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Fri Dec 13, 2019 2:49 pm

I have been on a mango page lately and have learned so much. I just planted a Lemon Zest cultivar, it's in between a Carrie and a Nam Doc Mai Sia Tong, both of which are starting bloom pannicles. Yay!!, both trees are a few years old, and have a dwarf habit. Kent, my old fall back, hardly even bloomed last year. I only got 27 mangoes from it, the year before I got about 400!
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Fri Dec 13, 2019 11:39 pm

I do love mangoes!! Like them fresh, but especially in when out of season as jams. And so many types, too.
Together, trees make an ecosystem that tempers the extremes of heat & cold, stores lots of water, & makes a lot of humidity. In this environment, trees can live to be very old. To get to this point, the community must remain intact no matter what.

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Sat Dec 14, 2019 9:34 am

imp wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2019 11:39 pm I do love mangoes!! Like them fresh, but especially in when out of season as jams. And so many types, too.
They are my favorite fruit, even more than tomatoes!
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Sat Dec 14, 2019 9:38 am

Marsha are mangos like apples and only bare good crops every other year or should you be getting large crops every year?
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Sat Dec 14, 2019 11:04 am

MissS wrote: Sat Dec 14, 2019 9:38 am Marsha are mangos like apples and only bare good crops every other year or should you be getting large crops every year?
It seems like It. I'm not 100% on that though.
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Sat Dec 14, 2019 1:31 pm

Ginger2778 wrote: Sat Dec 14, 2019 11:04 am
MissS wrote: Sat Dec 14, 2019 9:38 am Marsha are mangos like apples and only bare good crops every other year or should you be getting large crops every year?
It seems like It. I'm not 100% on that though.
I looked it up. The tree will bear fruit annually for the first 10 years. After 10 years it will bear alternate years only. Not that I could grow one up here, but I do find it interesting.
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Sat Dec 14, 2019 4:34 pm

MissS wrote: Sat Dec 14, 2019 1:31 pm
Ginger2778 wrote: Sat Dec 14, 2019 11:04 am
MissS wrote: Sat Dec 14, 2019 9:38 am Marsha are mangos like apples and only bare good crops every other year or should you be getting large crops every year?
It seems like It. I'm not 100% on that though.
I looked it up. The tree will bear fruit annually for the first 10 years. After 10 years it will bear alternate years only. Not that I could grow one up here, but I do find it interesting.
Very interesting, thanks!
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Sat Dec 14, 2019 7:14 pm

Sort of like my pecans, a ery old variety of papershells, they bear heavily every other year, and lightly on the alternate year.
Together, trees make an ecosystem that tempers the extremes of heat & cold, stores lots of water, & makes a lot of humidity. In this environment, trees can live to be very old. To get to this point, the community must remain intact no matter what.

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Sun Dec 15, 2019 6:58 am

But I think it's more of a weather dependent thing. Mangoes have to have a cool front, and a dry spell to make flowering pannicles. My Kent, a late bloomer and late season fruited one, makes flowers in Feb, but in 2019 we had the rainiest Feb.on record. It just pushed out a bunch of new growth leaves. :cry:
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Sun Dec 15, 2019 11:02 am

I love mango fruit, in the place where I was born and grew up, the tropical coast, southern Spain (Motril).
The Tropical Coast washed by the Mediterranean Sea, protected from the north wind by Sierra Nevada and Sierra Lújar and influenced by the winds of North Africa offer a subtropical microclimate that gives more than 300 days of sunshine per year and average annual temperatures of 20 degrees that make Motril winter the warmest in Europe. The special and extraordinary climatic conditions of the Costa Tropical, make this area the largest producer of quality tropical fruits such as mango, custard apple, avocado, or medlars and other more exotic such as guavas, litchis, pitahaya, carambola, kumquat; besides being an epicenter of tropical gastronomic culture.
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Sun Dec 15, 2019 10:17 pm

What lovely pictures! I never knew mangoes grew on a long stem like that either.
Together, trees make an ecosystem that tempers the extremes of heat & cold, stores lots of water, & makes a lot of humidity. In this environment, trees can live to be very old. To get to this point, the community must remain intact no matter what.

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Mon Dec 16, 2019 6:38 am

Nico, how beautiful! Our similar climate and mountains too.
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Mon Dec 16, 2019 7:02 pm

One of these days they’re going to develop a mango that can survive my zone 9A conditions.
Here’s hoping you have a great harvest this time around, Marsha!
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Mon Dec 16, 2019 7:04 pm

I love sour mangoes. I'm not a huge fan of the softer ones without much acid to them (but I still like them). Same for kiwis. I understand a lot of people are the opposite!

I've never had a fresh homegrown mango. Are they much different?
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Mon Dec 16, 2019 7:19 pm

PlainJane wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2019 7:02 pm One of these days they’re going to develop a mango that can survive my zone 9A conditions.
Here’s hoping you have a great harvest this time around, Marsha!
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I hope so too. Thanks Joyce.
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Mon Dec 16, 2019 7:19 pm

Shule wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2019 7:04 pm I love sour mangoes. I'm not a huge fan of the softer ones without much acid to them (but I still like them). Same for kiwis. I understand a lot of people are the opposite!

I've never had a fresh homegrown mango. Are they much different?
Oh my, yes!
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Ginger2778 wrote: Sat Dec 14, 2019 9:34 am
imp wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2019 11:39 pm I do love mangoes!! Like them fresh, but especially in when out of season as jams. And so many types, too.
They are my favorite fruit, even more than tomatoes!

sacrilege
blasphemy
heretic

BTW, that batch of 400 was delicious.

Cacao tree still going?

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Tue Dec 17, 2019 9:16 pm

RIPGaryColeman wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2019 8:43 pm
Ginger2778 wrote: Sat Dec 14, 2019 9:34 am
imp wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2019 11:39 pm I do love mangoes!! Like them fresh, but especially in when out of season as jams. And so many types, too.
They are my favorite fruit, even more than tomatoes!

sacrilege
blasphemy
heretic

BTW, that batch of 400 was delicious.

Cacao tree still going?
Thank you, hope we get some this year. Yes, the cacao has turned into a lovely little tree thanks for the suggestion.. Hopefully Ibwill have enough to dehydrate and send to a few friends this year too. Are you still growing tomatoes on your rooftop? Are you growing any now?
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Tue Dec 17, 2019 9:17 pm

PlainJane wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2019 7:02 pm One of these days they’re going to develop a mango that can survive my zone 9A conditions.
Here’s hoping you have a great harvest this time around, Marsha!
There are a lot of mango growers in 9a zone several really good ones do well there. On facebook there are a few excellent mango grower groups, lots to learn.
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Wed Dec 18, 2019 5:57 am

Well, wow! I watched my neighbor try and fail to nurse one through the winter a few years ago.

I’ll have to take another look!
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