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Mango varieties with similar growth habit to Valencia Pride?

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sgvfruit:
Hey all, brand new to the forum.

I have a manilla mango rootstock that I want to graft onto. One of the varieties I'm interested and that do well here in southern california is Valencia Pride. However, in the research I've been doing, the suggestion is to graft varieties that have similar growth habits. Is there a variety that matches Valencia Pride's vigor? One other post on this forum suggested st. maui, but this was a while back, so I am not sure if any newer varieties have came out that are similar.

Thanks in advance.

BurkTheMangoLover:
Phoenix is considered "super vigorous". The Phoenix that i have is indeed a fast grower with large, leggy branches that shoot for the sky. I have been tipping it to try to train it while its young.

DavidBYE:
If Manilla grows well in your area, use that. You will go crazy trying to figure out the root stock is best. Most would prefer VP to be less vigorous. If Manilla dwarfs VP you would be sitting on a gold mine.  :D

Galatians522:
Glenn, Fruit Punch, and Harvest Moon are about the same vigor as VP from what I have seen. I have no idea how any of those would do in California.

Victoria Ave:
Let you seedling grow large before grafting. I read so much about how vigorous Valencia Pride was and was looking forward to soon having a twenty food massive mango shade tree in SoCal. I even spent a bunch of money and bought a 8’ tall 25gallon tree and it has been getting smaller and smaller each year. Even grafted onto my Manila it is growing slowly. Florida vigor and SoCal vigor are something totally different.

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