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This years Timotayo. It will be tested against an Edward,Haden, Glenn and LZ in the next week or so
Those thing better taste good!!! Tomas will hate me if otherwise kidding, TomasQuote from: JF on August 09, 2013, 03:59:16 PMThis years Timotayo. It will be tested against an Edward,Haden, Glenn and LZ in the next week or so
Lucky tasters, will be interesting to see results!
Hello JF, If you have a real Timotayo mango, I think you will have a pleasant surprise. Make sure you pick your fruit when they are mature but not overripe and they are very good.Hello PltdWorld, Ventura County is a nice place to live and good for the new mangoes too. They make a pretty landscape tree and they have the added bonus of those luscious fruit. Have you dad and bro get a hold of me and we will see what we can do about making them mango growers. Tim T.
Hello JF,My collection is pretty big and it is mostly international. I have been working with mangoes for almost 40 years now. I am a low profile mango plant breeder. I have ten new mango varieties in the patent process right now as cold hardy for California. That one big mango tree is a beauty, and it sounds like you have a pretty impressive collection yourself. How long have you been growing mangoes?
JF - I had an afterthought regarding your nice Timotayo tree full of beautiful mango fruit. When I have a lot of mangoes on my trees, I sometimes get bored just eating them plain so I decided to include a recipe section on my website with a large variety of different ways to include mangoes in various dishes. I think you might find something you could use to utilize some of your mangoes. Try my favorite: mango coconut meringue pie. The link is: http://www.socalplantbreeders.com/#!recipes/crd8Anaxel - You asked what the low temperature limits of our new cold hardy mangoes is. Our location is in city of Camarillo in Southern California. We use two recording thermometers to monitor the temperatures where we grow the mangoes, unprotected, outdoors. During the last 25 years we recorded three occasions where the temperature hit the mid 20 degree Fahrenheit range. All of our new mango varieties survived while two large manilla mango trees died. Most of our new varieties suffered some frost damage but recovered. We had one variety that had no apparent damage and in Spring bloomed normally. It also produced a nice crop of mangoes. For that variety, we don't actually know what the lower temperature limit really is.
Hi all,Dear JF,I'm not a woman but a man aged 45 years, yes I live in France in zone 9a and also a house in the south of portugal of my parents (zone10a, setubal) place of my origins.thank you.HI TIMthank you for answering me ,for your sharing ,of your experience ,your knowledge and your kindeness (it is good to read.).Friendship.anaxel
Hi all,olà luisport,pleasure to know you luisport.you're right, I agree with you, we need mango tree of california highly resistant to cold (20F =-6.6c), it is very difficult to reaching in this part of southern Portugal, the lowest is 40F (maximum at night).there are some mango trees endure it and the drought in the region, they can be put in the ground, as gommera 13-1 mango tree of spain, it resists very low temperatures with periods of drought.anaxel.
Hello Anaxel, we have friends in Spain who we will be sending some of our surplus So Cal frost resistant mango budwood to for field trial testing next Summer. We can stay in touch and maybe we can help you get one of our new mango varieties to try out. We want to find out just how much cold they can take. The coldest it has gotten her is 26 degrees F. I read that the Mediterranean mango crop is down by 30 to 40 percent below normal because of the cool Spring weather. Our new mango varieties were bred to live and grow in cool Spring weather because what Southern California has. Maybe our new mangoes can help out the Mediterranean growers even out their mango crops. You can visit our website to see some of the new varieties at SoCalplantbreeders.com. Have a great day.Tim Thompson