal.

After reading this article my plan going forward is to tip prune 4-5 months before cold fronts traditionally come while withholding nitrogen and keeping track of flushing with goal of one flush post tip prune, then as cold fronts come add a lil nitrogen. I will add gypsum over the summertime. Will have to see how this works out.

What I also found crazy interesting is this paragraph:





Certain mangos require lower temperature threshold for flower induction and it’s evidently graft transmittable so an interesting experiment would be to use those types as rootstock or inter-stock and see if that imparts a better bloom in cultivars that struggle to bloom in warmer weather. I have never observed an actual turpentine mango tree and don’t know if it’s a strong bloomer or not in warm weather but I think I heard it is most common rootstock used in FL. This could be good or bad if weather starts trending warmer over time.

-Joe

Good Morning forum friends,

Celebrated 9 years of marriage down in Miami this weekend and my wife and I hit up mangomen yesterday for some emerald, julie, zebda, and this one Carrie mango as well as the fruit and spice park afterward then finished the evening with dinner at KYU (amazing) must try the cauliflower appetizer.

 


This tasting came with a view!








Had to butcher this with a dull knife and shed some mango blood 😂 you can tell this Carrie was on the riper side and juicy as it was very yellow with an aromatic smell.




Delicious mango and my first Carrie of the season.





-Joe