DOT mango pros and cons?

[morris4000]

I’ve had a dot mango tree for 5 years and has not produced well at all.  Is it just me or is this a shy bearer?

[johnb51]

Although a great mango, it's probably a mango for coastal areas.  Alex the Mango Guru (Tropical Acres Farms) says they "will not perform well in deeper interior areas."  You might want to replace it with something more reliable for your area.

[bovine421]

I’ve had a dot mango tree for 5 years and has not produced well at all.  Is it just me or is this a shy bearer?

The same could be said about other top tier mangoes. Such as lemon zest coconut cream and others. If you want quality over quantity you're going to have to invest in knowledge and in Commercial fungicides. My regiment starts at the beginning of dry season all the way until after fruit set when they are about the size of a ping pong ball in April.

Dot is very very anthracnose prone on the bloom and the fruit. It is one of my most prized trees and at $6 a pound in South Florida if you can find it. It's well worth the investment. If you're growing just for yourself and you have other trees I would say it's worth it. Mango season is a July August event in your area and you can only eat so many mangoes per day make sure it's the best

Coconut cream in 9B I ignore their new map


Dwarf Hawaiian early possibly mid June like last season

[morris4000]

Yeah I have a coconut cream that does fantastic every year in central Fl.  Dot is my only problem tree

[bovine421]

Yeah I have a coconut cream that does fantastic every year in central Fl.  Dot is my only problem tree

She is needy and she could always give more but in retrospect think of going to South Florida waiting in line just to get a couple of pounds of a variety that you want. She's worth the effort. The good news is we have most of the top tier varieties up here now in Central Florida. Now anything that I don't have an abundance of. It's just a hop skip and a jump over to Merritt Island or down to Martin County 🙂

[johnb51]

Yeah I have a coconut cream that does fantastic every year in central Fl.  Dot is my only problem tree

She is needy and she could always give more but in retrospect think of going to South Florida waiting in line just to get a couple of pounds of a variety that you want. She's worth the effort. The good news is we have most of the top tier varieties up here now in Central Florida. Now anything that I don't have an abundance of. It's just a hop skip and a jump over to Merritt Island or down to Martin County 🙂

I was hoping you would advise the OP. 

[pineflatwoods]

I don't know about this particular variety, but if you are fertilizing and controlling disease, and it still doesn't produce, I would topwork or remove an unproductive tree. I'm not sure how many trees you have, but mangoes can take up a decent chunk of real estate, that can be used for many other productive things.
I would also say 5-6 years is a fair assessment of a variety in most cases. Some people said they had varieties like Coconut Cream take almost 10 years, but by then most 10 year old mango trees are very big. I've heard similar things about Sugarloaf- another highly regarded cultivar lately.  taste/production balance.

 Just some stuff to consider

[bovine421]

Yeah I have a coconut cream that does fantastic every year in central Fl.  Dot is my only problem tree

She is needy and she could always give more but in retrospect think of going to South Florida waiting in line just to get a couple of pounds of a variety that you want. She's worth the effort. The good news is we have most of the top tier varieties up here now in Central Florida. Now anything that I don't have an abundance of. It's just a hop skip and a jump over to Merritt Island or down to Martin County 🙂

I was hoping you would advise the OP. 

Grumpy  lumpkins down in Wilmington would ridicule EddieF for growing Kent. I very much like Kent and Keitt so I'm assuming that anyone who has a Dot mango tree likes fruit. So I would encourage to redouble their efforts.

[Greater Good]

There are biological fungicides I'm willing to try so I can grow some interesting varieties. My wife tried Dot at Tropical Acres Farm last Father's Day. It was here favorite of all she sampled. Unfortunately, we have several varieties in that flavor category that I can't justify using up valuable sun exposed spaces.