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Whats up with the Mango Trees this year?
#1
I notice loads of flowers on mangos everywhere in Puna.. With the limited rain recently does this mean we may get a bumper crop for a change in Puna area??
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#2
Not sure, but trees that have never had blossoms before, have them. I think they like 40 days of rain followed by a month of vog. I'm so proud of my mango. It's a rescue. It was a twig in the middle of a bunch of weeds that were choking it out. I got rid of all the weeds, composted it and now the thing is 20 feet tall. It hasn't put out any blooms, though.
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Originally posted by Kelena

Not sure, but trees that have never had blossoms before, have them. I think they like 40 days of rain followed by a month of vog. I'm so proud of my mango. It's a rescue. It was a twig in the middle of a bunch of weeds that were choking it out. I got rid of all the weeds, composted it and now the thing is 20 feet tall. It hasn't put out any blooms, though.


Thats great... they really love growing big and putting our new foliage, but this is the first time ive seen so many blooms all over.. Hopefully it will be bumper season.. It may be the 40days or something else that triggered them..i sure would like to know.. They are the only fruit trees on our property that have never gave fruit..
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#4
I think it is the Kona like winter we have had after late Dec. 2 years ago when it barely rained in Jan-Feb we had a bumper crop. This year, 1 of my trees is flowering like crazy, and the other is not. Both these trees have been in the ground under 4 years so I'm happy they've provided any fruit at all so far. I'm going to try the (old wives tale?) method of shocking the other one into flowering by giving the trunk a few smacks with a shovel!
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#5
My 25 year old mango has tiny fruit already. Lots of them. My tree is about 30 feet tall and about the same around. Looks like a bumper crop this year unless we get a ton of rain and wind within the next week or so. 2 years ago I had over 1000 mangos with similar weather conditions like this year. And I didn't let any of them go to waste. I live on 5th street in HPP!
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#6
Our mango (and lychee) trees are setting fruit.
Perfect weather in January/early February for flowering and setting fruit: dry, warm.
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#7
That which is making the Mango's so happy is doing the opposite to the papaya crop. Production is way down right now. Mother nature has her own way with many things and I say THANK YOU for whatever is good. :0

If anyone has a bumper crop of Mango's and would like to get rid of some, I would be interested in taking 20 or so and seeing what I can root ( yes, I like mango's to eat but for this project would be perfectly happy to take the ones that fall to the ground overripe from high above and are rotten. I want the seeds.).



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#8
Ring spot virus is taking a toll on my papayas...dammit!

As for mangos, I had a beautiful Hayden (?sp) mango tree that I planted as a seedling, got a few mangos in the early years and the tree grew and grew, looked beautiful and healthy. But soon, no matter what a wealth of blossoms I got, every season the blossoms would come but turn black before developing the keiki fruit and I didn't get any fruit for more than 10 years; meanwhile the tree got huge. All sources indicated it was the rust virus that is on my ohia and on my house!It was NOT, as so many insisted, the vog killing the blossoms. And state ag folks told me there was no known cure and nothing I could do.

I cut down the mango and planted a breadfruit instead. Just FYI...
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#9
We have five large mango's... i know one is a Hayden not sure on the others... but they are at least 30 to 40ft in height... All are still full of bloom.. I know none of them have set fruit in ten yrs, so this could be mango time for us.. I was in the horticultural business in South Florida for 35yrs.. And there's a lot to say about natures cycles and how they affect crop production.. Plus we had so many hurricanes that brought all kinds of blights and pests from Africa.. Many variates became impossible to grow without the overuse of pesticides..
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#10
The one I have that has flowered and fruited the most has been my Julie mango. It's considered a dwarf variety. Two years ago it flowered at fruited twice, probably got 20 mangos off it and it was only about 4 feet tall. Now it's all of 5 feet tall and more like a bush. It's not supposed to get beyond 20 feet tall. The fruit is very good and sweet but some stringiness. A good variety to consider, especially if you don't have much space. My other is a Glenn, which is related to Haden but is supposed to have some advantages (perhaps annual vs alternate bearing?). It has become a much larger tree and flowered and fruited less frequently. But oh wow, best mango I have ever tasted. Stringless and almost peach tasting. My lychee is also fruiting now. I think they require at least a month with now rain, and it's certainly been close to that, especially for Jan-Feb.
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