Ooops...missed one...... Green Sapote

Mission this year: Visit your tropical fruit orchard!!!

-Bo

My dream yard^^. :) Harry, which mangoes do you like the best? I'm thinking about buying a grafted carrie, alphonso, golden nugget, glenn and valencia pride. Lets see if I have extra space, so I can also buy a tebow. I would like to save some space for my grafted mamey, longan, and maybe a future green sapote. The only current mango seedling I have is a carrie seedling in a 7gallon pot. I'd just grafted my haden seedling, using budwood from my large grafted haden mango tree. Hopefully, this graft succeeds. I did a wedge graft using rubber bands and plastic food container seal wraps. It's under complete shade now.

Alexi

Wow Harry. Looks like you will be loaded this year.

You're Kai maprang looks amazing.

Is that Ohia lychee airliner an Ohia pink? I tried buying one of those from excalibur last year but he refused to sell them to me because he said they did not do well here.

Wow Harry,
A tropical fruit paradise in your yard. When your orchard needs your attention you must really spend a lot of hours there!
I really hope your tropical fruits have good season this year! My Carrie mango is almost ready to start opening a few of its buds now. I followed your advise and today fed it 0-10-10. I am keeping my fingers crossed!

Andrew

Ho hum, lychee blooms, mango blooms, my yard looks just like that right now. No really, I printed out pictures of your trees and taped them to my tiny trees. Everything is looking incredible and I enjoyed the shot along the fence line. Interesting to see some of the overall shots along with the beautiful money shots.

Did your Dang Rasimi suffer any damage at all this year, one tough specimen.

thanks and dang you,
-Ethan

Hey Harry,

Man, I could look at these pictures all day! Thanks again for not making us wait the 2 weeks you had said. Us West Coasters go crazy when we see your collection. As Always, Awesome Pictures.

- Jacob

Harry,
It is very interesting that the three maha chanook seedlings all flowered for the first time this year. What do you think the possible reason? Polyembryonic? Maybe they all joined at the roots since they are so close and shared hormones to fruit?

That pickering is a beaut!! I almost want to pet it or something :-).

Jeff

Harry, your yard looks GREAT! Your lychee trees are huge! It's nice to see everything in bloom. Thank you for posting your pics! BTW, I just bought 2 small Kaimana lychees (in 1 gallon pots) from PIN. They are chlorotic, but should green-up with the rich soil mix I gave them. Why did I buy the Kaimanas? Because you said they were one of your 2 favorite varieties (Garnet being the other if I remember). Thankfully I'm a somewhat young guy and can wait the 25 years it will take for my 15" trees to achieve hmhausman status. : ) From what I've read on GW the Kaimana is a dry, crisp lychee (which I like).
Out of curiosity, why does your Rosigold look sort of piqued? Is that the growth habit? Someone at PIN told me today that they are quite susceptible to anthracnose (vs. other mango trees)...is this true?
Also, how old is the big Brewster lychee tree in your post?

Whole lotta blooming going on with trillions of baby mangoes in your yard. Florida remains a mango superpower despite the lousy economy. There are expensive restaurants in New York and other large cities that would pay to have real ripe Florida mangoes FedExed to them.

Hi Harry,
Maybe I am the only one to comment on this(You Floridians probobly don't think anything of it!) but I cannot believe how fast your Jean Ellen has grown! You bought it what 3 years ago at the mango fest?

I also wanted to comment on the Pickering. This mango has been on my mind as another possibility along with Mallika for the past few weeks.

I really must be a mango crazed gardener, I live in NY yet for some reason I think I can have my own potted mango grove!

I had read an older post here on the Mallika and Pickering. I cannot remember who said it but someone was trying to sell the Pickering by saying it bloomed reliably and heavily every year.

The Mallika's appeal for me has been the reviews on it's flavor and yeah, I know that people here have also raved about the Pickering's flavor.

If I have it my way, I will get both. With those I will have the Carrie, Lancetilla, Maha Chinook, and my seedling Autalfo. That will make 6 mango trees.

When I started coming to this forum, I wanted maybe 2 and that was it. Either I will have to move to Florida or stop coming to the forum! All these mago pics just make me go crazy and before I know it, I am back to shopping for more mango trees. Yeah, I know I could just build a big greenhouse but I would much prefer the 1st option, moving to Florida!

Is that guest house still open? Nah, just kidding! I would get tossed out once you found all the mango pits in the garbage can! LMAO!

Andrew

Wow...Wow Harry!! Not much to say except you came through for us again...LOVE your beautiful yard! Of course my favorites are the Mango and Lychees...but I love Jackfruit as well. I can't get over how many blooms you have...it must smell amazing at your house! Thanks for the awesome pictures! Sure looks like a bumper crop for you this year...fantastic! I'm so envious!

tropicalgrower89---

I would consider Gold Nugget aka Golden Nugget. I like the orange flesh as opposed to a yellowish flesh. Yellowish translates into more tart.... (I could be wrong on that) I have a young Nugget that is coming along fine. I have a testimonial from an old timer in Miami who loves his Nugget tree and how it produces. He says it is fast growing.

He has two other mango trees. His philosophy of mango tree management is to lop 30-50% off the top after the fruit harvest to keep his trees young. These are 3 older trees 10-30 years old

Here is a link that might be useful: G-Nugget

hmm, i think you are wrong on that, lol.
i have a "gold nugget" as well, supposed to have an apricot flavor, which has some level of acid.
I hear "vista white" is almost acidless and very sweet. makes senses since it is similar with peaches etc.
"strawberry" is yellow, (i would love to sample one) its supposed to be very subtly flavored with a strawberry aftertaste, so to me that would indicate less acid then one with a distinct apricot flavor

Thanks Zands and Harry! They do always change the ratings. For example, the link Zands showed me has golden nugget as a 4 out of 5 in taste. Now it's a five. http://www.tropicalfruitnursery.com/mango/golden-nugget-mango.shtml
http://www.tropicalfruitnursery.com/mango/index.shtml

Cushman does have 5 out of 5, but according to the review, the tree can be a pain in the butt to take care of due to poor disease resistance. Hopefully the next Home I'll be moving to will have a decent size back yard to have some of the vigorous variety mangoes such as gold nugget, valencia pride, and edward or tebow(cross between edward and kent).

That's some pretty amazing growth on that Jean ellen. Quite a change from the original post.

Harry - I'm wide-eyed and sppppeechless (yep - just saw The King's Speech - fabulous movie if you can pull yourself away from your fields of glory - lol)...I'd have trouble sleeping if I had a yard like that just thinkin' about who's outgrowing their shoes and pants, especially this time of year and through the fall....

thanks so much for all the "research" and advanced years of trial work you've done that we've all benefited from...
and for being such a swell bloke......

mangodog'sWaggingtail

harry- if i ever win the lottery the first thing i am going to do is offer you $5 million for your garden (you can keep the house!)

MangoKush
I'll be very happy if gold nugget mango has an apricot taste. Apricots are my favorite northern fruit. They do not ship well. Every three years or so I am able to buy some good ones. Hopefully I get a few fruits this year off my young gold nugget tree and I'll find out

Astonding as always Harry. Beautiful shot of the up close lychee flowers with the pollen and nectar showing.

Hey Sheehan...let's keep the talk out of the gutter man...this is a family forum. No more talk of fruit porn and the exchange of hormones!

Holy crap, Harry! How many tons of fruit do you get a season, and more importantly, how can us northerners get our grubby mitts on it? Fantastic pics/yard/collection/etc! My trees would have an inferiority complex looking at yours and Puglvr's.

First, let me say, I don't know 1/100th of the names and details you all know about your trees. I am much more of a novice than I realized.

I do know one thing - amazing amounts of blooming going on there, speechless here -- Outrageous, in a good way!

My trees have many blooms, but nothing like yours. I have not hooked up my photo software to my new laptop and I have not hooked up my office yet, I need to get someone to do that and I will soon. You will see what I mean when I post pics, my tress has far less blooms.

Also, my trees, from what I see in your pics, are much closer together. A fruit grower friend of mine came by and said that he feels the man that tended this yard was afraid to cut his trees back and should not have let some of them grow in the first place. He feels I need to take out a few trees to allow room for the ones I keep to thrive. Judging by the spacing in your pics-- he is right. I am such a newbie, this is a joke!

Off Topic -- I am a wannabe photographer here --

FYI - Picture with the title "Hak Ip Bloom close up" is simply suitable for framing, as is.

It would look beautiful blown up, simple matting and frame. In a kitchen, anywhere! I post in antiques & collectibles, I may be overstepping posting that info here. I bet you have dozens of shots of this natural splendor that I would love to have in my portfolio.

I am in awe; as posted in the Subject line. Enjoy that fruit that's about to come your way. Best of all, the mangoes!

Salivating,

Azucar

Harry is using the macro feature on his digital camera. all digital cameras have this feature, heres a link to a thread below that explains how to use it

Here is a link that might be useful: http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/tropicalfruits/msg0403235712073.html