Would you go out on a limb (pun intended) and say that Lemon-esh is better than Orange Sherbet and equal to Lemon Zest in flavor and texture? I'm a huge fan of PPK/LM, which to me is sacred.
I hope to get a reply but you might reply to less banal questions. I live in SW of Australia in a cooler region unsuitable for growing mangoes. However when I used to live in Perth I grew a Kensington Pride mango tree. Perth having a Mediterranean climate probably similar to Southern California still not the ideal climate for growing mangoes. My question regards the Valencia Pride mango. I saw this uncommon variety in a local Perth supermarket about 7 years ago. It is one of the varieties grown in the north of Australia. I note that you don’t advertise it greatly as one you sell. I thought the fruit had an orange citrus flavour to a degree. I’m wondering if the Valencia Pride mangoes you sell also have this orange citrus overtones. Also I saw a few years later the same variety and they appeared over ripe. They were certainly inferior to the one’s I’d tried some years before. I grew a Valencia Pride tree from seed but sold and moved to where I now live. I’m wondering if a Valencia Pride tree grown from seed will produce decent mangoes as the seed is monoembryonic. I no longer live at the address where I grew my mango trees, but often wonder if the Valencia Pride tree has produced good fruit. I bought a Maha Chanook mango tree but it couldn’t handle the cold weather where I now live.
We do not typically taste a lot of citrus in our Valencia Pride mangoes. It's pretty much a classic flavored mango with some good sweetness, but not overly sweet. Some say it has overtones of stone fruit such as peach. Typically, California growers will plant more vigorous mango varieties such as Valencia pride because the California climate does not grow less vigorous mango trees well. We have grown Kensington Pride mangoes at our farm, but we feel that for us there are better tasting varieties available and have recently top worked our Kensington pride trees.
@@TrulyTropical I would certainly agree that there are superior tasting mangoes to the Kensington Pride variety and infact 10% of KP mango trees are top worked to Maha Chanook by a Thai lady mango grower in the Northern Territory. And there are some other Australian mango varieties, eg Honey Gold which I rate as better than the KP mango. There are a few other Australian varieties but I rate them as inferior to Kensington Pride mangoes. Kensington Pride variety is the most commonly grown variety in Australia, but growers in the north of Australia are realising there are many other superior varieties. It’s somewhat disappointing that there aren’t a huge variety available in supermarkets here. I’ve tried a few imported mangoes from Mexico like Kent and Tommy Atkins and found them to be good, though I think the Kent I bought was over ripe and not so good. And a comment you made recently on a RU-vid where you said a peach doesn’t compare to a mango is absolutely true and I didn’t think I’d say that as I now live on a rural property with several different types of peach growing both white flesh and yellow flesh varieties but a Rosa variety mango I bought from the local supermarket was better tasting than any of the peaches I grow.
Because we only have the one original small tree and now our grafted second tree we have chosen to bud graft Lemon-esh and as such it will take longer to get them to 3 gallon size. So, rather than up pot them too early or make customers wait for this wonderful new variety, we have decided to sell 1 gallon trees so we can start getting them to folks as early as March of next year.
@@barrioboi14344 Typically, we feel that it does not really matter which root stock you use. Sometimes you can get an unintentional dwarfing tree from a random pairing of rootstock and scion, but that's about it.
Yes, you can graft both to the same rootstock. In this case, the 1 gallon trees will be on Turpentine, which is the 'preferred' rootstock variety here in Florida.
In years where we have enough fruit production, we do ship. We shipped mangoes last year, but this year we barely had enough mangoes to meet our local customer's needs.
