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After low teperatures (Mangifera indica-Mango Anacardiaceae) it bounces back with a bloom!


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SoBe, your tree appears to have anthracnose fungus (the blackspots you see on the leaves). You might want to consider spraying your tree/flowers with copper to prevent the anthracnose from limiting your fruit production.

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Hey Squam256 ! Give us some more info in

Member Introductions, Social Announcements & Good Wishes - Bananas.org

That breakfast of champions thing ... a bit different than what Kurt Vonnegut wrote about!

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I’ve been using the liquid cooper that Squam256 suggested over 3 weeks once a week ..I think is getting better!!
The flowers look ok. So far!
full bloom!
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Sobe, looks great. I see lots of panicles and flowers, you should have a nice crop this season.

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Sobe,those burn leaves looks like salt burn.that happen when is to much salt in the soil because to much fertilizer.i suggest you to do a deep irrigation(just one ) water the tree around the drip line(stay away from the trunk with the water)for about 15 min to flush the salts from the soil and do fertilize again after u pick all ur mangoes.How much have u been fertilizing?

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i mean -dont fertilize again-after....

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I think the mangos are sick too.
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my tree is looking good again this year but not like it was last year

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This is going to be a problem now. Went to the store today and BINGO!
MANGO!
Now the good green Fairy starts to drive me nuts about germination informations and I have told her that I ll ask my friends and Mango gurues here at the Bananas.org if they would share few tips and germination instuctions with us???
BTW we have one Avocado fruit too!
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Germination will be the easy part, doing everything to protect it in winter the difficult one. ;)
Mangoes are Kalabrian's favorite specialty, maybe you should PM him, he was full of information on this topic (and whatever he says, just believe that you can grow it and you will be able to!)

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If you are growing from a seed the chances of getting a Mango like the one you ate is slim.
Nature can be a real trickster, the only way to get what you want is to buy a grafted tree.
If you are going to grow one in a pot, try Rosigold or Cogshall.

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I so wish I could grow mango's in my zone!

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I gave a Glenn to my daughter who lives in Mulberry, this winter was a little much for it, may it rest in peace.

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Meliola mangiferae!
I think is what is happening ..I don’t know.. base on what I search in the net it maybe.
Can anybody tell me for sure and what can I do ?.
Can it be solved with home depot products etc.?
How ca it be prevented? Can infect my bananas ?
From the pics looks like two deferent pest?
For what I can see is only a branch that is infected I cut it off .
Thanks,
Emily

Note: (This is a different tree from last post !)
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The black mold and the scale are related. Malathion is your best bet to eliminate the scale and the mold should vanish later.
It it is a small tree you can wash the leaves after the pest are gone.
Sometimes ants will cultivate the scale in a symbiotic relationship.
Now that I have spouted my limited knowledge, I may be wrong, but that is my best guess.
I usually don't like chemical warfare but in some cases it is necessary.
Squam would be a good one for this.

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Emily - the insects in the top pictures are scale insects, and the scales protect them. So if your tree is smallish, wipe the scale insects off the leaves and stems with kitchen paper soaked in malathion - this will also clear the black mould and make the tree look better. The places you can't reach will be helped by spraying which will clear the other insects which might be aphids. Then regular spraying will keep them under control.

We had hoped to have a spray-free garden, but have to spray the lemons regularly against aphids and the orchids against thrips, and the cashew tree which is too large to spray, is covered in biting ants farming the aphids. Grrr!

Good luck and persevere - you are going to win!

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Fresno Master Gardeners - January - Garden Questions

You might try 10 to 1 water to rubbing alcohol in spay bottle.

Fresno Master Gardeners - January - Garden Questions

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bump

How are everyone's trees doing?

I have recently grafted some new mango trees....Fairchild, Madame Francis (Haitian mango), Duncan, Florigon, Haden, Edward, Zill, and Kent.

You can find articles on these varieties and others if you are interested. Click here and scroll down to the Florida section (I wrote most of these :) )

List of mango cultivars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

About 4 more graftable rootstocks left....any suggestions?

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Very Cool!

Nam Doc Mai is awesome.

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Scott, I owe you a mango tree!

Take your pick from that group I mentioned.

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I don't have any more room. But the Duncan or Florigon would be my pick.
If you need some bud wood I have Nam doc mia, Cogshall, Malika, Rosigold and Carrie.

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I didn't realize there were so many varieties.

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I just sprouted a mango. It's a Thai honey mango or Chok anan. Prob won't keep it though, i am renting and I only want to plant things that can be kept in a big pot or can be dug up if we move. Sure is growing like crazy though.

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Please remember that nature can be a real trickster when growing Mangoes.
Very rarely are they true to seed. Grafted mangoes are the only sure way to get what you want.

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Scott, that is very true of Indian descended monoembryonic cultivars.

However, most indochinese/southeast asian mangos are polyembryonic and come true to seed for the most part. Chok Anon is one of those....so is the "Champagne" mango (whose 'real' name is 'Ataulfo mango').

The issue with seedling trees is that they have to go through the juvenile stage and may take up to 8 years to fruit. If you're willing to wait though they will eventually produce.

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At my age I wonder if I'll be around for my bananas to ripen.:ha:
But that is neat to know about the monoembryonic and polyembryonic.
I had heard to can open up the seed and find out if they are mono or poly.
But like you said a grafted tree is better.
My Carrie's are about to ripen, I can't wait!

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Amber and Hollyberry, nice looking mango seedings you have there! Mangos germinate easily and grow rapidly up until 1 foot, then growth slows down.

I germinated well over 15 mangos last summer, and only one made it through the winter, which I planted this spring. It's struggling in the heat, but growing nicely. BTW, Manila (Ataulfo) mangos are mostly polyembryonic, which grow and produce fruit related to that of its parent.

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I have 12 Mango trees in my yard and I'm looking to get a few more to round out my collection. By the way the International Mango Festival is next weekend July 10-11 at Fairchild Gardens in Miami.

The cultivars I have planted are listed below:

Angie
Carrie
Dot
Fairchild
Florigon
Graham
Ivory (Tong Bi Kun)
Neelum
Pickering
Rosigold
Tebow (Edward X Kent)
Valencia Pride

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SoBe Musa.

You can spray to kill scale, but it is less costly and less polluting to prevent it.
Decrease the amount of Nitrogen you feed it and increase potassium, secondary and trace minerals. Scale insects love new fresh growth on over fertilized plants. :2239:

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I have 2 grafted mango's in my backyard here just south of Phoenix

Nam Doc Mai:


Glenn:


Picture of them next to my Fuji Apple:

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One single Mango in the first season!
Plant in Sep/2006
'Jean Ellen' (Florida)
'Jean Ellen' was selected as a home garden variety due to its early season, heavy production and its multiple bearing habit. The fruit are 300 g, oblong to lanceolate with a lemon yellow color. There is no blush to the fruit. The skin is smooth and typically has numerous corky lenticels and due to its habit of fruiting during the windy Spring, there are typically visible abrasions on the surface of the fruit. The flesh is an opaque yellow and there is a small amount of rough fiber near to the seed. The flavor is classified in the 'Alphonso' class, with a sweet, simple flavor of tropical spice. The tree grows easily and is semi-dwarf and precocious. The tree and fruit are moderately tolerant of disease and there are typically multiple blooms during the year. The season is from April to June in South Florida.
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Hello my friends! I need help.
Late last year i noticed again the black resins in the the leaves and over the patio floor so, I treat the mangos with cooper(again) from the last week of Nov/2010 every week until Jan/2011 when the mango bloomed.I really though it was enough.. nigh photo i also notice the White-fly under the leaves.... can any body tell me was going on..and why my trees getting sick so often and can i save the fruits?..Thanks all in advanced.
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Sobe,

if you are spraying with Copper it is best to continue spraying after the flowers bloom and set fruit. This discourages the fungus from attacking the flowers and thus preventing fruit set, and prevents the fruit from getting the fungus once it sets.

By the way, what was your opinion of the Jean Ellen fruit?

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Great pics in this thread! I love mangoes and I've tried to grow them several times but I have some issues.

At first everything is looking good when it produces its first leaves, but then... It has never produced a new set of leaves because the new ones just curls and falls off. They never get big and the plant just keeps shooting out new fresh leaves which fall off a short time later. Later on the whole top goes black and dries out before all of its remaining leaves falls off.

What's really happening here? Could it be fungus? What do you do to prevent this?

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Just joining the mango community with this "Gomera-1" cultivar. I got it from the Canary Islands, Spain and this cultivar is used there and also in mainland Spain as rootstock for mango trees.

The shop who sold it to me (canarius.com mangifera-cv-gomera-1 claims in their blog that this cultivar grows and fruits (!) in southern France Canarius Blog - Mango varieties. So I decided to try it out. I think I will keep it in a pot for another winter and put it to the ground in 2012. I think I'll plant it at our holiday house on Skiathos Island, because it rarely goes down below freezing there.

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Squam256..Here is where i got it...a great place for mango cultivar info.:2738:
Curator's Choice Mangos:
Curator's Choice Mangos

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Just did this

Pruning Young Mango Trees - YouTube

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I was actually thinking about getting a mango tree. The only doubt i have is how well they will be able to handle the wind here. We have easily had 60 mph winds in my area recently.

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You can keep them pruned short so it should be ok.

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Now I'm trying to germinate Ataulfo mangoes. Pics coming soon.

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Very easy to germinate

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I have a choc anon mango, It has produced fruit in autumn only for me. It will flower in july or august and I'll start spraying with copper and serenade. The mangos are on the smaller side, but do taste great.

I won't even fool with any other mangos because my best friends are the Erickson's and they have 40 acres of mangos and I can get one of their any time I want.

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Both of them are starting to germinate! :D The roots are beginning to grow out of them.

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My Haden is setting fruit right now.

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any pics Mitchel?

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'Jean Ellen' mango a poor second season abouth 21 mangos maybe strong winds are to blame..
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Here's my germination setup. I put them against a south-facing wall in my backyard. The plastic bags are to retain humidity, and I poked some air holes in them.. The nighttime lows are still in the 50s, should I bother bringing them in at night?