Pugluvr, Thanks for the advice. Your tree looks identical to what my tree used to look like except yours has a thicker trunk, which i'm sure is why it did so well. I'm seeing much more cold damage with the Glenn then some other types. I think i'm staying away from Glenn next purchase. HappyFlGardener, I'll try that. The are still a bit skinny to graft so i'll have to wait. I'd love to have a tree with multiple cultivars. That would be great! DGHays, I was hoping you'd stop in here. I emailed you a while back asking for some advice on selections, don't know if you remember. I'll most likely end up taking the top few feet off the Choquette. I want to get a good structure for a large tree with the biggest yield possible. I'm not worried about being able to pick them, they usually fall off when ripe. If i have to i'll buy a picker. I have family and neighbors asking for avocados so i want to have plenty to go around. I'd like to see pics of your tree if you could. Thanks everybody

The black stuff is probably sooty mold, which is more of a visual nuisance than anything else. Summer rains will wash it away. The leaf abscission combined with the burned tips sounds characteristic of salt burn, which can take a few months to show. You can flush the soil with water, but my guess is that your tree will be fine. Mangoes are very sensitive to salt/ammonia burn. In fact, Dr Campbell once told me that you can kill a mango tree by planting a fish in the same hole (which will eventually rot and generate ammonia). Jeff

Hello. So here is a picture when I first pulled them out of the box. Not a great picture but at least one. I will post more later. 1. Okrung 2. Pim sen Mun ( over 5 ft tall!) 3. Keo Savoy I potted them all in 5 gallon pots and have them In the shade until they get over their shock. I spritzed their leaves and watered them a little. I'm hoping to plant them in the ground soon. Please don't die on me! LOL! [IMG]http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c12/nursejolly/34e13da4.jpg[/IMG]

pj1881: a little sprinkler water and no fertilizer. Only horse manure as mulch. Mangokush: I hadn't thought about scab, but I did wonder about spider mites. How do I find them and treat them? Just the outer edges of the tree are watered by my sprinkler. I thought it wasn't hitting the tree at all because I fixed the sprinklers last year to go up to, but not hit the tree. Well, I guess the tree has grown and is getting hit on that one side where the big fruit is. Only the very outer 6" of branch are getting hit right now. I know I need to get out there and work on the sprinklers again, but I didn't even know they were hitting until I started really examining the tree to take these pictures. My sprinklers run twice a week for 24 minutes. That's all its getting by way of water. I was wondering if putting manure on the tree while it's got young fruit would make them split. I may have done that. I'll hold off on all manure for now, and fertilizer I guess. I think I bought the tree at Home Depot and I think it had a Pine Island tag on it, but that was 5 years ago, so not sure. MangoDoc: wow, didn't think I'd actually get a mango doc with my post, but that's good! I haven't ever used sulfur because I like to use oil for insects and they can be a really bad combo. I think you are supposed to wait a month between sulfur and oil sprays. I'm trying to stay as close to organic as possible. I'll give the sulfur a shot next winter for sure, and I hadn't thought about checking the PH of my water.