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tropicalgrower89
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13 years ago

Forgot something. The papaya in the background is a 9 month old carribean red papaya.

hmhausman

13 years ago

Ahh...I see you are a fast learner.....good work! Forgive me if you already said, but where are you located? Looks very Florida-ish.

Harry

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Most productive peach= Polly, a white peach developed in Iowa in the 1920s. Got it from Baylaurel on their special order program. I broke a branch for the second year in a row, in a spring that was tough enough to take out the'Honeycrisp' apple set. Somewhat variable in quality, but I always seem to underthin. Can be sublime. Took a long time (like four years) to come into production. Second most productive peach (for its size): J.H. Hale. Excellent flavor. What they say about it not being vigorous is surely true. Redhaven: Fruitista at work said it was the best peach she had ever tasted in this state. Not to contradict Harvestman,but our spring was actually more snowy than cool. This is a very widely adapted tree, that finds a way to set a crop any which way it can. Its probably not right to draw conclusions from the more marginal situations. Fantastic Elberta. Second year in a row it gave me good fruit after I almost gave up on it. Won't grow it again, though. 'Contender' Not growing much, and the one or two fruits it put out weren't anything special. 'Gleason Elberta' Maybe it will grow and produce fruit.

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Thanks to hostarookie for keeping the count & doing the Excel spreadsheet! Posts through 13:00 on 3/25/11 are included here, others will be included next time. Please post any corrections & we will work on them! It has been previously announced that containers sown on Winter Solstice Dec 21 - May 1 count for Zone Wars. You can celebrate May Day & sow containers! You have until midnight of Sunday, May 1, your local time, to sow containers that will count for Zone Wars. Any containers sown on May 2 do not count. Zone Wars Total: 13,317 Please post here with your current TOTAL count. Happy sowing! Zone 4 = 959 Zone 5 = 4598 Zone 6 = 3619 Zone 7 = 3323 Zone 8 = 818 Please click on the link to view the Zone Wars Spreadsheet You may need to increase your text size after you click on the spreadsheet: control+plus sign or in Internet Explorer - View, Text size (choose a larger size). Other browsers are very similar. Thanks to everybody who posted feedback on the new spreadsheet! Everyone who posted could see it. Please post here if you cannot see it and we will get back to you. Thanks!

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Mango K - fascinating and simple article you attached - the machine of frigid winters - extra snow in Siberia from global warming's excess polar ice melt - who knew!!??? Abayomi - I'm already amazed at how mangos are surviving such frigid Florida temps even as we speak, so you might be right. Perhaps they are evolving with the cold, but that generally is a slow process and these cold streaks seem to happening a bit too much and fast for plant evolution, me thinks, at this point. Actually, I'm living on the razor's edge (I think) of being able to grow Mangos, papayas, apples, pears, peaches, macadamias, almonds, blueberris etc. due to just enough chill hours bred in to those hybridized "low chill" fruit varieties to produce and not quite enough cold to kill the mangos and papayas, etc. If enough winter lows stay between 32 and 45, as they have been the last 10 years or so that I've lived here (other than a single overnight stretch of 26 degrees back in Feb. 2007 that did some damage and maybe a dozen hits or so of right around 32)I benefit from getting enough chill hours for some fruits, and mere dormancy or slow growth for the semi-tropicals.... THe Mac Tree hasn't produced yet (only 3 years old) but everything else has.... interesting, eh? mangobiscuit

tropicalgrower89
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13 years ago

lol Thanks! :) I'm in west pembroke pines.

jeffhagen

13 years ago

Yee Haw! Look at that mamey sapote - it already has blooms!

Jeff

murahilin

13 years ago

Very nice trees. Hopefully some of those flowers on your mamey will set fruit. Any fruit from your papaya yet?

jhl1654

13 years ago

Harry ! How did your trees fare?. I am looking at Tropical grower's coconut tree in West pembroke pines not too far from where you are.

mangodog

13 years ago

...and the haden mango - about how many fruits do you get from it now, tropicalgrower?

mangodoodles

tropicalgrower89
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13 years ago

mangodog: I've gotten tons of fruit from my haden(35-45 mangoes in one crop). This past below-average winter caused the most recent fruit set to be a tad more fibrous and some of the last ones were not as bad. Other than that, they were very sweet and juicy as always.

Jeff: I was very excited when I saw the first blooms on the mamey. I thought I had to wait longer for it to bloom.

Maureen: All the coconut palms seem burnt in my area and practically all around south florida from cold weather. My haden and glenn mangoes have been doing well in this cold weather so far. In fact, it looks like there will be blooms on both the haden and glenn. There are green knobs developing at the tips of the branches.

murahilin: My papaya had just begun to produce some flowers. So far the first three have fallen off without setting fruit. Maybe it will begin developing fruit when it gets a bit more taller or when the weather warms up again. The papaya seems to be doing pretty well in this cold weather. I keep all of my fruit trees watered during cold spells. When it comes to my sweetsop, I can't water it much because I'm not suppose to when it is dormant without any leaves during winter. I just water it lightly once a week if the soil is bone dry.

Andrew Scott

13 years ago

HEllo Tropicalgrower,
First off, nice fruit orchard! I wanted to know if the carrie and haden seedlings will produce fruit like the parent tree?

I am growing a champagne mango seedling that is about the same size as your carrie and haden seedlings. I have read a lot of info on the mango seedlings on these forums. How many years do you think it take for them to fruit or are you planning on grafting them? Good luck this winter. It looks like you guys from Florida are really having a brutal winter!

jfernandez

13 years ago

Tropical-

How old is your Patin? How do you keep your Haden so compact? Here is a pic of an 8 year old Manilita seedling in La Habra.

tropicalgrower89
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13 years ago

Thanks andrew78. :) I'm not sure if the seedlings can have the same fruit quality as the parent. I've read that it can be different from the parent quality wise, which is another reason why they graft, to make sure that the tree will give high quality fruit. I'm actually not planning on grafting them. The carrie is somewhat a dwarf mango, compared to the haden. The haden can grow pretty big, but not huge. In fact, my trees in the photos above might not be mine for much longer. My parents want to sell the house. I'm taking the grafted mamey and those mango seedlings with me to whatever home we move into. I'm going to make sure that the yard is bigger than my current one. :) I'm not worried, I can always by more grafted mango trees. This time it will be a valencia pride and carrie mango, which I heard are even better than haden. I might get another haden or a glenn. Lets see.

Jfernandez: I've read that mangoes can take 3-6 years to grow fruit from seed. http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/mango.html
I trim my haden, usually towards the bottom of the tree to allow more head room when I mow the lawn. The sides are trimmed a bit and the top is untouched. The pantin mamey seedling is approximately 2 years old.

tropicalgrower89
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13 years ago

I might dig out my glenn and take it with me since it's still not that big. Lets see. :)

mangodog

13 years ago

JF - is that shot of the Manila recent????
It looks bloomin' healthy!!!!!

mangobowwow

zands

13 years ago

tropicalgrower89
This time it will be a valencia pride and carrie mango, which I heard are even better than haden. I might get another haden or a glenn. Lets see.ÃÂ
Valencia Pride is a very beautiful tree when it has fruit hanging from it.
The actual fruits are nice and oblong so look a bit mystifying and other worldly
to me at least.ÃÂ It will attract mango thieves so I hope it will be fenced in. Carrie
fruit is delicious and green turning to yellowish when ripe. So less prone to pilferage

jfernandez

13 years ago

Mangolassie-

The pics were take Feb. 2010. The MANILITA seedling was from a smuggled seed from the Yucatan Mexico. One of the most plesant tasting mango I've ever tried but kind of small.

puglvr1

13 years ago

Great trees Tropical! The Haden and Glenn are my favorites,lol...I LOVE mangoes! Thanks for posting!

Jfernandez, that's a very nice Manilita mango tree!

mangodog

13 years ago

OH....I see JF....I misread the variety....oh and got your voice mail message today. I was out and about...so...did you get the LARGE LANCETILLA????? You are right, they were Mimosa's HUGEST mangos on the lot, except I have a small one already.....(boo hoo)...

sometimes i HATE NOT having patience..... lol....

mangorintintin

red_sea_me

13 years ago

Very nice TG,
what a great selection of trees and the mamey blooms, wow!

congrats,
-Ethan

tropicalgrower89
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13 years ago

Thanks for the great comments. :)

pepperseed

13 years ago

Wow, that Manilita is big! I bought one at the Fairchild mango festival this past summer because it was described as a dwarf tree suitable for containers. Hope I didn't make a bad choice!

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