Hi Chris! Awesome video. Can you please do a video on pruning Valencia Pride? I was thinking about getting one and using it as a mother tree to graft other varieties onto due to its vigor. Keep up the good videos!
When grafting multiple types onto one tree, you have a risk of some branches being overgrown and shaded out by more aggressive varieties. Considering VP is so aggressive, it may be hard to keep other kinds happy and sunny within a VP matrix.
Michael Adler You are right!! I ended up going with PPK, my local nursery advised me it would be much better and tastier anyways! I just need to practice more grafting since my grafts on roses havent taken and I dont want to waste a scion for a mango without having some background of success :) thanks for the advice!
@@mytropicalbackyard5696 Good luck. I've been having less success with it than I want lately. I have a small amount of evidence that elastics help, even after a tight wrapping with grafting tape. I added elastics to two recently, because I thought they needed more pressure to close the edges, and they're doing great, despite that I think I did a crappy job matching up the cuts on one of them. That one is actually growing way better than everything else. A couple of the others started to sprout and then croaked. I wonder if they'd had elastics too, if they would have worked. I think I'm going to try using more just in case.
I keep seeing long purplish mango trees loaded this week. 10 and 12 foot trees. Any ideas? They look like valencia pride but seems like that tree would be bigger and earlier. Maybe Palmer.
@@johnbanach3875 I'm trying to remember, but I think mine took 3-4 years from a 3 gal. Once it gets going though, it is an impressive producer. I'm probably 7-9 years out now and getting 3-400 lbs from it each year. weird shaped fruit though. I had to invent a new way to cut them...and I still haven't made that video about it that I want to. It's good though, because now I use that method on the other kinds and it's very quick compared to how I was doing it before.
@@briankeaveney9107 Lancetilla is not a good variety. I cut mine down and top-worked it a few years ago. The production sucks and they're not that good. They set a lot of fruit, but they just keep dropping till there are only a few left that just never seem to get to ripen and the squirrels usually take the last few. After getting almost no fruit, and the ones I did get not being very good, I gave up on it. There are so many better varieties, but if you just want to try really hard to get the biggest mango possible and that's really all that you want it for, then go for it.
