The Tropical Fruit Forum

Definitely pure mexican and not fuerte.  Good job!  Those are good avos for northern CA.

I think you want to leave them on there until around next June when its warm enough to get vegetative flushes again.  If you remove the blooms the tree will use more energy making more flowers.  Im not an expert though, maybe the other guys growing mangos in CA have better advice for you.

Im still picking lamb hass and justnfinished thenreeds from winter 2017 blooms.  Not dry, super ripe.

8$ per long 18" cutting. 12$ for bruni and simons purple.  Shipping cost depends on location, can calculate it for you upon request.

USA shipping only.

Natural mystic
Condor
American beauty
Dark star
Makisupa
Bruni
Simons purple
Physical graphitti
Thomson
G2
Nicaragua red
San ignacio
Cosmic charlie

They are easy to root and I found you don't even need to use rooting powder. They will produce roots in a glass of water but make sure to use cuttings that are not too woody and more herbaceous and also take the ones closest the base of the plant or near the roots.  I think the only issue is when you switch environments like if its from a greenhouse with high humidity to outside with lower relative humidity. You will then notice some leaf drop.   It was humid all summer here in Florida and once I noticed them rooting in a glass of water i transplanted them into a small pot with soil and had no problems with them losing any leaves.

They probably love the weather in FL.

Seed pods are finally coming in.  Down to 1 plant. 

Quote from: spaugh on October 06, 2018, 12:44:44 PM

Was the flower purple?

Yup

Awesome Nate.  Thats a bigg fruit.  Let us know how it tastes.  I have a couple on my plant too but havent tried it yet.

SORRY NO SHIPPING TO INDIA

Do you still have cuttings?

Yes I can take more cuttings or sell some of the rooted ones I had for my own farm.  Just shoot me a pm.

Introducing non native bugs probably not a great idea.

By the way the LM3 thing was a big disappointment here.  Simon had asked Leo if it was ok if we propogate it and sell it and he agreed and told him which tree to take scions from this spring.  Simon brought a big bag of scions over and we completely top worked a large tree here with it.

A week or so ago he was back over there and looking at the fruits and the leaf shape etc and realized there was more than one type on that tree and realized what happened.  Leo is getting older and forgetting details.  Forgot to mention he had other stuff on his #3 tree back in spring when we got lots of wood off it.

Thank Simon for figuring out what happened and the disappointment you all would have had in a few years. 

Cool, thabks for the update.  Reminds me I need to plant my tree.  Its ready to go in the ground.

I would sort out how many branches you got that are within 1 feet of trunk length, clear out all branches that are lower than 12-18 inches, have first spread above ground 12-18 inches max with 3 to 4 equally spaced branches all around, then those branches cut them at 12" - 18" length and expose leaf nodes at the ends no more than 3 nodes. you will start to get a nice low canopy. Most my cherimoya form and produce fruit under 6 feet, rest is all junk growth.

Nice description behl.  Its holding half a dozen fruit so I will clear the low growth now and then thin down to 4 main branches next spring.

Do you still have the Ardith for sale im also looking for queen, hellen, jan boyce,Nabal,Carmen,Reed and few other kinds of scions, i already have a Nimlioh

Yes, I will send you a PM.