Mangos
 

Yesterday in the chat room I was encouraged to start a thread about mangos. Anyone else here grow them or is maybe interested in them?

I have had a couple of mango trees myself. At one point I had 'Cogshall', 'Glenn', 'Mallika', 'Lancetilla', "Ice Cream', and 'Carrie'. For a number of reasons I no longer have any of those trees in my personal possession anymore but I have started a number of seedlings I plan on grafting.

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Hey Squam, could you post that link again, I turned it off before saving it.

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I grow Tommy Atkins, Keitt, Julie, and Ambajadores / Chupito. The Julies are my fave.

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momoese, here is the link:

Cultivars


Lorax, do you have any trouble with anthracnose/fungus with Julie? Here in Florida Julie is difficult to grow and get good production from due to the high humidity encouraging fungus growth. Its a very tasty mango though and is popular with Jamaicans especially.

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Here's another link you might find interesting. Its a series of videos by Dr. Jonathan Crane of the TREC center in Homstead. Each video is short and about a specific cultivar or about tree management:

FruitScapes Video Blog UF/IFAS/TREC

there's a video on grafting mangos at the bottom of this page for those interested:

UF/IFAS Extension: Solutions for Your Life - Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences

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Squam, I have never had that problem. I'm in high humidity, but my trees are cultured alongside coffee and papaya, and this seems to give them a higher fungal resistance than if they were standing alone. It works the same way for my bananas - a bit of careful culture and detrashing, and I have no problem with Sigatoka although it seems to be endemic in garden plots here.

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Yeah! Mangoes! Love them!
I have six varieties, Carrie, Rosigold, Ice Cream, Cogshall, Malika, and Balies Marvel.
Mango Sorbet, Mango salsa got to have it!

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captof, has your Rosigold fruited early? I've read they fruit as early as March.

Also, how long have you had your trees? And how would you rate their flavor/production?

Bailey's Marvel "supposedly" is somewhat cold hardy. At least that's what I've read.

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Forgot to mention I only have Haden growing. This was the first year I harvested fruit from it. Very yummy!

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Hi guys!

I have a Julie and a Lancitilla. Both flowered and fruited this past spring but then a rainey spell caused all the fruit to split and fall! The fruit were about 3" long at the time.

I found the Julie in a friends greenhouse who was no longer able to care for her Orchids and other tropicals. It was severely neglected with few leaves.
Well, 2 years and some better care and it is still only 4 ft tall but also 4ft wide and nicely filled out. Should have some fruit next year!

Had a Nam Doc Mai that was the bigggest "scale" magnet! It was just covered and the Lancitilla was right next to it had none! I was constantly spraying it down with insecticidal soap to keep the scale and sooty mold at bay! It got some rot or fungus and died from the top down.???

Can't wait for next year!

Margie:waving:

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I have Ataulfo and Haden as nursery stock. I would also like to acquire "San Diego Oro".

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I love mangos(Bananas are my first love thought!)... Here is a little of Déjà vu
We moved to the house in Miami Beach in Feb/2006... that summer we planted 5 mangos and some hibiscus .
A lot of work to do in the house... is going to be a long ride…!a new fence,paint....
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Beautiful April 2008

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SoBe, what varieties do you have?

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Jan 2009 : Only one out of 5 plants bloom and produce fruit...

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1 is Mangifera indica - Mango Anacardiaceae (the only one to bloom)
1 Fairchild
1 'Emerald' (Florida)
2 'Angie' (Florida)

All purchased at Annual Mango event here is the link :
FairChaild Tropical Garden
Google Image Result for http://www.fairchildgarden.org/uploads/images/Fruit%20Program/Mango%20Festival/manilita.jpg

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Fairchild is an excellent mango. One of my favorites. Its from Panama and is descended from southeast asian mangos. Really great flavor and no fiber. You will like that one if you haven't eaten it yet.

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hey thanks for starting this thread Squam, I learned something for some reason I had it in my head that there were only three different varieties of Mangoes.

Thanks again and keep the info coming.

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Today Oct/31/2009
The growing was massive this summer.!
Taken from a 12’ ladder.

Sunlight in the backyard is getting limited for the rest of the plants, maybe frequents trimmings will be the way to raise the mangos without limited them growing…
Any suggestions for ways of trimming?
Ideal height for them to keep producing fruit. and best feeding Methods !
Maybe 2010 is going to be the year !!
Thanks,


Is getting a little crowded.
Mangos are catching up with the Praying Hand bananas!

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