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Will be curious to hear your impression (as a fruit expert) about them!

Usually they have Chaunsa, Sindhri and Anwar Rataul fruit

Certainly expensive for root stocks but this batch is the best I have seen at HD. Many of them had top cut off and had 3-4 branches.  A few had blue rubber bands at top suggesting nursery may have tried to graft on them.

Here is the one I bought.

I saw quite a few in Irvine HD (Irvine Blvd/Sand Canyon) last weekend. There are some nurseries which are starting to carry mangoes grafted on Manila root stock. For example, Mimosa Anaheim had Maha Chanok grafted on Manilla last month. Ricardo's nursery in Long Beach also some times has mangoes grafted on Manila.

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I also live close to coast as well but my VDB does not get affected at all with powdery mildew (PM). In fact, most of the figs are not affected by PM. I had grapes which were significantly affected by powdery mildew but you can choose some of the PM resistant varieties

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Has any one noted a difference in taste between the ones which have bumps and which don't have bumps?

I had grafted couple branches from scions from CCPP in 2021. They took off and have been producing heavily. About 2 years ago, I decided to graft more branches with my own budwood. Newly grafted branches started flowering earlier than previously grafted branches and produced large fruits. Most of these fruits did not have the knobs or they were inconspicuous. I have noted that they taste much better than later fruits - probably because they have been hanging longer. Later fruits have much more prominent knobs and still have high acid levels.

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2nd the recommendation for Squirrelinator. It's a bit on the expensive side but its worked really well for me with minimal effort

58$ on Amazon now.  Seems cheaper than when I got them.

Got a link for the $58? I can only find them at $73

Do you use the basin to drown them or?

I have never drowned them but that is what some of the amazon comments suggested.

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Has anyone try to grow / taste Golden Lady?  I believe only Wong farm near palm desert sells this variety?

I know this is a much older post, but Wong farms recently brought some Golden Lady mangos to a farmers market near me and I was extremely impressed. I noted lychee, white grape, honey in my tasting observations.

I haven't found much info about securing a tree or budwood from the farm themselves, but there is a nearby nursery in Riverside by the name of "Utopia Trees" that sell the variety on a manilla rootstock. Apparently, the variety is very cold hardy and does well in Southern California, which makes sense considering the original farm is located in Mecca, CA.

I am looking to add it to my collection, but scions are few and far between since it came out around 2020 and is only coming from this one farm. I think it has a lot of potential to become a California staple.

Are you certain that mango trees sold by "Utopia Trees" are grafted on Manila? When I asked them, they stated that trees are from Florida and grafted on Turpentine.

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3 for $17 including shipping
8 for $30.40 including shipping

Thank you Mike for shipping promptly and extra seeds.