E4 in my yard is precocious, productive, and free of BM. Edgar, pickering, and orange sherbet nearby were hit hard by BM.
This is a picture of my E4, planted in ground 3 months ago.
The picture is the 2nd blooms, I cut the 1st one.
The tree is only 2.5 ft, but it was holding 20+ fruitlets. I cut majority of it, but left 2 or 3 just want to see how long the tree can hold them. Eventually I will cut thwm all off.
Precocious refers to fruiting and production, not flowering. How in the world can you say that tree is anything as far as production. Its the size of a 3 gal and should not be let to hold any fruit...unless you are trying to kill it.
What is BM?
Hi Rob,
I am not an experienced mango snob at all.
Still learning from all the experts here.
I planted 10 grafted mango trees in ground about 3 months ago.
So far so good. Some of them try to hold fruits immudiately, like the E4.
It flowers and held about 20+ fruitlets on February this year. I cut all of the fruits when they reached about pea size. Then it flowers again within a month and has almost 20+ fruitlets again.
Just cut most of those off last week.
Compared to my Kathy, Edgar, Peach Cobbler, Son Pari, Venus, CAC, PPK, Dwarf Hawaiian, and Orange Sherbet, or M4, the E4 was holding the most fruitlets in my yard for me. My area is very hot and dry.
Of course my 2 years experience in growing mango is nothing compared to everyone else here.
When I was in Asia, growing mango was an absurd idea, since we can buy fresh tree ripen mangoes for really cheap everyday.
It is PM, not BM, forgive my typo, i am a bit slow learner in language.