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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #75 on: February 10, 2023, 07:24:40 AM »



2018 Coconut Cream seedling

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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #76 on: February 10, 2023, 10:26:56 AM »
Wow, that CCr seedling inflorescence bundle looks sweet!

Summer 2022, chopped about 1/3+ of my CCr to graft other stuff, most of which did not take. Now, CC is blooming. Wish hadn't chopped so much.

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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #77 on: February 10, 2023, 11:09:49 AM »
One-year-old Sugarloaf. Even if it sets any fruit, they will be removed, of course.

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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #78 on: February 10, 2023, 01:16:26 PM »
Thanks, roblack! It's its second year flowering--last year's fruitlets got destroyed in the freezes. Hopefully we're in the clear this year. I'm glad the tree seems eager to flower; hopefully the fruit tastes good. The leaves don't smell like your description of Coconut Cream leaves, though, so I'm nervous.

johnb51, I have a Kathy in the same boat as your Sugarloaf



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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #79 on: February 10, 2023, 05:44:54 PM »
If it's really CCr, you will love it fliptop.

Leaf smell can vary, especially at different times of the year. Post fruit pics when it gets going, they have a look to them.

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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #80 on: February 10, 2023, 06:46:18 PM »
Wow, that CCr seedling inflorescence bundle looks sweet!

Summer 2022, chopped about 1/3+ of my CCr to graft other stuff, most of which did not take. Now, CC is blooming. Wish hadn't chopped so much.
Perhaps the stress from losing a third of the canopy is why its blooming :)

Enjoy fruit from the remaining 2/3rd.

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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #81 on: February 10, 2023, 07:32:31 PM »
Might cut 1/3 again then! =)

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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #82 on: February 10, 2023, 08:24:17 PM »
Careful not to end up with a stump and one panicle.

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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #83 on: February 10, 2023, 11:55:31 PM »
In Cape Coral here and Ian impacted my little Mango forest, but not quite as bad as I thought it would.  I was just starting out so most of my trees were small.  I lost 4 (Keitt, Orange Sherbet, Seacrest and Coconut Cream) and by that I mean they trees are gone... poof... never found them. (snapped at the ground below the graft)  All but 2 of my remaining trees were pushed over.  Those two were both pickering...  I also have a dozen or so other trees in pots that were largely unscathed, just some minor leaf damage.  So, I righted everything and replaced the coconut cream and seacrest, added a Karen Michelle, M4, Orange Essence and Cotton Candy.

Hows things today?  Everything seems behind.   


Pickerings are just starting to bloom, one heavily and the other not so much, but I had pruned it pretty heavy before the storm.
Pineapple pleasure is blooming for the first time!
Dwarf Hawaiian Blooming also first time.
The new M4 is in bloom and other one still recovering, no signs of bloom.
Honey Kiss is blooming but its way too small to hold fruit.
Spirit of 76 is blooming but its way too small to hold fruit.
Rosigold flowered but dropped all its fruit.  For me this tree is hard to keep clean.  It's got an insect / sooty mold issue.  Happens every year which is strange because its surrounded by other trees (in pots) that are not affected at all.
Ice cream flowered well but isn't holding on to the fruit.  No biggie its a small wirey tree and could use another year.
My first Seacrest is really beat.  Looks like its alive and starting to wake up.  The new one is resting and still in a pot.
Peach cobbler looks healthy and might be starting to flush.
Sugar loaf is starting to push some buds... hopefully flush.
Lemon Zest leaves are really beat and its pushing buds of some sort.
Cotton Candy, Glenn, Sweet Tart, Karen Michelle, Orange Essence and Pina Colada all dormant

So, better than I expected.  I'll be happy getting a bunch of pickerings and hopefully trying Pineapple Pleasure and Dwarf Hawaiian for the first time.

Good luck everyone!
Bill (Cape Coral)

Mangoes I have:
Valencia Pride, Karen Michelle, Pineapple Pleasure, Pina Colada, M4, Coconut Cream, Seacrest, Sugar Loaf, Pickering, Honey Kiss, Peach Cobbler, Spirit of 76, Glenn, Cotton Candy, Gary, Lemon Zest, Orange Essence, Dwarf Hawaiian, Ice Cream, Sweet Tart, All Summer

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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #84 on: February 11, 2023, 07:30:00 AM »
Awesome collection, bburdzel! How big is your property? Among other things, Ian snapped the top part of my Ice Cream Mango tree off, and if it didn't get entangled in part of my fence ~100 feet away, would've kept going. Fortunately, the break was well above the graft and the tree is recovering.

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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #85 on: February 11, 2023, 10:12:14 AM »
Awesome collection, bburdzel! How big is your property? Among other things, Ian snapped the top part of my Ice Cream Mango tree off, and if it didn't get entangled in part of my fence ~100 feet away, would've kept going. Fortunately, the break was well above the graft and the tree is recovering.

Less than a half-acre and its pretty much maxed out.  20 trees in the ground and another dozen in pots.  Its tight... need an intervention.
Bill (Cape Coral)

Mangoes I have:
Valencia Pride, Karen Michelle, Pineapple Pleasure, Pina Colada, M4, Coconut Cream, Seacrest, Sugar Loaf, Pickering, Honey Kiss, Peach Cobbler, Spirit of 76, Glenn, Cotton Candy, Gary, Lemon Zest, Orange Essence, Dwarf Hawaiian, Ice Cream, Sweet Tart, All Summer

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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #86 on: February 11, 2023, 05:37:02 PM »
Okrine, thanks for that info…mine has bloomed full for three years now, I remove some wood that’s vertical and tip prune anything vertical that is left. Result is a very wide tree.

Alex Salazar has stated that a vigorous tree that is maintained at a small height will eventually just want to push foliar growth, but HOW small is the confounding variable.

From what your routine sounds like, yea I guess yours seems to alternate bear because you prune heavily every other year and therefore needs to replace leaves instead of flower on those years.

Thanks again that’s great info I’ll keep pruning after harvest and hope for the best.

Abe, I just realized I described what happened to my Beverly not BM.
Brain fart I guess.  I hope the pruning suggestions helps with managing the vigor of your tree.

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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #87 on: February 11, 2023, 10:16:38 PM »
Okrine that explains the alternate bearer part at least ! Beverly is a fantastic mango. Keep up the good work.

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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #88 on: February 12, 2023, 02:28:16 PM »
Since Coco Cream grows vigorously, 1/4 - 1/3 might be about right some years.

Glenn/CeciLove tree:



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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #89 on: February 14, 2023, 11:10:21 AM »
My Pickering gave us 90 delicious mangoes last summer.  This season, however, looks like a bust.  Mid-February and one pannicle has popped up while the rest of the tree appears dormant.  :(  Why??   :'(

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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #90 on: February 14, 2023, 12:04:42 PM »
My Pickering gave us 90 delicious mangoes last summer.  This season, however, looks like a bust.  Mid-February and one pannicle has popped up while the rest of the tree appears dormant.  :(  Why??   :'(

Most of our Pickering trees have fairly complete blooms but there are a couple that have weak partial blooms.

As far as the why, you can blame the weak winter. Warm winters like this reduce the likelihood of trees flowering, particularly if their stem tips haven’t had a lot of time to mature. This isn’t uncommon with trees that had large crops the prior year and flushed growth later in the year consequently.

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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #91 on: February 14, 2023, 01:58:59 PM »
Makes sense. . .after the mangoes were harvested last summer I gave the tree a moderate trimming in mid July.  Two growth flushes quickly followed. So that may be why I'll be buying mangoes at Costco this summer. >:(
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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #92 on: February 14, 2023, 03:14:17 PM »
My Bailey’s Marvel os really struttin’ its’ stuff now..let’s see how fruit set is…


Mango tree porn








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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #93 on: February 14, 2023, 03:16:31 PM »
Carbo, skip Costco and buy your mangos from
squam256

Buy them from
Alex, online, at

Tropicalacresfarms.com

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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #94 on: February 14, 2023, 04:03:25 PM »
My Bailey’s Marvel os really struttin’ its’ stuff now..let’s see how fruit set is…


Mango tree porn








Put a webcam on it and rake in the dough

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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #95 on: February 15, 2023, 08:50:05 PM »
Sugarloaf
Planted 2019
Tip-pruned annually




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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #96 on: February 17, 2023, 01:07:05 PM »
Great pictures of Mango trees blooming everybody!! I just hope we have a better mango season this year...

My 15 1/2 year old Glenn, I love this mango sooo good and the trunk is pretty short for being this old and has a pretty wide canopy which I really like, more branches for blooms/fruits. Its finally busting with flowers.





Same Tree taken in 2009 after severe freeze damage

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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #97 on: February 17, 2023, 05:06:58 PM »
Wow! That's a great looking Glenn.  :)

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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #98 on: February 18, 2023, 12:42:28 PM »
Wow! That's a great looking Glenn.  :)

Thanks Calusa!!

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Re: 2023 Mango Season
« Reply #99 on: February 18, 2023, 01:30:52 PM »
It begins...