8 Most Productive & Disease Resistant Mangoes in our South Florida garden 

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Thank you Dan

Thank you for your feedback, glad it was helpful

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Thank you. We live surrounded by people who think we have green thumbs whereas all we do is lie on earth, play with soil and talk with plants :) and suggest them they can do the same to create a fruit forest. You are welcome to visit us.

Thanks. Our Julie is 2 and half feet tall growing very slowly, no disease issues,, it is holding about 10 fruits this year. You might be able to grow her in 45g pot in balcony and bring indoors in the winter.

Thank you Mike. Hope to see your farm and taste the mangoes someday

@@growpuravida You are welcome anytime. Msg me on FB.

Thanks for the invite Mike, will do.

This year Fairchild tops this list

@OshoGardenFlorida How about Nam Dok Mai mangoes it is good variety?

Inoculation rather than fertilization. Zill nursery just mixes sulfur with sawdust which kills all pathogens but at the same time all life in soil. I understand that’s needed for a huge commercial operation to avoid nematodes, possible root rot etc but on a home scale our purpose is to activate the roots and create a healthy supportive network. For the seedlings, you first need to pay attention to root development and growth so nitrogen is not bad. You can plant a couple of peas or beans in the same pot. Compost is not bad either if it’s well draining and not heavy and put on top of soil instead of mixing with soil. With mangoes most important is to have well draining soil.

Your watering regimen will solely depend on your soil composition and pot size. I only water my 15g if there is major drought for a month or longer. If you keep them in a greenhouse make sure they dry up between waterings. It’s better to underwater a mango than overwater, even seedlings are pretty drought tolerant so only time when you should watch watering closely is when grafts fuse. But generally the idea is not to have very heavy soil and not to water too much.

I have heard that thai mango varieties like fralan are good for eating even when green. In Indian mango varieties, Totapuri can be used green for pickling. I have not heard of Neelum being used green for pickling.

@@growpuravida thank you. New to mango growing but not eating. Just put in some Thai varieties in 10a. Did not get falan, heard it has a tendency to split or maybe only during a lightning storm! Falan in Thai means lighting! 😂 . I’ve enjoyed baby green turpentines which many people overlook. Just wondering if I’m missing out on a more superior variety for eating green. Keep up your good work. Hopeful one day to be able to visit the garden.

Fazli which is biggest mango .. less sour when green .. good for raw eaten with salt and paper .. Rakhal bhog species .. which is king as a green non ripe mango .. because it have little sweet and sour taste .. green mango which is sweet .. it's very rare .... If you want very sour green variety for extreme sour pickle then ashwina or ashwin bhog ... But you can eat any green mango with salt and paper specially because of wind many mango drop as a green .. you can eat it .. .. also like mojito sarbat drink ... You can roast a green mango , mix with ice water with rock salt and black paper .. also you can add lemon or paper mint ... This drink not only make you cool, give you relax after hard work or long journey ... It's also a traditional drink which we offer to guest ..

I will be selling some pñants as soon as the heat wave goes down a little. Will announce on my channel and the Tropical Fruit Forum, stay tuned!

Thanks for watching. Neelum for me has a peculiar taste of an Indian mango, with quite good level of sweetness. It is not a big size mango. We do not let it go yellow on the tree, pick when the color starts to change to pale green or has a streak of light yellow on skin similar to how we pick Mallika. Then ripen off in patio away from direct sun (not indoor in AC room).

@@growpuravida thanks

Yes we have a sugar loaf tree as well. It is also 2 yrs in the ground as m4 and is similar in height and vigor as our m4 tree. Both have similar disease resistance. Sugar loaf had more flowers than m4 in the beginning but flowers did not turn into fruits, they likely were male flowers or some other reason we don't yet know. In the end sugarloaf had 1 fruit left that was pulled down by raccoons a few days ago. I heard sugarloaf gets more productive as the tree matures.

Some varieties are dwarf, some trees are still young and some are managed by pruning. My trees are still not old enough to be super tall lol

Hi, i haven’t counted my mango varieties in a long time, maybe around 40? am planning a tree sale on Tropical Fruit Forum around the 2nd week of April. I will post a link on my channel when it’s ready.

For our family absolutely; one of top 5 for us, but tastes differ, for example we don’t like acidic taste much that everyone in the States raves about… please go to one of the farms this season and try to find CC to try for yourself!

Thank you !❤​@@growpuravida

I live in pinellas county and have a 13 year old coconut cream. Im.at my wits end with this tree. The best harvest was about 80 mangoes. Lately, it's been 20-30 at best and the tree is highly SUSCEPTIBLE To powdery mildew even with sulfur and copper spraying. 8m going to top work the tree and graft m-4, venus and honey kiss. After July's tiny harvest, coconut cream will be no more. It is a very delicious mango and m-4 is a step above.

Asian varieties will always outproduce everything here, they just thrive in humidity and rain.

It is dependent on many factors, for me it is the opposite, Malika has been producing heavily for last 3 yrs and NDM has been poor producer. Mangoes flower when there is either cold stress- many days of temps below 65F or prolonged dry weather with no rain...plus I don't prune Mallika at all, the weight of the fruits kind of sag the branches down every year. Try not to irrigate the tree, and not to prune for one year and see...also it needs full sun.

There is very early, early, mid, mid-late, late and very late. If mid June to August is mid and mid-late then from August to September will be late and anything after September very late. There are varieties like Keitt that go until late October. Last year we had Little gem mangos that were hanging in tree until October.

Yep! 5 soil health questions I bet you don't know the answers to 🤓 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2yZjMYp77V0.html

if your fruit is cracking and oozing black sap, unfortunately it has a very contagious disease called mbbs. Look into it, there is a lot if info online - it has become a problem for mango growers in Florida.

@@growpuravida thank you so much I will look into it 😊

Good idea of cocktail tree. i have Delores mango variety grafted on to my Honey Kiss tree and trying to graft an indian variety called Ambika on the Neelum tree as both are late variety mangos. I get scions shipped from Tropical acres farm. Shipped scions sometimes take long time to reach with delays and with this heat they suffer a bit by the time they reach. Best is to trade scions with some other growers who live close to you. How far are you from North Miami Beach?

@@growpuravida thanks for answering, live in kendall.

My backyard is not big , already have dwarf namwa and dwarf orinoco (burro) bananas, Alano and silas wood sapodilla, soursop, papaya everbearing mulberry, ruby supreme 10_30 guava (this is the one that is larvae resistant) and the maha chanook mango. Like you I don't use any chemical or fertilizer, mostly chop and drop and mulch.

I know of mango growers in Kendall area who I exchange scions with, all known to me via tropical fruit forum... have you checked at tropical fruit forum? If you can't find anywhere I can help after I harvest the fruit.

@@growpuravida thanks, i will check the forum. 👍

Working on it!

We planted most of our trees 3g. Some of the later ones were in 15g as well. In our experience, all the trees from nurseries grown in conventional pots have some form of root compromise, they can never have the same root system as a seed that is sown in ground directly. Also, if there is no severe root binding, the 15g will establish faster than the 3g. However please do not let them hold fruits to maturity for the first 2-3 years in the ground, that is very much needed. The trees will try to flower and fruit but their roots will take 2-3 years to build up enough to absorb water and nutrients from the soil. Yes, nurseries use pesticidas. When we were buying directly from ZHPP they only used sulphur pellets over the soil in the pots. If we were to start again in FL we would plant turpentine seeds directly in the ground and graft them with known varieties when they reach 3 ft height.

Sometimes but not always. Some known varieties have unique leaf shape, size, the margin and the tip shape. One can always compare these characteristics with leaf of a known variety, compare and identify. But if it is seedling and not a known variety it is impossible to know. Often times after comparing the leaves, growers use the smell of the crushed leaf to verify their findings.

Many nurseries are selling, some even ship to other states. Which state are you in?

Good question. I must say it will depend on how bad it has affected a tree or a mango orchard. If you have detected black spots on leaves (bacterial black spot on leaf looks like an irregular black spot with a pale halo around it) but the fruits are ok and don't have rot or necrotic lesions, then the disease is in its initial stage and preventative hygiene of the trees like preventing overcrowding, of branches, allowing air flow under the canopy, not doing any overhead irrigation and, most importantly, increasing plant immunity with improvement in soil health will stop it from getting worse and may cure it in time. If it has gotten to advanced stage then the tree will need to go to the doctor :) There are no definitive cures for Mango BBS yet, people do Copper drench, cut every branch affected, sometimes the whole tree is top-worked to variety that is less susceptible to BBS but, in my opinion, prevention is always better than cure. Also, always good to remember that trees need fungal dominated soil to thrive. If fungicides are used, they also kill fungi in the soil, which creates bacterial dominance (bbs is a bacterium), imbalance and eventually a disease. Spraying copper or sulphur is not bad because it's a chemical; it's bad because it kills all the soil health around the tree. To learn more about soil health, you can watch this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2yZjMYp77V0.html

Yes fruit quantity is certainly lower when not sprayed, i can understand why commercial farms need to spray. But for me and my family whatever we get without spraying is enough.

It’s already done in the comments

Hi Pat, i don’t sell scions anymore. But you can buy from Tropical acres mango farm after May.

Not at the moment

@@growpuravida if you’d help me getting cuttings out of your collection, I’d be grateful. Thank you

You can try Tropical Acres - they do sell scions every now and again, or join Tropical Fruit Forum and find sellers there, people post scion sales pretty regularly there.

I have a couple mango trees now for sale, local pickup only. do garden clearance sales every year, here is the link: tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=46957.0 - photos of trees in the comment.

I used to sell but i don't anymore. I trade scions with growers around.

Yes they’re doing a good job! 👍

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Mostly yes, from the leaf and the fruit it is possible to know the grafted mango varieties propagated here in the U.S. But if your mango tree is grown from seed it could be your own new variety as mangoes don’t always come true to seed. But there are certain varieties of mangoes that come true to seed. Please let us know how the tree was grown.

@@growpuravida my grandpa bought few years ago from Home Depot.

Thanks. It is likely a grafted variety. Can be identified by leaf shape, flush color and fruit image and flavor profile.