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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Just ate my first Seacrest Mango for 2024
« on: September 13, 2024, 11:01:33 PM »
For our friends in Florida there season has just ended but for California our season has just began. Just ate my first Seacreast mango and it was fantastic. I detected some citrus component but it was totally different from a perfectly ripe Lemon Zest. The Seacrest has a deep orange color in the flesh with excellent richness. It was very sweet but with a complexity not evident in LZ. The long hang time with a lack of rain in SoCal might concentrate flavors more so than in Florida, just speculation. The first photo shows some of my Seacrest on on lower right with Coconut Cream on the lower left. CC ripens later than Seacreat at my Location. I have 20+ Seacrest on my tree. Not sure how many Coconut Cream mangoes are on my multi grafted tree but if I were to guess it would be about 20 or so. This tree is eight years old.
Just picked a few Sweet Tart mangoes from my tree. The one I had two weeks ago was excellent. This tree is also eight years old. (See 2nd photo)
Guava is also doing well with several grafts on various trees all producing Fruit. (See 3rd photo as a example)
ValCarrie has a few fruit Ripening on my tree. The right half on the tree is ValCarrie. The left half is Orange Sherbet for a 2022 graft which is growing very strong. (See 4th photo)
This is the first year I have fruit from my Buttercream graft from 2020. Have five fruit (See Photo). I also grafted this variety to several other trees this year so looking foward to more fruit in future years.
My Zill M4 Mango Seedling tree that I started in July 2023 is now 46" tall and has grown very well. I just recently took it out of the greenhouse and upottted it to a #7 pot. (See photo) Grafted it to one of my in ground trees and looking foward to fruit in 3-4 years.
Many other grafts are growing well but are to immature to produce fruit. Very impressed with the growth of Raw Honey (Shwehintha). This Mango tree from Burma Grows fast and upright with dark green Foliage an are highly disease resistant. This is grafted onto (3) different mango trees in my garden and all are growing very well. I even had to remove to few immature fruit this August from a 2022 graft. The new growth foliage is a beautiful purple growth. (See Purple Growth on th last photo, Top middle) This variety seems well suited for California based on my experience so far.
Seacrest and CC Mangoes (9-13-2024)
Sweet Tart Mango Tree (9-13-24)
Guava ripening Mangoes (9-13-2024)
Orange Sherbet and ValCarrie Mango Tree (9-13-24)
Buttercream Mangoes
Zill M4 Mango Seedling Tree (9-13-2024)
Multi Grafted Mango Tree (9-6-2024)
Just picked a few Sweet Tart mangoes from my tree. The one I had two weeks ago was excellent. This tree is also eight years old. (See 2nd photo)
Guava is also doing well with several grafts on various trees all producing Fruit. (See 3rd photo as a example)
ValCarrie has a few fruit Ripening on my tree. The right half on the tree is ValCarrie. The left half is Orange Sherbet for a 2022 graft which is growing very strong. (See 4th photo)
This is the first year I have fruit from my Buttercream graft from 2020. Have five fruit (See Photo). I also grafted this variety to several other trees this year so looking foward to more fruit in future years.
My Zill M4 Mango Seedling tree that I started in July 2023 is now 46" tall and has grown very well. I just recently took it out of the greenhouse and upottted it to a #7 pot. (See photo) Grafted it to one of my in ground trees and looking foward to fruit in 3-4 years.
Many other grafts are growing well but are to immature to produce fruit. Very impressed with the growth of Raw Honey (Shwehintha). This Mango tree from Burma Grows fast and upright with dark green Foliage an are highly disease resistant. This is grafted onto (3) different mango trees in my garden and all are growing very well. I even had to remove to few immature fruit this August from a 2022 graft. The new growth foliage is a beautiful purple growth. (See Purple Growth on th last photo, Top middle) This variety seems well suited for California based on my experience so far.
Seacrest and CC Mangoes (9-13-2024)
Sweet Tart Mango Tree (9-13-24)
Guava ripening Mangoes (9-13-2024)
Orange Sherbet and ValCarrie Mango Tree (9-13-24)
Buttercream Mangoes
Zill M4 Mango Seedling Tree (9-13-2024)
Multi Grafted Mango Tree (9-6-2024)